What should we expect this flu season? Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie) 1/

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

tehran is a city of 10 million people, and this article was published one week ago, to give you a sense of the urgency here

Who’d a thunk it? Data centers are turning out to be environmental parasites. Grok, why are the wells and rivers running dry?

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...

Okay their dad just took them to the playground so HERE WE GO (thread)

Hearing state officials talk about how unexpected these floods were & it’s infuriating. This was completely predictable to anyone even vaguely aware of the climate crisis. Same thing with LA fires. The Mayor cut the fire fighting budget as global temps soared. Climate ignorance = needless deaths

This is a breakdown on what Democrats in the House are doing right now. With some small hope I say this pos bill isn’t done yet. @ariellaelm.bsky.social (type is small but alt text is all there)

As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...

Well the “NOAA Climate” and “NASA Climate” social media feeds - a key tool to communicate the massive challenge of climate change to the world - are now gone.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them theonion.com/democra...

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary.

Our access to COVID vaccines is under attack. It’s more important than ever to make our voices heard by making public comment to the FDA by May 23 at 11:59 PM EST. Use our template available on our substack at peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access: 1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... 2. Contact your elected officials www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

This is an excellent analogy

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

“Instead, we will be signing a blank check and handing it to him to do with as he wishes. I am very smart.”

One minute. That's all it takes.

Amidst everything, I still can't believe they didn't exempt Canadian oil. They literally built a "higher gas prices" button and pushed it. They acknowledged it was a bad idea to put tariffs on it but decided to do 10% instead of 0. They literally built a "higher gas prices" button and pushed it!

we spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping? rookie numbers. we can do better.

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017

It's literally impossible to run the National Weather Service without talking to foreign partners. For example, the National Hurricane Center in Miami shares data with other nations in the Caribbean constantly to forecast storms. Everyone benefits. Weather doesn't stop at the borders.

Great thread

Earth Science ladies, what's up?

Five years ago today.

so disappointed after seeing this photo & realizing that's a third llama in the back & not the arm of the right llama ringing a little bell

hey so! this is terrifying :)

At a zoo in Arizona H5N1 has killed a cheetah, a mountain lion, a swamphen, an Indian goose, as well as a kookaburra, and while it is true that you are not a cheetah, a mountain lion, a swamphen, an Indian goose, or a kookaburra, please keep in mind that humans are animals too.

10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system: The Measles vaccine The Mumps vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Tetanus vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Polio vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine

Please follow my list of Indigenous scientists! I accidentally deleted my first starter park -- but recreated it with even more names. Who else needs to be added? go.bsky.app/9LhnuCY

They could at least wait until 2025 to start the destruction.

Would it be too extra to set up a webcam pointed at my stove top during winter tea season? Tired of having to go check that I turned it off just as I get into bed.

The EAA is sorry to hear of the passing of Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, a reference of #UK and wider #European archaeology. We extend our condolences to family and friends. 🏺

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Thread.

New, from me: I've spent the last four years thinking about what happens to the federal government if Trump returns. So I am offering a few predictions about what happens next. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

I made a profanity-laden Connections game this afternoon to celebrate this fucking terrible day connectionsplus.io/game/DG9KTB

Wtf America

I will remember this exchange for as long as I live.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,174,054!

Calcite is shells and sea floors and waterfalls and caves. Vote calcite! #MinCup24