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Gavin Schmidt

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Climate scientist, juggler. Bikes etc. Blogging at https://www.realclimate.org - data visualization, explainers, and debunking.

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Gavin A. Schmidt is a British climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the climate science blog RealClimate. .. more

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 8h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 11h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 12h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 14h

Attribution absolutely relies on the fitness for purpose of the models used & needs to be demonstrated. But these aren't new kinds of models & the results are robust. If this was a one off claim, I think you'd be correct to be skeptical, but this is now ~2 decades getting the same results.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17h

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 23h

Here (1880-1899 baseline should be close enough, I hope?).

Time series from 1850 to 2050 showing the CMIP6 model spread (grey) and constrained spread (pink), compared to GISTEMP observations. Projections are shown as the mean of the model spread, a linear trend from 1970, and a projection from Hansen et al (2024). The mean of the constrained projections shows an acceleration over the linear trend and is not distinguishable from the Hansen projection.

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Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Brendan Nyhan, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 23 more Joe R. Feagin, Brendan Nyhan, Gavin A. Schmidt, Steve Peers, Christopher Wright, Rosemary A. Joyce, Jane E. Fountain, Sanford F. Schram, Janet Murray, Aaron Sojourner, Lesley Bartlett, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Scott A. Imberman, Dean Eckles, Brian Keegan, Kent Johnson, Tom Stoppard, Ann Bartow, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Pádua Fernandes, Charles T. Mathewes, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Prakash Kashwan, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Élisabeth Vallet, David Darmofal

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, Daniel W. Drezner, David R. Miller , and 1 more Gavin A. Schmidt, Daniel W. Drezner, David R. Miller, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 2d

kidnapping

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

See more job postings from ICE, courtesy of New Yorker Humor: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/ice-job-postings

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 2d

actually, fixing your employer's spreadsheets because the AI they got to fill them in has a 43% error rate.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 2d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Reposted by Mark A. Lemley, Gavin A. Schmidt, Tom Clark , and 6 more Mark A. Lemley, Gavin A. Schmidt, Tom Clark, Rebecca Tushnet, Michael Jones‐Correa, Ann Bartow, Andrew Rudalevige, Brian Jm Quinn, Aidan O’Sullivan

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll see

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3d

Always can use some more joy in the timeline, so check out this year's FISM close-up card magic winner (technically tied for 2nd place due to scoring, but still had the highest score - don't ask). www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGg...

FRANCESCO FONTANELLI - FISM WINNER - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF MAGIC - Card Magic

YouTube video by Francesco Fontanelli

www.youtube.com

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 4 more Richard S.J. Tol, Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt, Iikka Korhonen, Robert C. Richards, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 3d

Is this one of those conservative ideas we aren’t supposed to be belittling?

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Julie L. Lockwood , and 1 more Gavin A. Schmidt, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Julie L. Lockwood, Michael Zimmer

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 3d

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

Screenshot from link that reads: The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 3d

⏰ Deadline extended! Tenders will be accepted until 28 October to develop an advanced LLM-based search and discovery service for the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS). Help enhance climate data access - apply today! 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/c3s2523-llm-...

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Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · 3d

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

They're going to put an enormous lawsuit magnet in the sky.
mastodon.social/@sundogplane...

Prof. Sam Lawler (@[email protected])

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disas...

mastodon.social

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d

I don't see why you need such a caveat. Sometimes you just want to know. In these cases, this knowledge also helps planning and estimates of future risk.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d

I'm going to advise folks to be on the lookout and have some cash ready...

Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d

I discussed the issues a couple of years ago @realclimate.org www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
and the latest barrage of op-eds adds nothing to their argument.

RealClimate: Watching the detections

RealClimate: The detection and attribution of climate change are based on fundamentally different statistical frameworks and shouldn't be conflated.

www.realclimate.org

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d

This is a good corrective to the BS narrative flowing through the Pielke/AEI/NYP/EID/DOE nexus. Their argument is designed so that we can never ever attribute extreme events to emissions - even singular events that would have *never* [for some suitable finite approximation] have happened before.

Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 4d

Today from @lesleyclark.bsky.social and @saraschonhardt.bsky.social + contribs from me:

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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