If you're mid-career or senior in something related to marine biology or ocean conservation and would want to join us for a day of shark research in Miami in exchange for talking about your career path to my students, let's chat!

A cyclist was killed yesterday a few blocks from my house. Bike lanes are a culture war thing now that cuts across parties. The Trump-Bowser side of that war removes bike lanes even if it doesn't create parking or improve traffic. They think no one should bike, cyclists getting hurt is the goal.

going out of our way to make life worse for everyone

The American Chemical Society @acs.org started a really funny and charming Planet-Money-ish youtube channel and I want more people to know about it. youtu.be/PccOwGEbtQU?...

Post a banger not in English.

the scientist who invented self-assembling disco ball liquid marbles sent us some of the materials to play with 🧪

Every once in a while YouTube gives you a backhanded compliment like "good job, loser, this video has more than your normal zero views"

the scientist who invented self-assembling disco ball liquid marbles sent us some of the materials to play with 🧪

Going to be dangerously cold again in DC this weekend. If you see someone in need of assistance call the shelter hotline to have folks transported to a shelter bed or warming center at 202-399-7093 or 311 for transportation to a shelter bed or warming center.

oh cool we could have a second DC airport that no local says the official name for

“New groundbreaking research - the largest dataset ever conducted on shared book reading - reaffirms that Dolly Parton's Imagination Library significantly strengthens early literacy skills for children across the five countries, reinforcing the power of shared reading in the earliest years of life.”

These are our friends, our neighbors. We can continue to give these folks food and tents, but these are really only temporary measures to hold back the effects of state violence against the unhoused. These deaths are always avoidable and, arguably, intentional. May they rest in peace 🖤

4 people froze to death in DC because we turned our collective backs on them. Absolutely shameful. www.wusa9.com/article/weat...

when I was in Galapagos in 2016 I found the best empanadas I've ever had being sold on the street out of someone's kitchen window. I added them to google maps and now they have hundreds of reviews and have expanded to a full blown restaurant, still right outside their kitchen window.

Two chem profs decided to check George's work after our Mexican Coke video, so we went to see what they'd found. In the process we accidentally discovered Coke's doing something totally new and hasn't told anyone. Naturally the next step was to break into NPR and talk with @planetmoney.bsky.social 🧪

Two chem profs decided to check George's work after our Mexican Coke video, so we went to see what they'd found. In the process we accidentally discovered Coke's doing something totally new and hasn't told anyone. Naturally the next step was to break into NPR and talk with @planetmoney.bsky.social 🧪

A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

My neighbor cleared the sidewalks, cleared the alley, dug several people in/out of parking spots, parks his truck in another neighbor's driveway so it stays clean for her, and is now out joyriding his ATV while smoking a big cigar. You earned it, dude, let it rip.

Statement from the Minnesota Timberwolves team chaplain with alt text (ht @gregolear.bsky.social)

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Heads up: The National Guard will patrol Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park 24/7 "for the foreseeable future," per an email from the superintendent of Rock Creek Park. The request came from U.S. Park Police, which traditionally patrols the park, due to "high levels of incidents."

sine waves

start scrolling this list and see how long it takes you to get through it

the fact that google is offering AI summaries of everything except YT videos really shows that they know how destructive this whole thing is

One of our neighbors has put this sign up repeatedly in their own yard and ICE keeps coming by and stealing it

BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

The gamerculturification of the American right has made it so that a federal agent can kill a queer woman while calling her a fucking bitch and antisocial, angry streamers and politicians will unanimously agree she deserved to die because of pronouns and nose rings and being a woman.

There appears to be a large fire at ~8th & Upshur NW, can't tell what's burning, but there's a huge emergency response. Lost track of the number of fire trucks.

This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

the "stand in front of the fleeing person's car so you can use deadly force" trick should have been banned decades ago, but sneaking around to the front of the car where they can't see you while another officer distracts them by trying to tear their door open is next level depraved murder

The victim of today's ICE shooting in Minneapolis has been identified by her mother as Renee Nicole Good, 37. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.

The Leftovers has been totally memory holed, but it was a fantastic show that got better with each season, has the best finale I've ever seen, and was weirdly prescient about the way people would respond to a quasi-apocalyptic event like COVID (or 2% of the world's population suddenly disappearing)

if I hire an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he instead presents me with a list of reasons he is incapable of doing so while asking for more money so that he can maybe handle it later, I am not angrier at the roaches, I am in the market for a better exterminator

seriously, read Gangsters of Capitalism by @katz.theracket.news

"The next challenge is setting the country up for long term success" Should be a piece of cake, they'll welcome us as liberators.

ChemThug tried to make citric acid at home and immediately regretted it. 🧪

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

I’ve been really liking @acs.org’s youtube channel lately. It’s cool to see chemistry content on the platform that’s more serious than Nile Red, etc, but still entertaining to normal people. youtube.com/shorts/DW5Ur...

important PSA I doodled maybe 10 years ago

oddly satisfying slightly out of phase sine wave animation I made a few years ago

mixing two solids together can make a liquid without any heat or chemical reactions. It's the same basic thing happening when you salt a sidewalk to melt ice, or mix water and antifreeze in a car's radiator. Our latest Reactions short for @acs.org and PBS Digital Studios. 🧪

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

Now at every ad break in a WaPo story there's a "Dive deeper" button you can click to get more information about the story that an ai predicts is relevant. Or, hypothetically, you could continue reading the article to get more information that the author of the article thought was relevant.

Galapagos sea turtle (I think Chelonia mydas?) taking a breath off the coast of Isla Isabela. This is on Islote Las Tintoreras, right outside what must be the most spectacular "ferry terminal" in the world.

On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four. I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation. 🧵

I definitely lose hope on a regular basis. Sometimes I even regret knowing anything about climate change! But then I look at my son and his friends, their budding lives, and I go on limping along lol

Dear After Effects, Don't ever switch to the properties panel for any reason. Please burn it and bury its ashes deep underground where I will never see them again. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential