Federal data and tools are all around us, influencing our lives in ways we often overlook. Our new data story, Protect the Data that Nourishes Us, highlights the data and tools that inform every stage of an apple's life cycle from seed to supermarket. screening-tools.com/blog/protect...

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

Numbers are down across the board.

“You’ve got to stop the tyranny, not try and make a better case for why science should exist.” 🎯

We're #hiring! The Open Science Hardware Foundation seeks an Executive Director to lead our growing non-profit. We seek expertise in: Executive Leadership Resource Mobilization Strategic program development Effective Communication #openscience #openhardware minifi.ca/ZSxhj

"Nearly 25 million naturalized citizens live in the U.S., and we are accustomed to extra scrutiny...But I had never doubted that my U.S. citizenship was permanent, and that I was guaranteed the same rights of speech, assembly, and due process as natural-born Americans. Now I’m not so sure."

Grist created a comprehensive guide to help you stay ready and informed before, during, and after these traumatic and chaotic events, as well as where to find and build support in your community. grist.org/extreme-weat...

The Boring Fund is back in 2025 and supporting more projects than before. With support from Arm, we’re providing $80,000 of funding for the overlooked initiatives that create a stronger #conservationtech sector. Learn more and apply by 19 August 2025: wildlabs.net/funding-oppo...

“Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world’s leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content.” gizmodo.com/free-lunch-i...

PlasticList. 'Data on Plastic Chemicals in Bay Area Foods'. plasticlist.org. www.plasticlist.org

Email just went out from @aoc.bsky.social to her massive email community - no tacky ask to sign a petition - no craven and shameless ask donation - not even a donate button Just laying out plainly how she believes Trump has launched an illegal war and that is grounds for impeachment. Leader.

Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill. It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

behold the "smarter-than-human" machines that'll soon be "too smart to control"

USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down www.theverge.com/news/666150/...

JUST IN: US immigration judge rules that deportation case against Pro-Palestinian Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil can proceed reut.rs/426ySFY

From state legislatures to community groups, from tribal lands to city parks to postage-stamp backyards, people are doing quiet, vital work to confront climate change and biodiversity loss. All year, @carabuckley.bsky.social and I will be writing about these efforts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

After wildfires burned houses and brush alike in Los Angeles, researchers have mobilized to understand the health risks posed by urban conflagrations. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3DV7GR4

Dahlia look! Now we have names of the men who were deported to a prison in El Salvador. Share far and wide so friends and family can identify them! www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

Little scooplet from me: The Trump administration has a plan to remake USAID. Part of that vision? Blockchain. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Hi All We started a starter pack for those interesed in sea turtle ecology and conservation. Add a comment if you would like to be added. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 #seaturtles #marineturtles go.bsky.app/LkUCfem

Just a heads-up to folks who are siloed in English-speaking BlueSky - there are starter packs for Brazilian scientists and activists bsky.app/starter-pack... You'll also want to update your content languages setting so you can actually see their posts: bsky.app/settings/lan...

Time for a 'Be My Eyes' type app but like 'Be My Young Person with a Computer'

Begging reporters to say whether something Trusk is doing is actually legal

Some prisons have ordered trans people to hand in gender-appropriate underwear as if it was contraband, threatening discipline if they don't. Internal memo says staff can't use correct pronouns or names. Male guards now doing pat-down searches of trans women, who say they're being groped + assaulted

You already f*cking own it. Bam. 💥

"LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre, voice, audience and the history and local politics of its place of origin.... Texts are ‘true’ only in the right context." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🦙 csv,conf is coming to town! 💥 Join us in Bologna from 8 to 11 September to share your #data love. 💚 And if you have a good story of data for #communities consider proposing a talk: the call for presentations is open until April 6th.

spite. somewhere there's a bigot who is FUMING by the idea of a trans Jew building an evolutionary biology lab where inclusion is prioritized, and i am drinking in their pathetic tears like sweet ambrosia

Posting this from months ago because we DO have homegrown experience with autocratic regimes in this country. In nearly half this country during the first 6 decades of the 20th century Black people lived under systems of cruelty, voter suppression, hate, state violence & corruption. Ask them!

Grateful for all the librarians/archivists/federal staff working to preserve the info on govt websites before the Trump administration deletes it. Good article: www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1... Thx to @eotarchive.org @freegovinfo.bsky.social @myqntm.bsky.social @davidakaye.bsky.social

“At 1:58 p.m., President Donald Trump tweeted, “Long live the king.” I'm here to say, New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years and we sure as hell are not going to start now.” www.governor.ny.gov/news/video-a...

Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.

People can't even come up with original hate speech now?

MAJOR EFFICIENCY WIN: the CFPB that’s returned over $21,000,000,000.00 to scammed americans now being dissolved to save every american $2.00 annually

How you can help archive U.S. government data right now: install ArchiveTeam Warrior www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

NEW: More than 300 career employees at the EPA have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA while reversing environmental protections. By @fastlerner.bsky.social & @pratheekrebala.bsky.social

This is so good.

I heard a democratic senator say, “In America everyone should be able to get ahead.” Ahead of… whom? This makes no sense. It’s like saying every child should be above average. This claim presupposes inequality, is mathematically impossible, and is apparently a bedrock American ideal

Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access.

FYI the National Council of Nonprofits is collecting stories via this form about how the executive orders are harming nonprofit organizations nationwide. If you just got screwed today, tell them about it here. They're also asking who is comfortable sharing their stories with reporters.

GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time https://buff.ly/4jpMP8p

Our big social media platforms have been *intentionally designed* to make it near impossible to find (and post) useful, timely information about disasters, as this article points out - this has been angering me for years. We need “most recent” and functional search! Which Bluesky provides.

Landlords Evicted Maui Residents and Housed Wildfire Survivors for More Money. FEMA Didn’t Take Basic Steps to Stop It. https://buff.ly/40qSTFh

Network Of Time

every time a behemoth dataset hits the market, tons of co2 goes puff into the air... realistically, the true beneficiaries here are google cloud, aws & nvidia techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/h...

"...[S]cientifically documented examples include a troop of capuchin monkeys taking in a baby marmoset; a bottlenose dolphin caring for a melon-headed whale calf alongside her own baby; and an Icelandic killer whale seen traveling alongside a long-finned pilot whale calf."

Interested in #ConservationTech? Come join another @wildlabsnet.bsky.social variety hour for a sneak peak at new exciting projects, including the wildlife scent dispenser we've developed to survey rare carnivores in tough-to-access regions. See you all there! wildlabs.net/event/variet...