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  1. The campaign to restore the Everglades has received a boost with completion of a key project that returns the flow of water to 55,000 acres that had once been drained for development. Experts see it as a major step forward in bringing back South Florida’s River of Grass. Read more on E360 →

    e360.yale.edu/features/picayun

    #Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature

  2. Southern California has seen a spike in great white shark sightings amid a spate of unseasonably warm spring weather. Experts expect to see more unusual heat, and more sharks, in the months ahead. Read more on E360 →

    e360.yale.edu/digest/great-whi

    #Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature

  3. A study of hundreds of armed conflicts around the world finds that severe drought raises the risk of violent clashes. The study is the latest addition to a growing body of evidence showing that climate shocks spark conflict. Read more on E360 →

    e360.yale.edu/digest/el-nino-i

    #Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature

  4. While our emissions are trapping heat near the surface of the Earth, they are having the opposite effect in the upper atmosphere. For decades, the stratosphere has been cooling. A new study helps explain why. Read more on E360 →

    e360.yale.edu/digest/upper-atm

    #Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature

  5. 📢 #MFIA Media & #Freedom of Information Access Clinic at #Yale Law

    “Meet Christina Lee, MFIA’s incoming fellow. Christina brings experience in First Amendment litigation, media law, and clinical teaching, and will join the clinic on June 15. Welcome, Christina.

    law.yale.edu/yls-...”

    bsky.app/profile/mfia-clinic.b

  6. Scientists are increasingly worried that a vast system of ocean circulation, which delivers warmth to northern Europe and impacts climate globally, is at risk of collapse. Mounting evidence suggests it may be nearing a tipping point, though the research is far from certain. Read more on E360 →

    e360.yale.edu/features/amoc-cl

    #Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature

  7. For the last two decades, conservationists on the remote Pacific atoll of Palmyra have been working to uproot invasive palm trees and restore native wildlife. A new study finds that native fungi could be instrumental to that process. Read more on E360 →

    e360.yale.edu/digest/atoll-isl

    #Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature

  8. Freshwater flooding has caused over half of all direct hurricane deaths since 2013. The threat will increase as climate change makes hurricanes wetter and potentially slower-moving.

    yaleclimateconnections.org/202

    #Environment #Climate #Science #Yale #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Nature

  9. Yale Library: Mohamed Diallo ’26 reassembles the story of Yale’s early Black students with archival research and ArcGIS mapping. “As a Community Engagement intern at Beinecke Library, Mohamed Diallo ’26 played a central role in the creation of the online resource ‘Shining Light on Truth: Early Black Students at Yale.’ The website features profiles of Black students who attended Yale from […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/yale-library-mohamed-diallo-26-reassembles-the-story-of-yales-early-black-students-with-archival-research-and-arcgis-mapping/
  10. 📢 #MFIA Media & #Freedom of Information Access Clinic at #Yale Law

    “In March we wrote about MFIA Student Directors Andrea DenHoed '26 and Anna Selbrede '26 winning first place at Sunshine Week for their FOIA research. Now you can read the full story here:

    law.yale.edu/yls-today...”

    bsky.app/profile/mfia-clinic.b

  11. 🌊🔥 Oh no, the mighty great white #sharks, apex predators of the sea, are facing a midlife crisis because the water heater is stuck on high! 😱 The #Yale geniuses have cracked the code: it turns out even sharks can't handle a little tropical vacation. Next up: how #penguins are coping with cold feet. 🐧❄️
    e360.yale.edu/digest/great-whi #midlifecrisis #oceanlife #marinebiology #HackerNews #ngated

  12. ‘the Pitt’ Star Patrick Ball Feared He’d ‘Die’ With Student Debt

    “The Pitt” actor Patrick Ball, 36, says he once thought he’d be stuck with his student loans for…
    #NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #(month) #AU #Australia #ball #culturedinterview #dr.franklangdon #Entertainment #february #financialinsecurity #HollywoodReporter #life #Pitt #show #starpatrickball #studentdebt #studentloan #tuesday #Yale
    newsbeep.com/au/594008/

  13. ‘the Pitt’ Star Patrick Ball Feared He’d ‘Die’ With Student Debt

    “The Pitt” actor Patrick Ball, 36, says he once thought he’d be stuck with his student loans for…
    #NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #(month) #AU #Australia #ball #culturedinterview #dr.franklangdon #Entertainment #february #financialinsecurity #HollywoodReporter #life #Pitt #show #starpatrickball #studentdebt #studentloan #tuesday #Yale
    newsbeep.com/au/594008/

  14. Leading Russian state oil and gas companies #Rosneft and #Gazprom supported wartime camps where more than 2,000 Ukrainian children were taken, facilitating transportation and providing funds, Yale University research has alleged.

    reuters.com/world/europe/yale-

    #Ukraine #Russia #Yale

  15. "…a damning new study could put #AI companies on the defensive. In it, #Stanford and #Yale researchers found compelling evidence that #AImodels are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it. Specifically, four prominent LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet — happily #reproduced lengthy excerpts from #popular — and #protected#works, with a stunning degree of #accuracy."

    futurism.com/artificial-intell

  16. "#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

    “Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

    She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

    The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

    jns.org/feature/reconstruction

  17. "#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

    “Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

    She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

    The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

    jns.org/feature/reconstruction

  18. "#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

    “Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

    She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

    The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

    jns.org/feature/reconstruction

  19. "#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

    “Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

    She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

    The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

    jns.org/feature/reconstruction

  20. "#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

    “Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

    She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

    The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

    jns.org/feature/reconstruction

  21. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

    SO(n) Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki states as conformal boundary states of integrable SU(n) spin chains

    Yueshui Zhang, Ying-Hai Wu, Meng Cheng, Hong-Hao Tu
    SciPost Phys. 20, 067 (2026)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.3.0

    #LMU #ACS #HUST #Yale
    #ChinaScholarshipCouncil

  22. #Yale Offers #FreeTuition to Families With Incomes Under $200,000

    Other costs would also be waived for #students whose families earn less than $100,000. Yale joins other elite #schools offering more generous #FinancialAid, including #Penn, #Harvard & #MIT.

    #education
    nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/yale