The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The people they are kidnapping are disappearing.

I finally figured out what is wrong with me: I have a baypoll complex

What is a tipping point mathematically? A deep dive by @gregbarber.bsky.social exploring the history, theory and math of tipping points - those dramatic shifts in ecosystems or climates that underlie the worst-case-scenarios of climate change www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-...

Microbes are nature's chemists - They've transformed Earth's atmosphere in the past and participate in many climate processes, from clouds to ice to greenhouse gas processing. Short stories by @bourzac.bsky.social reveal their roles: www.quantamagazine.org/microbes-als...

Exactly this

Trump in July: "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”

New approaches to climate modeling reconstruct the past — going back 540 million years across the reign of animals. @peterbrannen.bsky.social's feature is a tour of these many versions of Earth's climate and life, showing how rare our temperate moment is www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

"Humans have largely succeeded in digitally reconstructing the Earth in order to ask what the future holds. Now, not liking the answer, some are reaching to unplug the machine — while others fight to perfect it." @zacksavitsky.bsky.social on climate modeling: www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-...

This podcast conversation with @hanner.bsky.social is an excellent entry point to @quantamagazine.bsky.social’s new multi-part climate science special: play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

What does it mean when researchers say a CO2 molecule can "trap heat"? How can just a few CO2 molecules change a planet? An infographic explainer by @markabelan.bsky.social and Joe Howlett walks through the quantum mechanics of CO2 and other greenhouse gases: www.quantamagazine.org/the-quantum-...

it was a privilege to contribute to this package. check out my story on how scientists digitally sculpted the planet to predict the future, and how those in power today are dismantling the quest to model the climate www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-...

New Quanta Magazine series on climate science. I was one of the people interviewed for this months ago and happy to start digging in now! www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

Earth’s climate is chaotic and volatile. Climate change is simple and predictable. How can both be true? www.quantamagazine.org/the-climate-...

The commission “warns all other countries have an immediate obligation under the Genocide Convention to "prevent and punish the crime of genocide", employing all measures at their disposal. If they do not, it says, they could be complicit” www.bbc.com/news/article...

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Very excited to be part of this special issue on the state of climate science in @quantamagazine.bsky.social. Wrote about the climate over the age of animal life, and the researchers working to piece together this epic story.

The effort to build climate science spans scientific disciplines and national borders. It must surely be the most significant scientific collaboration in human history.

Time wears on us all; Venus was also a lot cooler when it was younger. www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-venus...

A photoessay by @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social highlights researchers' labor & collaboration: "Through the haze of doom that shrouds climate science shines the passion behind the quest to understand and solve one of the greatest challenges humanity has faced." www.quantamagazine.org/photos-captu...

Hi! Today @quantamagazine.bsky.social published a special issue on climate science, featuring stories about how Earth's climate fundamentally works that I needed to read after covering climate impacts for so many years. I hope you'll check it out! <3 www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history, and its lessons are a massive human achievement. “How We Came To Know Earth,” our new series, is a guide to the modern understanding of fundamental climate science. www.quantamagazine.org/series/clima...

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr

On this day in 1874, 1,500 members of the White League—a militia of Confederate veterans opposed to the civil rights goals of Reconstruction—attacked New Orleans and overthrew the Louisiana government.

🐟 Arctic river turns toxic Alaska’s remote Salmon River, once clear, is now orange and metal-laden due to permafrost thaw exposing sulfide minerals. Toxic levels threaten fish and salmon-dependent communities. 🔗 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Arctic 🧪

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at [email protected] #journorequest

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

We're publishing an investigation into the Alexandria facility that has become the hub for Trump's deportation program. An inside look at where immigrants are being disappeared and deported. @oliverlaughland.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social and Raima Amjad www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.

Over and above the genetics, this: "It is also worth noting the serious ethical concerns that are associated with any attempts to reverse extinctions. This is especially true for long-extinct species, like the dire wolf, whose natural habitats no longer exist and whose prey are also long gone." 🧪

correct. also media members often recognize their cultural and class isolution, but then struggle to distinguish between what they see online and genuine public sentiment, leading to them assuming public opinion is significantly more ignorant and right-wing than it is.

One of our most primitive ancestors possesses the same tube-like building blocks that make complex life possible. www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...

Climate change is an economic emergency, part 1000: More than $1 trillion in US wages has been lost to wildfire smoke alone in the past 5 years. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

I highly recommend this delightful documentary - two dudes (non-birders) decide to complete a big year (see as many birds as they can in a year) living out of a van. Wonderfully done. Free on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

“In this city, there are thousands upon thousands of us, each carrying their own coordinates to somewhere that can no longer be found.” jewishcurrents.org/a-map-to-a-p...

One indication that its becoming unsustainably hot is that death rates at the Desert Botanical Garden have spiked. Even under the watchful eye of caretakers & botanists, plants that are evolutionarily prepared to survive Arizona’s heat are not surviving. www.vice.com/en/article/a...

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

What the fuck

"“We particularly chose, as the South African delegation, to join the Global Sumud Flotilla here in Tunisia from an African point to say Africa is part of this struggle,” Mandla Mandela told journalists in Tunis."

‘Nowhere to go’: What Happened After Trump Ordered [D.C.] Homeless Encampments Cleared By @marissajae.bsky.social and @kyletalking.bsky.social Gift link!

“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.” - Grace Lee Boggs

Periodic reminder that Obama tried in his administration to build a network of solar and wind energy projects that would have been enough to curb emissions. If the US and China had both been compliant with the clean energy goals the world would literally be a better place.

And this 2016 piece, which we really ought to follow up on: Darwin’s Cage Match In the Australian outback, researchers are pitting small endangered marsupials against feral cats to see if they can force evolution’s hand. by @hanner.bsky.social hakaimagazine.com/news/darwins...

Punctuated equilibrium, a concept introduced by paleontologists in 1972, reimagines evolution’s tempo as a stochastic burst rather than a steady beat. A new model finds support for their theory in both molecular and fossil data. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports www.quantamagazine.org/the-sudden-s...