Feels like a good time to repost this thread we originally did on Twitter/X: #TaylorSwift eras and their corresponding geologic eras. Since posting this 2 years ago, there have been some new TS eras but not yet any new geologic eras, so it doesn't line up as nicely. This is frankly not our fault.

Thank you to our science editor for pointing out that, with both this and today's MSG wedding, it's a big day for Swifts.

Grateful that we're safe here in The Springs, even though it's a little smoky. And always grateful for firefighters! My latest for Eos.

I Lived It: someone turned our paper into an AI manga podcast

Reminder to Colorado journalists: if you’re interviewing a winning candidate who usually claims that elections are rigged, ask them why this election was rigged in their favor.

LINK being developed in just 9 months because NASA said, "You must launch before it’s too late," feels like something the editor of a sci-fi novel would take out for being unrealistic. I am invested.

Last week, I interviewed former MAGA influencer and the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, Ashley St. Clair, in front of an audience. Backstage afterwards, Ashley laid into me over the questions I asked. She demanded that we not release the interview publicly and to speak to our lawyers.

This sounds like the script for the trailer to a summer blockbuster called "Getting Back Gracie"

"Scientists don't want you to know-" Buddy there are so many things I, as a scientist, want you to know and the only thing stopping me from writing more papers and posts about it and then starting a podcast to tell you even MORE things is that I am limited by hours in the day

Researchers say the turtles' navigational system is “adequate, but not perfect." So it’s like those cars in the early 2000s where the GPS was a set of CDs. My latest for @eos.org, featuring (importantly) a turtle slideshow.

This is awful. I really looked up to the work journalists at Scientific American were doing.

Happy #PollinatorWeek!

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

How is this real and not a @mcsweeneys.net article?😭

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

A weekend in Rocky Mountain National Park! Shout out to my husband for humoring me by stopping at NCAR on the way home.

Actually a little disoriented by seeing good news coming out of the NSF, but this is great. Hell yeah.

Congressional pushback has apparently worked to pause the NSF from dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Fascinating that this didn't work re NSF's plans to dismantle NCAR. Perhaps because the ocean constituency in Congress is larger & more powerful & more bipartisan? 🧪

Always a pleasure to edit a @beccapox.bsky.social piece. A great read, even though it's about yet another source of microplastics we should be worried about.🫠

Laying off 2 climate journalists and killing the Climate Desk is a step backward for NPR. The good news: local public radio stations are still doing climate journalism. These 33 local climate reporters are still at it. @coveringclimatenow.org @sammyroth.bsky.social legal-planet.org/2026/06/16/n...

These house committee members are fed UP. Other vocab highlights from the letter include "absurd," "harebrained," and a sentence that starts with "Funny enough..." It's worth a read. democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Sadly, it's a bad year to be a sea lion. (Should be a milder Atlantic hurricane season, though.)

Siempre pienso "Ojalá mi español fuera mejor," y a veces incluso estoy celosa de los hispanohablantes quien pueden escribir y comunicarse en dos idiomas. Pero la verdad es que la oportunidad de escribir (y ganar dinero) en mi lengua materna es un gran privilegia. Gracias por recordármelo, Roberto.

#NSF is changing its rules about who can review grant applications, a move that could further slow its grantmaking, @science.org reports. www.science.org/content/arti... To keep up with breaking news like this, consult our Science Policy Tracker: eos.org/research-and...

My husband said, simply: luno

The United States after a week in the fridge

Imagine the pure joy of getting to write this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Okay, gamers, put on your pallia and let's get playing.

How it feels working in science journalism this week. Support our work with a donation today: bit.ly/SupportEos

Can't be good news when a judge looks at you and says your work (or lack thereof) has left him "befuddled."

Taking the batteries out of the fire alarm

NSF has begun to dismantle ocean observation infrastructure as part of an announced descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. eos.org/research-and...

Things are going well here in Colorado, btw! Kyle Clark: You claim that you once called in a U.S. military airstrike that killed 70 ISIS fighters. I didn’t realize that civilians could essentially facilitate military airstrikes. Can you walk me through how that worked? Victor Marx: No.

"On Tyranny" author @timothysnyder.bsky.social in @standupforscience.net's meeting on the proposed OMB rules: "It’s very clear, reading this text, its intention is to make science not work anymore. ... This is essentially medieval. And that’s actually being unfair to people in the Middle Ages.”

National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt is about to deliver the third annual State of the Science address. Follow along with us at 3 p.m. ET 🧵👇

Colorado Climate Map More about the state: brilliantmaps.com/us-maps/c...

I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...

“NSF’s failure to provide any explanation for its decision—let alone a reasonable one—thwarts meaningful judicial review and renders the challenged action arbitrary and capricious,” the judge wrote.

Shout out to Yellowstone for not having cell service, meaning I could take a true break from emails/the news/everything to look at all of the crazy things water can do. It always feels good to be out in the world.

This week, hundreds of scientists will speak up to #SaveAmericasForecasts. Comments from @andrewilwilliams.bsky.social & @haleycrim.bsky.social , @wclivestream.bsky.social eos.org/research-and...

It's important to be prepared for storms, even with fewer forecasted over the Atlantic this year. “Please print it, please print it bold, please increase the font: You don’t have to be along the coast to be in danger from the impacts of a tropical system,” said NWS Director Ken Graham.

People who interact with cows regularly are probably like "duh," but this still made me smile. 🥹🐄 www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

“the roof leaks in the stairwell of the journalism building and the carpet is from 1978” that’s dank academia

Climate scientists are retiring RCP8.5, the worst-case emissions scenario that some have argued was never plausible in the first place. eos.org/research-and...

Researchers are looking for new ways to tackle disastrous oil spills. Some are looking to flaming twisters! Apparently! eos.org/articles/the...

My second choice for the image to pair with this blog was this photo of Earth from the Artemis II mission, to visualize the growing shadowy void that is geoscience funding. 🙃

As a society, we need more grazing sheep in our social media feeds (and, it should go without saying, in our real-life views). 🐑🐏

This is cool as heck