Reporter covering the physical sciences. Curious about everything, says "oooh" a lot. Pic is of my grandpa. Words for Physics Today. Views mine, she/her 🏳️🌈
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Last night I won gold and silver #EXCELs2022 awards for my @AGU_Eos magazine features.
It's a bit wild that my stories won 2 of the 3 awards in this category?! Head still spinning about that.
Can't thank my editors Caryl-Sue Micalizio and @heathermg enough!
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BREAKING: the White Cliffs of Dover have been illuminated with the UK 'warming stripes' for #ShowYourStripes day!
These stripes represent the UK average temperature from 1884 to 2022 with blue colours for colder years and red colours for hotter years.
ShowYourStripes.info
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We’ve pumped out so much 💧 #groundwater, moving its mass around the planet, that we’ve nudged the #NorthPole by several meters in the last few decades alone!
Read on to find out how… 🧵 (1/9)
📸: Dan Meyers/Unsplash
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If you’re on the Eastern U.S. coast and you think you smell smoke, you’re not imagining it. Smoke from Canadian wildfires is traveling down the eastern seaboard and affecting air quality in several states.
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Here's a look at air quality levels through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast late Wednesday morning. I-95 corridor in poor shape, plastered in code red levels, with pockets of purple.
Follow the latest here: bit.ly/3Ch5Vcw
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This is a big deal. Widespread dangerous fire weather conditions — complete with possible dry thunderstorms — will affect parts of the Mid-Atlantic today.
I can’t remember the last time I’be seen an outlook like this.
Even a cigarette butt could spark a wildfire around PHL.
I love how simple but effective this graphic is
nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
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Ocean temperature anomalies (SST) over the last 365 days from satellite showing the transition from cold eastern Pacific into coastal #ElNino.
yiiiiikes
"Methane leaks alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK, satellite data has revealed."
theguardian.com/world/2023/m…
Check out the latest installment of my column on methane emissions worldwide! eos.org/features/hunting-for…
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In the 3rd installment of #theCurve, scientists return to a lake that’s tricked them in the past.
Input from Katey Walter Anthony & Nick Hasson @uafairbanks, Clayton Elder @NASAJPL @NASAEarth #NASA_ABoVE, Donatella Zona @SDSU. The Curve by @jrdscience
eos.org/features/hunting-for…
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On this #WorldMalariaDay, a reminder that the behavior of infectious diseases is often interwoven with environmental and climatic conditions. A 2022 study in @NatureClimate, for ex., found that warming temperatures had aggravated 160 diseases. #geohealth
eos.org/articles/climate-cha…
Explanatory science writing at its best. The way they connect Arctic sea ice with wildfires in the west is perfect. I was in Oregon during the 2020 fires, and I had no idea that the weather during that time could be influenced by Arctic sea ice loss.
apps.npr.org/arctic-ice-melt…
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Aside from the actual launch, this guy is definitely the star of @ESA's JUICE telecast.
ALT A screengrab of the ESA telecast. The shot is of the JUICE spacecraft, stacked on an Ariane 5, with a sloth in the foreground. It's the best gratuitous sloth cameo I think I've ever seen.
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The U.S. Forest Service is being sued over its use of fire retardant drops, which critics say pollute waterways and don't do much to fight wildfire, anyway. The agency strongly disagrees. Details from @phila_lex: latimes.com/california/story…
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There are Editors in Chief at @Hearst brands who are eligible for bonuses that are NEARLY DOUBLE what some of our lowest paid employees make.
How is that fair?
We need equity. Now.
Pay us what we're worth, @Hearst! We know you can afford it. Some execs' bonuses have been HIGHER than our lowest-paid union employees' salaries, and we will not stand for that kind of inequality. ✊
ALT A yellow slide that reads Hearst made 12 billion dollars in revenue last year and still refuses to pay us wages that meet industry standards.
ALT A yellow slide that reads hearst executives' bonuses are higher than our lowest-paid members salaries.
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the most powerful climate report of the decade was published on monday, after 195 governments fought over the words in its summary for policymakers, and the only media allowed in the room just published its account of who lobbied for what 1/
Heck yeah!!!
Mikaela Shiffrin is on the precipice of breaking another World Cup record after tying the all-time mark of 86 career victories.
Shiffrin matched Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark less than two months after passing Lindsey Vonn for women’s career wins. bit.ly/3T2hRqh
ALT Text overlaid image of Mikaela Shiffrin speeding down a course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup giant slalom race: "86 — Mikaela Shiffrin ties the World Cup record for the most career victories, matching Ingemar Stenmark."
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You might not have focused much on whether you need gas, oil or electricity to warm your house.
But in America’s highly fractured energy landscape, the surprising ways our home heating is split could speed — or slow — our shift away from fossil fuels. wapo.st/3ILE5Ik
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An unexpected insight into the history of wine reveals the importance of Earth’s cycles in human development. New research from Wei Chen from Yunnan Agricultural University, comments from Robin Allaby @WarwickLifeSci, story by @jrdscience. eos.org/articles/how-wines-o…
a cool thing I found during reporting my latest feature that's only tangentially related, but SO COOL. I love this take on data visualization.
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