Louanne Cooley
@icooiey.bsky.social
Climate law and policy, gardens, and Fish, in no particular order. Ride your bike more.
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This application is still open until the end of the year btw!
Artists of bluesky!
@skypeascientist.bsky.social & Willimantic Public Art are collabing on a community mural in Willimantic, CT in spring.
We're looking for Eastern CT artists who'd like to work on the project! The artist will be selected *by the community*.
Apply here: forms.gle/2tjJmdXcF6wy...
@skypeascientist.bsky.social & Willimantic Public Art are collabing on a community mural in Willimantic, CT in spring.
We're looking for Eastern CT artists who'd like to work on the project! The artist will be selected *by the community*.
Apply here: forms.gle/2tjJmdXcF6wy...
December 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This application is still open until the end of the year btw!
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🔊 Two really massive black holes, COLLIDING💥!
LIGO has seen ~300 of these collisions since 2015, but this one is HUGE creating a black hole 256x the mass of the Sun. It's likely the merging black holes were themselves the by-product of previous mergers 🤓🔭🧪
ℹ️: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
LIGO has seen ~300 of these collisions since 2015, but this one is HUGE creating a black hole 256x the mass of the Sun. It's likely the merging black holes were themselves the by-product of previous mergers 🤓🔭🧪
ℹ️: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists detect biggest ever merger of two massive black holes
Ripples in space-time from collision recorded by gravitational wave detector forces a rethink of how the objects form
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🔊 Two really massive black holes, COLLIDING💥!
LIGO has seen ~300 of these collisions since 2015, but this one is HUGE creating a black hole 256x the mass of the Sun. It's likely the merging black holes were themselves the by-product of previous mergers 🤓🔭🧪
ℹ️: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
LIGO has seen ~300 of these collisions since 2015, but this one is HUGE creating a black hole 256x the mass of the Sun. It's likely the merging black holes were themselves the by-product of previous mergers 🤓🔭🧪
ℹ️: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Historically, I think we've focused so much on mitigation that in many circles we've lost sight of the even more imminent need for adaptation--and that's now actively putting lives and economies at risk. So we can, and must, do both!
July 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Historically, I think we've focused so much on mitigation that in many circles we've lost sight of the even more imminent need for adaptation--and that's now actively putting lives and economies at risk. So we can, and must, do both!
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But when I asked why he still comes when it dredges such painful memories, "Because I have to."
June 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
But when I asked why he still comes when it dredges such painful memories, "Because I have to."
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Put this on a billboard.
More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.
June 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Put this on a billboard.
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The scientific news from America is grim. The Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has resigned and hundreds of existing grants are ending. NSF grant money isn't paid out in a chunk at the start - you invoice as you need it, so gov can just stop paying.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.
www.nature.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The scientific news from America is grim. The Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has resigned and hundreds of existing grants are ending. NSF grant money isn't paid out in a chunk at the start - you invoice as you need it, so gov can just stop paying.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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It appears that NOAA social media accounts are now being used as a platform to praise the administration.
This reads like it was written under duress. So unnatural and likely a sign of things to come.
This reads like it was written under duress. So unnatural and likely a sign of things to come.
April 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It appears that NOAA social media accounts are now being used as a platform to praise the administration.
This reads like it was written under duress. So unnatural and likely a sign of things to come.
This reads like it was written under duress. So unnatural and likely a sign of things to come.
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A freshly-molted Zammara smaragdina cicada in the forest near my house at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica
#nature #bugsky 🌿
#nature #bugsky 🌿
April 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
A freshly-molted Zammara smaragdina cicada in the forest near my house at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica
#nature #bugsky 🌿
#nature #bugsky 🌿
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“This will hamstring international climate cooperation at the worst possible time,” said one official, referring to the upcoming COP30.
It’s “just strategically fucking dumb when it comes to China,” that person added, saying the move would leave a leadership vacuum that China could fill.”
It’s “just strategically fucking dumb when it comes to China,” that person added, saying the move would leave a leadership vacuum that China could fill.”
Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks
The Office of Global Change was notified Thursday that it would be shuttered.
www.politico.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“This will hamstring international climate cooperation at the worst possible time,” said one official, referring to the upcoming COP30.
It’s “just strategically fucking dumb when it comes to China,” that person added, saying the move would leave a leadership vacuum that China could fill.”
It’s “just strategically fucking dumb when it comes to China,” that person added, saying the move would leave a leadership vacuum that China could fill.”
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For #invertefest here is the Night Octopus (or Noctopus)
April 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
For #invertefest here is the Night Octopus (or Noctopus)
Trans people are fine actually.
Leave them alone you stupid bullies. What is this? Kindergarten?
How about putting your energy to solving real, hard issues? It’s not like we don’t have enough of them.
Leave them alone you stupid bullies. What is this? Kindergarten?
How about putting your energy to solving real, hard issues? It’s not like we don’t have enough of them.
April 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Trans people are fine actually.
Leave them alone you stupid bullies. What is this? Kindergarten?
How about putting your energy to solving real, hard issues? It’s not like we don’t have enough of them.
Leave them alone you stupid bullies. What is this? Kindergarten?
How about putting your energy to solving real, hard issues? It’s not like we don’t have enough of them.
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I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
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did it with students in our last class today, & when they plugged in 'rude' & 'mean' their jaws dropped open
December 10, 2024 at 8:54 PM
did it with students in our last class today, & when they plugged in 'rude' & 'mean' their jaws dropped open
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Peracarid crustaceans contain multitudes - at least 26000 species. In the open ocean, some have transparent eyes up to half the body size (they see more contrast but less precision). In caves, they lose eyes and enhance their smell processing.
Papers next #Crustmas 🧪🦑
Papers next #Crustmas 🧪🦑
![Overview of [two of] the three blind peracarids studied.
A, B: Spelaeogriphus lepidops, (Spelaeogriphacea) exhibits an eyeless rudimentary eyestalk (A), a slender antenna 1 and a prominent antenna 2 (dark hue of specimen in A due to artificial staining). B: Courtesy by G. Giribet.
C: Mictocaris halope (Mictocarididae) exhibits an eyeless rudimentary eyestalk, and a prominent antenna 1 and 2.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m7m7xfifbtfoc3fgj757r5sq/bafkreicfwsetbd5uoqrn53ttkr4sosyhqz7lxmr6pajz56aztg3f3hmzha@jpeg)
December 10, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Peracarid crustaceans contain multitudes - at least 26000 species. In the open ocean, some have transparent eyes up to half the body size (they see more contrast but less precision). In caves, they lose eyes and enhance their smell processing.
Papers next #Crustmas 🧪🦑
Papers next #Crustmas 🧪🦑
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There are about 27,000 scientists at #AGU24, and about half of them work on climate one way or another. Whenever I walk into a room like this, I always take a moment to take it all in—all these people dedicated their lives to working on some of our toughest problems. That gives me strength.
December 11, 2024 at 12:42 AM
There are about 27,000 scientists at #AGU24, and about half of them work on climate one way or another. Whenever I walk into a room like this, I always take a moment to take it all in—all these people dedicated their lives to working on some of our toughest problems. That gives me strength.
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Cyber bullying works sometimes
This is just in Connecticut, but it's a start: "Comptroller Sean Scanlon said that following conversations with Anthem, the provider for the state employee health plan and many others throughout Connecticut, Anthem will no longer be implementing the policy to limit coverage of anesthesiology."
December 5, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Cyber bullying works sometimes
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When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 4:32 AM
When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Sad to report the demise of Gutter Tomato.
Felled by 2 successive nights of 20 °F temps even the ameliorating impact of nearby warm asphalt could not counteract. You had a good run and brought passing joy to many and tiny ripe tomatoes to squirrels,chipmunks and intrepid humans. RIP
#gardening
Felled by 2 successive nights of 20 °F temps even the ameliorating impact of nearby warm asphalt could not counteract. You had a good run and brought passing joy to many and tiny ripe tomatoes to squirrels,chipmunks and intrepid humans. RIP
#gardening
November 14, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Sad to report the demise of Gutter Tomato.
Felled by 2 successive nights of 20 °F temps even the ameliorating impact of nearby warm asphalt could not counteract. You had a good run and brought passing joy to many and tiny ripe tomatoes to squirrels,chipmunks and intrepid humans. RIP
#gardening
Felled by 2 successive nights of 20 °F temps even the ameliorating impact of nearby warm asphalt could not counteract. You had a good run and brought passing joy to many and tiny ripe tomatoes to squirrels,chipmunks and intrepid humans. RIP
#gardening
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October 11, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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If you are too young to remember and want to know what it felt like to watch the 2000 election being stolen through the courts, in part by the very folks now sitting on this SCOTUS, this is what it felt it like.
It takes 4 justices to take a case. This will delay Trump's trial until the summer/fall at least. I think it suggests Trump has 4 justices at least open to his total immunity claim. In the least, he definitely has 4 justices who are happy to block his trial from taking place before the election.
NEW: SCOTUS GRANTS CERT IN TRUMP IMMUNITY CASE
February 28, 2024 at 10:27 PM
If you are too young to remember and want to know what it felt like to watch the 2000 election being stolen through the courts, in part by the very folks now sitting on this SCOTUS, this is what it felt it like.
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the most important reality about climate change and climate policy is there’s never a point at which you can stop trying because it’s all over
as depressing as it can be to look at climate stuff, this is a key point
2C is better than 2.5C is better than 3C, etc
everything we do to slow it down and keep it from getting worse WILL help us even if we do end up above our initial targets
2C is better than 2.5C is better than 3C, etc
everything we do to slow it down and keep it from getting worse WILL help us even if we do end up above our initial targets
Once again, a gentle reminder that I block people for saying "it's too late to solve the problem."
Global warming is a sliding scale. We are not too late to stop the scale from sliding.
Global warming is a sliding scale. We are not too late to stop the scale from sliding.
February 28, 2024 at 4:26 PM
the most important reality about climate change and climate policy is there’s never a point at which you can stop trying because it’s all over
Well dang! A whole flock of bluebirds showed up this afternoon about 3! Like, an omen or harbinger or something.
February 16, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Well dang! A whole flock of bluebirds showed up this afternoon about 3! Like, an omen or harbinger or something.
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Late breaking news:
The American Association of University Professors has announced they will be establishing a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.
Hurrah!
Link to Twitter thread:
twitter.com/AAUP/status/...
The American Association of University Professors has announced they will be establishing a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.
Hurrah!
Link to Twitter thread:
twitter.com/AAUP/status/...
February 15, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Late breaking news:
The American Association of University Professors has announced they will be establishing a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.
Hurrah!
Link to Twitter thread:
twitter.com/AAUP/status/...
The American Association of University Professors has announced they will be establishing a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.
Hurrah!
Link to Twitter thread:
twitter.com/AAUP/status/...
Hello? Is this thing on?
(Obligatory Fish photo)
(Obligatory Fish photo)
February 7, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Hello? Is this thing on?
(Obligatory Fish photo)
(Obligatory Fish photo)