Took a closer look at this keychain I got at a conference and I'm dying....

The unfortunate truth is that we are treated differently from other marginalized groups *specifically by people on the left*. E.g.: the idea that hate crimes are routinely faked to stir up sympathy is an article of faith broadly on the reactionary right...and about Jews in a segment of the left.

As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land. n.pr/4vqozsq

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt

There’s an idea that somehow decency and nuance are stuffy, that they’re old fashioned. But there’s nothing new about what people like Piker or Klippenstein have to offer. There’s nothing sophisticated or groundbreaking about dirtbagism.

I wrote about the continued appeal of dirtbag politics, from the left to liberals, and how only a politics of grace and edification can save our liberal democracy Dirtbagism delenda est www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

We don't handwring about what's in the heart of someone who firebombs an AME church or a mosque! We judge people by their deeds, we recognize evil when we look it in the eye, & we're not obligated to listen to bigots' rationalizations. I keep giving DSA a chance & they can't keep their house clean.

We need a fundamentally new approach on Israel, one that recognizes the dignity of both Palestinian and Jewish people. We need a reckoning.

Want to note that it's really good to see representation of South American and Venezuelan seismologists in something like this.

Rare anti-endorsement: DON'T eat at #Wingstop! They gave out coupons for some free wings for Teacher Appreciation Week, both for teachers and a few extra coupons for us to give to students as a reward for putting in extra effort.

pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Just a reminder that amphibian eggs can do just fine on land if the amphibian is a direct developer.

#TrilobiteTuesday Ampyx from the Ordovician of Asker, Norway. On display in the Geologisk Museum, Oslo.

With apologies to the Sec Pistols ....

If someone never gets to interact with a scientist...if their sole exposure to a topic is through an infographic...that graphic better be ACCURATE! And sure as God made little apples, I don't trust ANY machine to get it right.

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

four years of doctoriality now. thanks again to @realhuntley.bsky.social and my committee members for helping get me there.

Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x

Chesterton’s eruv.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

… a lil opossum munching away on my cliff bar in my pannier! 🤯😂 How did it get here?!

we’re all having a laugh about the algae, but this is the first time this administration has sequestered a single gram of carbon

I read this too quickly and at first thought that they were employing an army of wild hogs to eat the algae and you know what, they've tried everything else

Podcast Jay doesn’t hold a candle to Dr. Norton and that is just a fact. This man should not be speaking about health disparities, now or ever. He is an obedient figurehead for an administration that has done so much damage to disparities research that it will take decades to recover.

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Did the New York Times just BOTH SIDES Ken Paxton's sweetheart deal for a child sex predator. Yes, yes it did.

When people read about this era in 200 years they're going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real

So, some news: www.popsci.com/science/pbs-... We made a tv show! 🎉 #scicomm #paleontology

New in @science.org ...since our first discoveries of early tetrapods, they have been thought of as "amphibians" characterized by aquatic larvae. But is this true? For the first time, we report exceptional fossils of stem tetrapod babies that upend this paradigm. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And (vaguely after the Marianas, 1:1 scale again) an equivalent oceanic-oceanic subduction system. Temperature of the system is believed to be important for these, so a colder/older slab is assumed. Note that the slab-steepness in this system sends the slab to transition zone depths very rapidly.

My procrastination while thinking about subduction zones yields (1:1 scaled) results! The primary structural features of an ocean-continent subduction zone, from the trench through the arc and fold-thrust belt, to the foreland basin system and craton.

$14 million is anywhere from 7 to ~100 National Science Foundation grants in geosciences. At $2 million, a grant would support deployment of geophysical instruments + ~2 grad students + postdoc to work on it for 2-3 years. At $250,000 a grant would support a grad student or postdoc for 2-3 years.

The *actual* dead economy risk is that our institutions and markets will continue to move capital from productive activity into memestocks, vibes, and bubbles. 19/

By the same token: the real "dead economy" risk isn't that all the productive labor will be done by chatbots owned by a habitual liar and eminently guillotineable billionaire like Sam Altman. 18/

The true risk is: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that *can't* do your job, and then your boss will fire you and replace you with that inept, defective chatbot." 17/

But applying "dead economy theory" to the blithe acceptance of the claims of AI pitchmen is a terrible waste of a killer coinage. The true risk of AI to your job isn't: "an AI will do your job." 16/

Just another New York biologist who got to root for the Knicks last week and root for the algae this week. So much winning.

The art of the deal

Capitulation at Versailles (disambiguation)

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

Trump came to the brink of unleashing horrific destruction on Iran's civilian infrastructure simply because he was tired of being briefed on how we were losing every day, & once he was denied that he checked out even more. It is the most pathetic performance of any world leader in memory

The fundamental problem remains that Trump never wanted to fight a war with Iran at all. He was sold on airstrikes supporting a quick coup, i.e. Venezuela 2, & the moment it stopped being that he stopped caring except to the extent that he wanted to stop being obliged to care

This is the same text that was reported earlier. It's baaaad.

youre not going to believe this but the dumb assholes we put in charge have fucked everything up

was it Paddington?

every FOX News reporter today