Nikhil

There’s this place on mass ave in Cambridge called “Italian waters” that just sells bottled water

Great bit out there for a sci fi movie to have the AI android character speak in chatgpt cadence

First they came for my neighbor and I was like damn that’s crazy. Then they came for me and I was like Ah shit shit shit shit fuck

Warming mitigates root exudate-induced priming effects via changes to microbial biomass, community structure, and gene abundance Abstract. Root exudation, the export of soluble carbon compounds from living plant roots into soil, is an important pathway for soil carbon formation, but

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so wait, do you get worse at football as you get older? it seems to me like you would get better at it since you'd have more time to learn football facts

Are they just gonna make the president the person of the year every time there’s an election?

i'm writing a screenplay called Heart Of A Champion about a guy who has a cold and has to sneeze and blow his nose all the time, but still gets a lot of work done on the computer. not sure yet but i think it'll probably wind up being a christian movie

Al Michaels: Aaron rodgers, now that’s a guy who makes his opinion known

Kirk herbstreit: oh absolutely, and his teammates love him for that, he really—

Michaels: sometimes you wish he’d stay quiet about it!

Herbstreit: oh absolutely

Trying to decide if I care enough about Bruce Springsteen to watch this movie that I know is gonna be terrible

My boy Jared Goff is so charismatic

Fig. 3. Estimated mitigation potential from forestation varies with land availability assumptions. (A) Global and regional ecosystem carbon sequestration. BA19 (10), GR17 (8), and Qin24 (24) refer to respective assumptions of land potentially available for forestation. The “committed” assumption considers only national commitments, and “achievable” shows currently achievable land limited by availability defined in Qin24 (see materials and methods section M3). (B) The currently achievable mitigation potential varies among countries and income groups. Country-specific data are available in data S3 (24). Country codes and corresponding income groups can be found in table S6.

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

Totally changed my view on Gaza when I learned that the starving kids were… also really sick

Cybertruck just let me merge. Maybe we aren’t so different after all…

We put together a really exciting session on root exudation at #ESA2025 tomorrow, with an elite group of speakers! I suspect this is the first (but hopefully not last!) exudate-focused session at ESA. Hope to see you there!!

Congrats dude!!

Such a fun project & massive team effort. We sampled tree cores my 1st yr of grad school then took a year to figure out how to grind wood… ! But we were amazed to find such a complex & unexpected ecosystem inside trees. And we’ve just scratched the surface! We explored 150 trees— 3 trillion to go!

“look i don’t care what it’s about just give me 300 words”

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

I know so many dedicated and brilliant scientists who work (and I guess now worked) at EPA. The loss of expertise and ability to make science-informed decisions will have lasting damage for our health. Academics and advocates will have to try to fill the gap.

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My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.

"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."

Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.

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i'm the guy who replies to your top 10 favorite albums list, an extraordinarily subjective and exclusive list by its very definition, with "you forgot music o'clock by gary guitar and the rockin' instrument band"

Meta has been accused of using faulty data to train an artificial intelligence climate tool, with scientists claiming the Big Tech group raised false hopes about the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale. The tech company said last year that it had helped researchers with the elusive problem of identifying materials to efficiently remove carbon dioxide from air, by publishing a “groundbreaking” data set on which it also trained free-to-use machine learning models. But none of the 135 materials that Meta’s research said could bind CO₂ “strongly” had that characteristic, while some did not exist, according to researchers from Heriot-Watt University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). “I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more,” said Berend Smit, a professor of chemical engineering at EPFL, describing some of Meta’s results as “nonsense”. “You get the impression that the Big Tech mentality is do first, think later.”

This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Fine root and soil carbon stocks are positively related in grasslands but not in forests - Communications Earth & Environment A positive relationship between fine root carbon and soil organic carbon stocks is well established in grasslands, particularly at greater depths, but the relationship varies across forests, based on ...

Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

we worked so hard on this, nights and weekends, trying our best to do a good job for the American people

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

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I agreed with you, but just had conversations with several exudate people that once carbon moves to the next trophic level (i.e. from plants to mycorrhizae) it should no longer be considered a rhizodeposit. Wanted to see what a fungi person thought