Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An early version of the first US News college rankings awarded points for diversity & didn't put the usual suspects on top. So the magazine got rid of the statistician responsible & changed the algorithm to affirm the "conventional wisdom of the meritocracy." washingtonmonthly.com/2000/09/01/p...

Cities are getting hotter. And there’s one simple fix on the table: reflective roofs. So why is a powerful industry fighting to stop them?

EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.

Trying something new! As I continue to pursue freelance opportunities, I’ll be using my Medium presence to write about science news. Give me a follow if you’d like to keep up! aninjusticemag.com/the-psycholo...

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

In my latest post for @scicommbites.bsky.social, I look at a recent study that investigates whether metaphors can make environmental communications easier to understand. TLDR: it's less straightforward than you might think! scicommbites.org/can-metaphor...

One of my recent articles for @scicommbites.bsky.social was republished in @civicscimedia.bsky.social! Have you ever thought about the readability of informative signs in national parks? civicsciencemedia.org/looking-for-...

Science journalism fans: I made a starter pack of @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social fellows from 2015 to 2025. I did this by hand, so if you notice someone missing or mistakenly added, please shoot me a DM or comment. I'll keep it updated as new fellows are announced! 🧪 #scicomm #journalism

The Nazis did this with material written by and discussing Jews. www.erininthemorning.com/p/positive-d...

Let's get clickbait out of local news. We are a group of Idaho and Washington journalists, and our publishing company, McClatchy, wants the ability to punish us for not meeting arbitrary story quotas. THREAD

WESH-TV - Protesters in Orlando have repainted the Pulse Memorial crosswalk after Florida state-directed crews removed the rainbow stripes that honor the 49 lives lost during the 2016 massacre.

And that's a wrap on the 2025 #MassMediaFellows and #MMF50th! 🎉 The last 10 weeks have flown by and the fellows will soon be taking flight after spending two days back in DC with panels and presentations on what could be next for them with their newly gained #SciComm skills!

Dragonflies are a surprisingly complex and diverse insect order and can tell us a lot about the health of an ecosystem. I followed students and experts along on a Boise field project to learn how. 👇https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article309880140.html

Isolated storms are possible throughout the day and could bring rain and lightning, the National Weather Service said.

A short write-up I published today!

The first article I wrote for my @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social fellowship with @idahostatesman.com is up! Excited for the rest of the summer 🧡 www.idahostatesman.com/news/weather...

Wow, Boise’s crowds are huge!

The #MMF50th fellows have completed orientation and we're thrilled to watch as they use their learned #SciComm skills to write the news!

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Why do some farmers from the Midwest ignore the conversations on the climate change? @alexmusicwrites.bsky.social explores this through the "spiral of silence" in her latest post at @scicommbites.bsky.social which I had the pleasure to edit. 🍽️ Take a bite of the climate discourse among farmers 👇🏼

My reads for May via @thestorygraph.com ✨

reminder, bsky has a clever way to display pronouns that's built in! but you only see them if you yourself opt in, so please feel free to here by subscribing and then choosing which applies!! @pronouns.diy

It can be intimidating to enter a new queer space, especially if you're starting to explore your gender and sexuality. Organizers share advice on how to find a support network with confidence.

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This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.

Y'all, we're not yet meeting our $2,100 goal for our AANHPI Heritage Month fundraiser, but if everyone who followed @thexylom.com gave just TEN CENTS in the next 12 hours, we will be able to fully fund our summer newsroom intern! Support independent news: www.giveinmay.org/organization...

Though the vast majority of Americans believe in climate change, fear of perceived polarization creates a “spiral of silence” for Midwest farmers, causing them to avoid discussing the topic entirely. Read more in my latest for @scicommbites.bsky.social scicommbites.org/breaking-the...

The White House is downplaying major citation errors in a sweeping report on chronic disease in children released last week by the Make America Healthy Again Commission. scim.ag/4dPFNaQ

RFK Jr wants to ban government scientists from publishing in top journals and instead create a MAGA-backed publication

Scientists and researchers understand that sex is a multidimensional category. Donald Trump’s rigid definitions undermine their ability to do their jobs.

CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.

Ingleside on the Bay, Texas, which, according to the Zillow Home Value Index, has the second-highest home values in the Corpus Christi metro area, has become America’s crude oil export capital almost overnight. Residents still couldn’t believe their fate.

NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Punk as in rejecting capitalist definitions of "freedom" and believing in community as the thing that will get us free.

It's just too easy to make yourself insane with the computer

There’s been some “advice” coming from some quarters for scientists not to focus on DEI-related funding cuts. I wholly reject this concept. Cutting programs designed to reduce science and healthcare disparities is as detrimental to science as anything else, both morally and functionally.

9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting. Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

In response to Trump's executive orders, RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-violence organization, has barred its crisis hotline staff from sharing resources specific to LGBTQ people, immigrants and other marginalized groups.

ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Just finished Betty by @tiffanymcdaniel.bsky.social! Beautifully written and a brilliant exploration of gender and family.

To quote @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social among many: if we can free one, we can free them all.

I am excited to share my second SciCommBite!

Breaking News: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student whose arrest by plainclothed immigration agents in Massachusetts led to a public outcry.

first tumblr baddie pope is crazy

The National Weather Service is once again translating life-saving alerts. What happened? Political pressures may have driven the federal agency to backtrack on the decision to suspend automated weather translations. grist.org/extreme-weat... #Weather #Hurricanes #Disaster #NWS #Climate

Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy. In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career. grist.org/science/brea... #Science #Scientist #Research #Climate #Communications #Environment