Tough to pick, but right now I'd say Ambulance Blues.

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

👏 👏 👏 www.wunc.org/education/20...

Today we pause to honour all who sacrificed their lives in war, all who served and returned, and the families and communities who carry that legacy. We will remember them. #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Unbelievable! How can this crap still be published?

Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... www.schornacklab.net

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Chris Coons: "He's not listening to concerns about lowering costs. Instead he's worried about decorating his new Marie Antoinette ballroom or engaging in trying to figure out how to get his name on more statues and stadiums, or he's sitting across the table in the Oval Office with authoritarians."

Hi @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social! If you vote for this horrible deal, I will spend the next 4 years making sure you are both primaried and retired from the US Senate.

This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

OMG my MSP friends @kellybarnhill.bsky.social @maryheskel.bsky.social I need one of these and I will pay anything

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Kelly Barnhill's THE CRANE HUSBAND has such a gorgeous cover, I can't get over it (the book is also very, very good)

FRED HICKEY: “.. GenAI is probably the most over-hyped technology I’ve ever witnessed in my 45 years of following tech stocks.” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

New York state legislators should strip land grant status from this university.

I'll add one key thing: Several graduate programs in the US across various disciplines won't admit students in Fall 2026. Before reaching out to faculty, please check the program's website to check that they are, in fact, accepting students in Fall 2026.

📢New paper in @aobp.bsky.social led by LEMONTREE PhD Student Jan Lankhorst: Nutrient availability increases photosynthetic capacity without altering the cost of resource use for photosynthesis. Check it out👇 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... @eaperkowski.bsky.social et al.

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty. This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

I mean, NYT is f'd but not stupid. This was a choice. We need to ask why. They clearly think their bottom line will benefit more from the exposure created by this inane headline than it will lose from lost subscriptions and visits. Let's prove them wrong.

This is correct, with one important caveat - most decisions on funding, admin, publishing, career, are made (and can be derailed) by people who by definition benefited the most from these metrics and incentives, and stand to lose the most by changing them.

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

This is literally an ad for weight loss drugs. It lists prices and tells you how you can buy this stuff. This story does not include (unless I missed it) the fact that someone taking this drug just collapsed on live TV in the Oval Office which indicates that this is clearly PR masquerading as news

The Lego ‘Star Trek’ Set Is Here, and It’s Exactly What You Want gizmodo.com/lego-star-tr...

🌾 New article in @aobp.bsky.social explores how Brazilian rice varieties respond to heat stress during flowering, revealing key molecular traits that help maintain fertility and energy balance under high temperatures. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/qb93 #PlantScience

It seems this can't be emphasized enough. Chatbots and LLMs do not make mistakes (excepting any bugs in the code). They do not lie. They do not blackmail or cheat. They follow statistics. When the people who build these systems don't tell you this, they are either deluded or trying to mislead.

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

We’re now watching the murder of space sciences in America. Unless someone can stop this, this is the beginning of the end. The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Mineral Matters # 870 - What Lies Beneath Tasmania #mineralmatters #minerals #🧪 open.substack.com/pub/mineralm...

New CSIRO survey of 900 Tasmanians shows strong love for the coast, but almost 70 percent worry about rapid change. Ocean warming, plastic waste, and biosecurity top the list. Scientists are the most trusted voices, with strong support for restoration work.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Logan Square, you're alright

Next stop, primarying Schumer and Jeffries.

so it turns out that fascism is unpopular

Australia’s MRFF is sitting on billions of taxpayers’ dollars which was meant to be invested in world-leading, lifesaving health innovations.

🌸 New article in @aobp.bsky.social reveals how moderate climate warming affects floral traits and reproduction across the flowering season in Impatiens oxyanthera, showing that plants don’t respond to heat the same way at every stage. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/qb9z #PlantScience

Congrats to @bposch.bsky.social for leading the writing of the New Phytologist Tansley Review on High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants. @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.

#YesOnProp50!