The Trump administration is downsizing US science by historic margins — but it's not just via funding or workforce cuts. Our new @nature.com analysis reveals the government has cut more than 100 scientific advisory panels across major agencies. w/ @alexwitze.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social

You think AI will make life easier? Tell that to folks in Vineland, N.J., who live near a massive new data center serving Microsoft that emits a loud annoying hum, sometimes at 2 am With dozens of data centers in the works, your hometown could be next. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/data...

This is so cool. Ten sperm whales assisted as a mother-to-be gave birth. @catrineinhorn.bsky.social reports for NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c...

Journalist and biographer @vermontgmg.bsky.social remembers Robert Mueller. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rememberin...

My new hero: Ryan Clark. The ex-NFL safety laid out the Trump White House for using a clip from his playing days as part of its ludicrous pro-Iran War propaganda video. PLEASE watch Clark's entire analysis of the obscenity that is the Bozo Fascist Regime. Brilliant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9i...

ICYMI: James Talarico interview airing on YouTube after #CBS tells #StephenColbert that he can't host #Talarico on the broadcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

"The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president’s company." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

NYT dissects, frame by frame, the shooting of Alex Pretti. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

WaPo: A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

A former Marine contemplates the intent, and effect, of broadcasting and consuming gleeful violence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted IG community_clothing and campaignforwool

Why are Penn Station platforms so narrow, and why can't the station be (easily) fixed? www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi...

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship www.wsj.com/world/americ... via @wsj.com

In a first, astronomers watched a rogue planet in the Milky Way consume six billion tons of gas and dust per second, a rate never before seen. @eniiler.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/spac... via @wsj.com

How many meaningful social relationships can a human brain handle? One scientist has an answer. @aylinwoodward.bsky.social reports for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/science/soci... via @wsj.com

A trio of professors in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. @aylinwoodward.bsky.social reports for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/science/nobe... via @wsj.com

How many meaningful social relationships can a human brain handle? One scientist has an answer. www.wsj.com/science/soci... via @WSJ

Daniel Day-Lewis, pulled out of retirement by his son, finds his acting fire still burns apnews.com/article/dani... via @apnews.com

The Trump administration is considering delaying the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Doctors warn a delay would lead to more childhood cases and, ultimately, deaths. @sumathireddy.bsky.social ready reports for @wsj.com www.wsj.com/health/welln...

No one could resist that smile, neither man, woman, child, nor chimp. :) She didn't have an undergraduate degree. She wassimply admitted for graduate study at Cambridge University where she received her doctorate in 1966. Gift link!

Jane Goodall, the English primatologist and anthropologist who was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at age 91 www.wsj.com/science/jane... via @wsj.com

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Scientists have solved the puzzling origin story of the modern spud: “We revealed that tomato is the mother of potato.” @aylinwoodward.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/pota... via @wsj.com

Is there a lesson here? Researchers applied modern-day tools of epidemiology to trace how the spread of false rumors provoked the “Great Fear” of the French Revolution. @eniiler.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/fren... via @wsj.com

When the WSJ’s Sharon Weinberger was diagnosed with a one-in-a-million cancer, she learned how hard it is to find treatment and support for a rare disease—and discovered reasons for hope. www.wsj.com/health/what-... via @WSJ

How tall is your running shoe? Thick foams and stiff plates confer a biomechanical advantage—but as sneakers grow higher, are there implications for our running experience? @aylinwoodward.bsky.social reports for #WSJFOR www.wsj.com/tech/running... via @WSJ

Science Shorts: NASA announced it has found potential evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. Is it another false alarm? @eniiler.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/spac... via @wsj.com

Squirrels developed a surprising (and human-like) trait over millions of years that is a key to their abundance. @nidhisubs.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/rode... via @wsj.com

News 🚨: The much-anticipated autism report from RFK Jr.'s HHS will point to Tylenol during pregnancy, folate deficiency, among other possible causes of autism. With @nidhisubs.bsky.social Link👇 www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Exclusive: RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies. @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social and @nidhisubs.bsky.social report www.wsj.com/health/healt... via @WSJ

Ancient teeth unearthed in eastern Africa reveal a new species of human ancestor. @aylinwoodward.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts @https://www.wsj.com/science/human-ancestor-ancient-teeth-discovery-7064b4f3?st=utDtXV via @wsj.com

Engineers are designing a new generation of space habitats meant to make life easier for astronauts and appealing to space tourists @eniiler.bsky.social reports for #WSJFOE www.wsj.com/tech/space-h... via @WSJ

Georgia Tech has a strategy for wooing corporate partners. Other universities want in. @nidhisubs.bsky.social reports for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... via @wsj.com

Universities facing budget shortfalls after federal cuts to science research are looking to Georgia Tech for advice. The school gets nearly 15% of its campus research funds from industry. @nidhisubs.bsky.social reports for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... via @wsj.com

For the first time scientists have isolated the microbes that help give chocolate its great taste. @NidhiSubs reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/choc... via @WSJ

The odds didn’t look good when Gwen Orilio was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer. Ten years later, she’s still alive—and part of a new era of cancer treatment. www.wsj.com/health/termi... via @WSJ

AI is filling in missing portions of ancient Latin texts. The inscriptions offer rare insights into the conquests, ambitions and business accounts of citizens of the Roman Empire. @nidhisubs.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/tech/ai/aene... via @wsj.com

Evidence suggests early humans used primitive sunscreen and wore tailored clothing—possibly contributing to their survival as Neanderthals went extinct @aylinwoodward.bsky.social reports for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/science/nean... via @wsj.com

Why you should care about the integrity of Bureau of Labor Statistics data: It does more than capture monthly job growth and inflation pressures. It plays a crucial role in Americans’ financial lives www.wsj.com/personal-fin... via @wsj.com

The Trump administration is blocking funding for public health programs run by the CDC, the latest push by the White House to withhold money already approved by Congress @nidhisubs.bsky.social and @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social‬ report for @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

A newly identified fossil—mislabeled for decades—is providing insights into how T. rex and other tyrannosaurs diversified and spread across the globe @aylinwoodward.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/biol... via @wsj.com

Scientists detected the largest-known black hole merger, resulting in a black hole 225 times the mass of the sun @eniiler.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/viol... via @wsj.com

Harvard University’s odds to win its Boston court battle look favorable—but the larger war is up in the air.

For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump. Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo report for #WSJInvestigations. www.wsj.com/politics/tru... via @WSJ

ICYMI: Archaeologists have unearthed a woman-dominated Neolithic Dawenkou culture in what is considered the birthplace of Chinese civilization. Liyan Qi reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/arch... via @wsj.com

Citizen scientists alerted researchers to a rare exploding star. Pop open the link to see the image and learn about the project. (You can participate, too.) @eniiler.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/spac... via @wsj.com

Why is it so hard to link floods, heatwaves and other extreme weather events to climate change? @eniiler.bsky.social and @daltonian.bsky.social report for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/science/envi... via @wsj.com

Is climate change making floods worse? New science tackles the tricky link between global warming and extreme rain. @eniiler.bsky.social and @daltonian.bsky.social report for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/science/envi... via @wsj.com