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  1. Scripps Layoffs Loom as Company Sets Major Cost-Cutting and Revenue Growth Plan That Will Include Use of AI and Automation
    #Variety #News #Scripps

    variety.com/2026/tv/news/scrip

  2. “We’re Curing Cancer In Weeks”: AI Creates Synthetic Proteins That Hunt Tumors While Traditional Methods Take Years
    In a groundbreaking development, scientists have harnessed artificial intelligence to rapidly create personalized immune therapies, revolutionizing cancer treatment by significantly reducing the time required to target and eliminate cancer cells. #science #scripps #immunotherapy #Ab

  3. Sasha Alexander #Gershunov, ocean-atmosphere and #fireweather climate scientist at #Scripps speaks about the #SantaAna phenomenon and wildfires in SoCal.
    scripps.ucsd.edu/news/californ

    He mentions in passing that SoCal is experiencing an upward trend in fire-prone weather (dryness before the normal ultra-dry Santa Ana comes in)
    with abundance of fuel load due to atmospheric rivers in the preceding year(s) – and adds, that this trend is not projected for the future.
    Whether this means that the statistics are a fluke or that the model projections are missing something that the statistics are telling us, is not said.
    In this context, they link to an #openaccess 2022 paper link.springer.com/article/10.1
    by #Guirguis and Sasha Gershunov et al "Winter wet–dry weather patterns driving atmospheric rivers and Santa Ana winds provide evidence for increasing wildfire hazard in California"
    This one paints a broader picture with fireweather_fuel-load teleconnection to the Northwest coast of America, Some form of swing or seesaw pattern of pressure highs and lows.
    When I hear teleconnection, I intuitively associate a climate connection.

    The Scripps article with Sasha Gershunov brings further information. I only cherry-picked this one item. Have a read for more background on LA fires. 🙂

  4. This semester, the progressive, student-run Motley Coffeehouse at Scripps College in Claremont, CA, hung a Palestinian flag in the space. The administration ordered it removed, saying it made the cafe unwelcoming for some. The coffeehouse refused.

    This morning, as the cafe was preparing to host a "Market for Mutual Aid" to raise funds for folks in the Congo, Palestine, and Sudan, Scripps shut down the coffeehouse, and in the twisted logic of power, deployed feminist language in doing so, claiming closing the space will preserve "the feminist and intersectional ethos that has shaped the Motley’s culture." As much as Scripps wishes it to be the case, this is certainly not the end of the story.

    tsl.news/scripps-administratio

    #Palestine #Scripps #Claremont #California

  5. A busy Saturday and final day of August! I'll have your 7-day weather forecast for the first week of September, followed by our Scripps Sports Saturday Showdown show, then the Montana Grizzlies game!

    #Montana #Billings #Q2 #KTVQ #MTN #Wyoming #Saturday #Scripps #football #August #September #weather #wx #mtwx #wywx #MastodonWeather #MastodonWX #weatherMastodon #wxmastodon

  6. Learned that Shrey Parikh, a contestant in the #Scripps National #SpellingBee got eliminated because he incorrectly spelled “kanin”, which comes from #Tagalog and means “boiled rice”.

    I saw that “kanin“ is indeed included in the #MerriamWebster #dictionary. But as a native Tagalog speaker, I‘m offended that they say that the plural is “kanins“. Even granting that kanin is a valid English word, I say that just like “rice” and also in Tagalog, it should be an uncountable noun.

  7. Watching the #tRump indictment live on over the air TV on #Scripps News 24 hour free news channel. In many places, you don't need an expensive cable or streaming sub to access news. Just a simple TV antenna may do.

    scrippsnews.com/

  8. A friend of mine at #Scripps Research FL is working as part of the HOPE collaboratory searching for a cure to #HIV. This is a short video outlining their approach and the many people involved from all around the world.

    youtu.be/QXVAUM9Gl0A

    #hivcure

  9. #Women #scientists at famed #oceanography institute have half the lab space of men
    The gap can’t be “explained away” by funding or seniority, says #Scripps Institution of Oceanography report

    science.org/content/article/wo

  10. While the famous #keeling curve record of atmospheric #CO2 is currently interrupted because of #MaunaLoa eruption, listen how Scientists Measure Carbon Dioxide in the Air.

    In the linked video, #Scripps scientist Ralph Keeling, the son of Charles David Keeling who started to develop the CO2 measurement at Mauna Loa observatory, explains how the measurement is done. The keeling curve is named from C.D. Keeling.

    youtu.be/dXBzFNEwoj8

  11. Because of the #MaunaLoa eruption and lava flows, the #CO2 measurement equipment that maintains the famous #Keeling Curve lost power on Nov. 28 and is not currently recording data.

    keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/2022/11/

    Citing their post: "The Keeling Curve is considered the icon of scientific evidence that human activities are altering the planet’s #climate. It has provided incontrovertible evidence that the amount of [atmospheric] gas carbon dioxide has risen far above any levels experienced on Earth for at least three million years […] Researchers at #Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which established the Keeling Curve record at the site in 1958, are exploring options regarding the relocation of measurement equipment."

    #climatechange #climatecrisis #greenhouse #keelingcurve

  12. Auf den Seiten der #USGS werden Fotos des #Vulkanausbruchs auf Mauna Loa dokumentiert.

    Auf dem Foto sieht man die Straße zum #Observatorium und die #Stromleitung. Die #Lava hat an zwei Stellen die Verbindungen unterbrochen.

    #MaunaLoa #Hawaii #Treibhausgase #Kohlendioxid #Vulkan #CO2 #Scripps

    Foto: USGS image by L. Gallant

    usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/p