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Hannah Waters
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science journalist ~ senior editor, biology + climate @quantamagazine.bsky.social ~ writer, reader, birder, cyclist ~ former audubon climate editor ~ she/her ~ pitch biology stories: [email protected] ~ quantamagazine.org/biology
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 18d
Hii! Last week Quanta published a project I've been working on all year — a special issue about climate science, or what research into climate change is revealing about how our planet works www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...
How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine
Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...
www.quantamagazine.org
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 16h
Other planetary tipping points will follow.

"Surging temperatures worldwide have pushed coral reef ecosystems into a state of widespread decline, marking the first time the planet has reached a climate ‘tipping point’, researchers announced today."

#ClimateSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 4d
Reporting this story from Maricopa county hurt my heart because every single heat death is preventable

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full truth

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full truth
Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted
www.theguardian.com
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 18h
Rare moment of journalist solidarity as major news outlets, including WaPo, NYT, CNN, Newsmax, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Reuters and the Guardian, along with the trade publications Task & Purpose and Breaking Defense, all reject new Pentagon reporting rules (no word from Fox yet)
News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline
The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Reuters @reuters.com · 20h
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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
― Hannah Arendt,
The press release in which U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan announced the indictment is only three paragraphs long — remarkably brief for such a high-profile prosecution. “No one is above the law,” she says in the release. Halligan, 36, is an insurance lawyer with no prosecutorial experience who was a White House aide before Trump handpicked her to replace Erik S. Siebert, the U.S. attorney who concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge Comey. While she had served as Trump’s personal lawyer as part of his defense team in his criminal trial in New York, she seldom appeared in court and seemed to have a limited role in his defense.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 5d
That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...
'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record
New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall
www.businessgreen.com
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 5d
In case you missed it: we are hard at work on a deep dive into how the Trump Administration's policies are affecting biodiversity.

bioGraphic's news editor, @colinschultz.bsky.social, wants to know: what do you, our readers, want to know more about this topic? What questions do you have?
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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 7d
1/ 🧪🍃🐙📰 We @biographic.bsky.social have been hard at work for the past 8 months developing a deep, rich, behind-the-scenes feature story exploring how the Trump Administration's cuts to international conservation are affecting biodiversity on the ground.
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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11d
New on Heat Death! I caught up with folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor to talk about her new compendium of “geomythology,” the warnings encoded in folklore, and the oral tradition of the future. Super fun conversation.
Science Before Science with Adrienne Mayor
Historian of science Adrienne Mayor on how fossils become folklore and how stories can save your life.
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Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social · 11d
NEW: A buyout program is coming for homeowners in The Hole, a NYC neighborhood unlike any other.

It’s the first time the city pursues this climate adaptation strategy proactively, instead of after a disaster, and with a focus on inland (not coastal) flooding.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/03/f...
They Live Below Sea Level in NYC. Now, the City Could Buy Out 'The Hole'
The low-lying neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border will be the first place in New York where officials may buy properties proactively — instead of in response to a disaster.
www.thecity.nyc
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11d
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 14d
Great interview. I can hear it in all your voices!
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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 14d
It sure was fun speaking with Owen and Quentin Reiser about “Listers,” the most entertaining birding media I’ve encountered. www.audubon.org/magazine/get...
Get to Know the Brothers Behind the Buzziest Birding Film in Years
Owen and Quentin Reiser take us behind the scenes of “Listers” and preview their next project.
www.audubon.org
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The Uproot Project @uprootproject.bsky.social · 14d
🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @seattletimes.com is hiring a Climate Reporter to cover the connections between climate change and the region’s biggest and most influential businesses. seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/apstHy...
Climate Reporter - The Seattle Times - Career Page
We’re seeking a versatile Climate Reporter to deliver breaking news, in-depth enterprise and powerful narratives on climate change
seattletimes.applytojob.com
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 14d
Now at Wired - @dsamorod.bsky.social’s Quanta explainer on thirst
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WIRED @wired.com · 16d
The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst. www.wired.com/story/what-d...
What Is Thirst?
The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst.
www.wired.com
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 15d
wow: "evidence of an illegal plot already in motion ... [OMB] has been directing NASA—since early summer—to begin implementing the devastating cuts demanded in President Trump's proposed budget for FY26, in clear violation of the Constitution"
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 15d
A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️
SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 15d
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), top Democrat on Senate Commerce Cmte, is out with a Democratic staff report: "The Destruction of NASA's Mission: Whistleblowers Reveal OMB's Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency."
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 15d
U.S. Dept. of Energy Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy banned from using words like "climate change" or "emissions"...you know, phrases that have nothing to do with things like energy efficiency or renewable energy 🤦‍♂️

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list
It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.
www.politico.com
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16d
George Monbiot: "Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here. Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
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Ben Neely @benneely.com · 18d
For some reading, or just an exploration of exemplary science communication, check out the @quantamagazine.bsky.social series "How We Came to Know Earth" and its presentation. Really really good stuff.

www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...
How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine
Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...
www.quantamagazine.org
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15d
He truly is Chance the Gardener from Being There. www.kgw.com/article/news...
"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different! They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...it looks like terrible."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17d
More than 1800 detainees who were interned in Trump's shuttered Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp have now disappeared without a trace. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 18d
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 18d
Love this evolutionary perspective on how AI learning and training works in this interview with Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social by Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social

www.quantamagazine.org/to-understan...
To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves | Quanta Magazine
Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they d...
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 18d
phew, finally got all the stories posted! thank you for reading folks. feel free to send me feedback [email protected]
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 18d
An essay explores how two things can be true at once: The climate system is impossibly chaotic and climate change is simply true. By Joseph Howlett

www.quantamagazine.org/the-climate-...
The Climate Change Paradox | Quanta Magazine
Earth’s climate is chaotic and volatile. Climate change is simple and predictable. How can both be true?
www.quantamagazine.org
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