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Daniel J. Vecellio
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Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I research climate and human health interactions with a focus on extreme heat. Penn State Forever.
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Daniel J. Vecellio @sciencedjv.bsky.social · Oct 22
Latest paper led by @mjallen176.bsky.social examining long-term rates of heat-related illness in VA ZIP codes with and without cooling center access.

One line summary: We can't just open a cooling center up and say we've done our job.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A screenshot of the Natural Hazards paper entitled "Evaluating the relationship between heat-related illness and cooling center location in Virginia" by Michael J. Allen, Daniel J. Vecellio, and Jeremy S. Hoffman. Abstract: Extreme heat contributes to adverse health outcomes and public cooling centers are often used as both a heat-health mitigation and management strategy to protect public health during extreme heat events. While the presence of a cooling center should theoretically improve heat-health outcomes in the surrounding community, there are no quantitative studies evaluating this relationship. Using heat-related emergency department and urgent care center visits from the 2014–2020 summer seasons, this study evaluates the relationship between heat-related illness (HRI) and cooling centers in Virginia. In total, more than 10,000 incidences of HRI occurred over the period across 68% of Virginia ZIP codes as reported. Communities with a cooling center had higher rates of HRI than those without, and this difference was most significant in urban areas. This result was coincident with a significant increase in non-white residents in these ZCTA. Our results draw attention to the need for additional research on the topic of cooling center access, efficacy, and operations. Strategically locating cooling centers near or within vulnerable communities is one just consideration, and more work is needed to uncover if, when, who, and how communities are utilizing, or in many cases not utilizing or unable to utilize, cooling centers.
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dburbach.bsky.social
Insane. Can I take Geology 101 and reject the final exam with "God made the world in 7 days" and get a good grade? Same thing.

If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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parsnip.bsky.social
bums me out kinda bad that all the cool life-saving shit ai was always supposed to do, working through immense amounts of data incredibly fast to tailored ends, has to have a disclaimer slapped on it like "no not the plagiarism machine that urges you to commit suicide" now
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 2d
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
sciencedjv.bsky.social
Beer talk: This year's BCBS Chocolate Praline Stout might be the best boozy dessert stout I've ever had. It's what watching the snow fall while watching It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve night tastes like.
November 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
sciencedjv.bsky.social
Should be watching the Egg Bowl right now.
sciencedjv.bsky.social Daniel J. Vecellio @sciencedjv.bsky.social · 10d
Seeing this made me check. The Egg Bowl is a noon kickoff on Black Friday?! Nothing is sacred in this country anymore.
morgantmoriarty.bsky.social Morgan Moriarty @morgantmoriarty.bsky.social · 10d
Oh, my mans is leaving lol 👀
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
sciencedjv.bsky.social
Another potential Penn State head coach hire is off the board.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
sciencedjv.bsky.social
A good night to be a Penn State fan in the state of Nebraska.
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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tgk.bsky.social
Truly wild that I am in complete alignment with the leader of the Roman Catholic Church on something
paulgp.com Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10d
This Pope guy has some bangers
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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notalegalrecord.net
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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thefarmerjones.bsky.social The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 9d
Just had the opportunity to say “solidarity“ to the crew picketing outside our local Starbucks.
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
sciencedjv.bsky.social
Seeing this made me check. The Egg Bowl is a noon kickoff on Black Friday?! Nothing is sacred in this country anymore.
morgantmoriarty.bsky.social Morgan Moriarty @morgantmoriarty.bsky.social · 10d
Oh, my mans is leaving lol 👀
November 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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dfdunham.bsky.social
I have never felt more patriotic
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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us.theconversation.com
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
sciencedjv.bsky.social
This morning's lead-in to Good Morning America: "The President puts out a post saying that congresspeople are guilty of sedition, punishable by death..... [brightens up] and Thanksgiving travel and Black Friday shopping deals!"

We're so cooked.
November 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
sciencedjv.bsky.social
I don’t like metaphors this apt.
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11d
breaking news: COP30 talks have been evacuated after a massive fire broke out inside the venue in brazil
COP30 evacuated after fire breaks out
Thousands of people are attending the UN climate talks in Brazil.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Our team's latest work on heat stress limits, reviewing the word we have done with elderly subjects and placing them within a larger climate context, now out in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social. www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
Age and livability in a hotter climate
Men and women over the age of 65 years comprise the most vulnerable population to increasing heat events associated with climate change. One measure of risk involves the physiological determination of...
www.thelancet.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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ccallahan45.bsky.social
📈🚨NEW: Extreme heat events are increasingly threatening to become mass mortality events. In @natclimate.nature.com today, we project tens of thousands of deaths in a single week across Europe if extreme heat domes coincide with rising global temperatures.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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mjhaugen.bsky.social
Picture of a man with his eyes closed and head bowed, with the caption "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me"
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
sciencedjv.bsky.social
Our team's latest work on heat stress limits, reviewing the word we have done with elderly subjects and placing them within a larger climate context, now out in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social. www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
Age and livability in a hotter climate
Men and women over the age of 65 years comprise the most vulnerable population to increasing heat events associated with climate change. One measure of risk involves the physiological determination of...
www.thelancet.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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insideclimatenews.org
Excessive heat and more frequent medical incidents in Southern college football stadiums could be a warning sign for universities across the country.
Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums - Inside Climate News
Excessive heat and more frequent medical incidents in Southern college football stadiums could be a warning sign for universities across the country.
insideclimatenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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lancetcountdown.bsky.social
📢 Explore the latest country data on health and climate change, based on the 2025 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown.

🔗 Available here: buff.ly/qnzUz7D

#LancetClimate25
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
"When her professor emailed her feedback on an AI-written paper, she refused to open it. She still hasn’t. “It’s wasting his time because he’s editing a fucking machine,” Gwen said. “Whatever he has to say is meaningless to me anyway, because it’s not my writing.”"
markabraham.bsky.social Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 15d
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
By the end of the spring semester, Gwen reached a breaking point with AI. “I felt like I didn’t deserve to be a Yale student,” she said. She thought that she was throwing away her education and the scholarship paying to support it. She decided to quit using ChatGPT altogether. She didn’t ask AI to help her sentences flow or to strike the right tone. She didn’t even use it to brainstorm. “I think that’s a skill you need to have on your own. That’s the core of being original, anyway.” Gwen recalled completing her final assignments without AI, sitting in the middle of a crowded library so that she felt watched. “I struggled. And they weren’t very good.” It was only then, she said, that she started to understand just how much learning she had missed out on. ∎
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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thefarmerjones.bsky.social
Love this dude. Happy for him.
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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miriamposner.com
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
veenadubal.bsky.social Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 17d
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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brandontbishop.bsky.social
For the record: this would pretty much ends American field work in the geosciences in China.

That includes:
-the world's largest plateau
-the world's best ice age land sedimentary archive
-number of major fault systems
environmicrobio.bsky.social Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 18d
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM