this matters!👇 "Trump Admin Orders Dismantling of U.S. Forest Service" I spent two amazing summers working for the Forest Service in Idaho's Selway-Bitterooot. The USFS is an amazing organization, managing our wildlands for multiple uses. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

THE place worth protecting.

An unfortunately predictable outcome.

the clock is ticking. lawmakers have a narrow window to reverse course and fully restore the Strait. If that doesn’t happen soon, Americans will start changing their summer travel plans- and they will NOT forget why when they head to the polls in November.

quite clearly, there is no plan, this speech was hollow on addressing real challenges with the Strait, leaving it to others, and there is no reason to expect the Strait will reopen anytime soon. no plan- no concern- this will likely start to push oil prices back up.

Another profile in memoriam. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/31/m...

Boston/Cambridge MA-area folks, please come out for our (@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & my) #ScienceUnderSiege conversation with @bostonglobe.com science writer @akuchment.bsky.social, THIS THURSDAY (4/2/26) at the @mit.edu Museum! You can register here: mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2026-0...

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

scientific and health suicide. completely tragic. destroying a generation or more of scientist and health researchers.

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

Paragon Machine Works is Closing up Shop - A Great Loss for People Who Make Bikes and People who love handmade and metal bikes 😭💔 www.pinkbike.com/news/paragon...

Endangered whales and sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico are protected by federal law. Trump’s “God Squad” could change that, experts say.

U.S. wildfires have burned over 127 percent more acreage so far in 2026 than the 10-year average, as drought, paltry Western snows and unseasonable heat prime the nation for a long wildfire season.

glad to hear Vermont's maple industry is doing OK! 🍁 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/25/s...

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.

Trump voted by mail in 2020, 2024, and again in 2026. Each time he condemned the practice publicly. This pattern reveals the truth: he wants voting access for himself while systematically dismantling it for ordinary citizens across America. #TrumpVotesByMail

🤣 do you really need "examine" the impact of $200 oil? I would be happy to bet it will be politically unpopular.

>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.

In 2018, I wrote that the battle between Donald Trump and Robert Mueller—both sons of privilege—was a battle for the country’s soul: “Mueller is the best of America; Trump the worst.” Now with Mueller dead and Trump in office again, we know who won. wapo.st/4uKNas2

The Associated Press getting on board. "The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy."

just a reminder to editors, please use accurate photos when describing extreme heat. do not use photos of kids frolicking in fountains.

I wrote a lot about Bob Mueller across a lot of chapters of his career. I wanted to share two @wired.com pieces that I wrote about his defining life experiences—both a picture of an era of public service all but lost today: 1) His brave *voluntary* service in Vietnam: www.wired.com/story/robert...

2) Bob Mueller’s deeply personal decades-long hunt for justice for the victims of Pan Am 103: www.wired.com/story/robert...

Windfall profit tax for Big Oil! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Honda is among the automakers being pulled in opposite directions by a decreasing emphasis on electric vehicles in the United States and a rapid shift to EVs in China.

Harerimana Ismail of Uganda is a community health worker who checks on kids with HIV. He lost his salary after the Trump administration's aid cuts but he keeps doing his job. n.pr/3PPoNJy

“…this careless chapter—driven by cruel and weak men and women who have failed their duty to the Constitution, morality and justice—is ended with honest public servants responding to the actual needs of the American people.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Seems like a bad economic indicator… Record Number of Student Loan Borrowers Are in Delinquency and Default www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...

Two things Bari Weiss, RFK Jr., and Jeff Bezos have in common. *They said that they going to fix declining trust in their institutions. *Then they gutted their workforce, making it less capable at meet core goals. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

New dark ages

More handbuilt bicycles in this world. A stunning new Chapman at the Philly Bike Expo! #bicycles bikepacking.com/bikes/bikes-...

Jet Stream Gone Wild! You’ll be hearing about a ton of extreme weather this week, from tornadoes to brutal heat to bitter cold! The reason is a highly amplified jet stream with max winds 200 mph+… you can see the really big north to south waves... 1/

the intermountain west is in for an epically terrible fire season. low snow pack and high heats beginning in March...🔥

What a race!!!

Operations is not the same as strategy

A large immigration detention camp in Texas has been closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak, a lawmaker said.

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

“The hospital couldn’t deny her care, but we understood the tightrope you walk when you don’t have money. All she could afford to be was grateful.” Jenisha Watts on the predicament of the millions of Americans without health insurance—including her aunt:

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

“.. an early sign of retail investors’ increasing unease with the asset class.” @financialtimes.com #$BX www.ft.com/content/7dad...

excellent article! "Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age" by @mikebaker.bsky.social &team. Sadly, intermountain west is region hardest hit by climate change. Wildfires & smoke are making this Billionaire paradise much less desirable & healthy. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science. It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...

Tremendous heat in South Texas today! 104° F - in February - makes this the Hottest temperature ever recorded in winter in the US!

Analysis of crash data shows that you're 17 times more likely to die in a vehicle fire if you buy Elon Musk's Tesla Cyber truck than if you had bought a Ford Pinto, the 1970s era car infamous for gas tank explosions in rear end collisions. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

A previously healthy man presented with a 5-day history of fever, nausea, and vomiting and a 2-day history of an itchy rash. Examination showed an exanthem consisting of minute macules and subtly elevated papules. Read the full case details: nej.md/4tSKIiB @i-med.ac.at #MedSky #DermSky

Great report highlighting actions that can be taken by state and local leaders now to drive progress on climate and affordability. These are also good investments from a risk-return perspective. Hoping state and local pensions and state economic development authorities are paying attention.

"Without Snow and Ice, Humanity Would Be Cooked" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...