The preliminary budget draft proposes the creation of a new agency called the “Administration for a Healthy America,” which would give RFK Jr even more power and resources to pursue quack treatments and conspiracy theories.

Global temperatures are once again near record highs over the last few days.

Graphic updated in near real-time at https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/

I want to make sure people know that in the U.S. a Presidential executive order is not a law. It is an internal memo from the head of the Executive to others in that branch. The President has no constitutional authority to legislate or adjudicate the law. 1/

Seeing Serious People talk about Serious Issues while past-tensing Covid is like playing two truths and a lie.

It's impossible to trust people to deal with issues while they aggressively ignore how repeated, compounded, unimpeded Covid infections have a negative impact on literally all of the issues on this planet.

@Sfwmson @christophermoverton@threads.net I don’t have any easy answers. You are getting into more complex sociological analysis turf with this one.

@Sfwmson @christophermoverton@threads.net Well, why didn’t Biden win by +20% of the popular vote, and instead walk away with +4.5% of the popular vote over Trump? A lot of people were shocked at how close the election results were in 2020 knowing what we knew then about Trump and persistently being reminded daily about who Trump was. A lot were shocked when Clinton won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote given that Trump appeared to be shoe-in for Clinton.

Temperature anomalies over the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right) in the Northern Hemisphere...

Data from @CopernicusECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=overview

Grad student at CU Boulder looking to interview a data scientist on ethics in the field for a project. Would love to hear from you! Not sure if it’s a wild crew over here, but I thought I’d pitch this anyways!
I’ve already tried on Bluesky!
#DataScience #Ethics #InterviewRequest #GradStudent #DataEthics #ScienceCommunity

The zone of gravitational influence around a planet is called its "Hill sphere." The farther you go from the Sun, the bigger the zone gets -- which helps explain why Neptune can hold on to a satellite that's more than 100x as distant as the Moon is from Earth.

In the outer solar system, there's not much competition for attention...

https://astroblog.cosmobc.com/hill-sphere/ #science #physics #astronomy #space

Recent sunrise photo

Thou shalt not be mean to people because you think God wants you to be a jerk. I don’t, ok? Don’t be a jerk. Gah!

@WaterWatchman beautiful shot!

Dahlia.

#PhotoMonday #FotoMontag
#nature #NaturePhotography

#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through June 2023

+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 44/45=coldest (blue)
+ Download visual: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-temperatures/
+ Data from: https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis.html

It’s happened. Our department has lost a young faculty member to a better offer in a safer state.

Texas’s extremist government will end up wrecking the universities here. Given a choice, people don’t want to subject themselves to fascism.

#Texas #GOPextremism #UTAustin

"Climate change will accelerate the high-end risk of compound drought and heatwave events" | New #PNAS article by K.P. Tripathy, S. Mukherjee, A. Mishra, P. Williams & yours truly:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219825120

"Climate change’s impact on extreme weather events" | #PennToday on our new (https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219825120)
@PNASNews article on climate change & compound heat/drought events: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/three-things-know-climate-changes-impact-extreme-weather-events

@pzmyers cheeses date to several thousand years, but it may have been something closer to modern day labneh which is strained yogurt sour cheese, I’d wonder. Goat/sheep’s milk when available. An interesting article on dietary findings https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/men-and-women-ate-different-diets-ancient-roman-town-180978532/

@pzmyers correcting myself mozzarella didn’t exist until later invented by capuchin monks. Not sure if a cheese variety would exist at this point.

@pzmyers I’m seeing tomato and maybe mozzarella cheese ball melted. Cloves of garlic, maybe fennel, and a local Mediterranean fish added?