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Another potential act of malicious...

Another potential act of malicious stupidity:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/climate/trump-eliminates-epa-science.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

So many outstanding people in #USEPA #ORD have made advances to environmental protection. EPA has produced many valuable resources for education and research

But I guess this is another attempt to implement the ostrich principle that if we don't measure anything and don't study anything, there will be no adverse occurrences.

Do we want to make America Polluted and Sick Again?From my...

Do we want to make America Polluted and Sick Again?

From my blog:

https://chaasblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/do-we-want-to-make-america-polluted-and-sick-again/

Disturbing to read this:“National Academies is altering pending reports to appease Trump administration, some members say”...

Disturbing to read this:
“National Academies is altering pending reports to appease Trump administration, some members say” https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/national-academies-altering-pending-reports-to-appease-trump-administration-members-say/
#NASEM

Eating One's Seed Corn - some thoughts on current events and research.https://chaasblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/eating-ones-seed-corn/

Eating One's Seed Corn - some thoughts on current events and research.

https://chaasblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/eating-ones-seed-corn/

I’ve used this article as a touchpoint when I give a guest lecture on engineering ethics to our seniors: “The Nazi engineers:...

I’ve used this article as a touchpoint when I give a guest lecture on engineering ethics to our seniors: “The Nazi engineers: reflections on technological ethics in hell “ Becoming more relevant regrettably.
#engineeringethics #engineeringeducation #ethics

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20844979/

@Ivory : refreshing my home timeline on mastodon.social @staff seems to be stalledEDIT - refreshed cache, and it seems to fix things

@Ivory : refreshing my home timeline on mastodon.social @staff seems to be stalled

EDIT - refreshed cache, and it seems to fix things

#USEPA fired Science Advisory Board and Clean Air advisory committees in a repeat of POTUS 45. Via @politico ...

#USEPA fired Science Advisory Board and Clean Air advisory committees in a repeat of POTUS 45. Via @politico https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/28/epa-fires-science-advisers-00201156 #uspol #environment

Announcing - 2025 Summer Institute in Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (#QMRA). Applications now open - flyer attached.#riskanalysis...

Announcing - 2025 Summer Institute in Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (#QMRA). Applications now open - flyer attached.
#riskanalysis #riskassessment

#JimmyCarter dies at 100 years old. A very good man.https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-president-dead/

#JimmyCarter dies at 100 years old. A very good man.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-president-dead/

@CNN - you should not use the #MercatorProjection when you discuss #Greenland. This is quite misleading visually in terms of land area.

@CNN - you should not use the #MercatorProjection when you discuss #Greenland. This is quite misleading visually in terms of land area.

We need to know more about variability of responses of #LLMs . A short blog piece:...

We need to know more about variability of responses of #LLMs . A short blog piece: https://chaasblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/variability-of-llms-we-need-to-understand-this/

Any Mastodoners at the #SocietyforRiskAnalysis meeting?#SRA2024 #RiskAnalysis #riskassement

Any Mastodoners at the #SocietyforRiskAnalysis meeting?
#SRA2024 #RiskAnalysis #riskassement

11/22/63. For those of you of my vintage, you recall where you were, and when the timeline of history forked (perhaps not for the better)....

11/22/63. For those of you of my vintage, you recall where you were, and when the timeline of history forked (perhaps not for the better). #JFKAssasination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

One of my favorite papers on #engineeringethics . Which may become tragically relevant.“The Nazi Engineers: Reflections on...

One of my favorite papers on #engineeringethics . Which may become tragically relevant.
“The Nazi Engineers: Reflections on Technological
Ethics in Hell”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-010-9229-z

New article - #openaccess“Research gaps and priorities for quantitative microbial risk assessment (#QMRA)”#riskassementlong list of...

New article - #openaccess

“Research gaps and priorities for quantitative microbial risk assessment (#QMRA)”
#riskassement

long list of authors, notably senior author Kerry Hamilton, my former PhD, now at Arizona State University

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/risa.14318

A recent nice writeup about our work on non-invasive techniques for identifying #lead service lines in drinking #water distribution...

A recent nice writeup about our work on non-invasive techniques for identifying #lead service lines in drinking #water distribution systems:

https://www.coe.drexel.edu/dragon-discoveries/2024/a-sound-solution-acoustic-identification-of-lead-water-pipes/

I had hope. But nope. Off “X” again and back here monitoring actively. Hello toot-sphere again.#EnvironmentalEngineering #academics

I had hope. But nope. Off “X” again and back here monitoring actively. Hello toot-sphere again.
#EnvironmentalEngineering #academics

Large outbreak of #Legionella underway in #Melbourne , Being attributed to #coolingtowers. Seems a bit unusual to me happening in...

Large outbreak of #Legionella underway in #Melbourne , Being attributed to #coolingtowers. Seems a bit unusual to me happening in #Australia winter season. https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/other/legionnaires-disease-outbreak-in-melbourne-continues-to-grow/ar-BB1r3kTZ

#LegionnairesDisease

so #twitter #x looks like it killed its app on the mac. Is it time to pull the plug. I’ve shifted over there for a few weeks, since...

so #twitter #x looks like it killed its app on the mac. Is it time to pull the plug. I’ve shifted over there for a few weeks, since there has been much more scientific interaction there than here. But don't know how this is going to resolve. Any thoughts? #scitwitter