Nikhil
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Al Michaels: Aaron rodgers, now that’s a guy who makes his opinion known
Kirk herbstreit: oh absolutely, and his teammates love him for that, he really—
Michaels: sometimes you wish he’d stay quiet about it!
Herbstreit: oh absolutely
Kirk herbstreit: oh absolutely, and his teammates love him for that, he really—
Michaels: sometimes you wish he’d stay quiet about it!
Herbstreit: oh absolutely
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Al Michaels: Aaron rodgers, now that’s a guy who makes his opinion known
Kirk herbstreit: oh absolutely, and his teammates love him for that, he really—
Michaels: sometimes you wish he’d stay quiet about it!
Herbstreit: oh absolutely
Kirk herbstreit: oh absolutely, and his teammates love him for that, he really—
Michaels: sometimes you wish he’d stay quiet about it!
Herbstreit: oh absolutely
Trying to decide if I care enough about Bruce Springsteen to watch this movie that I know is gonna be terrible
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Trying to decide if I care enough about Bruce Springsteen to watch this movie that I know is gonna be terrible
My boy Jared Goff is so charismatic
September 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
My boy Jared Goff is so charismatic
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The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐
September 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐
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Totally changed my view on Gaza when I learned that the starving kids were… also really sick
August 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Totally changed my view on Gaza when I learned that the starving kids were… also really sick
Cybertruck just let me merge. Maybe we aren’t so different after all…
August 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Cybertruck just let me merge. Maybe we aren’t so different after all…
We put together a really exciting session on root exudation at #ESA2025 tomorrow, with an elite group of speakers! I suspect this is the first (but hopefully not last!) exudate-focused session at ESA. Hope to see you there!!
August 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We put together a really exciting session on root exudation at #ESA2025 tomorrow, with an elite group of speakers! I suspect this is the first (but hopefully not last!) exudate-focused session at ESA. Hope to see you there!!
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Such a fun project & massive team effort. We sampled tree cores my 1st yr of grad school then took a year to figure out how to grind wood… ! But we were amazed to find such a complex & unexpected ecosystem inside trees. And we’ve just scratched the surface! We explored 150 trees— 3 trillion to go!
#NatMicroPicks
Hidden microbial world in trees🌳
Living wood hosts trillions of bacteria making trees a complex ecosystems with major roles in forest health and function.
#PlantMicro #MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hidden microbial world in trees🌳
Living wood hosts trillions of bacteria making trees a complex ecosystems with major roles in forest health and function.
#PlantMicro #MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees - Nature
Microbiome analyses of living trees show that a single tree can host approximately one trillion bacteria, with microbial communities distinctly partitioned between heartwood and sapwood and with minim...
www.nature.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Such a fun project & massive team effort. We sampled tree cores my 1st yr of grad school then took a year to figure out how to grind wood… ! But we were amazed to find such a complex & unexpected ecosystem inside trees. And we’ve just scratched the surface! We explored 150 trees— 3 trillion to go!
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“look i don’t care what it’s about just give me 300 words”
Gen Z has brought us the 6pm dinner – and I am not ready for it | Polly Hudson
Gen Z has brought us the 6pm dinner – and I am not ready for it | Polly Hudson
Early evening restaurant bookings are on the rise. Great for commuters and sleep purists, but what about the rest of us?
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“look i don’t care what it’s about just give me 300 words”
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Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
July 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
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I know so many dedicated and brilliant scientists who work (and I guess now worked) at EPA. The loss of expertise and ability to make science-informed decisions will have lasting damage for our health. Academics and advocates will have to try to fill the gap.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I know so many dedicated and brilliant scientists who work (and I guess now worked) at EPA. The loss of expertise and ability to make science-informed decisions will have lasting damage for our health. Academics and advocates will have to try to fill the gap.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
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"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."
Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
July 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."
Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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i'm the guy who replies to your top 10 favorite albums list, an extraordinarily subjective and exclusive list by its very definition, with "you forgot music o'clock by gary guitar and the rockin' instrument band"
July 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
i'm the guy who replies to your top 10 favorite albums list, an extraordinarily subjective and exclusive list by its very definition, with "you forgot music o'clock by gary guitar and the rockin' instrument band"
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This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated
archive.is/8sYNv
archive.is/8sYNv
July 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated
archive.is/8sYNv
archive.is/8sYNv
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Fine root and soil carbon stocks are positively related in grasslands but not in forests - Communications Earth & Environment
A positive relationship between fine root carbon and soil organic carbon stocks is well established in grasslands, particularly at greater depths, but the relationship varies across forests, based on ...
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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we worked so hard on this, nights and weekends, trying our best to do a good job for the American people
BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S.
This is what you get when you try to access them online
This is what you get when you try to access them online
June 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
we worked so hard on this, nights and weekends, trying our best to do a good job for the American people
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Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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Paper now out in Science Advances — “Soil carbon formation is promoted by saturation deficit and existing mineral-associated carbon, not by microbial carbon-use efficiency”
with Noah Sokol
science.org/doi/epdf/10....
with Noah Sokol
science.org/doi/epdf/10....
June 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Paper now out in Science Advances — “Soil carbon formation is promoted by saturation deficit and existing mineral-associated carbon, not by microbial carbon-use efficiency”
with Noah Sokol
science.org/doi/epdf/10....
with Noah Sokol
science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
This is interesting, because he says he wants to create “in-house” publishing outlets instead. I’ve often thought institutions should publish peer-reviewed manuscripts directly to repositories rather than subscribing to the journal system, but this shows there’s some value to having a third party
RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc.
It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.
It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.
May 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This is interesting, because he says he wants to create “in-house” publishing outlets instead. I’ve often thought institutions should publish peer-reviewed manuscripts directly to repositories rather than subscribing to the journal system, but this shows there’s some value to having a third party
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BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking Harvard enrollment of foreign students reut.rs/3FfWGi3
May 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking Harvard enrollment of foreign students reut.rs/3FfWGi3
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very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students