Anaís Ostroski, PhD
@ostroskianais.bsky.social
Sustainability Scientist, Postdoc. Opinions my own.
I research sustainability of human ↔ nature systems. Decarbonization, supply chains, geospatial, energy 🌎
Cat person, supporter of public transit + cities, swiftie, latina 🇧🇷 she/her
I research sustainability of human ↔ nature systems. Decarbonization, supply chains, geospatial, energy 🌎
Cat person, supporter of public transit + cities, swiftie, latina 🇧🇷 she/her
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🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature
Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Love this city! And my favorite neighborhood coffee shop on a CityNerd thumbnail?! Unmatched
June 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Love this city! And my favorite neighborhood coffee shop on a CityNerd thumbnail?! Unmatched
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We don’t need costly “miracle technologies” like carbon capture or SMRs to solve the climate crisis, air pollution, or energy insecurity.
As @mzjacobson.bsky.social argues in our latest article, we already have the solution: wind, water, and solar energy.
www.sgr.org.uk/resources/be...
#greensky 🧪
As @mzjacobson.bsky.social argues in our latest article, we already have the solution: wind, water, and solar energy.
www.sgr.org.uk/resources/be...
#greensky 🧪
The best technologies for effective climate action
Prof Mark Z Jacobson, Stanford University, gives a whirlwind, sun and water tour of the key renewable energy technologies needed to rapidly reduce pollution. In a compelling argument for the possibili...
www.sgr.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
We don’t need costly “miracle technologies” like carbon capture or SMRs to solve the climate crisis, air pollution, or energy insecurity.
As @mzjacobson.bsky.social argues in our latest article, we already have the solution: wind, water, and solar energy.
www.sgr.org.uk/resources/be...
#greensky 🧪
As @mzjacobson.bsky.social argues in our latest article, we already have the solution: wind, water, and solar energy.
www.sgr.org.uk/resources/be...
#greensky 🧪
Chaos in Pittsburgh, and it will be raining for the next week too 😪 lucked out with power, but our internet cables have been ripped off
Duquesne Light: Restoration expected to take 5 to 7 days after 'unprecedented' storm
Mayor Ed Gainey said there are 400 additional crews headed to the area, and 70 already called in to aid Duquesne Light.
www.wtae.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Chaos in Pittsburgh, and it will be raining for the next week too 😪 lucked out with power, but our internet cables have been ripped off
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Our biositing.jbei.org tool has AI integration & some interesting stuff on permitting 🥳 Unexpected challenge: the LLM's heavy use of quotation marks. I promise that we do not mean 'water quality' & 'hazardous waste' ironically. The formatting is just a work in progress.
March 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Our biositing.jbei.org tool has AI integration & some interesting stuff on permitting 🥳 Unexpected challenge: the LLM's heavy use of quotation marks. I promise that we do not mean 'water quality' & 'hazardous waste' ironically. The formatting is just a work in progress.
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Cutting scientists from federal agencies means fewer experts tracking extreme weather, monitoring air & water quality, and protecting communities from disasters.
This puts lives, the economy & national security at risk.
This puts lives, the economy & national security at risk.
March 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Cutting scientists from federal agencies means fewer experts tracking extreme weather, monitoring air & water quality, and protecting communities from disasters.
This puts lives, the economy & national security at risk.
This puts lives, the economy & national security at risk.
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I wrote about why the most important Oscar nominee is the movie about how living under authoritarian rule can feel surprisingly normal.
The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen
I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.
slate.com
March 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I wrote about why the most important Oscar nominee is the movie about how living under authoritarian rule can feel surprisingly normal.
Best international feature film!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Que orgulho
March 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Best international feature film!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Que orgulho
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📣Today, DOE released the 45ZCF-GREET model. This follows the UST/IRS guidance on the Clean Fuels Production Credit (section 45Z) released on Jan. 10, 2025. Now time for me to go collapse on the couch.
www.energy.gov/eere/bioener...
www.energy.gov/eere/bioener...
U.S. Department of Energy Releases 45ZCF-GREET
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy released the 45ZCF-GREET model. This announcement follows the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service guidance on the Clean Fuels Production C...
www.energy.gov
January 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
📣Today, DOE released the 45ZCF-GREET model. This follows the UST/IRS guidance on the Clean Fuels Production Credit (section 45Z) released on Jan. 10, 2025. Now time for me to go collapse on the couch.
www.energy.gov/eere/bioener...
www.energy.gov/eere/bioener...
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Fuel loading driven by a wet period followed by rapid onset drought (in an otherwise longer-period of drought) is a big driver of wildfire cycles. Throw in intense winds and a bunch of humans, and well, that’s one way you create a disaster.
Weather whiplash is a likely contributor to the fuelscape and current events across Southern California. Abundant fine fuels grew during a wetter period from late ‘22 through spring ‘24, before drought emerged in June. Graph made using the Historical Climate Tracker on climatetoolbox.org
January 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Fuel loading driven by a wet period followed by rapid onset drought (in an otherwise longer-period of drought) is a big driver of wildfire cycles. Throw in intense winds and a bunch of humans, and well, that’s one way you create a disaster.
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It's never the weather.
It's always the infrastructure and maintenance.
It's always the infrastructure and maintenance.
It’s cold and windy. The roads are messy and it’s still snowing. Can you bike?
January 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It's never the weather.
It's always the infrastructure and maintenance.
It's always the infrastructure and maintenance.
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That's right - you have direct payments for grazing land but also the payments for the crop land used upstream for feed. Here is the paper for more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
and a piece in the conversation about it: theconversation.com/over-80-of-t...
and a piece in the conversation about it: theconversation.com/over-80-of-t...
Over 80% of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy supports emissions-intensive animal products - Nature Food
The transition towards plant-based diets requires supportive market and policy instruments. This study investigates how and the extent to which public funds support animal agriculture by tracking subs...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:29 PM
That's right - you have direct payments for grazing land but also the payments for the crop land used upstream for feed. Here is the paper for more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
and a piece in the conversation about it: theconversation.com/over-80-of-t...
and a piece in the conversation about it: theconversation.com/over-80-of-t...
So interesting, and so important. I was thinking about this a lot when I was researching about habitats for pollinators so they can help pollinate cropland. But really, we should also be thinking about their wellbeing and allow them to live their (very fascinating) lives.
One of my research side quests: animals are agents and shape their own conservation outcomes. Bringing their preferences into conservation plans can improve their success. Pioneering biologist Marc Bekoff interviewed my coauthor & me for this article. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
Why Animals Must Have a Voice in Conservation Protocols
Animals are primary stakeholders in efforts to help them along, and granting agency and paying close attention to their inner lives will foster more ethical and humane treatment.
www.psychologytoday.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:24 AM
So interesting, and so important. I was thinking about this a lot when I was researching about habitats for pollinators so they can help pollinate cropland. But really, we should also be thinking about their wellbeing and allow them to live their (very fascinating) lives.
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New Carbon Negative Shot report just dropped 🎉 It's 137 pages of everything you wanted to know about what's hard in CDR and where we can improve. Survey results, waterfall plots, wonky technical details. Truly multi-lab collaboration at its best. www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
www.energy.gov
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 AM
New Carbon Negative Shot report just dropped 🎉 It's 137 pages of everything you wanted to know about what's hard in CDR and where we can improve. Survey results, waterfall plots, wonky technical details. Truly multi-lab collaboration at its best. www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
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Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
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What many people don’t realize is that global temperature records only reflect 1% of the total increase in the earth’s heat content.
89% of this heat is going into the ocean where it's contributing to rising sea levels, deadly marine heatwaves--and stronger & more rapidly intensifying hurricanes.
89% of this heat is going into the ocean where it's contributing to rising sea levels, deadly marine heatwaves--and stronger & more rapidly intensifying hurricanes.
Global heating makes hurricanes like Helene twice as likely, data shows
Analysis shows Gulf’s heat that worsened Helene 200-500 times more likely because of human-caused global heating
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2024 at 10:09 PM
What many people don’t realize is that global temperature records only reflect 1% of the total increase in the earth’s heat content.
89% of this heat is going into the ocean where it's contributing to rising sea levels, deadly marine heatwaves--and stronger & more rapidly intensifying hurricanes.
89% of this heat is going into the ocean where it's contributing to rising sea levels, deadly marine heatwaves--and stronger & more rapidly intensifying hurricanes.
The effect on economic drivers (infrastructure, budget allocations, income, etc) on every level, from national to state to city to household increases the number of hurricane-related deaths long after the event. Very interesting read! We definitely need more systems-level studies of disasters.
October 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
The effect on economic drivers (infrastructure, budget allocations, income, etc) on every level, from national to state to city to household increases the number of hurricane-related deaths long after the event. Very interesting read! We definitely need more systems-level studies of disasters.
The historical average of maximum temperature for September in my hometown of Curitiba is ~70 F. Today it is reaching 89 F! (it's spring)
I know people assume Brazil is hot. But in the south the weather was quite mild. This heat wave is crazy (and 7th in 2024)
showyourstripes.info/c/southameri...
I know people assume Brazil is hot. But in the south the weather was quite mild. This heat wave is crazy (and 7th in 2024)
showyourstripes.info/c/southameri...
September 26, 2024 at 3:07 PM
The historical average of maximum temperature for September in my hometown of Curitiba is ~70 F. Today it is reaching 89 F! (it's spring)
I know people assume Brazil is hot. But in the south the weather was quite mild. This heat wave is crazy (and 7th in 2024)
showyourstripes.info/c/southameri...
I know people assume Brazil is hot. But in the south the weather was quite mild. This heat wave is crazy (and 7th in 2024)
showyourstripes.info/c/southameri...
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The heavier your car, the safer you are in a collision, but the more damage you do to the other car. There’s an optimal weight that minimizes total fatalities: ~4000 lbs., the Economist estimates from police reports from 14 U.S. states. (Curb weight, I think.) 🧪 www.economist.com/interactive/...
September 9, 2024 at 6:19 PM
The heavier your car, the safer you are in a collision, but the more damage you do to the other car. There’s an optimal weight that minimizes total fatalities: ~4000 lbs., the Economist estimates from police reports from 14 U.S. states. (Curb weight, I think.) 🧪 www.economist.com/interactive/...
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I have decided to post a thread to explain the current situation to BlueSky users outside of Brazil.
Yes, please. :) Anything would help. I'm ignorant. :)
You just arrived to Bluesky a few hours ago? Is that right?
Are you finding people you know? Or want to know?
You just arrived to Bluesky a few hours ago? Is that right?
Are you finding people you know? Or want to know?
August 29, 2024 at 4:40 AM
I have decided to post a thread to explain the current situation to BlueSky users outside of Brazil.
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The Pantanal, the largest wetland on Earth, stretching across Brazil, Paraguay, + Bolivia, is now at risk from 'progress'.
Being home to a great wealth of biodiversity like jaguars, and a massive carbon sink, seems not to count.
Is nothing sacred at all? 🌎
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Being home to a great wealth of biodiversity like jaguars, and a massive carbon sink, seems not to count.
Is nothing sacred at all? 🌎
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Losing Noah’s Ark’: Brazil’s plan to turn the Pantanal into waterway threatens world’s biggest wetland
Hidrovia project to dredge Paraguay River and build ports may destroy vast biodiversity and refuge of jaguars, giant otters and armadillos – and an age-old riverine way of life
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2024 at 2:37 PM
The Pantanal, the largest wetland on Earth, stretching across Brazil, Paraguay, + Bolivia, is now at risk from 'progress'.
Being home to a great wealth of biodiversity like jaguars, and a massive carbon sink, seems not to count.
Is nothing sacred at all? 🌎
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Being home to a great wealth of biodiversity like jaguars, and a massive carbon sink, seems not to count.
Is nothing sacred at all? 🌎
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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'The legacy of colonialism in scientific research includes an intellectual property system that favors Global North countries & the big corporations they support. This unfairness shows up in who gets access to the fruits of science and raises the question of who science is designed to serve or save'
Science should save all, not just some
Discussions around global equity and justice in science typically emphasize the lack of diversity in the editorial boards of scientific journals, inequities in authorship, “parachute research,” domina...
www.science.org
August 10, 2024 at 6:47 PM
'The legacy of colonialism in scientific research includes an intellectual property system that favors Global North countries & the big corporations they support. This unfairness shows up in who gets access to the fruits of science and raises the question of who science is designed to serve or save'
Happy International cat day! My little foster cat went to his forever family today and I am so happy 🥹♥️ Though I will miss him lots, I ✨almost✨ foster failed
August 8, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Happy International cat day! My little foster cat went to his forever family today and I am so happy 🥹♥️ Though I will miss him lots, I ✨almost✨ foster failed
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“If life on our one and only planet is to be pulled back from the brink, the time for voluntary ecological measures from businesses has surely passed”
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
@whittledaway.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
@whittledaway.bsky.social
Capitalism is killing the planet – but curtailing it is the discussion nobody wants to have
If life on our one and only planet is to be pulled back from the brink, the time for voluntary ecological measures from businesses has surely passed
www.irishtimes.com
August 8, 2024 at 9:31 AM
“If life on our one and only planet is to be pulled back from the brink, the time for voluntary ecological measures from businesses has surely passed”
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
@whittledaway.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
@whittledaway.bsky.social