No notes

Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the Battle Green in Lexington, where the Minutemen fought another king 250 years ago.

"All we do know, and that to a large extent by direct experience, is that evil labours with vast power and perpetual success – in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. So it is in general, and so it is in our own lives." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Letters'

Fears about climate change’s effect on agriculture revolve mainly around rising temperatures. That an unexpected side-effect of such change might be a crop-damaging fall is ironic

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE! That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted. Stay tuned! 🍿 #DefendHigherEd #StandUpFightBack

Legend. RIP.

We're putting more money into destroying forests than protecting them. We are losing our precious ecosystems for short-term financial gains. This needs to stop. It's time our world leaders step up, and what better time to do it than #COP30 in Brazil.

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

160 scientists, 23 countries, 1 report: The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, together with @exeter.ac.uk, highlights mounting risks across Earth’s systems, from melting glaciers & ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure. Watch now👇 👉global-tipping-points.org

Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭

Painted some xylem for a thing. Pretty pleased. #sciart

What absolute stunners! #Mushrooms

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

No Kings, For the love of America.

Many thanks @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for hosting us on @zeteo.com re: our new book #ScienceUnderSiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/science-un...

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a MacArthur award. n.pr/4of1xku

"He explained to me that he could hold onto his administrative post at Penn — which, in the contentious Trump era, has doubled down on institutional neutrality...Or he could heed the advice of his own book, and keep brawling in the rough-and-tumble arena for scientific truth. Mann chose to fight."

Clam shells sound warning of Atlantic ‘tipping point'. New research from @exeter.ac.uk using centuries-old clam shells has found signs that key Atlantic Ocean currents may be losing stability. Full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦑🐟🧪🌐🌍🌊 #AcademicSky @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

Like a canary in coal mine…

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Some news to distract you from all the ICE news.

On brand

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

"Rainforest that has been regenerating for 30 years after being used as cattle pasture showed a remarkable increase in butterfly colour diversity." It turns out rewilding even has the power to restore the colours human activities are draining from the natural world. share.google/0cifnGipUkG5...

Recording a special Jane Goodall episode for the What If We Get It Right? podcast. Coming your way tomorrow — subscribe wherever you get your pods 🎙️ www.getitright.earth/podcast

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Iceland is becoming no-ice land.

Starry night in Kluane. #Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt Painting of the day 2048.

Happy Ctenophore Day! These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈 Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab #CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

Brazil's CERRADO: 2M km² savannah with 12,000+ plant species (45% endemic). Called "upside-down forest" - roots reach 20m deep, storing 60% of biomass underground. Fire-adapted biodiversity hotspot. 50% destroyed, only 3% protected. One of Earth's most threatened ecosystems. Science🧪

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities! We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

Hasn't everything already been mapped? I don't think so. Have you seen this atlas of underground fungi biodiversity? www.spun.earth/underground-... Thanks to @scifri.bsky.social

Last call to register for what promises to be an amazing workshop by Geoff Anderson of DiVerses on Saturday October 11th at 1 p.m. both online (via Zoom) and in person at the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center in Columbus, Ohio. Sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association.

This may be one of the greatest days of my life. I just received word from UNLV Dept of Geoscience saying I may have literally actually discovered a rock formation during my desert explorations that's unknown to science. I could not be more excited! This is my childhood dream! (Even if it gets ID'd)

AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump’s Loyalty Pledge for Colleges and Universities. Now is the time to unite in defense of democracy and higher education! Read full statement below 👇 @aft.org @proftwolf.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social

Amazon forest trees have been growing larger for the past 30 years, a new study finds: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This may be caused by rising CO2 and/or increased nitrogen deposition from air pollution It suggests they're offsetting some CO2 emissions, helping to slow #climatechange 🌳

Join the live launch of EAT Lancet on Friday, 3 October! We’re proud to be part of the upcoming launch of the EAT Lancet Commission, a major scientific update to one of the most influential food systems reports of the past decade. Register now: bit.ly/3Kg9SW8

"Ocean stratification in a warming climate" | Our ( Lijing Cheng et al) new review article in @nature.com Reviews Earth & Environment: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

So exhausting..

New paper! I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on: -Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi -Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄 -Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920! Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.