Nicholas Thompson ⚛ BLM

Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and Science. Interested in energy, education, policy, and all things nuclear. Working at LANL. He/him.

[Nicholas Thompson ⚛ BLM @thompn4]

Read this post from @TedNordhaus today and it made me break my long absence from Twitter.

I know Matt Marzano - he has a lot of experience and knows we need changes at the NRC. I strongly support his nomination to the NRC.

https://t.co/qGBkAn44hD

[Nicholas Thompson ⚛ BLM @thompn4]

Been off twitter since Elon took over. Logged back in to archive my data. Might be my last tweet, who knows. Anyway, if you need me, don't reach out here - text or email is best.

[Jonah Newman @jonahshai]

What is this paragraph even doing in this @nytimes story about the attack on Paul Pelosi? And how does it come *before* the paragraphs about how Nancy Pelosi has been the target of right-wing attacks for years?

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Amazing how consistently bad the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been at predicting the growth of solar and wind energy

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

.@elonmusk has been the sole owner of Twitter for 48 hours, and is now using the platform to promote vile conspiracy theories against Nancy Pelosi's husband, who is still in the hospital after being violently assaulted with a hammer

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

I cannot get over this. There was an assassination attempt on the Speaker of the House by the exact kind of GOP ultra-radical that sacked the Capitol two years ago, and it is RUNNING BELOW THE FOLD IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. Our news and political culture broken beyond repair.

[Ripley Matthews 🇵🇸 @a_queer_wizard]

Everytime I hit a paywall on some respected journalism site and then simply don't read the article rather than subscrining, I think about how Fox, Breitbart, The Daily Mail, et al. never ever ever paywall their content. I think about this constantly.

[Nicholas Thompson ⚛ BLM @thompn4]

@the_transit_guy I'm going to throw in a honorable mention for the ABQ sunport - just nice, comfortable, and it works.

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

Who could possibly tell the difference between “Tiger Woods” and “another black person”

[Joe Cutrufo @JoeCutrufo]

Shinkansen: zero passenger deaths in its 50-year history
Texas highways: at least one person killed every day for 22 years

[Nicholas Thompson ⚛ BLM @thompn4]

@pwnallthethings $15 billion is lunacy. I can't imagine what the money was spent on. Let's just say they had tons of people working on it, all making $200k. That would be 75,000 people. Facebook only has ~72,000 employees.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Now that California has dethroned Germany as the fourth largest economy in the world, maybe the state can take pointers on what urban transit should look like?

[Brian Beutler @brianbeutler]

Schumer and Biden could go to the cameras tomorrow and say Oz spilled the beans about the Republican plan to let local GOP politicians into the (figurative) room to decide whether women can have abortions. Nationalize the gaffe, clarify the stakes.

[push the needle @pushtheneedle]

the space race vs the timeline for seattle to build a bike lane and bus lane. same scale.

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

Only 37 people under age 45 died by falling from ladders in 2021. There were 23,834 COVID deaths