Nate Looker
@regolithhealth.bsky.social
Soil scientist, low-input fermenter, advocate for diverse rural livelihoods and landscapes
Research Scientist in Earth & Planetary Sciences at Stanford University
Research Scientist in Earth & Planetary Sciences at Stanford University
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Every river in North America, every day for two years. The combined flow to the sea sinks as low as 53,000 m³/s in winter and swells past 290,000 by late June, more than quadrupling each spring. Data: GloFAS, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
#rivers #dataviz #hydrology
#rivers #dataviz #hydrology
October 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Every river in North America, every day for two years. The combined flow to the sea sinks as low as 53,000 m³/s in winter and swells past 290,000 by late June, more than quadrupling each spring. Data: GloFAS, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
#rivers #dataviz #hydrology
#rivers #dataviz #hydrology
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🌱 Meet Tracemakers, the Morpho Initiative’s new working group!
This team will uncover the impact of underground dwellers and develop scalable ways to monitor soil health.
@geojane.bsky.social @regolithhealth.bsky.social
🔎 www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/uncover...
This team will uncover the impact of underground dwellers and develop scalable ways to monitor soil health.
@geojane.bsky.social @regolithhealth.bsky.social
🔎 www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/uncover...
Uncovering the Stories Beneath Our Feet with Morpho’s 2026 Working Group
www.nceas.ucsb.edu
October 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
🌱 Meet Tracemakers, the Morpho Initiative’s new working group!
This team will uncover the impact of underground dwellers and develop scalable ways to monitor soil health.
@geojane.bsky.social @regolithhealth.bsky.social
🔎 www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/uncover...
This team will uncover the impact of underground dwellers and develop scalable ways to monitor soil health.
@geojane.bsky.social @regolithhealth.bsky.social
🔎 www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/uncover...
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New episode!! 🎉🎙️
A conversation w/ @samgilbert.bsky.social all about cognitive offloading.
We humans have long used tools to help us remember and reason. But as new technologies emerge, it's a good time to take stock: What does offloading do for us—and to us?
Listen: disi.org/cognitive-of...
A conversation w/ @samgilbert.bsky.social all about cognitive offloading.
We humans have long used tools to help us remember and reason. But as new technologies emerge, it's a good time to take stock: What does offloading do for us—and to us?
Listen: disi.org/cognitive-of...
September 28, 2026 at 5:51 PM
New episode!! 🎉🎙️
A conversation w/ @samgilbert.bsky.social all about cognitive offloading.
We humans have long used tools to help us remember and reason. But as new technologies emerge, it's a good time to take stock: What does offloading do for us—and to us?
Listen: disi.org/cognitive-of...
A conversation w/ @samgilbert.bsky.social all about cognitive offloading.
We humans have long used tools to help us remember and reason. But as new technologies emerge, it's a good time to take stock: What does offloading do for us—and to us?
Listen: disi.org/cognitive-of...
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THE CHAFF PROJECT
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
April 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
THE CHAFF PROJECT
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
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ICE has killed another person.
El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
www.thecityreporter.nyc
August 3, 2026 at 10:08 PM
ICE has killed another person.
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Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old.
ICE took him this June. He was 29.
He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention.
After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital
Prisciliano died five days later
enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
ICE took him this June. He was 29.
He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention.
After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital
Prisciliano died five days later
enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
enlacelatinonc.org
July 30, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old.
ICE took him this June. He was 29.
He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention.
After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital
Prisciliano died five days later
enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
ICE took him this June. He was 29.
He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention.
After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital
Prisciliano died five days later
enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
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So the U.S. has gotten itself into a situation where the State Department is now warning Americans about traveling...anywhere.
"The Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution."
travel.state.gov/en/internati...
"The Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution."
travel.state.gov/en/internati...
travel.state.gov
July 21, 2026 at 11:42 PM
So the U.S. has gotten itself into a situation where the State Department is now warning Americans about traveling...anywhere.
"The Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution."
travel.state.gov/en/internati...
"The Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution."
travel.state.gov/en/internati...
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This is way more than the Department of Energy spends on all of the renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean vehicles, and battery research and development, combined.
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
www.reuters.com
July 16, 2026 at 5:22 AM
This is way more than the Department of Energy spends on all of the renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean vehicles, and battery research and development, combined.
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Last day to submit a public comment on these proposed rules, which would hand complete control of American science over to the people who brought you ICE, war, and a diarrhea epidemic
agu.quorum.us/campaign/163...
agu.quorum.us/campaign/163...
Stop OMB From Erasing Federal Research
A new proposed rule rewrites the terms of U.S. science
agu.quorum.us
July 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Last day to submit a public comment on these proposed rules, which would hand complete control of American science over to the people who brought you ICE, war, and a diarrhea epidemic
agu.quorum.us/campaign/163...
agu.quorum.us/campaign/163...
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The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
July 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre
July 7, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre
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The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.
June 10, 2026 at 6:19 AM
The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.
etymology that surprised me recently:
villain <- peasant (inhabitant of a country "villa")
terrier <- earth dog (terra...)
@etymonline.bsky.social
villain <- peasant (inhabitant of a country "villa")
terrier <- earth dog (terra...)
@etymonline.bsky.social
April 21, 2026 at 7:59 PM
etymology that surprised me recently:
villain <- peasant (inhabitant of a country "villa")
terrier <- earth dog (terra...)
@etymonline.bsky.social
villain <- peasant (inhabitant of a country "villa")
terrier <- earth dog (terra...)
@etymonline.bsky.social
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A time-honored tradition: Republicans offering buts and prayers
January 8, 2026 at 8:49 PM
A time-honored tradition: Republicans offering buts and prayers
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Thrilled to share our new paper: Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries. 🧪
@melroselane.bsky.social, @drbradbrad.bsky.social , @geobiomaggie.bsky.social, @emilruff.bsky.social
@mblscience.bsky.social
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@melroselane.bsky.social, @drbradbrad.bsky.social , @geobiomaggie.bsky.social, @emilruff.bsky.social
@mblscience.bsky.social
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries
This paper discusses current research on subsurface microbiology. Exploring Earth's deep and extreme subsurface environments provides critical insights into life's limits and adaptability. Subsurface...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper: Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries. 🧪
@melroselane.bsky.social, @drbradbrad.bsky.social , @geobiomaggie.bsky.social, @emilruff.bsky.social
@mblscience.bsky.social
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@melroselane.bsky.social, @drbradbrad.bsky.social , @geobiomaggie.bsky.social, @emilruff.bsky.social
@mblscience.bsky.social
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Excited to assume the role of Chair of the IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group! 🌱 Threats to all four tapir species demand action. Grateful to Patricia Medici for 25 years of inspiring leadership & excited to collaborate with our global network to scale conservation! #Tapirs #IUCN #Biodiversity
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Excited to assume the role of Chair of the IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group! 🌱 Threats to all four tapir species demand action. Grateful to Patricia Medici for 25 years of inspiring leadership & excited to collaborate with our global network to scale conservation! #Tapirs #IUCN #Biodiversity
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You call it a “rake” I call it an “avoided leaf blower”
October 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
You call it a “rake” I call it an “avoided leaf blower”
Knowing a soil's texture (wt% sand, silt, and clay) is SUPER important for understanding #carbon, water, and nutrient cycles. Check out how the routine step of air-drying biases texture measurements, esp. in #soils with poorly crystalline minerals (data from National Cooperative Soil Survey #usda)
October 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"Study challenges notion that Covid is ‘mild’ for children — finds life-threatening complications for those sick with virus twice
More than 6 million American children suffer from long Covid which can lead to life-threatening complications"
Julia Musto
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
More than 6 million American children suffer from long Covid which can lead to life-threatening complications"
Julia Musto
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
October 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"Study challenges notion that Covid is ‘mild’ for children — finds life-threatening complications for those sick with virus twice
More than 6 million American children suffer from long Covid which can lead to life-threatening complications"
Julia Musto
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
More than 6 million American children suffer from long Covid which can lead to life-threatening complications"
Julia Musto
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Speaking of which, look what just arrived from my library today. 1979 babey
September 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Speaking of which, look what just arrived from my library today. 1979 babey
So much appreciation for the Canadian government employees who poured this much love into soil survey art. Thanks @geodermatologist.bsky.social for pointing me towards this goldmine!
September 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So much appreciation for the Canadian government employees who poured this much love into soil survey art. Thanks @geodermatologist.bsky.social for pointing me towards this goldmine!
The <2500 mountain tapirs left in the wild face a new threat, the screwworm (a huge problem in the US livestock sector that was eradicated thanks to international coordination)
Our paper on New World Screwworm outbreaks in wildlife is out! This flesh-eating parasite isn’t just attacking livestock & humans—it’s now threatening the endangered mountain tapir, a keystone Andean species.
#Screwworm #Wildlife #InfectiousDiseases #Tapirs #OneHealth
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
#Screwworm #Wildlife #InfectiousDiseases #Tapirs #OneHealth
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
August 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The <2500 mountain tapirs left in the wild face a new threat, the screwworm (a huge problem in the US livestock sector that was eradicated thanks to international coordination)