The USA celebrates its 251st anniversary

Social Media Portrayals of Nitrous Oxide Normalize Use and Encourage Youth Exposure (just accepted in @jsadjournal.bsky.social) by R. Andrew Yockey, Bria Singleton, et al. @yockeyandrew.bsky.social @rachelhoopsick.bsky.social @news.illinois.edu @olemiss.bsky.social www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.1...

SC law bans recreational sales of nitrous oxide, or ‘whippets’ scdailygazette.com/2026/06/12/s... by @sky-latte.bsky.social

OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.'s meddling arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

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It's #WorldFoodSafetyDay Unsafe food causes around 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths annually. You can reduce your risk of illness, incl. by: ✅ Cooking meat all the way through ✅ Washing fruit and vegetable with safe water ✅ Keeping food at safe temperatures https://bit.ly/4vvECoi

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

Make America Read Again www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an “alarming” rate, investigation finds - The Associated Press

NIH has allocated just 33% of its normal budget this year, putting critical medical breakthroughs at risk. Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels and University of Kansas Chancellor Dr. Douglas Girod are calling on the government to release it before the damage becomes permanent. https://bit.ly/4f3GuzR

Here's my parenting tip: Stop making laws that hurt LGBTQ+ kids.

BREAKING: Two people were shot in an encounter with Secret Service near the White House, a law enforcement official says https://cnn.it/4tYHBEN

This MFer said “I don’t mind being called a brilliant total tyrant dictator”

Guys is it bad that the National Science Foundation has been offline since last night?

We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!

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More than half a million American teens are using inhalants. A doctor explains the dangers https://fascinating.news/r/FueApjmJ

This weekend's "Saturday Night Live" featured Will Ferrell with James Austin Johnson as President Trump in a sendup of "A Christmas Carol." Paul McCartney provides the music. Here's an episode recap.

The world’s largest lake is disappearing - Euronews apple.news/AhU43qGwMRBq...

Last month was statistically tied for the third warmest April on record globally (following 2024 (warmest) & 2025 (2nd)). The last 12 months are estimated to be about 1.42°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial level. Summary by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... 🌊🧪⚒️

Early-career researchers do more ‘disruptive’ science than veterans Older researchers are better at connecting existing ideas to produce new knowledge than are younger ones but they are worse at achieving breakthroughs that overhaul or disrupt entire fields 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Shine bright like a diamond, an icon once declared. Rihanna has finally made her show-stopping appearance at the 2026 Met Gala. Dripping in metallics from head to toe, the Bajan billionaire came dressed to impress. https://wapo.st/3Rkk9nD

Black women took the biggest hit: They lost 95,371 federal government jobs in 2025, about a third of the total contraction. buff.ly/hrAvS5g

trump and republicans making america great again by... cutting cancer research: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Breaking News: President Trump ordered U.S. agencies to loosen restrictions on psychedelic drugs, in a move aimed at accelerating research.

We’re hiring! The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in pain research to join the Department of Neurobiology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research—an outstanding and highly collaborative community. Please share. More here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

This #WorldHealthDay, here's a simple reminder: stay curious, and follow evidence-based health information. Join the global conversation with #StandWithScience. Today's daily dose.

This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.

A medical-cannabis advocate holds a sign at a protest outside of the Mississippi Capitol Building in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 30, 2026. The protests came in response to Gov. Tate Reeves vetoing two medical-cannabis bills.

Did you know that people with IDD are the most medically underserved population? Renee Manfredi, a health messenger with the Special Olympics, highlights the importance of respectful, inclusive health care for people with IDD as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month concludes.

In an expletive-laced post, Trump threatened to strike power plants and bridges in Iran on Tuesday if the country does not strike a deal, including reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Donald Trump did that.

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

This is remarkable. Why in the world would anyone create and post something like this? It’s appalling that Mr. Bone Saw is coming to the White House in the first place.

War crimes alert: today, the White House said opening the Strait isn't a core objective while Trump himself threatened to destroy "Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells ... and possibly all desalinization plants!" if it's not opened. The US isn't even pretending there's a military purpose to that.

No ICE. No war. No Kings. #nokings

Stand Up for Science is excited to announce Kierra Johnson, President of the National LGBTQ+ Task Force as a speaker at the Official No Kings 3 Virtual & Accessible Rally, on Saturday March 28th, 12:30 - 2:00pm.  Sign up here: tr.ee/nk3ar #NK3AR #NoKings #NoKings3 #Accessible #Virtual

Calls to poison centers in the United States about the widely available herb kratom increased more than 1,200% between 2015 and 2025, new research has found. https://cnn.it/4sGuOHl

But it won't! He'll be back playing golf with his buddies at Stanford before you know it, while the economists and other academics will be falling all over themselves to work with him. Proximity to power is simply too intoxicating for most of "us".

Judge ruled RFK Jr. overstepped when saying gender-affirming treatments are unsafe. NY AG Letitia James: Healthcare services for transgender young people remain legal & the federal government can't intimidate or punish providers who offer them. 🏳️‍⚧️ #GoodNews #ImpeachRFKJr zurl.co/0KBHm zurl.co/OG05H

The president who fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers is nonetheless spending far more every day than his predecessors. www.pbump.net/o/trump-like...

Global surface air temperature anomalies have reached lowest value in several years, as weak La Nina conditions (following 2023-2024 El Nino event) begin now to dissipate. It will be interesting to see what happens if the forecast El Nino takes hold later this year. pulse.climate.copernicus.eu