Brian Kahn

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Your friendly local Wired science editor

@blkahn.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 6:26 PM

In case you were wondering how the relationship between OpenAI and mathematicians is going...

According to the notes, Bubeck also seemed to suggest that Buckmaster would be ruining his career when Buckmaster threatened to tell the press about his belief that OpenAI had stolen his work. If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't have to be nice, Bubeck said, according to the meeting notes.

Nestor Guillen, a visiting math professor at NYU, tells WIRED that “there's a perception of mobster behavior” from the AI companies among mathematicians.

@blkahn.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 6:13 PM

NEW from @wired.com: OpenAI has told people it plans to dump hundreds of the results it referenced in the August meeting on GitHub on Tuesday. Mathematicians are...not happy www.wired.com/story/openai...

@burghpunk.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 6:49 PMReposted by @blkahn.bsky.social

To get away from the chemtrails?

@blkahn.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 6:46 PM

brb walking into the Mariana Trench

@wired.com Sep 16, 2026, 1:01 PMReposted by @blkahn.bsky.social

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@tommytomlinson.bsky.social Sep 4, 2026, 1:55 PMReposted by @blkahn.bsky.social

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be:

www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."

@blkahn.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 6:11 PM

Becoming increasingly convinced we’re not ready for what El Niño has in store this fall and winter, especially layered on top of global warming www.wired.com/story/2026-s...

“This is probably one of the larger, if not the largest, climate events—aside from long-term warming, which really isn't a singular event—that anybody alive is potentially ever experiencing,” he says. “That's a very big deal. And I think there’s certainly going to be dramatic outcomes from this.”

@bobkopp.net Aug 31, 2026, 12:19 PMReposted by @blkahn.bsky.social

We’ve gone from “natural climate variability on the timescale of geologic eras means humans aren’t causing modern climate change” to “natural climate variability over geological eras means AI-driven solar radiation modification is the only sustainable climate solution”

@annackramer.bsky.social Aug 28, 2026, 12:40 PMReposted by @blkahn.bsky.social

SCOOP: Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer. The land would be used for a road, to give the developer rare private access to the heart of the park.

notus.orgTrump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private DeveloperThe National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

@blkahn.bsky.social Aug 25, 2026, 4:15 PM

NEW: The border wall doesn’t just threaten the natural history of Big Bend National Park. It also threatens to erase 6,000 years of culturally significant sites, rock art, and more on private land in Texas—including some sites that have yet to be fully documented

wired.comBorder Wall Construction Threatens 6,000 Years of History on Private LandsArcheologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as border wall construction is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites, many of which haven’t been fully studied.

@blkahn.bsky.social Aug 4, 2026, 4:46 PM

If you read one thing today, make it @mollytaft.com writing in @wired.com on data centers, the Unabomber, and how the backlash is rewiring American politics www.wired.com/story/how-da...

wired.comHow Data Centers Broke American PoliticsWhat the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

@blkahn.bsky.social Jul 28, 2026, 5:17 PM

I’m looking for a freelancer based in Spain or France to cover the wildfires and heat wave. If that’s you, my DMs are open and I’d love to talk through story ideas!

@blkahn.bsky.social Jul 24, 2026, 10:34 PM

Climate change has now become a problem for the whole solar system

wired.comOne of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish WildfiresFlames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.

@blkahn.bsky.social Jul 21, 2026, 7:18 PM

NEW: Taylor Farms is a big player in conservative politics. The company donated $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025 and its CEO has personally donated more than $900,000 to Republican PACs and candidates. It's also spent $810,000 on anti-regulatory lobbying since 2025

wired.comTaylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea OutbreakThe company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

@blkahn.bsky.social Jul 17, 2026, 8:45 PM

There were 11 people working at the CDC lab that responds to outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora. Now there are 3 thanks to DOGE

wired.comThe CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

@blkahn.bsky.social Jul 15, 2026, 5:09 PM

Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming your colleagues filming it

Meade Krosby@meadekrosby.bsky.socialJul 15, 2026, 3:41 AM

A clip from a freight train stopped in a wildfire near Armstrong, Ontario. Thankfully, the crew escaped safely. Wildfire is nothing new but the burning of fossil fuels is making them larger, more frequent and severe.

@blkahn.bsky.social May 29, 2026, 5:14 PM

well that's certainly one way to answer a question about how much you relied on AI to write your book about how AI impacts the truth... www.wired.com/story/future...

Screenshot of text that reads: I called Rosenbaum and asked for a more detailed description of how he’d used AI to write the book, and whether he disputed Pangram’s results. (BenBella Books, whose imprint published The Future of Truth, did not return requests for comment. Simon & Schuster, which distributes BenBella’s books in the United States, declined to comment.)

Rosenbaum would not weigh in on the accuracy of Pangram’s results. In fact, he didn’t want to talk about them at all. “I don’t participate in that conversation,” he said. “It’s like saying, do you beat your wife? It’s one of those accusations that there’s no response to.”

@blkahn.bsky.social May 8, 2026, 4:14 PM

some (belated) personal news: wrapping up my first week @wired.com where I'm overseeing science coverage. I'm still working on climate but so excited to cover everything science at a time when so many fields are both under attack and churning out amazing discoveries

@blkahn.bsky.social Mar 13, 2025, 2:47 PM

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

@blkahn.bsky.social Mar 4, 2025, 12:28 AM

The only road into Olympic National Park's iconic Hoh Rainforest is closed: "In the past, repairs only took a matter of weeks, according to Jefferson County Public Works Director Monte Reinders. But this closure is entering its third month, with no signs of reopening anytime soon"

sfgate.comAmerica's quietest rainforest is closed and no one knows when it will reopenThe only road leading to the Hoh Rain Forest is being washed out by a river, and federal funding isn't coming through to save it.