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Peter Jacobs
@pjacobs.bsky.social
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climate science (paleo, modern, future); public understanding of science (consensus, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-7126
Mastodon: fediscience.org/@peterjacobs
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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 14h
SO HEY IT'S SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY

Could I perhaps take a moment of your time to tell you about a couple of great little bookstores? I got to visit all of theme recently while doing my up-and-down the coast signing tour and they're all pretty fantastic.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h
RIP Tom Stoppard.

I was in "The Real Inspector Hound" and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" in high school. I saw "The Invention of Love" on Broadway and was pretty bored, but it stuck with me.

He wrote the screenplay for Brazil! And a bunch of script-doctoring few know about. What a writer.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 17h
Light em if you got em.
A prayer candle with the face of CIA counterintelligence legend James Jesus Angleton on it.

Reposted by R. M. Wilson, Peter Jacobs

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 19h
Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?

We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 3d
The United States is not under incarcerated.
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting. A plot of major economy countries by incarceration rate showing the US is an outlier even compared to Russia.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 3d
Lol. Lmao.
@ggreenwald Who is eavesdropping on Steve Witkoff's calls with Russian officials to end the war in Ukraine, then leaking them to Bloomberg? It's the same thing the NSA did to Michael Flynn when he was negotiating with Russian officials. It's the most serious leaking crime in the US Code. Gibby saying "what are you, a cop?" from iCarly

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 3d
So is ostensible transparency advocate Glenn Greenwald cheering on whoever leaked this information, or because it disadvantages Russia is he spiralling about it? I know which way I'd wager.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 4d
The best way to prevent getting norovirus is to wash hands with warm soap and water for 20 seconds. Hand sanitizer alone does not work well against norovirus. #RSNA25
abcnews.go.com/Health/us-ca...
US cases of norovirus on the rise with double the rate of positive tests since August
Cases of norovirus are rising across the United States, doubling over the last few months, according to updated data from the CDC.
abcnews.go.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 4d
I wonder what message it sends to the American public and up-and-coming journalists that someone like this ends up not only fine, but in a better position than they were in when the scandal broke.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 4d
I hadn't even seen this one lol

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 4d
OpenAI's "Don't worry everyone, our auditor is Deloitte" response has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the response.
A news article detailing how Deloitte has apparently once again used AI in an official six figures government report that has erroneous hallucinations. A Financial Times article wondering who OpenAI's auditor is, with an update that it is Deloitte.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 4d
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 4d
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 5d
But also as a separate point, he was clearly ASD in addition to whatever else was going on.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 5d
God, someone was talking about him the other day, and it struck me how his whole adult convert Opus Dei, Clinton-conspiracizing, sexual deviancy schtick would have worked to his benefit with certain Theil orbit folks, to say nothing of the Russia angle.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 5d
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@DavidSacks According to today’s WSJ, AI-related investment accounts for half of GDP growth. A reversal would risk recession. We can’t afford to go backwards.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 5d
Column integrated total water vapor reveals the evolution of #Melissa from Tropical Storm to record-breaking Hurricane to extra tropical cylone in the North Atlantic, from October 21st to 31st. Data from NASA GSFC's GEOS-FP near-real-time analysis product. 🧪⚒️🌊🌀

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 5d
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pjacobs.bsky.social Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 5d
You can appreciate the scale of the unusual polar warming in Oct 2025 when you look at both poles at once. Antarctica was not just warmer than average on net, it was anomalously warm almost everywhere & by quite a bit (& this is with a rel. warm ref period, '86/15). Similar for the high Arctic. 🥵🧪⚒️🌊

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 5d
You can appreciate the scale of the unusual polar warming in Oct 2025 when you look at both poles at once. Antarctica was not just warmer than average on net, it was anomalously warm almost everywhere & by quite a bit (& this is with a rel. warm ref period, '86/15). Similar for the high Arctic. 🥵🧪⚒️🌊
A spatial map of both poles showing the temperature difference between the month of October 2025 and the average of all Octobers from 1986-2015, using the GEOS-FP near real time analysis and MERRA-2 reanalysis respectively. Warmer than average values are reds and cooler values are blue, the reds cover almost all of both poles.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 5d
Tell your peepaw that the bards* still sing** of his glory days and hit him with a thumbs up for me

* internet dorks
** skeet about

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 5d
People have pointed this stuff out for ages to no avail but the median non-farm household income in like 1955 was around $4700 which translates into around $57,000 in 2024, compared to actual 2024 incomes which were like $84,000. Obviously some important nuances, but as a first approximation...

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 5d
You'll nev— eh, I'd actually put this at 50/50 whether you can guess what this is in response to.
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My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.

When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 5d
Industry-academic collaborations are usually justified under the argument that some data is better than none, but does this hold when the company knows and can guide what you find?

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 5d
By the time the dust settles on this suite of collaborations we’ll have a dozen or so null findings in the literature, after 6-8 years, at odds with internal research because scientists weren’t permitted to look where the problems were.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894
The Risks of Industry Influence in Tech Research
Emerging information technologies like social media, search engines, and AI can have a broad impact on public health, political institutions, social dynamics, and the natural world. It is critical to ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 5d
My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.

When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Peter Jacobs

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Steph Henson @stephhenson.bsky.social · 6d
🌊 We’re hiring! Permanent position for an assistant research scientist in marine autonomous systems at NOC Southampton. Do you enjoy developing python tools and data workflows? And have an interest in marine science? Apply before 10 December! careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/assi...
Careers | National Oceanography Centre
careers.noc.ac.uk

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 6d
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 6d
we're uncancelling Ignition (Remix) for this