We want to highlight the incredible science reporting being done at the local and regional level. Please submit your work for the Victor McElheny Award, which comes with a $10,000 prize. ksj.mit.edu/mcelheny-awa...

Reason #34792 why you should never have heroes mariakonnikova.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...

From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047... I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.

"All told, the [Trump] administration is evaluating the potential for mining exploration or commercialization across more than 104.5 million acres, a combined area comparable to the entire state of California." grist.org/global-indig...

I have finally achieved my dream of buying a NAS

You've gotta hand it to Bari Weiss -- she's got people excited about watching 60 Minutes again

The banned S ! XtyM1nut3s segment is proliferating across the non-US web and I love that for them.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

WWIII is going to be spicy First all the drones, www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/... now this: Japan trials 100-kilowatt laser weapon — it can cut through metal and drones mid-flight www.livescience.com/technology/e...

"Next year will begin to reveal if the rules that rise from Trump’s regulatory demolition in 2025 survive judicial review." www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

This is _fascinating_ "readers who arrive via chatbots ... spend significantly more time with our articles than those coming from other platforms. They appear to be checking the source, reading closely, and staying." news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-...

"As robotic weapons become increasingly autonomous, calls have arisen to ensure human operators maintain control at all times." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A huge cache of critical minerals found in Utah may be the largest in the US grist.org/energy/utah-...

“The results reinforce the idea that pre-Columbian management practices left a lasting ecological legacy, capable of sustaining greater biomass even under the most severe droughts of the century,” Peripato said. eos.org/articles/how...

US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s “pro-petroleum” moves arstechnica.com/science/2025...

"Marsican brown bears have been isolated from other European brown bears since the Roman era, cut off by expanding farms and cities. Over centuries they became smaller and less aggressive than other brown bears" e360.yale.edu/digest/itali...

"The Trump administration’s assault on climate action has been far from symbolic." grist.org/internationa...

"Nova Scotia could be a future offshore wind hot spot, as New England looks to its Canadian neighbor for an energy source that the Trump administration is quashing in the U.S." www.eenews.net/articles/new...

The Man Who Broke Offshore Wind www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Offshore Wind Farm in China Becomes a Haven for Oysters, Barnacles, and More, Study Finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/offs...

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

At least we have the foreign press to tell us how it is

What I think a lot of people don't quite understand is that a lot of what has passed for "the media" for the past 15 or so years has just been outlets recycling the content of a dwindling group of reporters doing actual, original, on-the-ground journalism

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Today's mood: Antimatter - Silent Planet www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiEn...

Today's mood: Standing Stones - Jeremy Soule www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIby...

Today's mood, this absolute masterpiece by Russel Brower Totems of the Grizzlemaw - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King www.youtube.com/watch?v=miqU...

If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now

It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

TEN THOUSAND fewer attendees. Wow. ⚒️ #AGU25

Today's mood: Seraph - fromjoy (ft. iRis.exe www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbpv...

Today's mood: Pamplemousse - Poison the Well www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH--...

What if we just rebranded vaccines as "critical security updates"

It should be illegal for Slack commercials to use the slack notification sound

Today's mood: Slow Emotions - Greyscale Season www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxnC...

This is me asking you to give @biographic.bsky.social money please and thank you link.calacademy.org/nl3/R5n6P9Vk...

"In a rapidly changing world, predators adapting to new kinds of prey is, in many ways, a sign of adaptability and resilience. But unfortunately for Pleasant Island’s wolf population, something dangerous was lurking in their new otter-heavy diet." www.biographic.com/mercury-risi...

Loved writing this story for @biographic.bsky.social 🐺 There’s everything you would find in a mystery novel: a suspicious death, an investigation, and a final unexpected twist. www.biographic.com/mercury-risi...

Today's mood: Breakaway - The Blood of Heroes ohmresistance.bandcamp.com/track/breaka...

We're hiring for a nine-month contract covering federal politics! Posting coming soon, but don't hesitate to reach out if you're interested — jimmy at nationalobserver dotcom

This story is one of a growing number illustrating that while people-wildlife conflict might be inevitable, the outcome isn’t. www.biographic.com/to-catch-a-k...

The US never ratified the treaty, but until this year, has treated UNCLOS as customary law. If other major powers follow the US's lead and declare UNCLOS irrelevant (or worse, start pulling out of the treaty), the amount of global destabilization that will result is unfathomable.

I don't think even the wonkiest high seas policy wonks I work with are ready to grasp the absolute global chaos that will be unleashed if major powers start deciding that they no longer need to defer to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Many birds share a common vocabulary for predators. Research shows that various songbirds—and even red squirrels—produce recognizable “seet” calls to warn of a raptor in flight. The calls are too high-pitched for raptors to hear well. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Today's mood: War on Error - Rotersand www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUD7...

Thank you so much!