We KNEW this would happen.

WOW

My 15yo son just told me I should learn to do back flips again so that I can "mobility mog" in the nursing home. 💀

OVERSIGHT HEARING - OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET 🧪 Tuesday 10 am June 30, 2026 appropriations.house.gov/schedule/hea...

Am watching Apex. Where are all the snakes and spiders? And what are people doing walking barefoot?

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.” Katharine Hepburn

Every year for the past four years (since I moved into this house), I've watched a tiger swallowtail butterfly fly through my backyard between 5-6pm DAILY in the month of June. There is no way that it's the same butterfly. Why does each generation follow the same schedule? Nature is amazing.

🧪The messages from the U.S. Administration on acetaminophen and leucovorin and autism are not supported by scientific evidence, but had huge impacts on health decisions. The lag from misinformation to questionable actions is very short. www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...

🧪 Deadline is 18 June

Delighted to share some good news 🧪 “This hugely encouraging news shows the life-saving impact of the HPV vaccine, and it’s incredibly exciting to be able to say to this whole generation: cervical cancer shouldn’t be a risk for you,” says Caroline Temmink www.newscientist.com/article/2530...

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.

Get this on your mind...Martha Stewart wound up in prison because of "one" stock trade. I wonder how much time she would have gotten for 3641 stock trades that the president has made. Based on "information" that he himself controls. Not only prior knowledge but prior intent.

The social compact of Bush's Endless Frontier brought us better health, standard of living, jobs, liberty, and security until Silicon Valley money & influence shifted the balance. Who actually broke the social compact: scientists or American capital & finance leaders? 🧪

Thank you, time line! #scicomm #impact @smithakp.bsky.social @squidfan.bsky.social

Looking forward to the day that we see science communication supported and facilitated like this in the US. #scicomm

My new summer breakfast or snack invention: Peanut butter toast with smashed berries, turmeric, cayenne pepper, and pepper. It really upped my peanut butter game.

Just watched Road House with Jake Gyllenhaal and 1) Conor MacGregor?!? Not bad bad guy stunting, 2) evil Phil Hartman is always the best bad cop, 3) now I need to watch the original.

The Germans have a word for this: "verschlimmbesserung." To make something worse by trying to make it better.

Also don’t invest in Space X… Per ig: @/your.richbff

Does anyone know about elephant body language (and their treatment in the US) who can comment on this situation?

This work has immediately valuable implications for isolated communities in the Western states.

Yet another bad framing of population issues. So, we only value the young & able-bodied because they keep our economy going. What ever will we do about the older people slowing down economic growth??? How about adopting different social values & economic structure? www.wweek.com/news/state/2...

These fuckers came for fountain pens with SEO-heavy AI slop. Now they're coming for birds, again with AI slop attributed to an author who doesn't exist? This is personal.

I have been working on this one for a while. It is a "Working Paper" because the available data is enough to get started, but insufficient to call it finished. But this is clear: claims by various politicians and press outlets that renewables cause grid instability are rubbish. 1/n 🔌💡

This is the kind of good news we need more of...

As the US prepares to auction off federal seabed plots, experts warn existing regulations are outdated and unfit. Revisions intended to streamline leasing may actually weaken environmental reviews and restrict public input for the deep-sea mining sector. @elizabethalberts.bsky.social reports.

I refuse to accept the idea that falling fertility rates is a bad thing. Our planet and all life on it will benefit from fewer people. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

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The only news you need today.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Watching Star City and having a hard time with all the Russians being British.

Is this love?

Hope has wings.

Tell me you don't understand the basic premise of debate by comparing it to whatever unhealthy thing it is that people do on the internet these days.

Since we're all adults here, when did people stop hearing constructive criticism and only the criticism part.

Dammit. This always happens in belt-tightening cycles. The specialists get the ax. It will impact reporting quality. Generalist reporters don't understand topical nuance and often frame or report incorrectly.

That TV producers include the moon landings as a debate worthy conspiracy for their pilot tells me a lot about their intentions... and it has nothing to do with real debunking or education.

I was just offered to be on a pilot TV show where people debate various "controversial" topics; they wanted me as an expert defending the reality of the moon landings. I turned them down flat. I will not elevate conspiracy bullshit into something debatable. Been down that road. It goes nowhere.

Anyone on a Signal chat about today's science destruction?

Read this if you care about science.

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.

There's enough recently laid off journalistic talent to staff and run 3-5 midsize to large news organizations.

Russell Vought is putting policy in place through the OMB that will be a killing blow to science in the US. The proposed changes will put previous damaging EOs into unquestionable practice across the government. Public comment deadline is July 13th. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day...

Ok. Should we ask?

Does anyone else look down on landscapes and think about how entirely we manage every inch of our territories? Oregon is a patchwork of farming and logging... so much is not just wild lands.

What if all cities built WITH beavers?