this is what is insane abt this case and these sentences. this isn't a sandwich throw. real violence happened here. a cop got shot. but by framing the protest as a conspiracy people who literally were uninvolved in the violence got de facto life sentences

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...

Five Summer Outfits That Will Make You Look Like A Sexy Little Reflecting Pool

Yaaaayyyy Minyaaaaa!!!! 🌿🌸💃🔥

I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.

While regulations.gov incorrectly lists this action as "closed for comments", you can submit your comments directly here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... My response is below, but don't feel that you need to draft anything nearly so long-winded. A short statement will also be very helpful.

So no publication fees, no conferences, no international collab, and we can terminate or reject your grant anytime for any reason. This might have some impact on how science works, folks. And maybe just maybe not a positive one.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Please share with your trainees (will be useful for both undergrads and grad students!)

Let's see how this works on Bsky: I am looking for a scientist by the name of Spice to write a Shugar & Spice paper. 🧪⚒️

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

One last weevil collage post for #InverteFest

How #blessed are we that it is both #WeevilWednesday and #InverteFest

Last year's MOTHErs Day card...what moths should I do this year??#InverteFest

Fear no weevil #Invertefest

A little Pseudogaurotina excellens sketch #Invertefest

Sketch-a-snail #Invertefest

Science is good. We should fund it.

Fuck!!! The horror and beauty of the world hitting me all at once has overwhelmed me once again!!!

This breaks my heart and fills me with rage

A spring style suggestion: dress like Peter Rabbit. I wrote something for Mr. Porter about why I think gardening clothes look great. The clothes look better with age and reference a lifestyle that's been considered romantic for centuries. www.mrporter.com/en-us/journa...

Can confirm it does! Reading David's new book has been a joy 🥹 Thank you for giving us this window into the world of flowers, it is truly magical!

these people made an entire mini garden out of metal flowers that open and close with temperature, wow

Hi #chemsky! If you're navigating the NIH grant application process right now—or if you decided not to—I'd love to hear from you. Email: [email protected] Signal: LDattaro.73

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions. Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

This!! Too many things in the us are dependent on a charity economy (feeding the poor, educating our youth, university research, etc!) and that feeds all these fucked up incentives.

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

YOUR PHONE CALLS TO THE SENATE ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING. 202–224-3121 Three Democrats who previously broke with the party and voted with the GOP are now saying they will not vote for the bill. That’s enough for the bill to be unpassable right now.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

@pbs.org has had my whole heart since I was little little, so it is very surreal to be writing for a PBS Digital Studios show! Here is my first episode of Be Smart: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBX... Thank you @drjoehanson.bsky.social & team! My nose knowledge now knows no bounds 👃

Hooray! Check out this special issue for some fantastic new work on flower color!

A lesson from tonight: I went to a community org’s meeting to announce a mural SaS is collab-ing on w/that org. I knew a handful of people there, but didn’t know 90% of the room. When I intro’d myself, I said “if you’ve seen any squid around the neighborhood, that’s me” and people applauded. (1/5)

Take a moment to lower your blood pressure with this one.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

My columbine flower photos were published in @emergencemagazine.bsky.social to accompany a truly wonderful wildflower essay by @dghaskell.bsky.social 🌸 His writing on columbines made me misty-eyed at my PhD plants all over again 🥹 soso honored to be included! #scicomm #sciart

A few years ago, through luck and vibes, I managed to produce this blue colored bean variety. This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

Season's greetings from all of us at New Phytologist and The New Phytologist Foundation!

ok what's the most rectangular animal you can think of

Looking for SciComm experience? 👀🌿 Check out this Spring 2026 internship from Let’s Botanize — great opportunity for undergrad students in botany! $1,500 stipend or course credit. Apply via: [email protected]

Presented here is this year’s entire See Jurassic Right Back To School series where I chat with TWELVE scientists and science communicators about all the cool shit they do and all their freaky, fun, and fascinating hyperfixations you need to know about, right now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...