Visma came ZIPPING by yesterday. Vingegaard picked up 12 seconds or so, partly on the back of a very disciplined team.

Q&A with Shadrach Kerwillain and Gregg Mitman (@uwmadison.bsky.social) after a screening of thier truly remarkable film"Overburden", here at the exciting @pollenetwork.bsky.social meeting.

It seems unlikely, indeed insane, that a 58-year old "critical" academic scholar could have lived his entire career without reading Eric Williams' monumental "Capitalism and Slavery", but there you have it. Remediating myself now, with my reading group.

So much to say here... but it's mostly here: tupress.temple.edu/books/lawn-p...

The amazing Dr. Frank Magilligan may be retired but he is far from done doing cool hydrology. Glad to catch up with him on Dartmouth campus yesterday.

Sid Kroft was a weird and terrific talent of a now-distant entertainment era, but one that seems super recent to me. Kroft's early years were with P.T. Barnum's circus. These I took at the circus museum several years ago.

Excited to be here @sustaindane.bsky.social Breakfast Series to join a panel on AI data centers and sustiabality. The place is packed!

"If a project previously satisfying s. 16.855 (1g) (f) is enumerated in the 2025-27 Authorized State Building Program, the department of administration may assume any existing architect or engineer contract..." TRANSLATION: we keep our Science Hall architect content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...

Good evening from Union South here @uwmadison.bsky.social , where we at Nelson Institute are kicking off an evening of fantastic environmental short films tonight, partnering with the WUD, @riveralliancewi.bsky.social , and Hoofers!

Phenomenal day with Tribal natural resources reps. Humbled that so many spent the day with us up here in Hayward. Special thanks to Alex Bohman at GLIFWC.

We're up in Hayward, to learn from our Tribal partners about possibilities and limits of wildlife biostorage. Northern Wisconsin is stunning in the fall.

Richard Matheson was a fine storyteller ("The Shrinking Man", 1956) - but benefitted from good screenwriters in adaptation. Nowhere is that clearer than his awkward bourgeois 1958 "Stir of Echoes", refashioned into a believably working class, Chicago, psychic, ghost story by David Koepp in 1999.

I'm a climate realist (as opposed to, say, a climate "catastrophist"). But climate reality is getting really real. And in summer, it bites. [Annual days when temperatures exceeded 85°F, 80-84/20-24; Copernicus ERA5 data; Ronnkvist, Haskell-Craig, et al., via NYT].

If you heard that UW's storied Science Hall might get a long overdue refit, you heard right. Advanced planning is all I can report, but recent budget and donors mean it may get an upgrade. Now we need friends to invest in what's going on INSIDE the old red giant! cpd.fpm.wisc.edu/planning/sci...

I feel seen.

Mr. Fox: Where did you come from? Mr. Fox: What are you doing here? Mr. Fox: I don't think he speaks English or Latin Mr. Fox: Pensez-vous que l'hiver sera rude? Mr. Fox: I'm asking if he thinks we're in for a hard winter. Mr. Fox: What a beautiful creature. Mr. Fox: Wish him luck boys.

My rudimentary grasp of Von Thunen came in handy!

The 2025 "Forest and People" meeting in Aussois, hosted by Francois Libois and colleagues at CNRS and beyond, was GREAT. Filled me with hope for the future, and that is no small lift.

Alex (now age 9) has taken to reading this book from the (now dated) series "Gravity Falls", filled with ciphers, puzzles, and madness. The boy is basically reading a Cthulhu Mythos tome. I think it's great.

Five days with thoughtful comrades at the "Forests and People" workshop in Aussois, this week. Especially good showing from colleagues in Environmental/Resource Economics and those in Remote Sensing. Land Change Science is thriving.

It's possible that my journey into conservation began watching an episode of Star Trek ("Devil in the Dark") as a kid n the early '70s. Here the crew meets deep rock miners who are plagued by a monster that, in the end, turns out to be a mother, and one whose home has been invaded by these settlers.

Tolkien Heads! Come by the Robinson Map Library in Science Hall this summer, where Mark Fonstad will display hand-drawn maps crafted by his mother, Middle Earth cartographer Karen Wynn Fonstad. The "Fantastic Worlds" installation runs July 21–August 1 (open weekdays, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.).

These are the lights from the conference room at the Usona Institute, and, yes, it's the molecule for psilocybin.

Albert also spoke out strongly on the first Earth Day, 55 years ago.

We had "Planetwalker" John Francis in the house tonight and it was GREAT. Also the awesome James Edward Mills and the amazing Tia Nelson. So, lots of well-earned superlatives for this panel.

If you wanted a brilliant expression of human metabolism of nature, of industry, and of labor, you couldn't do much better than the Diego Rivera murals in Detroit. Just, wow.