I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

shocked to learn that public transit is publicly funded why did no one tell me this what's next taxpayers on the hook for public roads?

My in-laws live in an Osaka/Kobe exurb that was growing quickly in the 80s/90s but now is ~50% over 65 y.o. The children have all long since graduated from college and moved to big cities. We walk around with our toddler and the whole neighborhood melts.

Eating at a nice restaurant in Kobe and as the lunch rush winds down the head chef comes out from behind the counter to twist up a balloon sword for our toddler. This is considered normal because Kobe is a strange and magical place.

I'm on Tiny Matters by the American Chemical Society talking about Deep-sea mining, Environmental uncertainty, ‘Law of the Sea,’ and shark potatoes:

Learned about some research yesterday that involved a grad student spending 3 years measuring aphid anuses. Isn't science amazing?

Worth staying overnight at Miyajima just to get this shot

COLD ALERT ACTIVATED! It’ll hit possibly freezing temps tonight in DC. There are extra hypothermia shelter beds available! With someone’s consent, you can call the shelter hotline to have them transported to an open shelter bed — 202-399-7093

It's a beautiful afternoon to be waiting for my wife to get home to let me back into our house after I accidentally locked myself into the porch roof while cleaning gutters

The NYC subway with a 1 year old in a backpack is the kindest, friendliest place I've ever been.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

Sometimes science communication means throwing chunks of ice off an 8 story building 4 blocks from the White House

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

you know if the US just switched to the metric system right now gas prices would drop from $4 to like $1.

This resident of D.C., who has no voting representation in Congress, would appreciate it if you did this.

When Banff installed wildlife crossings over the freeways, roadkill went down by over 97%. That also means a lot of human injuries and deaths prevented.

when opinions are held as sacrosanct, and something that happens to be true-to-me is respected as though it is or could be the whole of truth itself, charlatans become experts

"Next Stop Judkins Park" #DOOMLOOP #SpecialReport #seattle @soseaemerald.bsky.social

BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A

the teriyaki chicken and gyoza combo that you can get on any block in Seattle but is nowhere to be found on the east coast

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.

My first ever attempt at making pitas worked out pretty well

How do I unsubscribe a second time?

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...

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