Join @nswa.bsky.social tomorrow (May 19) for a book talk with author Drew Harvell nwscience.org/news/oceans-...

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Amaze your mom, grandma, sister... pre-order this book. You will gift her crawling along in Borneo, sliding in the arctic, and reaching for a distant moon on a faraway planet. #science (plus @robertakwok.bsky.social is a great writer) #mothersday 🧪

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

After the 988 national suicide prevention hotline rolled out in 2022, the rate of suicides among young people in the U.S. dropped 11% below projections over two and a half years, a new study found. Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the crisis line.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Thank you @jamesian.bsky.social for recommending “Adults in the room,” a podcast by a team at @kuow.org. It’s reminiscent of high school in the 90s when “sexual harassment” was a joke. I hope things have shifted toward protecting children and youth since then, but it’s still an open question

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Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress.

After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.

Unexplained ocean pollution off Papua New Guinea's New Ireland is killing fish and causing skin burns in people. www.thexylom.com/post/papua-n...

Holy shit, we got 97 submissions from 15 countries for Audio Flux Circuit 07! 97 climate stories inspired by the theme "Trash or Treasure" and incoprorating 97 different found objects. Behold! We'll share our twelve finalists soon enough. In the meantime let your ears' imagination run wild ⬇️

What a fantastic start to our @nswa.bsky.social tour of some of the fascinating science at @oregonstate.edu! Innovative wood products, fire science and a campus food-science lab and brewery

#Artemis crew to Mission Control, after seeing and attempting to describe the eclipse: "And if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary tomorrow, that'll help my vocabulary out a bit. Thank you."

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

A new review of Jan Baedke’s #OpenAccess Cambridge Element The Organism (@universitypress.cambridge.org), by Matthew Sims (@philosobio.bsky.social), has been published in @thebjps.bsky.social Review of Books! Check it out! 👇📕 www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #HPBio #philsky #HPS #evosky #booksky

Wang makes her best point, which was made in one of the briefs: Babies of Japanese citizens born while their parents were INTERRED during world war 2 were [wait for it] US citizens. That history ALONE should be dispositive.

Yes it reads like I'm being asked to give a deposition by an attorney representing the local owl community, but it's actually just an email from a fact-checker inquiring about what will be a very fun forthcoming news story that I'll share when published.

Our own PNW star, @ferrisjabr.bsky.social of Oregon wins Rachel Carson award. @sejorg.bsky.social #scicomm #sciwri

Static electricity has puzzled researchers for centuries. Nature reports on the experiments that are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours. (Just don’t shuffle your feet on the carpet while reading this) ⚛️ 🧪

It's really difficult to properly express how nuts this is. Meta's 2.2 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel plant was already world-leading bad. Now they're adding 5.2 EXTRA gigawatts on top. So SEVEN NEW FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS for one data centre. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Orca at rubbing beach.

@ecology.wa.gov found that South Seattle is “highly impacted by air pollution” and linked 57 deaths a year there to high levels of fine particulates. “We estimated the 57 deaths would not have occurred if pollution levels were at baseline”--study author Kirsten Dodroe. www.kuow.org/stories/seat...

Mongabay x Bellingcat collab, No. 1 news.mongabay.com/2026/03/face... @mongabay.com @bellingcat.com

This is one of the most important issues with the global food system, yet it is often ignored. Put simply, we don't actually grow much *food* in our farms around the world. Instead, we grow grossly inefficient animal feed and biofuels. drawdown.org/news/only-ha...

This evening we were lucky enough to meet one of the newest members of the regional Bigg's killer whale population, calf T49A7 that was first seen earlier this month. You can see them here surrounded by the other orcas in the T49A matriline 😍 #orcas #whalesky #salishsea #wssjis

Amid the historic and ongoing record heatwave (which will continue for at least another week in this region), Colorado River Basin snowpack has unfortunately taken an unprecedented March nosedive. Given the pre-existing water crisis, this is a highly alarming trajectory.

Seriously. Can I sue? This is taxpayer suicide for our planet. These leases were signed.

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

We got a DM the other day with a fun request from a local family: Could we find this nice BART train operator who always waved and beeped at this special little rider? And if we found him, could we deliver him a thank you card!?  So we got to work …

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids." That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

A mishap in the lab led to a cool discovery

"Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem

It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH youtu.be/jomaMvItnew?...

Celebrate the positive when it comes along: Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papu www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪

Federal officials now project that Lake Powell will "most probably" drop below power pool level — meaning Glen Canyon Dam will no longer be able to generate hydropower — before the end of this year: www.landdesk.org/p/the-colora... via @landdesk.bsky.social

#AAASmtg in Phoenix was such a treat--talks on primates communicating with gestures; water scarcity in the US; building trustworthy, sturdy data infrastructure; the promises and peril of AI; and so much more. Lots to think about on the way home! And I met so many interesting and kind people.

“The greatest astronomical movie of all time”. — Robert Blum Vera C. Observatory, NSF NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ An image of the sky every 40 seconds for 10 years. They capture the whole sky every 3 nights. #AAASmtg

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Please pass the word... we are hiring 3 different positions in our Swinomish Department of Environmental Protection: - Environmental Science Communicator/Outreach Specialist Also, Water Quality Analyst & Vegetation Specialist www.swinomish-nsn.gov/jobs #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🧪🍎⚒️

Thanks to sponsors of our nonprofit @nswa.bsky.social #science #facts Including: @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social @geekwire.com @oregonstate.edu @outrider.org @alleninstitute.org @kavlifoundation.org Parse Biosciences, Kuwana Consulting, Message Lab + @seattlechildrens.org

Alzheimer’s drug developers accuse clinical trial sites of faking data | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

📣 Job Opportunity | Reintroduction Planning Manager This position will support a new 3-year grant focused on tribal-led sea otter reintroduction planning in Oregon. 🗓 Apply by: January 26, 2026 🔗 Full job description & application: www.elakhaalliance.org/employment/ #NowHiring #OceanJobs #Oregon

Permafrost (frozen ground) is the backbone of northern ecosystems. Watch this field video for a visual demonstration of what happens when we lose that permafrost to thaw.