Are you a science communicator in British Columbia who wants to connect with other scicommers?? Shoot me a message, we're trying to start a group. 🧪🇨🇦 @uvicscience.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @sfu.ca @rascvancouver.bsky.social @viuniversity.bsky.social @thetyee.ca @pme.ubc.ca @wildernews.bsky.social

Any teachers out there? Ramping this back up again and figured I would advertise. I am on the National Weather Service National School Outreach Team. We are composed of various NWS meteorologists across the country that give school talks about the weather. We can use just about any online platform.

EarthScope is hiring a Full-Stack Web Designer/Developer (remote, US) to lead the end-to-end design and development of a website for the NSF-funded National Geophysical Facility, as well as the evolution of EarthScope’s existing web stack. Learn more & apply: https://earthscope.org/careers/

I’m hiring for a visual designer! Come work with me for a very cool org doing very cool work: grnh.se/943kjeba6us Some examples →

So sad this keeps getting shared with the attribution cropped out.

It finally happened!! Wordle 1,603 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

Use the "Where's My Ballot" tool to track when your ballot is mailed and when it's been counted. If there's a problem with your signature or envelope, you'll get an alert with instructions on how to fix it. Sign up for automatic updates: wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov

East Bay earthquake? I'm in Palo Alto rn and did not feel anything

SPREAD THE WORD! Nominations for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Outstanding Earth Science Teacher (OEST) award are due February 1! nagt.org/nagt/awards/...

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Mid-October or December? Good ❄️ morning from the @YoseConservancy High Sierra camera looking toward Half Dome #CAwx #Yosemite 10/15/2025

This is partially why I find AI use in schools to be problematic. Seems like we are signing students up to do even more mental labor to assess a claim

A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position. The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.

Not now, plate tectonics.

Can confirm; was full.

Another laser-sharp column by the great Michelle Goldberg: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Fantastic animated maps and #dataviz in this—what to call this type of journalism?—explainer of river meander geophysics from Austin Chadwick and Science Magazine #scicomm www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMkns6c9/

For #nationalpoetryday, it has to be the divine Edna St Vincent Millay

Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files. Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.

You can read digitized primary sources that detail the violence at Wounded Knee here 🗃️: dp.la/primary-sour...

The open corruption of the Department of Justice into a tool of dishonest oppression against people who have crossed Trump isn't just on Trump or his minions. It's on every Republican in the Senate, in the House, and on the Supreme Court.

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.” @time.com time.com/7319963/bruc...

This is a good #dataviz primer from JAMA Insights How to Communicate Medical Numbers url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Congress must act to rein in this man play acting as President. It’s past time for Congressional Republicans to find the courage to do the right thing.

Forget whatever nonsense is being spewed at the UN and feast your eyes on this wasp thread! So cool!

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ?? here she is at her burrow entrance.

Need help evaluating whose expertise to trust? Our tip sheet for vetting and finding relevant scientific sources, written with @theopennotebook.bsky.social, can help reporters to determine if an expert is the right fit for their news story. bit.ly/46i1H4q

EARTHQUAKE PART DEUX

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

🟡 M4.8 #earthquake detected 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California at 9/22/2025 2:56:12 AM PDT This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information

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The women's game has exploded in recent years. Arenas are full. Ad revenue is up. TV contracts seem to be on the order of 100x higher. The value of teams has surged. And yet, the player salaries are still below (accounting for inflation) what the ABL offered 25+ years ago. That needs to change.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

I'm going to go host Back to School Night, now. May you all find comfort and joy in the things you have near and dear to you. I can report that The Kids Are Alright, in general, and it gives me no small amount of hope. Let's keep trying to make this world better for the next generation.

Listen, I'm just a middle school science teacher. I am not at all confident that I'm doing enough to train the next generation of citizens to move with confidence and integrity through this changing world. I am doing my best but it is very tough sledding in this political environment.

It is not news that someone in a position of power says something, especially when that person has repeatedly and unrepentantly lied in the past! Defense of democracy is an essential component to this field, as it is for all fields.

Sadly, what was once common on the enviro beat is now poisoning Americans' minds in the politics pages. Don't print lies in the newspaper. If a statement from an official is false, do not be a stenographer. "Spokesperson did not respond to written questions" is a perfectly fine thing to write!

When I took earth systems courses in college, Dr. Stephen Schneider talked about his efforts to educate reporters about how their reporting was misinforming their readers if they included statements from hacks in their articles. It has been demoralizing to see this problem continue 25 years later.

Adios, chickenshits.

A little bit of good news for you. And a reminder that we *can* solve big, global problems--when we want to. 🧪 (by @meghanbartels.bsky.social)

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

as always i encourage u all not to post things that may attract the attention of an authoritarian secret police with unlimited power to surveil american citizens at this time

I wrote this back in March but I think it's important now more than ever to understand competitive authoritarianism--and the concrete steps that can be used to fight back against it. It's going to be difficult, but it's not a lost cause--and the fight is worth it. I explain the best strategies here: