Sound familiar?

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

On Earth 2.0, this would be The Story of the week, a firestorm of corruption, cover-ups, and scandal. Tom Homan, the thuggish head of Trump’s immigration brute squad was videotaped accepting a $50,000 cash bribe… and the Trump DOJ shut the investigation down. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20250919_UCB.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"For a long time, Republicans have adhered to a definition of free speech that could be simply summarized as: Conservatives can say what they want, and everyone else can say what conservatives want. That is now the policy of the Trump administration."

♻️Morpho-physiological and yield traits for selection of drought tolerant Urochloa grass ecotypes by Celestine Anyango Ochola and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

This is amazing.

No we shouldn’t accept. And we should all delete our academia accounts. Now! Thanks to @danielmartinfeige.bsky.social for the alert.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

A useful element to consider in Trump’s putative war against comedians and the media. www.pbump.net/o/television...

Steve was one of a kind. Decent guy and honest scientist, with truly extraordinary vision. I'll miss him.

“Too many people—too many Americans—are fearing our government. I want Putin, Xi, Kim, et al. to fear our government. I do not want newspapers, law firms, and comedians to fear our government.” open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...

We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long. His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..

♻️Guiding seed movement: environmental heterogeneity drives genetic differentiation in Plathymenia reticulata, providing insights for restoration by Taise Almeida Conceição and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

🖥️ From New Phytologist: Leaf inclination is key to modeling canopy function. A new study shows terrestrial LiDAR methods outperform photography, offering more complete and reliable estimates. (Brian N. Bailey) ▶️ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #LiDAR

♻️Global mRNA profiling reveals the effect of boron as a crop protection tool against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum by Natalie Cale and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Well, what do Germans know about creeping fascism anyway?

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What’s. It. Going. To take?

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

/9 I previously described Kimmel’s potential case as “plausible,” which on reflection was too arch to be clear — based on Carr’s explicit threats and the sequence of events I’d say it’s a very strong case of violation of the First Amendment through coercion.

🧬 New article in @aobp.bsky.social analysing patterns of plastome degradation and structural variation in hemiparasitic Psittacanthus species Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

How has he not perished from embarassment? I have almost expired from second hand embarassment just knowing this idiotic lawsuit exists.

RFK Jr.'s hand-picked panel of vaccine advisors is expected to vote to delay the hepatitis B shot for newborns. Doctors warn that could fuel a return of a disease virtually eradicated in U.S. kids.

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

Long term, this may end up being one of the most devastating things the regime has done. Blocking vaccines now will cause many thousands of unnecessary deaths this year. Throwing a wrench into mRNA tech development will cause millions of preventable deaths worldwide over the course of decades.

Jesus Tapdancing Christ, how is he so ill-matched to this moment? HOW?

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy. More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

If you want a covid vaccine and can get it in your area, you should do that before Friday.

It's more projection than delusion, TBH

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Why didn’t anyone immediately follow up with “what’s the population of the United States?”

National Climate Change Risk Assessment out now 👇🏽 Risk to current ecosystems VERY HIGH. Rick by 2050 VERY HIGH to SEVERE

Cannabis use associated with a quadrupling of risk of developing type 2 diabetes, finds study of over 4 million adults www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

♻️Some unique anatomical scaling relationships among genera in the grass subfamily Pooideae by Daniel Spitzer and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

Oop.

Even the conservatives have had enough.

I was at Utah State for 7 years. Nobody is being converted to a leftist at Utah State.

“The odds of fatal injury increased by 44% for people of all ages struck by an SUV, compared with those hit by a passenger car. Among children the odds of fatal injury increased by 82%, and among children under the age of 10 it increased by 130%.” www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

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