Reading this paper in more detail you actually learn that the effect is found to be null among Democrats and Dem leaners and on partisanship in general and the changes in attitudes they find are concentrated among republicans.

"Who has an interest in claiming a peak is nigh, or too high to reach? If the peak occurs, how fast will the descent be, and where is the bottom of the mountain?" New this week @the-breakdown.bsky.social: @noahjgordon.bsky.social writes on the politics of promises www.break-down.org/three-peaks/

The left is excited about underwater robots that livestream video feeds of octopus nurseries from the deep Gulf of Mexico. The right is excited about summarizing a five word e-mail, incorrectly.

NYC! Tonight! How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander, hosted with @hammerandhope.bsky.social and @strandbooks.com Wednesday, February 18th at 7:00 pm Tickets here:

Episode 2 of "Nature in Crisis," the podcast I'm doing with @meehancrist.bsky.social for the @lrb.co.uk is now up. We discuss "The Light Eaters" by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social. Plant intelligence, plant agency, the pace and place of plants. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

49 degrees Celsius (= 120 F) down in Victoria? Tomorrow evening @meehancrist.bsky.social and I record episode 3 of "Nature in Crisis," a new podcast series with the @lrb.co.uk. Episode 1 looked at Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," and is available now (link in reply).

‘Chemicals are landing on ponds in forests. They’re wiping out small birds. There’s a real kind of carnage that she's seeing.’ Peter Godfrey-Smith on Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’, in our Close Readings subscription podcast ‘Nature in Crisis’. Hear an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Wait. This year's NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up and... 2nd year PhD students are no longer eligible to apply?? This means a whole cohort of bright young scientists will never have the opportunity to apply for this federal funding?? www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Two sources tell WashPo EPA readying a decision to completely rescind the climate-critical endangerment finding (re: greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare) and eliminate all resulting limits on motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Read this from @eroston.bsky.social and I that shows how exactly fossil-fuel advocates fiddle with climate science www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

NEW: Musk's xAI data center in Memphis is emitting plumes of methane and other pollutants, which are drifting into nearby Memphis neighborhoods Video from @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @txsharon.bsky.social captured it on camera gasoutlook.com/analysis/xai...

This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.

Fossil fuel execs have talked for years about how they are "saving" Africa and solving energy poverty. Probably best to listen to Africans on that score: drilled.media/news/total-m...

NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

the modern information environment

So universities are free to do... propaganda?

you cannot compete with me. i want you to win too

"But using crops like corn and soybeans to produce fuel instead of food not only increases food prices and global hunger, it spurs farmers around the world to tear down more forests and plow up more grasslands to create new farmland to replace the lost food."

Dear science journalism, Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.

This is genuinely quite troubling

From a hydrologic risk perspective, these new mass cuts at USGS would further compound broadening NOAA National Weather Service personnel/capability losses when it comes to quantifying and predicting real-time flood risk (among other things).

we no longer have a chief meteorologist at the NWS office serving NYC

LSE announces new Centre for Animal Sentience. shapingtheworld.lse.ac.uk/latest-news/...

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...

Claudia Sheinbaum:“Plan Mexico is the path that I am certain will lead us to a Mexico with more well-paid jobs, with less poverty & inequality...with a lower carbon footprint that respects the environment and increases our self-sufficiency and sovereignty" www.netzeropolicylab.com/mexico-green...

RIP Leonard Zeskind, whose book about the rise of white nationalism was just purged by the U.S. Naval Academy. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Why the National Climate Assessment is important: “It takes [a] global issue and brings it closer to us,” says @katharinehayhoe.com. “If I care about food or water or transportation or insurance or my health, this is what climate change means to me if I live in the Southwest or the Great Plains.”

“By proceeding without the US, COP30 host Brazil is sending an unmistakable signal that it views current American participation as counterproductive, and is now actively seeking leadership from the EU, China, India and others” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Trump seeks to wreck Climate Early Warning system. Because if you don't know what's coming, it can't hurt you, right? thinc.blog/2025/04/29/l...

Saccopharynx (gulpers, but not that gulper eel) are ribbon-bodied fish with creepy toothy mouths and light-up tails. Think sentient shoelaces with murder vibes. #marinelife www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYyi...

Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling National Climate Assessment, the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

*sigh* The BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY an ESSENTIAL taxonomic ane biology resource will NO LONGER BE HOSTED at the Smithsonian after Jan 1 2026! blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

Goddamn it. This is a great example of how the “liberal” media ecosystem fails. Our rich guys don’t spend the money wisely.

Just your regular reminder of where global CO2 emissions are tracking compared to scenarios that keep warming to below 1.5C in 2100, with "no or low overshoot" (maximum temperature around 1.6C). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... C1/

This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity *ever* for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

The Fossil Fuel industry scores another Trump-win. Without data, it's far more difficult for the lawsuits trying to hold the industry accountable for the devastating harms of the climate crisis it knowingly causes & worsens to proceed. Campaign dollars well-spent. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Big news: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum just ordered his agency to shut down construction on the Empire Wind offshore wind project. This is not good for New York's chances of weaning off natural gas. heatmap.news/sparks/empir...

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

Reading about the dire wolf news? Read this ⬇️

The new @ember-energy.org report out today shows that both wind and solar are still growing - but that wind's growth has been decelerating for four straight years now. IMO this is pretty worrying. At the system level and globally, wind and solar complement each other. A solar-only approach = worse

Remember when ICE did mass, non-consensual hysterectomies on immigrant women? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...