Lots of us pointing out the unsupervised algorithmic decision & $39.95 charged for blank page that says, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” But Springer Nature also killed an editorial that the editor-in-chief of Naturwissenschaften planned to write about the retractions.

I'm spending the week at @uofwa.uw.edu's Friday Harbor Laboratory in the San Juan Islands, doing some #scicomm work and (hopefully) writing papers, if the scenery is not too distracting

make zines and share zines until they are ubiquitous to the point that there is no stopping or criminalizing them

Very intense earthquakes have just struck northern Venezuela, especially the cities of Puerto Cabello and San Felipe. Early automated estimates are more than 10,000 people may have died with damages of 2-20% of GDP This is likely a humanitarian catastrophe needing an international response.

SciAm layoffs announcements are rolling in so many incredibly talented science journalists booted from the once prestigious publication science journalism is on its last legs y'all and it's one of our most IMPORTANT forms of journalism. These are the educators and the myth busters. it's sickening

more of this real journalism pls #SciArt #comic

It is #makeaterriblecomicday2026 and I am at a conference, so I'm doing terrible not-quite-a-comic panels about decidedly NOT terrible #IASNR talks #makeaterriblecomicday

Someday, someone is going to write a book about the Era of Fencing in DC, beginning with the fencing of Lafayette park in the aftermath of June 1, 2020. And I tell you what, that book is gonna be way more interesting than it has any right to be.

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

If other news was reported like climate change:

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

IASNR round 1 done! Really great poster session, losing my voice talking about deep sea mining 😅

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

The USMNT can't park the bus because our country lacks the funding for public transportation.

The USMNT are playing so well, I thought it was the US women’s team?

Who is going to be the first to photoshop Hurricane Shark into the Reflecting Pool? Has it already happened?

A belated happy #WorldOceansDay courtesy of @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social

I'm determined to 1. use my patio more and 2. get through my reading list this summer

Months after telling staff that the E&E News brand was not going away, POLITICO is shuttering six publications. A statement from PEN Guild's leadership: This is unacceptable.

On this #WorldOceansDay , more scientists speak out on the possible loss of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), which hits hard where I am right now, back “home” in Corvallis, Oregon katu.com/news/local/s... #OOIDataMatters 🌊 🦑

Book recs from the T: I saw someone reading a book called "Let Geography Die" last week and immediately had to know more #mbta

"Though Cook is remembered today as the charlatan who lied about reaching the North Pole, he may yet find redemption in the next phase of human exploration: manned missions to Mars....When we do reach Mars, we will, in some small part, have Cook to thank." (Madhouse at the End of the Earth) #sciart

M 7.8 earthquake 24 km WSW of Burias, Philippines earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Recency bias: Every single story on the post office’s woes should include a paragraph explaining that no one thought it needed to break even until Reagan came along. It’s a public service. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Some excellent creatures at the @mfaboston.bsky.social Framing Nature special exhibit

As we kick off the 2026 midterm election season, we're resharing our guide to Handling Political Harassment & Legal Intimidation. Read about the legal risks scientists face from politically-motivated attacks, & how to defend against them: www.csldf.org/resource/poc...

If you want people to take your energy transition technology seriously, may I suggest #scicomm efforts that include...not this

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

I've been reading through hundred of public comments and hearing transcripts on this, and it's so wild to see ppl argue for DSM bc "better the seafloor than rainforests and child labor!!" It's not an either/or situation, it's the same playbook all the way down 🫠🫠🫠

This is how local actors fight back - using any tools at their disposal. Even as the US imposes its will over deep-sea mining this bill deters the use of the island as a staging area for mining operations. "Guam bans seabed mining as federal offshore leases loom" www.postguam.com/news/local/g...

Trump Executive Order Kickstarts Deep Sea Mining Rush https://theonion.com/trump-executive-order-kickstarts-deep-sea-mining-rush/

From NSF...“aligns with N.S.F.’s wider strategy to have a nimbler approach to prioritizing support for evolving scientific priorities and emerging technologies as well as a deliberate approach to smart life cycle management within its portfolio of research infrastructure.” 🧪🌎

I read the excellent 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth' recently, about the absolutely wild 1897 Belgian Antarctic Expedition on the "Belgica," and have been doing studies of Frederick Cook's photos #antarctica #sciart #belgica

Really interesting study on the overlooked use of "cuteness" in the ecofascist toolkit, a way to soften and obscure fascist ideology under romantic imagery of nature, nostalgia, and Moomins: doi.org/10.1080/1468...

I'm excited to talk about this with my Science and Society students for exactly these reasons!

On the indirectness of direct action (from Hope in the Dark by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) #comics

scientists found a new fish and LOOK AT IT 🦑🌊🌏🧪 they named it Snuffleupagus because it's covered in shaggy orange elongate skin filaments www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-s...

I was just griping yesterday about how our IRB apparently doesn't anticipate "I'm gonna go outside to a place and talk to a bunch of people" as a standard procedure anymore:

Remember the outrage over the "um" quote from the NYT AOC-in-Munich Feb story? I checked it out: just 8 of 36k (!) quotes that day across popular US news included um or ah 🤔 My latest in Storybench shows how I did it & connects to racial/gender news biases www.storybench.org/whose-quotes...

I actually think we need to reclaim "virtue signaling" from those who think it's meaningless. Letting people know what you believe and choosing actions that demonstrate those beliefs are important at all levels of society.

Anyway student journalists have been and remain one of the best reasons to have hope for this country

Really enjoyed Wawa Gatheru's talk at NEAQ this week about her climate activism and Black Girl Environmentalist; it was an inspiring if foggy evening!

Love these little guys and their waterway specific fish designs, but I'm also very curious about the placement process - the first two pics here were taken within shouting distance of the Neponset

The continuity of human experience 🥹

Sucks to suck & also, hospitals that caved to this, let's see your plans to get up and moving again

Copilot has turned itself back on in my email five times so far today.

Please raise your voice to oppose the dissolution of the SBE directorate at #NSF, and with it, elimination of support for all social science research. Check out the action opportunities at cossa.org/action-cente...

After this week I badly need to go hang out with some trout lilies for 4-16 hours this weekend