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Atmospheric CO2: Feb. 11, 2025 = 426.62 ppm 29% increase in the past 37 years, 330 ppm in 1989.
#Anti-Science
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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Andrej Spiridonov
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Dendrochronology and paleoclimatology of the Stradivari's violins: "...the majority of soundboards were crafted from Norway spruce (Picea abies) that grew at very high elevations during the severe climatic conditions of the Maunder Minimum" 🧪 ⚒️
#Paleobio
#Geology
#Climate
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It's ME(Jaime)
13 days ago
Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important. A thread 🧵
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Great maps and explanation of this Winter's weather by
@bennollweather.bsky.social
writing for
@washingtonpost.com
. My gas bill has been high. Gift 🎁 article.
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ProPublica
3 months ago
The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories. So we made that list for you 👇
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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drugs-banned-foreign-factories-list?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1764608108&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Bob Mondello's movie review of young musicologists spending a summer in the Maine woods a century ago morphed into a personal story about the discovery of long recording of his father's voice as a young man, after losing a short voice mail, is the BEST I've heard on NPR-ATC in many years Thank you.
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Seth Abramson
21 days ago
I agree. Working on a new report on this right now. What happened in Atlanta today is significantly worse than it even appears on the surface. I daresay I no longer hold out much hope that this fall will be anything but utter—and scary—chaos. A free and fair election increasingly feels unthinkable.
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#PowerOutage
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Massive Winter Storm approaching this weekend. Gift article.
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These 12 cities will be hit hardest by the massive winter storm
A devastating swath of ice will hit dozens of cities in a stretch from northern Texas to southern Virginia, with the likelihood of long-lasting power outages.
https://wapo.st/4k4iJs0
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Coming soon, Grizzy and Bonnie host a haiku workshop for beginners. Gift 🎁 article
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...
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WIRED
about 1 month ago
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by an ICE agent, witnessed on a cell phone video, January 7, 2026 in Minneapolis. Rest in peace.
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Nanda Dev This story had a lot: High Himalayas, attempted Cold War spying on Chinese Lop Nur weapons test site, alpinists, bad weather, a nuclear powered generator, the Ganges watershed. Gift 🎁 article
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Gift Article 🎁 Antarctic research voyage: Thwaites glacier
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/c...
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Bound for Antarctica: A Voyage to Earth’s End Is Underway
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/climate/voyage-to-antarctica.html?unlocked_article_code=1._08.tUk6.mjjiYsqpGNwT&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Colorado River watershed Gift article
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The Colorado River is on the verge of crisis. No one has a solution.
The Colorado River faces a crisis as seven states struggle to agree on water-sharing rules.
https://wapo.st/4saipLS
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In the 90s I had my historical geology students read Jonathan Weiner's Beak of the Finch. This was a nice reminder Sat 20 Dec 2025 p A3 NYT
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200 Ma dinosaur trackway, Stelvio National Park, Italy Gift article
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/s...
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More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/science/dinosaur-footprints-olympics-italy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.908.Jy_p.780wo88K6jA4&smid=url-share
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USA TODAY
2 months ago
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
https://bit.ly/4q5KZfA
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johnedwinmason
2 months ago
Read, people, read.
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Steve Cropper 🎁 article
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...
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Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and a Shaper of Memphis Soul Music
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/arts/music/steve-cropper-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.Coy-._zh0X9ZBDIj7&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
5 months ago
They've lost the 9yos
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country (Gift Article)
The new prices make it official: Americans will need to pay more for insurance next year if extra subsidies are allowed to expire.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/30/upshot/obamacare-subsidies-new-prices.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk8.UWUA.1gMOphpXBw-5
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Richard Corsi
4 months ago
Very important findings. For a society increasingly absorbed in sports gambling, betting your health and life on vaccines is a very smart bet.
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Fresh Air reprises three interviews with Susan Stamberg, two by Terry Gross and one with Bill Siemering
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Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg : Fresh Air
As longtime co-host of All Things Considered, Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a national news program in the U.S. People weren't used to hearing women's voices on the radio. "We were imitating ...
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/24/nx-s1-5584029/remembering-npr-founding-mother-susan-stamberg
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Gift article End of the Joides Resolution
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/s...
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Dismantling the Ship That Drilled for the Ocean’s Deepest Secrets (Published 2024)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/science/drilling-ship-science-joides-resolution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.Y2Hh.GKTskzIrOjVt&smid=nytcore-android-share
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In a broadcast from Oct 2019, Free Speech Absolutism discussed by
@onthemedia.bsky.social
@brookegladstone.bsky.social
with Andrew Marantz on JohnStuart Mill, Richard Rorty and guests @profjohnapowell, P.E. Moskowitz,
@susanbenesch.bsky.social
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Highly recommended.
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Sticks and Stones | On the Media | WNYC Studios
A look back at our country's radical and inconsistent free speech tradition.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-sticks-and-stones?tab=summary
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Tom Sharpe
5 months ago
20 September 1820: Cambridge geologist Adam Sedgwick visits Lyme Regis, noting in his journal: 'After breakfast purchase fossils of Miss Anning'. This is the earliest known reference to Mary Anning junior now taking the lead in the family fossil business run by her mother (who was also Mary Anning).
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NOELREPORTS
5 months ago
Russian MiG jets stayed in Estonian airspace for over 20 minutes without flight plans, with transponders off, and made no contact with air traffic control, according to Estonia’s Ministry of Defence.
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Looking forward to more and deeper reporting from the raid on the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions battery factory in Ellabel, GA, and related situations. Gift 🎁 article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...
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Immigration Raid Exposes Tensions From Seoul to Washington to Rural Georgia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/immigration-raid-georgia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kU8.Or0e.QjR1pajut45w&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Seismica
6 months ago
🌋 On Aug 27, 1883, Krakatoa erupted with cataclysmic force. The blast was heard 3,000+ miles away, unleashed tsunamis over 30m high, and darkened skies worldwide. Global temperatures dropped, and vivid sunsets inspired artists for years.
#OTD
#Krakatoa
#VolcanoHistory
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War on Science
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RFK, Jr., Demanded a Vaccine Study Be Retracted—The Journal Said No
In a rare move for a U.S. public official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted...
https://share.google/1r3MUOIEN9grp2NUG
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Perspective on Covid-19
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Henning
6 months ago
On Aug 17, 1959, a Mw 7.2
#earthquake
struck near Hebgen Lake, Montana, just west of Yellowstone. Fault scarps up to 6.1 meters offset, shaking lasted 30 - 40 s, and seiches surged across Hebgen Lake for 12 h. Aftershocks up to Mw 6.3 followed. (1/3) 🧪⚒
#geology
wereintherockies.com/1959-hebgen-...
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Eric Topol
6 months ago
Things you might not know about chronic, low-level lead exposure and heart disease, including the lead-estrogen hypothesis "In 2019, a total of 5.5 million deaths from cardiovascular disease were attributed to lead exposure" Learn from
@blanphear.bsky.social
erictopol.substack.com/p/is-chronic...
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Chronic Lead Exposure, a Risk Factor for Heart Disease
Plus: My Recommendations for Reducing Risk of Heart Disease
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/is-chronic-lead-exposure-a-risk-factor
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Elizabeth Kolbert
7 months ago
Carbon emissions are good, mRNA vaccines are bad. How to be wrong about everything.
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Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/health/rfk-jr-vaccine-funding.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE8.6xy9.GoveAF87YTM4&smid=bs-share
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hilzoy
7 months ago
This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.
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I tangled wasps two weeks ago but not these 8vo Gift 🎁 article
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/s...
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‘Hot Wasps’ Found at Nuclear Facility in South Carolina
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/science/radioactive-wasps-nuclear-savannah-river.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bE8.dg8A.OVv8C1ZgEN3z&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Brendan Nyhan
7 months ago
What a graph
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Tom Lehrer passes away. Gift 🎁 article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z08.e7_B.qiLO6X-m7Ram&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Coastal Geology and people. Gift article 🎁 Highly recommended.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/c...
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An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America’s Beaches. Here’s How.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/climate/beach-erosion-sea-walls.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.5oha.yjimF-YK51NF&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Senate Appropriations Committee recommendations on FY 2026 Science agency budgets
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Madison Swart
7 months ago
She walked out of her immigration hearing smiling — papers in hand, standing tall. She had no idea the man waiting in the hallway was ICE. No idea she was about to be detained. This is happening inside NYC’s immigration courts. Every day.
#ICE
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Aparna Nair
7 months ago
I still think about that engineering student in my classroom who, after a class on Nazi medicine, science, and technology in a survey class, had this stunned look on his face, and asked me why this wasn’t mandated for everyone who went through programs like his. Students WANT what we teach.
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The Zagami Martian meteorite on auction yesterday: "NWA 16788 is an olivine-microgabbroic shergottite, formed from the slow cooling of Martian magma and characterized by a course-grained texture composed primarily of pyroxene, maskelynite, and olivine."
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
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Martian Meteorite — NWA 16788 | Natural History, Including The Juvenile Ceratosaurus, and the Largest Piece of Mars on Earth | Science | Sotheby's
<p>NWA 16788 — The Largest Piece of Mars on Earth</p><p><em>Martian – shergottite (olivine microgabbro)</em></p><p><em>Agadez Region (Kefkaf), Niger</em></p><p><br></p><p>374.7 x 279.4 x 152.4 mm...
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/natural-history-2/martian-meteorite-nwa-16788
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Judson Jones
7 months ago
July is what experts call “flash flood month.”
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Here's Why There's So Much Flash Flooding in the U.S. Right Now (Gift Article)
July’s hot temperatures and moist air are the perfect ingredients for rain.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/16/weather/2025-07-16-flood-month.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W08.r6bQ.JoNju0knJA5e&smid=url-share
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Max Kozlov
7 months ago
NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
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Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities
The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02221-6
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Tim O’Brien
7 months ago
“The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.”
apnews.com/article/clim...
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Trump administration says it won't publish major climate change report on NASA website as promised
The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nasa-reports-trump-hidden-doc-1ade1eb89bb4785f7cdd6e1d6ba31a21?utm_source=onesignal
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
7 months ago
"Embattled US scientific society names palaeontologist to top job" 🧪
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Embattled US scientific society names palaeontologist to top job
Neil Shubin, a University of Chicago researcher known for co-discovering a ′missing link’ fossil fish, will lead the National Academy of Sciences if ratified by members.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02236-z
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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As well as the juvenile Ceratosaurus, the largest (by FAR) chunk of Mars on Earth is also on the auction block by Sotheby's:
www.npr.org/2025/07/13/n...
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The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York
Sotheby's in New York will be auctioning the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/13/nx-s1-5466061/biggest-piece-mars-auction
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Gift article 🎁 Highly recommended, China Shock 2 By
@davidautor.bsky.social
and Gordon Hanson.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
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Opinion | We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/china-shock-economy-manufacturing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WU8.ER3c.YnQgu0ERmLwk&smid=nytcore-android-share
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