And to think this doesn’t even get to AI stagnating our culture open.substack.com/pub/experime...
The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
And to think this doesn’t even get to AI stagnating our culture open.substack.com/pub/experime...
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I wrote about Rosalía's "Lux," martyrdom, and our collective gastrointestinal health johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/eat-me
Eat Me
On Rosalía's "Lux" and our collective gut health
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I wrote about Rosalía's "Lux," martyrdom, and our collective gastrointestinal health johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/eat-me
Trudeau/Katy Perry, Louvre heist… this is the type of shenanigans reporting that we don’t get anymore when the news cycle is all fascism and horrors of AI
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Trudeau/Katy Perry, Louvre heist… this is the type of shenanigans reporting that we don’t get anymore when the news cycle is all fascism and horrors of AI
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Our new article out today takes a hard look at some practical limitations on stratospheric aerosol injection and what they means for the riskiness of this approach. @mcneill-lab.org w/ @gwagner.com & @steingart.bsky.social @climate.columbia.edu @columbiaseas.bsky.social
Here's the press release:
Here's the press release:
How hard is it to dim the Sun?
Solar radiation management is gaining traction as a climate intervention—but new research warns that real-world constraints make it riskier and more uncertain than most models suggest.
www.eurekalert.org
October 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Our new article out today takes a hard look at some practical limitations on stratospheric aerosol injection and what they means for the riskiness of this approach. @mcneill-lab.org w/ @gwagner.com & @steingart.bsky.social @climate.columbia.edu @columbiaseas.bsky.social
Here's the press release:
Here's the press release:
😽😽😽😽🙂🙂🙂wish I could be there🥲🥲
Closing out the conference with an amazing pre-recorded plenary by Rich Moore, student awards, and the Juan Fernandez de la Mora Prize which goes to @ryanward.bsky.social !! #AAAR2025
October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
😽😽😽😽🙂🙂🙂wish I could be there🥲🥲
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Celebrating Richard Flagan's 50 years of service to @caltech.edu! Rick arrived in 1975 intending to study combustion chemistry and ended up playing an enormously influential role in developing new instrumentation to quantify atmospheric aerosol and helping to mitigate air pollution in LA and beyond.
September 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Celebrating Richard Flagan's 50 years of service to @caltech.edu! Rick arrived in 1975 intending to study combustion chemistry and ended up playing an enormously influential role in developing new instrumentation to quantify atmospheric aerosol and helping to mitigate air pollution in LA and beyond.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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They should read our new study. In Los Angeles Purple Air sensors are likely more accurate than the expensive sensors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
They should read our new study. In Los Angeles Purple Air sensors are likely more accurate than the expensive sensors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This work was really fun for us (I think) and also shows a lot of our biases. We’ve been so focused on organic aerosol the past decade (at least in LA), that when we saw that the nitrate component was more abundant than the organic, we had to unearth the ancient texts on ammonium nitrate
May 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This work was really fun for us (I think) and also shows a lot of our biases. We’ve been so focused on organic aerosol the past decade (at least in LA), that when we saw that the nitrate component was more abundant than the organic, we had to unearth the ancient texts on ammonium nitrate
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Coming across your paper, @ryanward.bsky.social is an excellent twist of fate.... I ❤️ your work! Congratulations.
Poorly quantified trends in ammonium nitrate remain critical to understand future urban aerosol control strategies
Regulatory monitors fail to measure ammonium nitrate aerosol, masking its importance as a top aerosol pollutant in Los Angeles.
www.science.org
May 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Coming across your paper, @ryanward.bsky.social is an excellent twist of fate.... I ❤️ your work! Congratulations.
from across campus in the rain I can hear a chorus of boo’s at Columbia commencement
May 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
from across campus in the rain I can hear a chorus of boo’s at Columbia commencement
The thought of Lori lightfoot having met the pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The thought of Lori lightfoot having met the pope
a lot of discourse about AI destroying student creativity and critical thinking paired with a perhaps ironic lack of creative solutions
May 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
a lot of discourse about AI destroying student creativity and critical thinking paired with a perhaps ironic lack of creative solutions
From @haroula-baliaka.bsky.social: Elevated atmospheric lead levels during the Los Angeles urban fires
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Notes from the Field: Elevated Atmospheric ...
This report describes an increase in particulate matter lead levels in Los Angeles, California during the January 2025 fires.
www.cdc.gov
February 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
From @haroula-baliaka.bsky.social: Elevated atmospheric lead levels during the Los Angeles urban fires
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
I don’t like the press knowing what read only means
February 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I don’t like the press knowing what read only means
With AI about to render a lot of industry jobs obsolete (decadal time horizon) and the federal gov’t looking to nuke your field… good time to plan a career
February 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
With AI about to render a lot of industry jobs obsolete (decadal time horizon) and the federal gov’t looking to nuke your field… good time to plan a career
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Trump Orders End to All Wind Energy Permits
The worst case scenario for the wind industry is here.
heatmap.news
January 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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@caltech.edu’s Haroula Baliaka on the composition of smoke from the Eaton Fires www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/c...
Airborne Lead and Chlorine Levels Soared as L.A. Wildfires Raged
The findings give new insight into the dangers of urban wildfires that burn plastics and other chemicals in homes and property.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
@caltech.edu’s Haroula Baliaka on the composition of smoke from the Eaton Fires www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/c...
Surely dei and woke caused this
Growing consensus from both GFS and the Euro of ~0.00 inches of rain during the rest of January for southern California.
Extreme out-of-season fire weather will continue with any moderate-to-strong Santa Ana wind resurgence.
At least three more weeks of this to go. 💔
Extreme out-of-season fire weather will continue with any moderate-to-strong Santa Ana wind resurgence.
At least three more weeks of this to go. 💔
January 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Surely dei and woke caused this