This completely tracks for me. The opportunity to be a hands-on, active father was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. Actively parenting young children was the happiest I've ever been in my life. I feel *terrible* for previous generations of men who denied themselves the pleasure.

"The potential for just sheer discovery in the deep-sea is exactly where it was 200 years ago. We are just getting started."

Ok this is hilarious 😂 Be the C diff Watch out Cavs! It’s not gonna be pretty!

My university administrators censored a student who put “environmental justice” and “communities disproportionately affected by climate change” on an Earth Day flyer. I really have no words to express my anger and disappointment anymore

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.

Finding possible evidence of life elsewhere in the universe has turned out way more confusing and boring than movies made me think it'd be. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Blue Marble Space is proud to announce a new Substack venture for sharing the voices and ideas of our global community. planetaryperspectives.substack.com

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

"I think we as a species need largely symbolic and inspirational projects like this from time to time, to keep us sane and optimistic and in touch with our humanity." defector.com/artemis-moon...

One of the problems with people not sharing things with attribution, AI etc is that we (rightly) don’t trust things that are real. This picture is making the rounds today and I’ve seen multiple ppl say it is fake. It isn’t!!!! www.nasa.gov/solar-system...

Searching for those missing pieces of our origin story that are waiting for us up there… I did a thing in Today’s NYTimes. 🧪🔭 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

An excerpt from my book (with some newly reported material) is out in The New Yorker today! History may soon repeat itself in the Gulf of Mexico, and deep-sea researchers have a foreboding sense of what's to come... More such stories in The Dark Frontier --> www.amazon.com/Dark-Frontie...

Another example of refusing to collect data whose results you don’t like: Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

If you're wondering what's happening with the US Forest Service and why it matters, read this:

Want to convert old relative abundance ocean amplicon data into absolute abundances? Williams et al. show a flow cytometry "anchor" can provide reasonable absolute abundances, validated by internal-standard corrected metagenomics with single copy genes, and amplicons academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

jesus christ

Boldly going where no toilet has gone before

Unreal.

Summer School: "Biosignatures and the Search For Life on Mars" astrobiology.com/2026/03/summ... #astrobiology #biosignatures #Mars

Wow, turns out vaccines during pregnancy are... safe and effective, even protecting babies! Incredible! Truly shocking! It's almost like science works?!💉🛡️👶 This admin keeps peddling COVID-19 antivax nonsense, but science prevails.💪 Science: 2,978,547 🧠🪱: -785

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Trump is trying to shut down one of the world's premier climate & weather research labs. Why? A petty beef with a Colorado official who didn't support his effort to steal the election. That's it.

This one little episode is such a horrendous tragedy, such an absolute body blow to our knowledge & reputation, for such petty, grossly corrupt reasons, it deserves weeks of coverage, investigations, & outrage. It will get nothing. There are a dozen others just as bad happening at the same time.

They have made it SUPER easy to email your Sentaors to vote no on Jim O'Neill, who is massively unqualified to run NSF - in fact, he's likely being nominated ot help destory it, as usual per Trump. This took me literally one minute. Add your voice. Please.

Efficiency!

Having a hard time keeping up with the fast-moving field of origin of eukaryotes/Asgards archaea? Our new perspective article can help, we review the status of research over the last decade and where it's going. The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Read about what “DOGE” did to the NEH and remember that we really have no idea how much crime and damage they did at other agencies. Someone needs to thoroughly investigate what they did at NASA. A thread. (1/n) 🧪🔭

Which people are doing the murders?

Remind me: when you bomb an elementary school, lure the survivors into a false sense of safety, and then bomb the survivors, leaving behind dozens and dozens of dead school children... are you the good guys?

US at one end, Canada at the other

New: Despite Congress' rejection of the Trump administration's cuts, OMB has been throttling funding to agencies like NIH and NASA. These restrictions, on top of the 6-week government shutdown, have stopped projects and slowed new grants. Story w/ @alexwitze.bsky.social and @maxkozlov.bsky.social

Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/

CBS, Fox, the Washington Post, and Twitter are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires and soon CNN will be too. Here's why American media has a liberal bias problem.

Read this, and understand why it actually really matters that we bring those samples home.

Sasha Kaurov and Naomi Oreskes argue that Mars is often used as a rhetorical distraction in climate discussions, with those like Musk and Bezos framing it as life insurance for humanity when it could realistically only benefit a tiny fraction of people. reckoningscience.org/mars-as-a-re...

Geologist @deepseadawn.bsky.social has been to the deepest place on Earth. Now, Trump wants to mine nearby. To her, "the choice is clear: protect and explore one of Earth’s last frontiers, or destroy it before we even understand what we are losing." tinyurl.com/22ta9fkw

NASA Astrobiology: Register For The NASA-DARES Task Force 2 Community Webinars astrobiology.com/2026/02/nasa... #NASA #Astrobiology

Carl Zimmer wrote a nice article highlighting our new paper that came out today. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/s...

Delirious Cold War panic has been swapped out for noxious trans panic, but the result will be the same: athletes will be punished for no good reason. @michaelwaters.bsky.social on chromosome testing at the Olympics is a must-read defector.com/chromosome-t...

The deep sea is one of Earth’s largest reservoirs of carbon, yet microbes don’t consume very much of it. Researchers showed that this is likely due to the low nutritional value of deep-sea carbon rather than a lack of microbial effort. sciworthy.com/why-do-deep-...

Astrobiology and extreme microbiology is not just about searching for life on other planets – it also helps society and life on *our* planet! Check out our new early career perspective www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

I am proud to share this paper led by scientist-artist Anna Davidson about the art she created after participating in our 2018 expedition to the Lost City hydrothermal field. online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art...

Hey guess what - I wrote a book, and it's coming out soon! The Dark Frontier is about the wonders of the deep sea...and the threats they face. Check it out, and if you're so moved, you can preorder from your favorite purveyor of fine literature 📚❤️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652987...

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

This is absolutely insane.

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?