All I know is that a real New Yorker wouldn’t shut down midtown to get booed at a basketball game.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

This is an example of a scientific association censoring its members, real scientists, for defending attacks on science. The police were called to remove the scientists for handing out hard copies of this editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

Recently helped a friend with #vestibular problems - like, balance but so much more than #balance. You don't want your inner-ear engineering to be messed up. #nausea After trip to ER with them, yikes. giphy.com/gifs/myDXHnY...

Thanks @heyjohnryan.bsky.social for digging deep and asking the #fisher folk what damage is done by dismantling #ocean #science. 🧪🐟 @kuow.org #fedcuts www.kuow.org/stories/ocea...

Washington state is ahead of the curve, you might say: Oregon and other states are set to lose their federal ocean-monitoring buoys soon. WA's were yanked out of the water back in Sept. www.kuow.org/stories/ocea...

You can add toaster. #dumb appliances that are durable change our lives and get repaired. #green #economy

Please tell me that the NSF dismantling the existing #ocean #observatory network in our oceans is a hallucination. The University of Washington has been working on this for decades. Why would anyone rip the machinery off the ocean floor? #oceanography www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Ethics is the topic for the next hour at @sciencewriters.org panel with Ashley Smart of @undark.org and David Secko (Professor of journalism) and Farha Akhtar a journalist in Canada. Archive will be posted later. www.nasw.org/ethicslandsc...

If this pisses you off…get in. Register for our Emergency Science Meeting, yell at your Congress critters, and leave a public comment all in one place: fight2win.standupforscience.net

Thank you to @pomonacollege.bsky.social for #social event at chihulygg (insta) Able to narrow down my "gift" list to this orb. Met 2 #scientist people from classes of 79 and 78. (He married his TA...) Talked botany and #datascience

Disturbing news -- will add to the deafening silence about the climate crisis

Hooray to Nalisha Estrellas (on Insta) for her mural inside Pacific Place. #downtown #seattle

Congrats to the Taylor-Blakeslee fellows.. winners of $ for #graduate school in #science writing. We need you more than ever. Emely Bonilla, Cameron Glymph, Sruthi Gurudev, Jenna Lang, Jesse Steinmetz, Aspen Stuart-Cunningham + Kelsey Woody. @sciencewriting.bsky.social casw.org/news/seven-j...

Went to grocery, where checker + bagger talking about Edison and Bow, 2 small towns with history of counterculture dating from 1960s. Including the art gallery named i.e. (on insta @i.e.gallery ) Image by Margaret Davidson, titled "Deep Time I" #rabbithole #art #washington www.ieedison.com

Wishing @kenjennings.bsky.social a happy Birthday with this link telling him what the Hubble Space Telescope saw on some of his birthdays over the years. 🔭 🧪 #science #aging #astronomy science.nasa.gov/mission/hubb...

10 bands I've seen live John Fahey John Prine The Rolling Stones Emmy Lou Harris Ry Cooder Los Lobos The Cheiftains Taj Mahal Buddy Miller Rhiannon Giddens #10bands #claremont #folk

Happy #bugsky #bee day? Or maybe a day late? www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Well at least our existential crisis is inspiring hilarious cartoons.

3 organizations - all advocating for #science + health. Science Rising (new from @ucs.org ) + www.sevendaysinjune.org (supported by multiple unions) [email protected] Anybody able to divine the intersections, overlaps? 🧪

My 1st #octopus. At Edmonds pier. #tidepool #lowtide many #nudibranchs also.

Thanks to @michellem.bsky.social @lynnepeeps.bsky.social @robertakwok.bsky.social @madelinevo.bsky.social @neurochemequeen.bsky.social Taryn Black, Karen Levy + 🧪David Mills for #science talk about #social media. We didn't solve any of the frustrations, but we hung them up + looked.

Classy @toppotdoughnuts.bsky.social in Wedgwood. 🧪🧪🧪

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

Fabulous video from @nswa.bsky.social about @kuow.org @opb.org + @npr.org (science desk) and bland sameness of sources for #science reporting. Thanks to panel of Isolde Raftery, Michaeleen Doucleff and Monica Samayoa. @uprootproject.bsky.social #sdoh #inclusion 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehSy...

In the open letter, 1,500 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Medicine and Engineering—including 37 Nobel prize winners—said the NSB’s firing was “an alarming attack on the ability of the US to engage in basic and applied research.”

Huge thanks to @dcswa.bsky.social for making your "day" open to livestreaming. (We have done some of that here at @nswa.bsky.social ) #scicomm #science #sciwri26

We have a lot to figure out, and more details will come soon. Please stay tuned to @biographic.bsky.social newsletter to find out the latest: www.biographic.com/newsletter-s...

Amaze your mom, grandma, sister... pre-order this book. You will gift her crawling along in Borneo, sliding in the arctic, and reaching for a distant moon on a faraway planet. #science (plus @robertakwok.bsky.social is a great writer) #mothersday 🧪

Come ask me ❓ about #social for #scicomm 🧪 on May 15th at Project 9 (brewery) in #seattle. (5:30 p.m) Sponsored by @nswa.bsky.social Or, better yet, come tell me stuff you have learned from TikTok, Instagram and other places. nwscience.org

For you @lizneeley.bsky.social ..a great thread, a great speech.

There is so much that happens between people that is not easily reducible to code. And so we risk all of science if we rush to build “AI Scientists”, before we understand the value of human science. >>

Please read Molly’s thread.

At a graveside service, I heard this advice. The way to mourn respectfully, the rabbi said, is to greet each day with "utter amazement" at the life we hold briefly. #funeral #memorial #spring #nature #friday

Thanks to the #CityNatureChallenge I now have seen a Thimbleberry Gall Wasp nest, in a thimble berry plant at Carkeek in #seattle. #entomology #wasp

I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.

Tomorrow begins the #CityNatureChallenge with 1000s around the world going out to take photos of living things. Join us. @inaturalist.bsky.social Donate your time to the #research of #scientists including studies of bird populations. #birding #conservation and ocean acidification.

Thanks to you @jasongale.bsky.social for the book, "After Covid," and our discussion with @marynmck.bsky.social today. Great talk. #covid19 #longcovid #virus #science 🧪 Archive of the talk is on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihdG...

Reminder - Friday begins the CITY nature challenge, counting biodiversity around the world. #earthday #science #inaturalist 🧪

You are welcome. #podcast #kuow @kuow.org

Game = poem. Solving words ladder contemplation. Seed, power of creation, Dense, containing future Sensed, pulling from edges Endless, unspooling generations Idleness, what we need to see Thanks to The New Yorker games dept. for this 4-18 list of words. #shuffalo #bloomscrolling

We should be learning from other countries...

Thank you to Mary Brunkow of Institute for Systems Biology in #seattle for speaking about her #Nobel prize journey. My PhD student friend gasped at slide of page 343 in the lab notes. (Because, they had to wait 342 pages for success. ) #education #science #process #SciEd #women

Climate reporters - apply for a FREE workshop to help you develop a climate story into a video. You don't need to have any experience with video. #climate #journalism #tools #multimedia www.linkedin.com/posts/elikin...

How many layers of nerd? #seattle theater event in April. Random built in. 5 science plays created from scratch in ... less than a week. Research as catalyst, but theater as method. No recording. You have to come see. theatreoffjackson.org/event/centri...

If you value the #union avoid visiting @propublica.org site today. #journalism #workers #AI Explainer www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

For #bloomscrolling

Long-term studies are vital to understanding how species and ecosystems are responding to climate change and other environmental stressors, but difficult to sustain under typical short-term grant cycles. LTER has been funding these since 1980. This is breaking something that can’t be replaced.

What a tragic and unnecessary loss brought on by cruel policies cruelly enforced. The broader picture is that while some of the GOP's war on science will be reversible, some won't. Never again in my lifetime will the best and brightest from around the world want to study and work in the US.