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...

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

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 🧵

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. wapo.st/4qTVDqx

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 👇

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.

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.

Massive Winter Storm approaching this weekend. Gift article. wapo.st/4k4iJs0

Coming soon, Grizzy and Bonnie host a haiku workshop for beginners. Gift 🎁 article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/s...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by an ICE agent, witnessed on a cell phone video, January 7, 2026 in Minneapolis. Rest in peace.

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/...

Gift Article 🎁 Antarctic research voyage: Thwaites glacier www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/c...

Colorado River watershed Gift article wapo.st/4saipLS

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

200 Ma dinosaur trackway, Stelvio National Park, Italy Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/s...

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.

Read, people, read.

Steve Cropper 🎁 article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...

They've lost the 9yos

Gift article 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Very important findings. For a society increasingly absorbed in sports gambling, betting your health and life on vaccines is a very smart bet.

Fresh Air reprises three interviews with Susan Stamberg, two by Terry Gross and one with Bill Siemering www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...

Gift article End of the Joides Resolution www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/s...

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.

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).

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.

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...

🌋 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

War on Science www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

Perspective on Covid-19

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-...

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...

Carbon emissions are good, mRNA vaccines are bad. How to be wrong about everything.

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.

I tangled wasps two weeks ago but not these 8vo Gift 🎁 article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/s...

What a graph

Tom Lehrer passes away. Gift 🎁 article. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Coastal Geology and people. Gift article 🎁 Highly recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/c...

Senate Appropriations Committee recommendations on FY 2026 Science agency budgets

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

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.

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...

July is what experts call “flash flood month.”

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.

“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...

"Embattled US scientific society names palaeontologist to top job" 🧪

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...

Gift article 🎁 Highly recommended, China Shock 2 By @davidautor.bsky.social and Gordon Hanson. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...