Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

just finished The Lost Cause by @doctorow.pluralistic.net and it's on my short list of climate fiction that I think people should read, books that actually imagine fully fleshed out ideas of how we can unfuck the planet.

I love my archaeology colleagues and I respect their caution when it comes to interpretation but sometimes I really, really wish they'd embrace parsimony just a titch more. 😅

Dream job alert!

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

A few years ago, I read an excellent article about how we addressed the hole in the ozone layer by a mixture of grassroots activism and letter-writing and corporate leadership by DuPont, and not just the Montreal Protocol. I can’t find it! Does that ring any bells?

This is shitty on a bunch of levels but friendly reminder we depend on Canada and vice versa to help fight fires. This kind of rhetoric isn't helping anything.

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention — no matter how much they go viral. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this? therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...

As an immunosuppressed person I’m so angry at everyone responsible for the CDC’s non-response to the Cyclospora outbreak. We have no guidelines, just news articles sharing long lists of foods to avoid because they’ve been associated with outbreaks in the past. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so stupid.

Reminder: we don't need the US military to guarantee safe passage of solar energy into our atmosphere. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

Social media is increasingly just people punching random strangers because they can’t reach the people actually hurting them. It’s like when an indoor cat sees a strange cat outside and displaces their aggression by attacking a sibling instead. All this does is tear at the social fabric, congrats.

This is what it’s like in Massachusetts, too. The air smells heavily of smoke. This never happened when I was growing up. Now it happens every summer. This doesn’t have to be our future.

“The tornadoes were canceled by the wildfire smoke” is a particularly apocalyptic phrase. I’m not home in Maine right now (where this was happening), but I’m feeling the climate crisis in my body today, as I grapple with a bad flare from the Ontario wildfires while at a conference outside of Boston.

Gus the T. rex fetched $50.1 million at auction, a new record price for a dinosaur If this is how much dinosaurs cost now, how can museums afford them? Where does that leave science & education? Will the public still have opportunities to be inspired? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Is this the future? Our biological knowledge locked up by rich people as trophies?

I dunno, y’all, I just really feel like we should go back to paying attention to omens from nature to let us know when we’re on the wrong track.

Submitted my comment this morning before packing up equipment with undergraduates from my small, rural college to spend the day on Vermont's tallest peak downloading microclimate data from sensors that we installed last summer as part of an NSF-funded project.

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

As this essay points out, people DO read, more WORDS than ever. But they are reading fewer and fewer difficult cognitive concepts. And I would argue they aren't reading all those words either. Consider this video I posted... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Faculty and students must stand together to oppose the corporatization and militarization or our campuses. If we don't, there will soon be nothing left to defend.

What’s a meal that haunts you because you can never have it again? Mine is mango rundown tofu, from Jamerica in Madison. I’ve tried unsuccessfully to recreate it form other recipes and nothing has ever come close. And if you search for it, you find tons of posts from other people who also miss it.

Okay, Maine, we’ve got this!

Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”

Can protecting government science help protect democracy? In a new essay, @gretchentg.bsky.social, @jbd-phd.bsky.social, and Joseph Reed of @ucs.org call for a stronger federal scientific integrity infrastructure built around three principles: transparency, independence, and authority.

Our Black Climate Justice Toastmasters monthly meeting is happening on July 8 at 6 p.m. ET! This is a space to strengthen public speaking skills, connect with others passionate about climate justice, and create impact from local communities to the global stage. https://bit.ly/bcjtoastmasters

Google Scholar is down and it feels like one of the lobes of my brain has been surgically removed. It's surprisingly anxiety inducing!

Science For The People magazine's latest call for paid articles/art etc. A great publication.

The NIH is an ENORMOUS bargain for the American people. Do folk think that private industry will do the background slog work for drug discovery for 250K direct costs?

This is such an important thread as we face a growing crisis in higher education. So many public universities are being taken over by people who treat them as a business and not a public good, and those are fundamentally different philosophies. And it’s destroying the road to upward mobility.

A while ago, I talked with the host of @marketplace.org’s climate podcast How We Survive about cloning woolly mammoths. They just aired a snippet of the show on Marketplace tonight (scroll to “Latest Episode;” the segment starts at 7:18): www.marketplace.org/shows/market...

The Administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a proposed rule that threatens to reshape scientific research. We encourage our AGU community to add their voice to the 900+ comments already submitted through AGU's Action Center. Submit by 13 July. 🔗 spklr.io/63327EOmNx

Threat?! This is what I’ve been training for!

I really appreciated this piece by @sammyroth.bsky.social on the disappearance of climate from the power broker discourse. It’s the kind of thoughtful, nuanced deep dive we should be seeing in journalism but is largely found in newsletters these days.

Watching the once-venerable @washingtonpost.com’s self destruction has been so incredibly sad. The opinion section is a corporate PR machine. I cancels my subscription in 2024. There’s no coming back from this. There’s nothing left to save.

Oh, and by the way, Trump is using $1.6 million from national park pass fees to pay for the fireworks. Because we can't afford to use that money to hire rangers or fix up the parks. We need it to pollute the air and water.

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Hey, Margaret Bates is a graduate student who's doing a study on romance book buying behaviors and would like your input, if you have a chance. forms.office.com/r/b6E8qJV8Tm

My book baby has arrived! 🤩 Not for the first time, my wonderful editors @yalebooks.bsky.social have delightfully surprised me: the colours on the jacket catch the light (I'm told it's called 'spot gloss')! It really is a thing of beauty. #books #booksky #histsci #queerhistory 🌈📚🗃️

In addition, it would be cool to hear less about Yale and for that matter Oberlin and more about the University of Iowa: an institution that once provided an amazing education/opened minds across a truly wide range of people, something that benefits society but is extremely threatening to the right

Why aren't big pharma CEO speaking out against Trump's changes to science funding? @dereklowe.bsky.social thinks they are scared -- and rightly so. www.science.org/content/blog...

I’m glad Rep. Kean was able to get treatment and not lose his job while seeking care. These are the rights we want for everyone, not just members of Congress.

As part of our NASA-funded work to understand why ferns were so successful in the aftermath of the impact that killed the dinosaurs (for centuries!) team lead @ebsessa.bsky.social's graduate student led a study of gametophytes, the tiny stage that ferns go through that you may not even know about.

You are definitely going to want to read this! Amy is an amazing investigative journalist and all-around badass. I can’t think of a better person to write the book we need for this moment.

Not only are these beautiful portraits, this is a lovely list of people to follow who work on climate change across the earth system, social sciences, policy, and journalism.

I chatted with Bethany Brookshire for this important story in Verge on the proposed OMB rules changes. It's not too late to make a public comment if you haven't already.