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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 7h

Microbes in groundwater are consuming enough methane to rival all wetland emissions combined.
But we're drilling deeper and pumping harder than this ancient filter can handle.

183 million years ago, runaway methane killed 80% of marine life. Now we have a choice.
🧪 #SciComm
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The Invisible Army Fighting Climate Change Beneath Your Feet

How groundwater microbes are silently consuming enough methane to rival global wetland emissions, and what happens if we overwhelm them We talk a lot about...

climateages.com

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wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 7h

Because he used flawed data in his vitamin C work?

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wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 7h

The bane of our existence

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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 7h

@jonCendpts, not on #Bluesky, on the large biotech capital financing themes:
"Whenever I see a $600M biotech investment, I think Bain likely orchestrated it. Sure enough. And Bain loves to tap a trend. In this case a US biotech with Chinese parts. "

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wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 8h

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11h

Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.

Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.

More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications

Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

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wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 8h

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Dan Rather @thedanrather.bsky.social · 9h

Government workers are just pawns for the president who is playing a game of chicken with people's lives.

Good Work If You Can Keep It

Before Trump dismantled the bureaucracy, working for the government was an honorable job

steady.substack.com

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wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 8h

There but for whatever may happen go I.

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 9h

Hail is very non-uniformly distributed around the world.

For much of the world, you almost never see hail large enough to damage solar panels. The central USA does have some issues though.

sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Map of hail frequency during the period 1979-2015 in days per year per 100km x 100km grid cell. From Prein & Holland (2018) "Global estimates of damaging hail hazard".

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 9h

'My own “rip-off” degree in Old and Middle English led to my writing 100 Horrid Henry stories, millions of books sold worldwide and countless kids becoming readers.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

www.theguardian.com

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wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 9h

Aren't those trump quotes?

wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 9h

New York Attorney General Letitia James:

“We are witnessing the fraying of our democracy, the erosion of our system of government,”
“This, my friends, is a defining moment in our history.”

wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 9h

Poefect

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

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wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 19h

File under no shit Sherlock

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

Nearly all the staff in the Office of Special Education have been fired as part of Trump’s sweeping layoffs.

These are the people responsible for protecting the civil rights of students with disabilities and ensuring they receive an equal education.

More needless cruelty on display.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 1d

Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document, which warns that journalists may lose their press credentials for…

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 20h

He should have been bankrupt by now.
Justice delayed is justice denied.

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wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 21h

Certifiably insane is the term that seems appropriate at this juncture
Who lobbies to get a prize for himself?

wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 21h

🎵Humph lord 🎵what is he good for
Absolutely nothing 🎵

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