Scientist friends: When you're writing a paper, have you ever chosen not to cite someone's work because that person is a jerk? Obviously you can't avoid citing vital work, but there are lots of times when you could choose any of several papers to cite. What factors into your decision then? 🧪

Scientists: do you think blue sky research funding is getting more difficult to secure?

The @fao.org warned that the ongoing disruption to the Strait of Hormuz trade corridor is triggering one of the most severe shocks to global commodity flows in recent years, with significant implications for food security, agricultural production, and global markets.

I deleted my post about the as yet-unpublished arXiv paper that describes a massive heat island effect due to data centers. The preprint was covered by CNN and New Scientist, but has not yet been through peer review.

Climate journalists! Tomorrow is the last day to enter the 6th annual @coveringclimatenow.org awards! Get those submissions in. 🌪️🔥🌊🥵 coveringclimatenow.awardsplatform.com

All credit to @climatecentral.org! Thank you for sharing their graphic

Thanks to @coveringclimatenow.org and @climatecentral.org for producing this map showing the extent to which climate change exacerbated the heat wave, especially across the Southwest.

For those of us in the West, this is a horror show in the making. I'm honestly terrified of this summer's fire season.

Inbox: Trump is announcing the new PCAST membership. It is dominated by CEOs and includes only one academic scientist, John Martinis.

LAST CALL! I'd love to have some more examples from Europe or Asia! And more from scientists doing field work! Get in touch if you have a "good day in science" story to share:)

Thanks to @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for speaking with me this morning about why she decided to leave NASA, the work she was doing, her concerns about federal science and also what gives her hope. 🧪

My resignation letter

The Google News Initiative offered @thexylom.com a $13,000 in FY23, a $20,000 grant in FY24, and $0 in FY25. It directly triggered our newsroom's financial crisis (for reference, our budget in FY26 is $165,000). This is just salt on the wounds of digital news outlets on the brink of collapse

“This is one of the more anomalous heat events that we’ve ever observed in the Southwestern United States,” said @ucanr.edu climate scientist Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social. Reported by @bennollweather.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

The ongoing record-breaking heat wave in the West will continue while expanding across the Central U.S. through the weekend. Based on preliminary data, there have been around 50 March high temperature records broken since March 17 and more than 150 daily high temperature records broken.

For every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more moisture. Just sayin’.

I’ve lived here for nearly two decades and I’ve never seen it this bad before.

Science and health journalists: here's a great opportunity to dive into a big reporting project. Deadline to apply--APRIL 20!

“Things are getting really outside of what humans have ever seen,” said Friederike Otto, a professor of climate science at Imperial College London. “Almost every part of the world is experiencing these extreme events.”

“The E.P.A. came out with no new science, no new law or legal precedent that would allow them to walk away from the endangerment finding,” said Ms. Campbell, a Democrat like all the officials who joined the litigation.

"I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for..." Dolores Huerta's powerful statement on Cesar Chavez' abuse. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

“Going off grid was no one’s first choice. Off-grid power generally costs a lot more…+ a lot of this gear is also less efficient than the airplane-size machines used at big power plants, meaning it needs to burn more gas to generate the same amount of electricity.”

Lovely

Breaking News: @cbsnews.com refuses to offer their employees a fair contract. Started the day on the picket line with @wgaeast.bsky.social journalists. They're demanding fair wages and workplace protections. (1/2)

NEW: Study of 73+ million older adults finds that heat waves are driving a substantial increase in deaths each year, with disproportionate impacts on Black and low‑income communities, while neighborhoods with more green space see lower death rates. buff.ly/EOn7tc9)

Today is Global Recycling day. We remind you that industry lied about plastic recycling. Only about 9% is recycled. More www.momscleanairforce.org/resources/th...

“A new study adds evidence for why urban birds have picked up this preference, at least in one species: The toxins in tobacco may keep parasites at bay in the nests of blue tits, colorful birds that are found across Europe.”

“The Trump administration has bypassed regular procedures to award more than $13 million in contracts to the company that helped organize President Trump’s rally on Jan. 6, 2021, repeatedly creating hidden business opportunities that only one firm could win.”

Cuba has not received oil shipments since early January amid US pressure, worsening humanitarian crisis on the island.

I'm in LA this week working with @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social's #USCCalfellows @profmpastor.bsky.social on shifting demographics in the US: By 2045, America will be majority POC, but no longer due to immigration. “People are not scared of immigrants, they are scared of their kids.”

The EPA proposed Friday to weaken air pollution limits on a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment, a move that would reverse a Biden administration finding of high cancer risks at manufacturing facilities that use ethylene oxide to clean medical devices. https://to.pbs.org/4bbDDT6

Oregon became the nation’s first all vote-by-mail state in 2000, and boasts high voter registration and turn out. But the state’s top election official and senior U.S. senator warn a proposal from congressional Republicans’ threatens to undermine that. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/03/13/o...

Hey, that seems corrupt. www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

I’ve got the atmospheric river blues.

OK scientists--now let's see what you've got for a "good day in the field stories"?! There's got to be some amazing tales you can share:)

“The president doesn’t like the attack. He wants to save the oil. He doesn’t want to burn it. And it reminds people of higher gas prices,” a Trump adviser told Axios.

The Nikkei 225 declined more than 6% as oil broke $100 a barrel and concerns grew that higher energy prices could affect economic growth.

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

"Concerns about the availability of [white] phosphorus for defense played a significant role in Mr. Trump’s move to deem Bayer’s operations a national security priority, according to two people with direct knowledge of the administration’s deliberations."

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. (Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)

"US federal government’s science workforce lost nearly 95,000 employees, 11.9%, between September 2024 and December 2025, according to a new analysis from the Partnership for Public Service."

Traveling for a story requires access and money. In TON’s latest story, @bwfund.bsky.social‬ early-career fellow @skylerdware.bsky.social talks to @virginiagewin.bsky.social and others for tips on finding the funding and more. 🧪

Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

And on women in science: *These women inspired award-winning women by @scattercushion.bsky.social *Q&A with Changemaker Dorceta Taylor by @virginiagewin.bsky.social *The $120K 'motherhood penalty' by @sarahemilywild.bsky.social

Inside on women's health: *The missing pieces of menopause science (shocker: there are many) by @lindanordling.bsky.social *How and why to filter men out of your data by @smjyoti.bsky.social *Drug safety in pregnancy by @giorgiag-sciwriter.bsky.social

It's International Women's Day this weekend! @natureportfolio.nature.com celebrates with a collection of articles exploring how to improve gender equality for women's health and women's careers in science. Eye-popping art by illustrator Maria Corte. www.nature.com/immersive/iw...

Happy International Women's Day! @nature.com put together a collection of recent women's health and women in science stories--by @smjyoti.bsky.social, @scattercushion.bsky.social, @lindanordling.bsky.social , @sarahemilywild.bsky.social, and myself --to commemorate.

OK, as the actual journalist who has been unwittingly caught up in the Claude rumor this morning (who also covers AI disinformation) let me clear this one up for the record. To recap: Claude kind of implicated itself in the Iran school bombing citing (in part) my reporting...

Aviation only recently uncovered an additional climate impact beyond CO2 emissions—contrails. But researchers and airlines are exploring how to reroute flights to avoid contrail formation. They hope it will be a rare climate win for the sector. My @anthropocenemag.bsky.social story

Today!