Ted Wong
@tedwong.bsky.social
Parent, spouse, ecologist, human. Data scientist at WRI, occasional lecturer at Penn SP2. Posts are just me.
How hot is it? Important but complicated question.
Beyond the Thermometer: 5 Heat Metrics That Drive Better Decision-Making
Land surface temperature, air temperature, heat index, wet bulb globe temperature and thermal comfort indices can be used for different purposes when measuring heat.
www.wri.org
March 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
How hot is it? Important but complicated question.
Saving the world means changing behaviors
We're Not Adapting to Climate Change Fast Enough. Behavioral Science Could Help.
Adaptation is too small, slow and scattered to address the enormity of the climate crisis. But behavioral science could help spur action on a larger scale.
www.wri.org
March 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Saving the world means changing behaviors
Couldn’t bring myself to be pithy today
March 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Couldn’t bring myself to be pithy today
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📰 News or Ad? 🌍
Our 🚨new study🚨 in npj Climate Action reveals how native ads from big oil mislead readers on #ClimateChange. We found that disclosures and #inoculation messages can help combat this #disinformation. A 🧵…1/6
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Our 🚨new study🚨 in npj Climate Action reveals how native ads from big oil mislead readers on #ClimateChange. We found that disclosures and #inoculation messages can help combat this #disinformation. A 🧵…1/6
rdcu.be/eb9IO
March 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📰 News or Ad? 🌍
Our 🚨new study🚨 in npj Climate Action reveals how native ads from big oil mislead readers on #ClimateChange. We found that disclosures and #inoculation messages can help combat this #disinformation. A 🧵…1/6
rdcu.be/eb9IO
Our 🚨new study🚨 in npj Climate Action reveals how native ads from big oil mislead readers on #ClimateChange. We found that disclosures and #inoculation messages can help combat this #disinformation. A 🧵…1/6
rdcu.be/eb9IO
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WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
March 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
A few things everyone should be reminding everyone about measles:
* It can KILL
* It ERASES immunity that you have previously built against other diseases
* You can catch it from breathing air contaminated by someone who was standing there HOURS EARLIER
* IT IS PREVENTABLE
* It can KILL
* It ERASES immunity that you have previously built against other diseases
* You can catch it from breathing air contaminated by someone who was standing there HOURS EARLIER
* IT IS PREVENTABLE
March 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A few things everyone should be reminding everyone about measles:
* It can KILL
* It ERASES immunity that you have previously built against other diseases
* You can catch it from breathing air contaminated by someone who was standing there HOURS EARLIER
* IT IS PREVENTABLE
* It can KILL
* It ERASES immunity that you have previously built against other diseases
* You can catch it from breathing air contaminated by someone who was standing there HOURS EARLIER
* IT IS PREVENTABLE
Repubs call it govt SPENDING, a seemingly neutral term that actually erases its purpose. Dems should be calling it INVESTING.
February 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Repubs call it govt SPENDING, a seemingly neutral term that actually erases its purpose. Dems should be calling it INVESTING.
mRNA vaccines SAVED THE WORLD last time. So very insane that the right is demonizing mRNA vaccines, because there will definitely be more times! Bird flu, bat flu, something else completely new.
New coronavirus discovered in Chinese bats sparks alarm
The virus binds to humans in a similar way to the virus that causes COVID-19.
www.newsweek.com
February 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
mRNA vaccines SAVED THE WORLD last time. So very insane that the right is demonizing mRNA vaccines, because there will definitely be more times! Bird flu, bat flu, something else completely new.
So, whenever the Dems or whoever steps up and acts like a true opposition party, they'll have to have a strategy for welcoming disillusioned former Trump supporters without triggering all the massive cognitive dissonance. No talk of leopards eating faces, for example. No schadenfreude. Will be hard.
February 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
So, whenever the Dems or whoever steps up and acts like a true opposition party, they'll have to have a strategy for welcoming disillusioned former Trump supporters without triggering all the massive cognitive dissonance. No talk of leopards eating faces, for example. No schadenfreude. Will be hard.
Important takeaway from this essay: there will be lots of Trump supporters who will be harmed and maybe disillusioned by all the Trump/Musk chaos and destruction. We have to come up with ways to reach out to them and bring them into the tent. WHY ARE THERE NO OPPOSITION-PARTY PRESS CONFERENCES?
They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Important takeaway from this essay: there will be lots of Trump supporters who will be harmed and maybe disillusioned by all the Trump/Musk chaos and destruction. We have to come up with ways to reach out to them and bring them into the tent. WHY ARE THERE NO OPPOSITION-PARTY PRESS CONFERENCES?
What bewilders me is the hostility toward fundamental scientific research. I mean, cancer cures?!
February 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What bewilders me is the hostility toward fundamental scientific research. I mean, cancer cures?!
Was this research partly supported by NIH funding? Yes! A federal research grant to study chemicals in malaria parasites made possible this work to find a cure for human brain cancer.
Newly identified therapeutic target may lead to effective treatments for the most common and dangerous form of brain cancer
Newly identified therapeutic target may lead to effective treatments for the most common and dangerous form of brain cancer
www.icr.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Was this research partly supported by NIH funding? Yes! A federal research grant to study chemicals in malaria parasites made possible this work to find a cure for human brain cancer.
Trump is telling Elon Musk, no slouch at cheaping out safety, to tell Boeing, industry leader in nickel-and-dimeing safety, to shortcut safety regs and get him his planes goddammit. Because the current AF1 is so shabby.
A Frustrated Trump Wants His New Air Force One Planes Pronto
Among the ways being discussed to force faster delivery of two presidential planes are relaxing security clearances for Boeing workers and even purchasing a temporary luxury plane and retrofitting it.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Trump is telling Elon Musk, no slouch at cheaping out safety, to tell Boeing, industry leader in nickel-and-dimeing safety, to shortcut safety regs and get him his planes goddammit. Because the current AF1 is so shabby.
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Maybe 18th century presidents could get away with deciding everything without the professional expertise of the country’s labor lawyers and environmental scientists, and that’s why those folks don’t appear in the Constitution. But times and the actual atmosphere have changed!
February 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Maybe 18th century presidents could get away with deciding everything without the professional expertise of the country’s labor lawyers and environmental scientists, and that’s why those folks don’t appear in the Constitution. But times and the actual atmosphere have changed!
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10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.
February 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
Jupiter and moons through my small backyard telescope and an iPhone
February 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Jupiter and moons through my small backyard telescope and an iPhone
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Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
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This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
February 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
The Einstein ring is all over my feed today, and I find it -- and all the #astrophotography I see ALL THE TIME -- so soothing. Thank you, space-pic posters! It's like, Trump can't sign an EO invalidating gravitational lensing. Elon Musk can't steal the images from people's backyard telescopes.
Euclid 'dark universe' telescope discovers stunning Einstein ring in warped space-time (image)
"This first strong gravitational lens discovered by Euclid has unique characteristics."
www.space.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The Einstein ring is all over my feed today, and I find it -- and all the #astrophotography I see ALL THE TIME -- so soothing. Thank you, space-pic posters! It's like, Trump can't sign an EO invalidating gravitational lensing. Elon Musk can't steal the images from people's backyard telescopes.
Insane and irresponsible that Pennsylvania isn't in on the NIH lawsuit. To our Republican Attorney General, loyalty to Elon Musk is more important than the billions of dollars in economic activity NIH funding drives in the state. Oh, and lives saved through science.
Penn stands to lose $250M from NIH indirect research funding cut under Trump
NIH grant recipients receive additional funding to cover "indirect costs," such as building maintenance and administrative expenses.
www.inquirer.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Insane and irresponsible that Pennsylvania isn't in on the NIH lawsuit. To our Republican Attorney General, loyalty to Elon Musk is more important than the billions of dollars in economic activity NIH funding drives in the state. Oh, and lives saved through science.
They were once ostensibly the party of small government. They are now the party of LET'S NEVER CURE CANCER.
February 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
They were once ostensibly the party of small government. They are now the party of LET'S NEVER CURE CANCER.