The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

It’s a source of constant shame for learned/professional societies, companies, and higher education institutions that they don’t offer a minimum/living wage to interns 💰 Here the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is rightly in the dock 👇🏾 Please read and sign ✍️ tinyurl.com/ras-letter

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. Solidarity today and everyday with trans and non-binary folk who claim space unapologetically. As governments turn trans visibility into a matter of “ideology,” we must refuse to see trans lives as a debate and instead nurture trans joy, safety, and belonging.

H. P. Lovecraft's racism was not extreme within his historical context. The amount of his racist writings that have been preserved and published is.

📰 6000-year-old #Neolithic trackway uncovered in Somerset, England, preserved under layers of peat. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the Okefenokee, the Rose Pogonia is a floral warning. Lore says its fleshy roots are young snakes "sleeping" in the peat. Dig one up & you’ve disturbed a nest; pick the bloom & the mother cottonmouth will track the scent to find you. 🐍🌸 #FolkloreThursday #Okefenokee #PlantLore

Peatlands are incredibly valuable for archaeologists, preserving organic materials that usually do not survive. However, this heritage is under threat from climate change, peat extraction and more. Action must be taken now to save the #archaeology 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

A Bronze Age ‘belt plate’ which was discovered in 1879 when cutting peat at Langstrup, near Asminderød in North Zealand. Now part of the collections at The National Museum of Denmark. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Denmark

Two of the journalists assassinated in South Lebanon this morning by Israel were Lebanese correspondents Ali Shoeib and Fatima Ftouni. They become the 252nd and 253rd journalists killed by Israel in the last two years. Unprecedented. (📸 Cradle Media)

In a never ending effort to improve my teaching material and find any excuse to share pictures of my cats, what do you think of the following analogy: my cats are stable isotopes! :-)

Today the RCN President, Bejoy Sebastian, spoke at the Together Alliance about his experience as a nurse, a migrant and a father. He called for unity, love and solidarity in a time of uncertainty. This is what leadership looks like 💙

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

It is a privilege to be an Earth Scientist - at any institution, anywhere in the world. And it is a privilege to work with these earth scientists and geographers here in Bristol.

I agree. This event has been meteorologically astonishing, and its impacts will be felt long after it ends in terms of record low snowpack, sharply increased wildfire risk, and extreme low watershed runoff/streamflow into summer and beyond.

Watch this extraordinary short video. 1) Here's a national leader with a coherent viewpoint & an ability to articulate it, who is 2) saying & doing the correct things in response to this crisis, & sticking to it in the face of 3) a more adversarial press than you'd *ever* see around Trump. Sigh.

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

If you follow me, you know I have a deep mistrust and distaste for any sort of league tables. But given how challenging these times are, I must take a brief moment to celebrate amazing colleagues at @bristoluni.bsky.social who contributed to top 20 global status in 4 earth and environmental areas.

Prominent climate researcher Kate Marvel is leaving NASA, citing US attacks on Science www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My resignation letter

If you follow me, you know I have a deep mistrust and distaste for any sort of league tables. But given how challenging these times are, I must take a brief moment to celebrate amazing colleagues at @bristoluni.bsky.social who contributed to top 20 global status in 4 earth and environmental areas.

One of the most striking things about this area is how the Battle of Orgreave has been totally erased from the park and housing estates which now occupy the site. Not a single sign or information panel. There should be a walking trail along the lines of the Bosworth Battlefield Trail.

You want to know about this app that turns normal words into LinkedIn speak. “I ate an apple.” translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=l...

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

The prescription to #fossilflation? Get off fossil fuels. "Reaching Net Zero by 2050 'cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis'"

AGU submitted a response to the NSF regarding the proposed restructuring of NCAR. For more than 60 years, NCAR has been a cornerstone of weather prediction, Earth system science and scientific training. We urge NSF to pursue transparent consultation and evidence-based reform. buff.ly/eDGI0Cw

Welcome that, finally, a new UK homes standard requires solar power & heat pumps. But - year's delay to 2028 means a further 150,000 homes will need retrofitting, at homeowners expense - allowing wood burning stoves will mean air pollution costing many lives www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Day 2 of the Iberian Cordillera Fieldtrip for our Palaeontology & Evolution students @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social we looked at exceptional preservation in Miocene lakes and Cretaceous deltas

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Such a slimy, nasty little guy

As a retired airline Captain I flew into LGA and NY airspace hundreds of times. It is some of the world’s busiest airspace. To have only one ATC in the tower at LGA is criminal negligance. Not only is the airspace crowded and chaotic, so are the ground operations. Sean Duffy’s FAA owns this 100%

"A new study out of Cornell Universit found workers most excited and impressed by corporate speak may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions, and it can leave companies with dysfunctional leaders."

If scientists don’t speak up LOUDLY misinformation will. Kennedy appointed 21 new members to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, who have tied the existence of autism to vaccines, despite scientific consensus that has disproved the link. We need this more than ever. 🧪 archive.today/KArjJ

We have lost an amazing legend. R.I.P. Sam Kieth. www.cbr.com/sam-kieth-th...

There is nothing the world needs less than more tech execs taking over journalism. Every example so far has shown us that that’s the stupidest, worst possible move for journalism and the public.

Higher energy costs + fertiliser shortage + climate change = food security disaster. www.npr.org/2026/03/20/n...

In a preprint, researchers from Princeton, Hong Kong U, & WRI find that the form of carbon removal called "bioenergy w carbon capture & storage," or BECCS, is "likely to produce higher emissions for decades than using natural gas without carbon capture." This is a Big Deal because the IPCC... 1/3

It’s the last week to see Emergency Exits at the Imperial War Museum, which explores decolonisation in Kenya, Cyprus and Malaya and which I was lucky enough to consult on as a part of a team of imperial historians. Go and see it if you can — it’s really great!

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

In rare cases I share not only #lichen but other 'morganic' species, like moss. This is a fairly unusual case: normally the setae grow more like grass, standing separately, but here the stalks of Ceratodon purpureus (aka Redshank, or Fire #Moss) form little plaits, intertwining with each other.

Feathery moss plumes for #MossyMonday 💚 #PNW #moss #nature

Two important -and worrying - new studies on the increase in tropical wildfires in peatlands. Authors include friends and collaborators on tropical peatlands at Exeter. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Got our poll cards for the May election. Guess we really are citizens now! 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

New York's governor is trying to undermine the 2019 climate law that the NY legislature passed with overwhelming support. Where the rubber meets the road: Accounting for methane, the main component of natural gas and a fast/potent climate pollutant. 🧵 with some background on methane.

Gad Saad is Elon Musk’s court philosopher, responsible for “theorizing” the “woke mind virus” and “suicidal empathy”. His “evolutionary thinking” is little more than the most vulgar and bigoted biological determinism gussied up as 21st just-so stories.

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

Monday - Send more troops Tuesday - Say we’re ending war Wednesday - Send more troops Thursday - Say ending war Friday - Send more troops Saturday - Golf Sunday - Golf

“served by a small group of charming, intense cooks and waiters, who perhaps one day will get to work alongside some women”. ⚡️