Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

Spectacular footage of pyroclastic flows at Semeru Volcano in Indonesia in November: ⚒️ youtu.be/rybUgYtvVFM?...

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Hey other parents of almost-teenagers. How are you going about talking about massive events like the ICE murder today or Venezuelan civilian killing and kidnapping to your kids? How much (if any) of this firehose of terribleness are you willing to discuss with them?

Geologic mapping of California continues with the Regional Geologic & Landslide Mapping Program. Maps include statewide geologic and fault activity maps, geologic atlas and regional geologic map series, and offshore continental margin maps. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/rgm/prog...

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

In C Europe, there is a push to align forest management more closely with natural processes, but is this "closer-to-nature" management able to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services? Great synthesis led by @anastritih.bsky.social with input from many leading experts! doi.org/10.1007/s407...

This is a true favourite and always has been. I love it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE9X...

I’m not sure how I’d use this but I like it.

This is Georgie. He heard sirens outside his window. Thought he would show them how it's done. 14/10 excellent vibrato Georgie (TT: georgietheboxr)

🤣🤣🤣 Because it’s true.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

German astronomer Martin Brendel took the first photograph of an aurora #OTD in 1892, at Alta fjord in northern Norway. Here’s the photo, alongside one I took from my back porch in Chicago, of all places, back in November. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

My friend @charlotteclymer.bsky.social has written about Mark Kelly’s distinguished military career. This is not to be missed. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

My fellow JTRACK outreach officer, @nurschuba.bsky.social, led the writing of this kid-directed article about the expedition: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... ⚒️

Hmmmmmm.

There will be an intense push to normalize this takeover of Venezuela as necessary, benevolent, even inevitable. It is not. When oil interests drive foreign policy, propaganda becomes the tool that makes the unacceptable sound reasonable. Resisting that narrative is essential.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. "gaheegah-hoohah wahjheenee deeneelahweekee"

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. "ahdahnoogah-weestee"

Making a cow udder for Zs Milky White costume for Into the Woods Jr. How it started. How it’s going.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

135 years have passed since the preparation of the 1891 Preliminary Mineralogical and Geological Map of the State of California. This webpage walks you through the history and evolution of geologic maps of California. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/rgm/hist...

"Edtech presents its agenda as apolitical, as a matter of efficiency or smart management, concealing a far more insidious mission: the monetization of teaching and learning" - late to this by @ehayot.bsky.social @mattseybold.bsky.social but it's great to see such analysis out there archive.md/PHqyF

Fuck. This is too long to wait! Also there are several different possibilities for this.

The Sierra Nevadas lit up by the setting sun on the way home from my parents house this evening. I haven’t seen the mountains this clearly in a long time!

This week at #JamesBeard Chef Action Summit we announced #4thAmendmentWorkplaces 🖼️ Our workplace guide and organizing toolkit has many tools for resisting unconstitutional search and seizure operations, employee handouts you can leave by the front door, etc. ➡️ www.4thworkplace.org

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

We are looking at some high King Tides events today and tomorrow according to the @nws.noaa.gov Bay Area office. If you are near the coast, stay safe and follow closure notices.

Not cool. I reject this!

Fantastic news for paleontology that the Paleontological Research Institute in Ithaca NY is staying open this year! Intensive fund-raising was successful & enough to pay off the mortgage for their building, helping to preserve this long-standing institution for national & international science. 🧪

To watch the full video (and my new Hot Takes/Cold Facts series, where I respond to troll comments!), please subscribe on Patreon. Your support doesn’t buy me a coffee: it directly sustains my small comms team now that climate-hushing has tanked my honoraria. Every subscription truly matters!

Pulling climate data offline, canceling research grants, and de-funding scientific institutions doesn't just suppress climate information. It weakens the foundation we rely on to make good decisions of any kind. In my latest "Tea with Katharine" I share why investment in science is so important!

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

“There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than a distant image of our tiny world. …it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

To unpickle the brains, reboil the frog, all efforts must go to shifting identities in such a way as to return faith in truth seeking institutions. To do that, you have to tell a bunch of stories to appeal to an already embedded identity, convince them certain values were part of that ID all along.

An astonishing percentage of Americans are open to car-free living. The problem isn't attitudes. The problem is the failure to invest in viable options. humantransit.org/2025/12/many...

Looking for some family science fun over winter break? Try out one of our STEM at Home activities and discover how experiments using everyday materials can help us understand the world around us! ⚡

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?

⚒️ Do any sedimentary experts have ideas? If it’s that old all I can think of is dissolution or meta processes. ( but my brain keeps thinking burrows. 🤪)

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Where a Saudi company pumps desert groundwater, Arizona considers imposing limits www.latimes.com/environment/...

Do I know any journalists interested in covering a story about a highway and the last population of a frog? Please message me

Please find below a Physics teaching resource on misconceptions, by topic. It also includes diagnostic quizzes #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

An excellent graphic posted on the NWS Fairbanks FB page. Ice fog is not the same as freezing fog. It has to be at least -22F (-30C) before you have true ice fog. Here in Anchorage, it's not uncommon to have fog at 0F - but it is not ice fog. Fog droplets are still liquid at 0F - hence the rime.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.