...i can think of a very good one word, two letter response www.wired.com/story/future...

JUST IN: US judge orders removal of Trump's name from Kennedy Center reut.rs/4dN3gty

www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/p... Breaking News Judge says Trump can’t add his name to Kennedy Center and blocks planned closure

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

NPR is shrinking its newsroom through layoffs and buyouts and is reducing staff dedicated to covering both climate and science. "The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk," writes Neela Banerjee, who headed the climate desk but was just laid off.

Meet the wet bulb globe temperature, the ominous measure that shows when it's too hot to go outside. www.wired.com/story/why-it...

Trump is stealing your entry fees to national parks.

Diva.

Why would you make a search engine do this! Why would you think I want this!!!! I already have condescending men in my life

Oh my god I hate the new Google so much. all I want is a search engine that will help me look up a movie line instead of telling me to calm down

I used to think great writers were born with talent. Now I suspect they were just willing to write a truly alarming number of terrible drafts. #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife

One of my favorites from the coastal redwoods a couple years ago.

utah county bans data centers *and* solar farms, because those two things are the same now

Literally every day this piece of mine, about how fear of a body and self that can be changed manifests in policing food, becomes more relevant www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

New @factcheck.afp.com video: How the hantavirus outbreak revived Covid-era misinformation. youtu.be/B7W9A1LZRYo?...

"Little wonder, then, that after California passed a “unilateral” divorce bill in 1969, allowing individuals to leave an unhappy marriage even if their partner objected, states that followed suit saw women’s suicide rates decline by 20% over the next five years."

"When teenagers write their own essays, the work reflects their thoughts and personalities, their attempts to make meaning of their experiences. When we search for words, we are sifting through the same brain networks that form connections between ideas." 3/

"The bigger and more alarming impact they have is to constrict our full range of thoughts and our ability to generate original and useful ideas — what we call creative thinking. This seems to be especially true for students." 2/

Must-read essay by @drrebeccawinthrop.bsky.social about using AI for brainstorming. "Brainstorming is the work that’s fundamental to writing. As a researcher studying A.I.’s effects on education, I have concluded that these tools only superficially improve writing." 1/

And there's food poppies (Papaver somniferum) also growing in Austria. in vast swaths on agricultural lands, so yummy for baking, fillings and oil.

Ummm-mmm, so much to say, bitin' my tongue! Gonna post some flower love, instead, starting with Cali poppies blooming on our deck ...

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

Bladderpod, Cleomella arborea Watercolor, 9x12 inches My latest assignment in my scientific illustration course! Bladderpod is such an interesting plant 💚 #sciart #botanicalart #scientificillustration #watercolor #californianativeplants #scienceillustration #natureart

The % of scientists who think public engagement makes science better has gone up from 21% in 2006 to 64% now. That's huge.

🪸 🐠 The arrival of a potentially powerful El Nino weather system this year could devastate coral reefs around the world already weakened by back-to-back rounds of bleaching, scientists warn. [1/2] ➡️ u.afp.com/SRji

It's no consolation, but Stephen Colbert was so good at his job that baby great-grandpa had his friends buy Colbert's network and fire him for the crime of winning his time slot. A trophy for the ages.

Paul McCartney helped Stephen Colbert, his entire team, and their families, turn the lights out for the last Late Show.

One interviewee: “community to me is like, Do you have my phone number? […] does our relationship move onward past a moral failure? If we hurt each other are we actually going to be called upon to mend that bridge? If I'm someone who you would have a fun time throwing away? We're not in community.”

This really took a turn

📊The backlash against IPCC models has been constant lately (and clearly international too). A reminder that the IPCC is the world's most comprehensive and authoritative consortium of independent scientists working on climate change. This is not the move...

Colbert presented Chef José Andrés a check for almost $2.5M from the sale of his The Late Show memorabilia 🥰

in a cafe sitting next to a man on zoom call in which has been talking to (at?) colleagues nonstop for an hour. on my other side are two older women side-eyeing him, bemoaning the aggrieved overconfidence of young men.

Stephen Colbert’s late-night show ends on Thursday. James Poniewozik, our chief TV critic, explains how Colbert’s performance has evolved over his two decades as a late-night host, and how TV changed with him. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/a...

Cutest future serial murderer you ever did see Loggerhead Shrike 📷🌿🪶

RIP the verb “to google”. Nobody asked for this

I love this so much! 🥹

🌀 2026 Hurricane Season — What You Need to Know Ahead of NOAA’s Outlook. Join CCNow & @ClimateCentral.org on Wednesday for a special webinar in advance of NOAA’s first prediction about the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, which will be issued May 21. RSVP: buff.ly/suYORAJ

*insert unrealistically loud chicken sound here* Ref: Pākiki-A2 by Maddy Whittaker DOC

Evening walk. Thunderclouds rolling in but this bush was in slightly brighter light. #birds #photography

Serious question: Why is the Trump administration fighting so hard to help Big Oil escape the courtroom?

Good Morning ☀️ 🌵🪶 (ID in alt-text)

The global EV transition in one chart: Leader: Norway Almost there: Netherlands, China Accelerating: U.K., France, Germany Starting: Thailand, South Korea Barely begun (yet still selling millions): U.S., India, Indonesia Doing its own thing: Brazil (ethanol)

Here's a pup who seems to be on the fence about something haha no but seriously someone help her. 13/10

What if I feel very chalant, like all of the time...

We cannot & will not stop talking about climate change, especially in these dark days of Trump 2.0. For me, the climate movement must evolve to be far less technocratic, far more human and rooted in the world around us, built to last beyond the poll-driven freneticism of the next election cycle.

Anti-wind disinfo is spreading across Europe. Social media campaigns claiming turbines cause cancer and poison drinking water are surging across the EU, delaying projects worth billions of euros.

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

It is so hard to watch the journalism crisis hit your favorite publications. We need way more nature/biodiversity reporting, not less!

3/ @propublica.org acquired over 3000 pages of these exemption request emails through a Freedom of Information Act request. Trump’s EPA approved at least 180 exemptions, neglecting to cite evidence, justification, or analysis.