🌊 "The US is no longer a reliable global partner in ocean observation." - Brad deYoung ➡️ You've heard about the OOI; now read about the other ocean-observing networks at risk. By me for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🔴 We have a fun thing for you today in @nature.com - a game! We took the latest research into Mars terraforming and transformed it into an interactive adventure. 🌿 How would you make the red planet green? Try your hand and see if you can win. 🧪 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

Amid chaos in US science and geopolitical turmoil, Europe wants to position itself as a research haven — but questions about funding and innovation remain 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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🛰️ ⬇️ 🔥 🌏 ☠️ but wait 🚀 🤖 + 🛰️ ⤴️ will it work? Words by me 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Congressional pushback has apparently worked to pause the NSF from dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Fascinating that this didn't work re NSF's plans to dismantle NCAR. Perhaps because the ocean constituency in Congress is larger & more powerful & more bipartisan? 🧪

The new issue of @sciam.bsky.social is chock full of amazing content by amazing writers (not me) on the current state of American science and where we go from here 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/202...

Applications are now open for the EGU Science Journalism Fellowship 2026! Up to 5000€ will be awarded to #journalists reporting in any European language on ongoing #research in Earth, planetary, or space sciences. Apply Now! 📆 Deadline: 17 June 2026. 👉 Learn more: egu.eu/7HQKAH

Brazil! Morocco! Scotland! Haiti! None of which are countries you think of when you think volcanic eruptions! Yet, we must vote on their group for the Volcano World Cup. Make your pick now! eruptions.site/2026/06/15/v... #volcanoworldcup #worldcup

Forget the World Cup, y'all, the Rockies are on fire This will never ever happen again

PITCH: an explainer on the physics of scaffolding

Not just an issue for AI: "Scientists and engineers who build powerful AI systems often understand the tools’ capabilities in extraordinary detail. What they resist — and sometimes cannot see — is that their technical choices are also political choices." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In which @voosen.me reports from sea on the possible resilience of the much-feared AMOC, an Atlantic Ocean current system that could be weakening as the planet warms www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

A rough @nature.com poll of >1,900 researchers found: ~48% feel negative towards AI 63% say that risks for data analysis outweigh benefits ~60% felt AI FOMO: that they would be left behind if they did not use AI tools in their work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today NASA named four skilled astronauts as the #ArtemisIII crew for a test mission in low-Earth orbit, perhaps next year. All four are men, even though NASA has loads of highly qualified women astronauts. It's not a good look for the so-called Artemis generation. 🧪🔭

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June 8, 1783, the Laki eruption, one of the largest basaltic fissure eruptions in recorded history and the deadliest volcanic eruption in Icelandic history, starts when a series of fissures erupting lava open in the ground 🌋🇮🇸 tinyurl.com/u63ksxcr

Are you an astronomy graduate student interested in science communication? Apply for the @aas.org Media Fellowship by June 26: aasnova.org/2026/04/08/a...

NCAR just won in court! A US district judge in Colorado has prohibited NSF from taking #NCAR apart, specifically in spalling off its supercomputing center in Wyoming. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Our earlier story on this and why it matters: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Welp I was going to write about yesterday's NASA Artemis science talks but they didn't say very much and then a big rocket went boom last night so www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

The explosion of the New Glenn rocket seriously damaged the launch site as well. The cadence of lunar missions that NASA just announced will be completely scrambled.

Important update: This morning NSF removed its internal flags on 3 of the 4 universities (Princeton's remains). We've updated our story to reflect this and the release of the new awards to Harvard and Duke.

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Are we headed for a Super #ElNiño? There's a lot of chatter about a ginormous, Godzilla, SuperMotherTruckin El Niño that could be on the way. That may be true, but we don't know quite yet. It'll become obvious soon if it's going to happen. Words by me: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

not now, strange crystals inside wreckage from nuclear bomb test

The Artemis XVIII mission??? @danvergano.bsky.social has a clear-eyed look at what's required to pull off NASA's highly ambitious Moon base plans 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/insi...

Here's our story out of yesterday's NCAR hearing in Denver. We just used it as an opportunity to update on where things are with NCAR, as we haven't written about this topic since the December restructuring announcement. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

OK, so I was at the first court hearing over the NCAR lawsuit this morning in Denver. I, uh, am not a legal reporter so bear with me as I try to recap a few things. You can view all the court documents here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

I am now apparently a court reporter! I was at the legal hearing this morning in Denver over NSF's initial moves to dismantle NCAR. Some notes will follow later, as we're working on a story at the moment.

Wild that the era of exoplanet geology is beginning before our eyes

How are AI images and videos changing the world we live in? How can we even still tell what is real and what is not? In an effort to find out, I visited Hany Farid, „sort of the dean of digital forensics“, for a couple of days in Berkeley. It was eye-opening. My story in @science.org 🧪

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Collected on April 23, 2026, by one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites, this image of the Hubble Space Telescope from above was acquired from only 61.8 km away.

🚨🧪 Are you a graduate student taking part in Harvard University’s strike? I’m a reporter working on a story for @Nature.com. If you’re open to talking, please reach out. I can keep your identity private if needed. Signal: humbertobasilio.24 Email: [email protected] Repost please!

Nature correspondent Alexandra Witze describes the joy and tension at mission control in Houston during last week's Moon fly-by. spklr.io/63322EJ9W4 #ArtemisII

“Our lunar companion is today as much a part of our living world as every organism on Earth—and always has been.” - @leebillings.bsky.social #ArtemisII 🧪🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Why go to the moon? NASA's triumphant Artemis II mission is a reminder of all the reasons our lunar companion is a fundamental part of Earth's past, present, and future. www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

Back to Earth www.nasa.gov/image-detail... #Artemis 🔭🧪

Seriously, stop what you are doing and go here:

90 minutes until they're back, if you want to watch #ArtemisII 🧪🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhD...

If you're wondering why Earth looks so distorted - its a result from the SuperView capture mode enabled on the GoPro HERO4 to stetch the native 4:3 image to 16:9. Here I'm showing the unstretching process I'm applying in Blender. #Artemis

We look beautiful. I know, because Victor Glover said so.

The #ArtemisII astronauts are almost home. Integrity will enter Earth's atmosphere in a little over four hours. Catch up on what to expect from the mission's heat shield, from @swapnakrishna.com www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... 🧪🔭

Terre en vue ! 🌍 L’amerrissage des quatre astronautes de la mission Artemis II est prévu à 2h07 heure française cette nuit. Leur capsule Integrity entrera dans l’atmosphère à 1h53 à plus de 36000 km/h. #Artemis

How it started, how it's going Left: Lunar Orbiter I, 1966 Right: Artemis II, 2026 flic.kr/p/8Grtp2 flic.kr/p/2s68RXM #Artemis 🧪🔭

It's been a week. Re-live the #ArtemisII Moon flyby with me, in the room where the science happened. 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On Monday this week, as four humans flew around the far side of the Moon, Nature correspondent Alexandra Witze sat at the heart of the Artemis II mission’s science operations. Here's what she saw. go.nature.com/4dE5gpv

It's been a week. Re-live the #ArtemisII Moon flyby with me, in the room where the science happened. 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Oh this is a fun view. The Orientale basin on the limb of the Moon as seen through an Orion capsule window. You can see, especially at around 7:00, lines of impact craters marking the giant splat of ejecta that was thrown out of the crater during the impact. www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...