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...

the American government is effectively ending its space program.

A Mexican phrase often said by dads when someone comes into the house and leaves the door open is “did you come with a mariachi band?” An Italian version is “are we at the Colosseum?” But my favourite is a regional Polish version that goes a drzwi ci koza zjadła? It means “did a goat eat the door?”

In the next few months, Japan will finish work on an instrumented network of seafloor cables and wire it directly into a national early warning system. Learn more: scim.ag/44FXkxI

Journalists are doing good work to figure out what was-and wasn't- done by Texas officials & the National Weather Service as the Guadalupe River roared over its banks. So far, there’s no evidence the NWS failed to do its job. Not so for some TX leaders. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Gift 🎁 op-ed. Thanks to Lydia @polgreen.bsky.social and @drbruceherbert.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

In this month's issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution, we celebrate 200 years since the birth of Henry Walter Bates, who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in butterflies [thread] 🦋 Editorial: Bates’ many contributions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Senate Appropriations hearing on President's budget request for science Wednesday July 9, 2025.

Bob Ganis, Ralph Willoughby, and Richard Whittecar identify a tsunami deposit from 35 Ma Chesapeake Bay impact in Moore Co, NC.

Trump continues to just refuse to fund programs he doesn't like despite the fact that he does not have the authority to pick and choose which Congressional appropriations he likes and which he doesn't. He simply views himself as a dictator. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

French nuclear power plant has to close during intense heat wave, because temperatures in the river that provides cooling water are too high.

Recommended thread.

"With the proposed shuttering of AOML, HRD, and their sister cooperative institutes, we could lose all tools currently available to estimate and forecast hurricane intensity. It’s a seismic blow to the arsenal of tools forecasters rely on to confidently deliver timely and accurate predictions."

Elon is the anti-Gates Foundation

#OnThisDay in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's theory of evolution through natural selection was read aloud at the Linnean Society, the first time the idea was ever presented to an audience. 🧪

“In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone...If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked...Most Americans don’t want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.”

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”. Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”

Among the many resources the Global Change Research Program hosted was this interactive atlas of projected changes in relevant thresholds (e.g. hot & cold days, rainfall amounts and more) per degree of warming, showing people how meeting the Paris targets would impact them personally.

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

Heartbreaking and enraging. And make no mistake: this is theft. These reports belong to the American people. You can still download the past three National Climate Assessments here: repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61...

An update on the state of US honeybees. In my first for Science, experts have finally found a culprit for this year’s record die-offs…but it could be tough to counteract. 🧪🌏