a thing I just remembered for the first time in years: when I was fresh out of grad school in 2009/2010 and desperately searching for a job in the recession, I was lying in bed one night unable to sleep because of it and came up with an idea so great I woke my wife up from laughing about it too much

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U.S. Park Police killed someone today in a high-speed chase near Woodley Park. DC leaders prohibited these chases — but last year, Congress overturned DC’s law as part of this regime’s psychotic desire to hunt people. DC leaders know what DC communities need. When Congress interferes, people die.

can't imagine why such a compelling voice of unity lost their DC council race 76–15

Kenyan McDuffie has conceded to Janeese Lewis George in the D.C. Democratic mayoral primary

the neighborhood parents who bike group chat is HYPED about the first round of dc election results from last night

It’s funny because when kids ride dirt bikes in the city it’s taken as proof we need a totalitarian police state.

Genuinely baffled here, why does it say /pi squared?

The predictive text bots have their first folk hero.

George spent 3 months trying to make better pykrete—an ice composite made from water and wood pulp—and for some reason @acs.org let us push blocks of it off the roof of their DC HQ. 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt4y...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Urban rewilding!

I know we're just here for the 30-50 feral hogs jokes, but I'm way too annoyed by the mirror just adding in the word "mutant" for funsies to describe animals that do not appear to be mutants at all

Sage leaf

After 5 years my coffee plants are flowering for the first time. Hoping to harvest 3 coffee beans soon.

testing pykrete (ice + sawdust) with a pellet gun and it's nearly unbreakable, so what role does hydrogen bonding play in this composite? Turns out, basically none. 🧪

Keg runs are a key e-bike use case

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 🧪