Jessica McKenzie

Jessica McKenzie

@jessimckenzi.bsky.social

reporting, writing, editing climate change stories @thebulletin.org // outdoorsy newsletter: jessicastarmckenzie.com/newsletter // tips: jmckenzie@thebulletin.org, jsmckenzie@protonmail.com, or jessimckenzi.01 on signal

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Dr. Jessica Lepler
@jlepler.bsky.social

I asked UNH's archivist to create a file of letters protesting the "weeding" of 30% of the library's books. Future researchers need to know faculty did not let the books "go gentle into that good night" (30+ books on Dylan Thomas to be culled). 🗃️ #skystorians www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...

unionleader.comPatricia Emison: UNH library plans to discard up to 300,000 ...UNH’s library plans to discard up to 300,000 volumes, prompting art history professor Patricia Emison to warn that the move could weaken long-term scholarly res...
Jessica McKenzie
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dude stop with the villain arc it's not the time

Jeremy Bartlett@jeremybartlett.bsky.social

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

you.38degrees.org.ukSave Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
Jessica McKenzie
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oh nothing just seething about third country removals. truly one of the most ghastly and inhumane things the country is doing rn and every time i read about it i have this surreal, disconnected feeling like what do you mean we're just letting this happen?!

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Jessica McKenzie
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aha—i see ben lamm has manufactured another huge media drop about WARHOUND, his new project with palmer luckey genetically engineering dogs for war

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Jessica McKenzie
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what good is it to have a snarky headline suggesting maybe this isn't a good idea if we're just going to copy pasta the press release word vomit anyway without any real follow up Qs about wtf this means

Jessica McKenzie
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normally!! i am pretty understanding of embargoes and why publications agree to them. but i feel REALLY strongly that embargoes around things that are scientifically or ethically or morally squishy really deserve better than this

thebulletin.orgDire wolf, or Colossal misrepresentation?A biotechnology company called Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected the dire wolf, a species that went extinct over 10,000 years ago.
Jessica McKenzie@jessimckenzi.bsky.social

once again: 1. media alerted to embargoed news drop 2. interview(s) with company reps, maybe even big dog lamm himself 3. NO OPPORTUNITY TO ASK FOR OUTSIDE EXPERT COMMENTARY BEFORE EMBARGO LIFTS AND YOU HAVE TO PUB PUB PUB TO BEAT ALL THE OTHER PUBS 4. massive media frenzy over a press release

Jessica McKenzie
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yes there will be a second round of stories that DO bring in outside voices that may say "this is really messed up," or "this is really improbable" or otherwise call out bs (which will further extend the media frenzy for days) but i'm just pretty disgusted everyone took the bait, AGAIN

Jessica McKenzie
@jessimckenzi.bsky.social

once again: 1. media alerted to embargoed news drop 2. interview(s) with company reps, maybe even big dog lamm himself 3. NO OPPORTUNITY TO ASK FOR OUTSIDE EXPERT COMMENTARY BEFORE EMBARGO LIFTS AND YOU HAVE TO PUB PUB PUB TO BEAT ALL THE OTHER PUBS 4. massive media frenzy over a press release

Jessica McKenzie
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How did it feel to go to bed last night after all of that, knowing the role that you played? Surý: Well, my wife says that I’m emotionally dead, but I’m not.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.
Jessica McKenzie
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legitimately want to know how all the celebs who supported colossal when it was making "dire wolves" that will live in a private zoo forever feel about this. does george rr martin think it's ethical to genetically engineer dogs to kill and be killed?

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.
Jessica McKenzie
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sounds like AltNPS has watched LOST a few too many times

AltWatcher@altwatcher.bsky.social

As far as I know, AltNPS has addressed the numbers exactly once, in April 2025. They said they "couldn't explain everything," claimed they were "targeted" for posting the numbers, and then spouted something about cell-site simulators and called it a day. They never mentioned the numbers again.

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WDEF Chief Meteorologist Austen Onek
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"The continuing controversy over the report highlights the ongoing conflict between #climate scientists who say their research is being misrepresented, and the Trump administration... " Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/2026/10/scie...

thebulletin.orgScientists say authors of a controversial government climate report made basic errorClimate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy Department. Critics say it was based on flawed analysis.

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Alex Kirshner
@alexkirshner.com

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not

Alex Kirshner@alexkirshner.com

Bluesky I know you do not care about golf. But I am telling you that in this specific case, you SHOULD care about golf. I explain in @slate.com what the Trump administration is doing to East Potomac Golf Course in D.C. slate.com/culture/2026...

slate.comThis Might Be Trump’s Pettiest Move Yet as PresidentEast Potomac offers something the president’s golf courses don’t.

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Shibley Telhami
@stelhami.bsky.social

The Washington Post photojournalist who was attacked and seriously injured by Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Friday describes how she was saved with the help of local Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comHeidi Levine recounts how Palestinian youths helped save her in settler attackUS photojournalist describes ‘protective shield’, vows to return to work in West Bank and criticises Netanyahu comments on incident

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Jessica McKenzie
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My latest for @thebulletin.org. You might be wondering, why are we still talking about the beleaguered Climate Working Group report a year+ later? Because Florida's DOGE and others can still cite it in reports about “squandering millions in virtue-signaling about a so-called climate crisis.”

Jessica McKenzie@jessimckenzi.bsky.social

"Models fail in the upper atmosphere." That was the title of a slide exhibited by Steven Koonin at a panel discussion earlier this year about the controversial climate report he coauthored for the Energy Department in 2025.

thebulletin.orgScientists say authors of a controversial government climate report made basic errorClimate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy Department. Critics say it was based on flawed analysis.
Jessica McKenzie
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lol just thought of this again

Jessica McKenzie@jessimckenzi.bsky.social

i thought "likers get likes" was a cool phrase my bf coined to describe the goodwill engendered by engaging with and supporting other people's social media posts that manifests as more engagement and support of your own posts, but he just told me it's from death stranding

Jessica McKenzie
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according to the archives i post "likers get likes" approximately once a year (since 2023, and probably before that) and this post will continue that trend

Jessica McKenzie@jessimckenzi.bsky.social

this falls under my adage of "likers get likes." compliments make the world go round! (and this goes both ways; i try to thank editors for thoughtful and good edits, and it really makes my day when writers are happy with and grateful for my edits)

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Gavin Schmidt
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Nice article on the so-called ‘Climate Working Group’ shenanigans including new excuses for why they can’t respond to the critics. thebulletin.org/2026/10/scie...

thebulletin.orgScientists say authors of a controversial government climate report made basic errorClimate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy Department. Critics say it was based on flawed analysis.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Climate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the United States Energy Department. Critics say it was based on flawed analysis, writes Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social.

buff.lyScientists say authors of a controversial government climate report made basic errorClimate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy Department. Critics say it was based on flawed analysis.
Jessica McKenzie
@jessimckenzi.bsky.social

My latest for @thebulletin.org. You might be wondering, why are we still talking about the beleaguered Climate Working Group report a year+ later? Because Florida's DOGE and others can still cite it in reports about “squandering millions in virtue-signaling about a so-called climate crisis.”

Jessica McKenzie@jessimckenzi.bsky.social

"Models fail in the upper atmosphere." That was the title of a slide exhibited by Steven Koonin at a panel discussion earlier this year about the controversial climate report he coauthored for the Energy Department in 2025.

thebulletin.orgScientists say authors of a controversial government climate report made basic errorClimate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy Department. Critics say it was based on flawed analysis.