Brian Rowe

Japan has been in a long heat wave this summer and fall. Water temperatures have increased so much that salmon are disappearing, leading to 8 out of 10 bear cubs starving to death. hottertimes.substack.com/p/the-many-fac… #climatechange #ClimateAction #heatwave #japan #DataVisualization

An overlay from hottertimes.com of rain extent following the heavy rains in the Northeast. While NYC gets most of the attention, many other place received similar amounts of rain. #climatechange #ClimateWeekNYC #weather #weatherdata #datascience #datavisualization

Are weather stations a luxury? What does it mean when a country doesn't have accurate forecasts? Read what I uncovered in Hotter Times #3 #weather #climate #climatechange #resilience #data #datascience #datavisualization hottertimes.substack.com/p/hotter-times…

Hotter Times #2.1: The wandering cyclone and the missing data trail open.substack.com/pub/hottertime…

@ProfBillMcGuire Wondering if Bay of Fundy will see 15m waves + 30m tide

I just published the inaugural edition of the Hotter Times Digest. Read about recent extreme weather across the globe and it's impact on people, based on hottertimes.com. hottertimes.substack.com/p/hotter-times… #Weather #heatwave #rain

How does this week's storm compare to Hurricane Irene? This chart I made shows rainfall totals for different places in the Hudson Valley and Vermont. #HudsonValley #Floods #VermontFlooding #VermontFlood #climate

@DreadOKnights @BenNollWeather Based on GHCND dataset for Cornwall (other side of Storm King), previous record was on September 2, 2021 with about 5.8" rain and then 31 July, 2016 with 5.5" rain.

@BenNollWeather Is this amount a record rainfall total for any day of summer?

Current scene in West Point, New York / #HudsonValley 🌊 The radar estimates that over 10 inches of rain fell today, nearly the amount that typically falls over an entire summer! ⚠️ There’s more rain to come… 📸 Megan Cardone via a resident of West Point, NY

Using wallets as a reward and penalty mechanism cartesianfaith.com/2022/12/06/usi…

Latest casualty of shrinkflation is coffee going from 12 oz to 300 g. That said, if that's the cost of moving to metric, it might just be worth it!

@Helios_Movement Crazy that study is over 100 years old. I do wonder why they didn't hold the oil/fat percentage constant. Wouldn't a diet of 5% oil be signif worse than one with just 1.5% butter fat?

Cottonseed oil (a common seed “oil”) in several studies decreased the lifespan of mice in half. HALF. Not only that, but it made them severely sick for their entire lifespan. Their quality of life was pretty bad. They were in a zombie-like state.

Seed and vegetable oils. What they actually are, how they're harming everyone's health and how to detox from them once and for all. A thread.

Crazy to think 30 years ago polarization and extremism were already a problem

Already knew cement is bad for environment. Now we see cement companies like to finance terrorism bc profits. npr.org/2022/10/18/112…

And here is the rest of the toxic social media feedback loop: extremist views are amplified and rewarded, which induces politicians to pander extremist views and sanction bad behavior. The result? Failing democracy. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… by @jbview

This is cool. Parkour crews turning off lights in cities to conserve electricity and help bring back dark nights. nytimes.com/2022/10/13/wor…

@pettertornberg If the incentive structure for social media changed (eg penalize outrage), would this intensification still exist?

By pushing us to interact with people from the other side, social media drives conflict - and the alignment of identities along partisan lines. Social media produces political tribes, which intensifies affective polarization. 8/

Social media has been broadly linked to intensifying political polarization. But why would social media drive polarization? My new paper in PNAS suggests that the reason might not be what you think... 🧵 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@mauraball @furman_josh I just did this. 26 acres.

@furman_josh Where?

If you had an extra $30K what would you do with it?

@TobiasRose @elonmusk There's plenty of research showing that status quo incentive structure promotes polarization and outrage. So why not change the incentive structure and introduce negative feedback so users can self-regulate.

@TobiasRose @elonmusk If you start with a different set of starting assumptions about how social media incentives work, these tradeoffs can go away.

Re-upping. Twitter is a very hard problem. Hope @elonmusk will talk to teams in the trenches researching it. Any social media content moderation is a series of painful tradeoffs between clearly "positive" values: Free Speech↔️Factual info Privacy↔️Safety Virality↔️Accuracy etc.

@ProfessorGeraci Initial results seem promising. Personally I like the idea of an alternative narrative to AI apocalypse and instead AI that helps us be better.

Finding a solution to the venomous usage of social media is a high priority.