Maddie Stone
@themadstone.bsky.social
Earth science PhD-turned journalist. I write about clean energy, tech sustainability, and the science of science fiction.
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And it’s MUCH less comment than Microsoft had 10 months ago, when energy division lead Darryl Willis did an entire interview with the Atlantic on this topic.
Guess Microsoft realized engaging with journalists about its oil business wasn’t helping greenwash it 🙃 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Guess Microsoft realized engaging with journalists about its oil business wasn’t helping greenwash it 🙃 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI
Can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? The tech giant says yes.
www.theatlantic.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
And it’s MUCH less comment than Microsoft had 10 months ago, when energy division lead Darryl Willis did an entire interview with the Atlantic on this topic.
Guess Microsoft realized engaging with journalists about its oil business wasn’t helping greenwash it 🙃 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Guess Microsoft realized engaging with journalists about its oil business wasn’t helping greenwash it 🙃 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
That’s actually less comment than Microsoft had a year ago, when it was praising the Sustainability Connected Community for helping hold it accountable grist.org/accountabili...
Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.
Inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.
grist.org
July 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
That’s actually less comment than Microsoft had a year ago, when it was praising the Sustainability Connected Community for helping hold it accountable grist.org/accountabili...
This is the Science of Fiction’s first crossover with @quinnemmett.bsky.social’s awesome @important.bsky.social focused on using science to unf*ck the world. It includes some of my personal ideas for how to make humanity’s fossil record a bit less disastrous looking—would love to hear yours!
June 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is the Science of Fiction’s first crossover with @quinnemmett.bsky.social’s awesome @important.bsky.social focused on using science to unf*ck the world. It includes some of my personal ideas for how to make humanity’s fossil record a bit less disastrous looking—would love to hear yours!
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May 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Huge thanks to @annaleen.bsky.social and @charliejane.bsky.social for letting me nerd out on your show!
May 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Huge thanks to @annaleen.bsky.social and @charliejane.bsky.social for letting me nerd out on your show!
Courtesy of @ericholthaus.com, the podcast also includes a cameo from the legendary astrobiologist James Lovelock, who passed away in 2022. Eric spoke with Lovelock in 2015 about his role as a scientific advisor to SimEarth, which helped spread his Gaia Hypothesis far and wide.
May 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Courtesy of @ericholthaus.com, the podcast also includes a cameo from the legendary astrobiologist James Lovelock, who passed away in 2022. Eric spoke with Lovelock in 2015 about his role as a scientific advisor to SimEarth, which helped spread his Gaia Hypothesis far and wide.
I also had the honor of sharing SimEarth's story as a guest co-host on the amazing @ouropinions.bsky.social podcast this week. There are some details that aren't in the written piece, so be sure to take a listen!
www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...
www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...
Episode 177: Simulating Earth and Politicizing Science — our opinions are correct
It's the end of science as we know it in America. As the U.S. government dismantles science agencies and slashes budgets for health and environmental research, we talk about what it means to politiciz...
www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I also had the honor of sharing SimEarth's story as a guest co-host on the amazing @ouropinions.bsky.social podcast this week. There are some details that aren't in the written piece, so be sure to take a listen!
www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...
www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...
This is one of more than half a dozen new @gristnews.bsky.social stories on critical minerals and mining that were published today. There are some FASCINATING reads on the home page, so if the topic interests you, be sure to check it out! grist.org
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March 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is one of more than half a dozen new @gristnews.bsky.social stories on critical minerals and mining that were published today. There are some FASCINATING reads on the home page, so if the topic interests you, be sure to check it out! grist.org
Earth MRI may owe its success to the broad bi-partisan support for critical minerals (despite often fierce community opposition to new mines). Biden wanted more US mining to support a made-in-America clean energy manufacturing base. Trump wants more mining to support, well, mining companies.
March 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Earth MRI may owe its success to the broad bi-partisan support for critical minerals (despite often fierce community opposition to new mines). Biden wanted more US mining to support a made-in-America clean energy manufacturing base. Trump wants more mining to support, well, mining companies.