Absolute amen to this one.

So when they came for the trans people and the protestors and the supporters of DEI, did you think they weren't coming for you too? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

The WSJ should pay every trans person $2,000 just for the shit they pulled yesterday.

Maybe the people who baselessly blamed transgender people for Kirk's murder and spread disinformation and hate should apologize. Folks like Nancy Mace, Don Trump Jr and WSJ

I wanted to share some light with you. These words, this song. "For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach." ~ Tolkien They cannot hold sway forever. 🕯

Hey Seattle -- let's rally for Science! I'll be talking about how disinformation campaigns are the heart of the attacks on science.

The same Supreme Court that said it is unreasonable to consider race when giving kids access to education, has said it's reasonable to consider race when looking to remove someone from the country. Funny how that works.

Adventures in algebra. Had to get a new oven knob. Temps on the old knob run from 275 to 500. New knob runs 220 to 440. The old knob conveniently marked temperatures at 25 degree intervals, whereas the new one has (no joke) marks every 36.7 degrees. Find 350 degrees on the new knob. I dare you.

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

Anyway when the Trump administration tells you they are concerned about antisemitism, just remember they haven’t told federal agencies that scheduling major events on Jewish High Holy Days is off limits but they do want to deport brown people who oppose genocide You can do the math

i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age

This is really an extraordinary event: landslide, glacial failure, tsunami. But to me, the most exciting part is the sequence of tiny earthquakes that occurred before the slide. 1/n

Couldn't do much work on the recent AK landslide today because I was busy making curly fries at the NW Washington Fair. Science starts again tomorrow..

Meanwhile my college-aged daughter travels solo all over DC, unafraid. Tom Cotton is a wuss.

Yesterday morning I received a text from friends anchored near this event--they were experiencing huge surges of water. Seismic data showed a clear landslide event that the Alaska Earthquake Center eventually located in the Tracy Arm. Happily, everyone nearby appears to be okay. 1/3

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing. “I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

Take a minute to read this thread describing the extraordinary work done by tsunami modelers to understand and forecast the behavior of waves as they are progressing. This is one of the many reasons it is critical that we fund federal science agencies!

NY Times: newly declassified documents show Russian intent to sway the 2016 election against Clinton. Fox News: [the same] newly declassified documents confirm that Clinton, Comey et al. were coordinating to link Trump to Russia. The blatant lies by Fox are getting worse.

Nothing to see here. Literally, nothing to see here.

WOW, there are a lot of salmon jumping at Brooks Falls (Alaska) right now. Check out salmon and bears on the live cam: explore.org/livecams/cur...

I just love this typo in the NYTimes. Not only is it an ironic error, but misspelling "Genius" is the only way that one could justify Trump's observation (highlighted).

My bad. I thought this was how we all did our AGU prep.

It's a lousy year to celebrate July 4, so we are focusing on our community. Spent the past week building a couple of holes of mini golf for the neighborhood to enjoy when walking by.

Unless there's a typo, I read this as follows: 10 assaults in a half year, followed by an additional 69 over the next year (or 34.5 per half year). A change from 10 to 34.5 is 24.5 additional assaults, or a 245% increase. 245%, not 690%. Math matters.

This is terrifying, horrible, repugnant, and cruel. There is no other way to look at this: today's right wing does not believe that trans people deserve rights at all, even that of life.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? On average, there is a magnitude 8 earthquake somewhere on Earth about once per year. Magnitude 7s are more or less monthly. Magnitude 6s occur every few days.

This wouldn't be happening if Trump were president.

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”. https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

Thanks for nothing, Senator Cassidy.

Timeline cleanse: my daughter is home from college and made a cake. First time she's attempted a heart shape. I think she's amazing. ❤️

As the prophecy foretold.

This, my friends, would be the death knell of US science. Utterly devastating.

Scientists saved lives. The village was evacuated a week ago. www.bbc.com/news/article...

For anyone not familiar with GRFPs: these are fellowships awarded TO THE STUDENT. They're NOT awarded to an institution or tied to a particular project. Many GRFPs are earned with an application written before a student has submitted any grad school applications.

The US Army texted me to recruit my daughter today. I had thoughts.

Really confusing day for anyone who worked in a restaurant to realize that when we were told an item on the menu had been "86'ed" that meant the kitchen staff had assassinated it in cold blood.

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

100%this. What an eloquent and courageous athlete.

Dr. Montano, on FEMA's new administrator: "I cannot emphasize enough that this man knows literally nothing about emergency management nor how to run a massive organization. We are absolutely cooked."

5 years old, but still good info. I recommend starting 26 minutes in, to hear Steve Malone's story of monitoring MSH 45 years ago. But if you want to start at the beginning you can see how bad my hair was during COVID lockdown. 😮

The percentage of white men in the US pop is ~30%. Thus, as always, the complaint is that white men are not sufficiently overrepresented (as they have been throughout US history).

Apparently surface rupture during the Myanmar 2025. I'm very surprised by the weak shaking along the rupture. I'm not sure if this is the main rupture (I would say no - nonetheless, VERY COOL). Author unknown, location Thazi (to be confirmed)

HOLY SHIT is right.

The live stream of the Kilauea eruption is utterly spectacular right now. It's spell-binding. www.youtube.com/usgs/live I have a question about the plume, though.

🧪🌊 This Friday's💩: Planned evisceration of US NSF just announced- research divisions abolished, massive layoffs, radical budget cuts. Fascists hate knowledge they can't control, so the gold standard of US science is doomed & our global science leadership will follow www.science.org/content/arti...

Can't remember who said it, but using ChatGPT for your college essays is like using a forklift to move the weights around at the gym. It's the process that's important to your development, not the end product.

If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.