Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS. They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe go.nature.com/4ofcrH6

wtaf

cats are in the bullpen

I still have not recovered from that 18-inning shit, and need to go lie down

thank god it’s a large bottle of whiskey

i regret to say the whiskey has been opened

ohtani number three onwards and upwards

here be dragons

moving even deeper into anything-could-happen territory

is this a baseball game or a hockey game

Everybody gets a home run!

Another tidbit in our new #Melissa story: the government shutdown means that federal researchers weren't gathering the usual science data during hurricane-hunter flights, because only mission-critical data were allowed. And those who did fly aren't getting paid. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We wrote about the Google DeepMind AI forecast model that has been doing quite well in predicting Atlantic #hurricane tracks & intensities this year. Thanks @bmcnoldy.bsky.social @franklinjamesl.bsky.social for insights, @NOAA for working without pay: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪🌀

My quote for today's WaPo story: "We’re going to be seeing a lot more Melissas in the future and we’re definitely not ready for it". www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

the cats have been through two naps and two rounds of snacks since this baseball game began #goals

this is way too much baseball

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AI is helping map millions of tiny earthquakes, writes @alexwitze.bsky.social An AI-based quake catalog was 5x more complete than the human-made one & was made in a day rather than months. Here's a terrific (hype-free) look at ways the tech is changing seismology knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

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Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved. ☑️ www.nature.com/articles/d41... ☑️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🔭

If you’re looking to do a PhD in the US, it’s a mess out there. Words by me ⬇️

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Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪

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New: Researchers are broadly rejecting the Trump administration's compact. In faculty votes and student protests, they have mobilized to pressure their universities—to some effect: 6 of the original 9 universities have rejected the compact With @alexwitze.bsky.social and @jennaahart.bsky.social:

You've probably heard how a high percentage of #Nobel laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds. @jennaahart.bsky.social ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners — and shows more than 30% immigrated. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It seems there are two main reasons things haven’t gone completely to shit in the US: 1. Lawyers and the courts; 2. Journalists and the media. Most of us can’t do anything about the first, but we can support journalism. Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe to news & donate to public media.

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See that small, moving splotch? That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter. A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS last Friday

Ahead of tomorrow’s #NobelPrize announcement, I went on a deep dive in search of the most obscure physics Nobel Prizes in history. That means it's time for a thread on...🧵 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 1 (1/n)

Happy Nobel week to you and yours!🏅 In the latest from @nature.com: Could AI take home a science Nobel—no human needed? Some say yes, and soon. 🧪 For more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thirty years ago Monday, astronomers announced the first planet around a Sunlike star. Since then they have cataloged more than 6,000 alien worlds. I asked a bunch of astronomers what their favorite exoplanet is, and wrote about it for @nature.com. What's yours? 🧪 #astronomy

EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed. The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.

Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91 go.nature.com/46K10ja

In which the inestimable @dangaristo.bsky.social explains why this US government shutdown is different, and what it means for science: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 (Free access, it may ask for your email address but it's not paywalled)

Only 2+ hours left to vote for tugtupite for CHAMPION of #MinCup25! It changes colors! It fluoresces! This is the mineral you want, people!! 🧪 www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5...

In which the inestimable @dangaristo.bsky.social explains why this US government shutdown is different, and what it means for science: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 (Free access, it may ask for your email address but it's not paywalled)

A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️

Congrats to @peaseroland.bsky.social & Jonathan Blackwell of the BBC, and @brookejarvis.bsky.social, for winning @agu.org's journalism awards this year. The honors website has promptly crashed, of course. www.agu.org/honors/annou...

“We cannot typically follow someone around with a microphone,” says audiologist Matthew Winn. Enter Tay Tay. @mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it? Helpful 🧪 explainer by @helenpearson.bsky.social & @heidiledford.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...