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I try to teach #soilculture @montanastateuniversity, including tips for sorting if you're being #greenhousegaslit. Fueled by soilninjas.
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emollick.bsky.social
I was reflecting on how many random contingencies went into creating the current accelerating AI moment and had Opus 5.5 put together a video, inspired by old science show Connections, to try and point out how a series of initially unrelated ideas led to the moment we are in now.
September 28, 2026 at 3:05 AM
soildoc.bsky.social
On Himalayan mountain behavior by Philip Prince. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcND...
How did the Nepal debris flow get so big, and what's important about the Border Port video?
YouTube video by TheGeoModels
www.youtube.com
August 30, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
Anup Kaphle: "We’ve built a one-stop flood resource hub with everything you need right now: verified donation channels for flood relief...emergency contacts, hospital & blood-bank numbers, live river monitoring, and how to report a missing person."
help.ekantipur.com
x.com/AnupKaphle/s...
Nepal Flood Donation & Emergency Help | Kantipur
Donate through Nepal’s official PMDRF gateway and find verified flood relief QR codes, rescue numbers, hospitals and blood support.
help.ekantipur.com
August 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM
soildoc.bsky.social
“Forensic disasterology” for the win. Also made me think about the vulnerability of first and second responders to a follow-on collapse.
gfun.earth Gareth Funning @gfun.earth · Aug 27
This gets into the forensic process (identifying changes in Planet Labs optical imagery) used to identify the source of the massive flooding seen in Nepal. Well worth half an hour of your time.
callanbentley.bsky.social Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · Aug 27
New video!
Interview with geomorphologist @watershedlab.bsky.social about how he rapidly figured out the source of yesterday's catastrophic flood in Nepal and Tibet.
youtu.be/qrUx1qYIW4U
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August 29, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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vjbmt.bsky.social
My daughter told me a wild story last night. A co-worker paid an Etsy witch $27 to curse the Mariners because a co-worker she disliked was a super fan. The next day they lost 22-0, biggest loss in MLB history. Insane ROI. My first thought, get me that witch’s name, I have a cyclist to curse.
August 25, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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librarian.bsky.social
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
July 31, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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nathankhensley.bsky.social
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
July 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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jedbrown.org
Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
doi.org
July 17, 2026 at 5:00 AM
soildoc.bsky.social
Great to finally catch up with you @callanbentley.bsky.social; let’s try to overlap next to an outcrop next time!
July 18, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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globalecoguy.bsky.social
I especially love this diagram.
June 25, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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jowiph.bsky.social
I would kill or die for Larry
A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing. The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find. He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team." TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES - 'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT
July 3, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Globally, 84% of the heatwave days people were exposed to in 2020-24 would not have occurred without climate change.

The rate of deaths associated with heat exposure increased by 23% from the 1990s, reaching 546,000 deaths annually.

Look where people are dying.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A figure containing two world maps stacked vertically, labeled "A" (top) and "B" (bottom). The entire image is captioned at the bottom: "Figure 2: Average percentage of total deaths that were heat-related in 1990–99 (A) and 2012–21 (B)". A single color-coded legend on the left side applies to both maps, showing a gradient of 17 steps. The scale ranges from very pale cream/pink representing the lowest percentage ("0.00 to <0.25") to increasingly darker shades of orange, red, and finally dark maroon/black representing the highest percentage ("3.75 to 4.00"). Antarctica is shaded grey on both maps. Map A (Top Map - 1990–99): Shows the global distribution of heat-related deaths as a percentage of total deaths during the 1990s. Most of North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia are shaded in light cream or pale orange colors, indicating low percentages (generally below 1.00%). The highest percentages are concentrated in North Africa, parts of the Middle East, and parts of Central/Southern Africa, which are shaded in medium-to-dark red, with a couple of countries showing very dark maroon patches. Map B (Bottom Map - 2012–21): Shows the same metric for the 2012–21 period. Compared to Map A, there is a visible and significant intensification of color globally, particularly across the African continent and the Middle East. A large, continuous block of countries across North Africa, West Africa, and the Middle East is now shaded in the darkest maroon and black tones, indicating that heat-related deaths make up the highest bracket of total deaths (up to 4.00%). Central and Southern Africa also display much darker shades of red and maroon compared to Map A, while South America (notably Argentina) and parts of South Asia show a slight darkening into deeper orange-red tones.
June 30, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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drkatemarvel.bsky.social
In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins
April 22, 2026 at 2:39 PM
soildoc.bsky.social
Grateful to (left > right) Anne Ready, @heatherwhite.bsky.social, and @karinkirk.bsky.social, for the discussion of how they each became part of the solution. And great job moderating Gracie #climateweek
April 21, 2026 at 12:42 AM
soildoc.bsky.social
how are you celebrating Montana Soil Health Day??!?
April 1, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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mouthyrenegade.bsky.social
As a baseball fan of many years, I’ve never seen anything like this before. I love it. Normalize giving your fellow humans hugs.
March 29, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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climatekeith.bsky.social
As we head into another wildfire season:
"We find that the observed increase in extreme fire weather bears a clear externally forced signal, detectable at 99% confidence above natural variability and attributable to human-induced climate change."
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
March 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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24fps.myatproto.social
we have a nuclear power station in the sky and can make batteries out of salt but if 21 nm of water get closed we have a global energy crisis

idk bruh, i am not a scientist, but this seems dumb as ballz
March 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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dylanbeaudette.bsky.social
Well done @olivia.science, these are the concise responses many of us understand intuitively but may not be quick enough on our feet to articulate when necessary.

olivia.science/ai/#allies
A short excerpt of uncritical statements and possible responses.
March 8, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
The perfect headline doesn’t exi…
Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change
Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.
www.engadget.com
March 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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emollick.bsky.social
Don’t reflexively let your AI do your thinking for you (similar to Fabrizio Dell'Acqua’s finding about falling asleep at the wheel)

Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
February 14, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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beckyhammer.bsky.social
I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"
February 11, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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weratedogs.com
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
A couple of weeks ago I spoke at the University of Minnesota on the topic of how AI would change science.

Now you can watch online (or get AI to summarize it for you.)
Still from the video. Left: slide of surfer emerging from the waves at sunrise "Or a magical helper, here to make our lives immeasurably easier." Right: Carl Bergstrom, gesturing as he talks.
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM