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?

"Prototaxites was ahead of its time: undeniably phallic in a time long before phalluses existed."

For example: if 84% of people already agree that scientific research aimed at advancing knowledge is usually a worthwhile investment over time... Why are you so sure that the real problem is that people "just don't know enough about why research matters" www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.

The scientific process can sometimes take decades and even centuries of experiment and observation with a lot of imagination and hard work along the way. But the results of the process have opened up so much of our knowledge about the world, like in this example theconversation.com/why-does-thi...

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

New analysis: 0.25% of 2025 Bluesky posts contained citations to research...while only 0.000006% of X/Twitter posts did. In raw numbers, X still has 2x the research-based posts that Bluesky does (though they are harder to find): but it took Twitter 10 years to get there vs just 2 years for Bluesky

Want to ride the front of the wave of all-things-microbiology; field work, cultivation, microscopy, molecular, bioinformatics and AI tools? Me too! Please join us @mblscience.bsky.social for the 2026 Summer Microbial Diversity Course! Applications due soon. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Which better explains this situation? A Drug Enforcement Administration agent is arresting a journalist. A member of the regime's omniforce paramilitary arresting a journalist covering violations of civil rights. bsky.app/profile/phil...

I’m one in 10,000 ! www.science.org/content/arti...

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

Continually impressed by the courage, scale, and beauty of what people in Minnesota are doing.

This is one of my favorite charts because the obvious implication is ... obvious, but you absolutely are not allowed to say it out loud in US public discourse.

in some ways, seeing the video is irrelevant, because having to say or parse who is at fault, even when obvious, moves us away from the larger criminality that *none of this should be happening in the first place*.

When the camera turns a corner at the 30-second mark & you see how far back the wave of people goes ❄️❤️

"A group of grown men in tactical gear, working under the auspices of the federal government, bum-rushed a kid in a bunny hat with a Spider-Man backpack on his way home" read @justinellis.bsky.social on ICE's ambush of Liam Conejo Ramos defector.com/how-do-you-j...

Seeing the actual numbers plotted takes the shock and disbelief to the next level... @wbrazelton.bsky.social

Happy to share our latest publication with you. 🧵 Trees are often overlooked as relevant bee forage ressources. Realising that there is relatively little known about bees in flowering tree canopies, we searched for data and methodologies to tackle this gap. @jki-research.bsky.social

(December 2021) xkcd.com/2557/

It breaks our hearts to have to say that CDC is no longer a source for evidence-based vaccine recommendations. 💔 But we are so proud of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for stepping up to protect kids. ❤️‍🩹 Childhood vaccine schedule from AAP 👇 downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...

Unrelated ag fact: there are stingless Melipona bees that make honey! Sometimes people think "I should raise those! Why do we even bother with honeybees, if we can just raise bees that don't sting?" Then they try raising the stingless bees, & find out why almost nobody does that

I submitted an abstract to LPSC 2026. I wanted to see how many abstracts were submitted this year. Mine went in at 11:58 pm Central, so is among the last to go in. It will be rejected, but for the student rate ($35) it was worth the experiment. (1/2)

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would take to boil 2 billion Olympic swimming pools. www.wired.com/story/the-oc...

Get organized. Get involved. Get active. Being MadOnLine and doomscrolling solves nothing. www.mobilize.us

This is what an actual politicized campus look like, where activists gin up social media outrage that targets professors, political appointees strip faculty of professional autonomy, and students are not allowed to learn about what it is to live in America now.

@theplanetaryguy.bsky.social I think you inspired The Onion

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me. Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.

What a catastrophe.

Brenna is a great colleague of mine. Sad to read.

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law

I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

People like this can’t be reintegrated into society and need to be identified, isolated, punished, and ostracized.

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Like, I read this article a couple of times to make sure I did not miss anything. They are telling a US permanent resident, who lives in the United States, that he cannot travel to the United States. For no alleged crime, merely for factual speech.

I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US. Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

An immigrant works a dangerous job to protect Americans. It puts him in medical debt. Now he also has to worry about being deported by ICE when he goes to work or takes his kid to a soccer tournament. Feel safer?