As far as I can tell, this $8B in cuts to clean energy as part of the government shutdown is on top of the $13B from the pocket rescission. "...this administration is not serious about American energy dominance”. Big surprise. www.energy.gov/articles/ene... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE is going to apartment buildings without a warrant, breaking down the door of literally every unit, zip tying & detaining everyone inside, & arresting people for things that have nothing to do with immigration. This is a 5 alarm fire. This is what a secret police force does.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Secret police busting down doors in the middle of the night. It isn't a question of "could it happen here?" It is happening here and we must resist. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"Armed federal agents in military fatigues ... pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked... Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours." www.wbez.org/immigration/...

"The deployment of tear gas, pepper spray, mace, & rubber bullets in the vicinity of the #ICE processing center in ... Broadview is endangering ... village residents, Broadview Police Officers, Broadview Firefighters, & American citizens exercising their 1st Amendment rights" tinyurl.com/4pzex57y

Congress can end Trump’s Epstein cover-up: act.indivisible.org/sign/epstein...

Many brave people there tonight too. "Mayor Daniel Biss of Evanston, Ill., after wiping tear gas from his eyes, called the actions of ICE “a performance in brutality. ... Our job is to resist it as visibly, vocally & aggressively as we can while staying nonviolent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Susan Monarez's testimony exposed exactly what's at stake if RFK remains the Secretary of HHS. We are saying DUCK NO to the Quack's attacks on public health and his reckless sidelining of scientific experts. Urge your Reps to impeach and remove RFK Jr. ➡️ act.standupforscience.net/forms/sign-o...

🧪 Released just now: "A new report from the @nationalacademies.org says the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused greenhouse gases is beyond scientific dispute." Report and webinar link below. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/09...

🧪 Excellent summary of the important work being done by @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and Alyssa Sinclair, mapping impact of NIH budget cuts. Great that new funding will extend their work to other agencies. Vital to let your lawmakers know of economic impact in their districts of proposed cuts!

🧪⚛️ Our latest results on the laminar-turbulent transition in pipes. Body forces acting in the fluid give a tricritical point once the body force is strong enough. Centrifugal force in a curved or helical pipe is an example. Bjorn Hof's experiments see these effects. arxiv.org/abs/2311.11474

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

During the day yesterday in California, >75%of all electricity was produced by renewable #energy, including solar. After the sun went down, half of all electricity STILL came from renewables, including wind batteries, hydro, geothermal, etc.

Let’s be clear - this should be a “what in the actual fuck” moment for our leaders, the press and all Americans.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Unite w/ over 1000 current & former HHS employees (includes CDC) in the call for RFK Jr’s immediate removal as HHS Secretary. saveHHS.org RFK Jr’s attacks on CDC affect health & safety of the nation. Public health is based on evidence & science not personal or political agendas. #USAnotRFK #SaveHHS

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

Very few PhD students finish within 4 years. But international students will need to do that if US proposed visa rules change go through. Sound reasonable to you? Fed register is accepting comments for next month. Details at the link & comment button www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Tick tock. Tick tock. RFK Jr.'s time is running out. Today, Senators Cassidy and Sanders both challenge RFK Jr's reign of (t)error at HHS. Call your Senators and Representatives. U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

🧪 American Meteorological Society pushing back on the DOE Climate Synthesis report. "... the views ... in the DoE report are not new ... Those views have been incorporated in previous comprehensive assessments—to the extent justified by their scientific merit..." www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

🧪This is a powerfully written & justified statement by FEMA workers. Please consider supporting it. FEMA is an indispensable Government service, & needs to be run by qualified and experienced people. Not clowns. And definitely not someone who doesn't even know that there are hurricane seasons.

STEPHEN MILLER: The protestors are white hippies real Washingtonians want this 🤥 NEW WASH POST POLL: “79% of DC including 80% of Black people & 67% Hispanics” OPPOSE his invasion www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...

1. In an alarming move, the Trump administration has banned trans coverage for federal employees and their families, including youth and adults. It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage. It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US. Subscribe to support our journalism.

🧪⚛️ A great opportunity to contribute to the phenomenal science reporting by @quantamagazine.bsky.social

Screw you, Stephen Miller. Elderly white hippies helped end the Vietnam War and get another criminal president tossed out of office. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

🧪⚛️ Here is a terrific salaried opportunity to get involved in the critical area of science policy. One of my own students was a @apsphysics.bsky.social Congressional Fellow & it changed his life. * APS member + US citizen with MS or Ph.D * Deadline Nov 4 2025 www.aps.org/funding-reco...

"It is a mistake to believe that our opponents can be pressured into civility ... What happened on Aug. 8 is part of the same trend as Jan. 6 & other recent ... acts of stochastic terrorism ... actively driven to target public health by the people who now ostensibly lead its institutions."

Many years ago I wrote an unfunded😕 grant proposal to explore novel biogeochemical feedback loops in permafrost & marine cycles. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Today, this remarkable reporting about a new type of microbial feedback loop operative in Svalbard, accelerating glacier decay. 🧪

Looking for a job in physics or environmental science and related areas? Just announced --- an outstanding opportunity in Okinawa, multiple cluster hires, very generous internal funding including full support of students/postdocs! OIST is English language institute. www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

RFK, Jr. May 13 2025, before Congress: "I don’t think people should be taking advice, medical advice, from me" By his own admission he is unqualified for his job. Stop the quack. @standupforscience.bsky.social will hand deliver petition to Congress. www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

First, Donald Trump used the Marines and the National Guard to support his mass deportation agenda in Los Angeles. Now, he's using similar tactics in D.C. like a tinpot dictator. Don't look away. Don't stay silent. If you do, don't be surprised if it's your city next.

I listened to Bhattacharya on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast. If you want to know how it went, see the following email that I just sent. 1/13

Yes, this is how you fight, Governor!

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 6! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding. ✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP... 🧠 Learn more here: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p... 🌿 Here is a script (copy and paste alt text for ease!) #31days

🧪⚛️ Congratulations to the US International Physics Olympiad team (& the coaches) for winning 5 gold medals! The only team with this incredible achievement. These are high schoolers, but I'll bet most profs would not do as well. @aip.bsky.social @aapthq.bsky.social aapt.org/aboutaapt/U-...

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

In the old Soviet Union, there was always a political "Apparatchik" assigned to oversee all media operations to make sure nothing negative was posted about the regime. Welcome to the new Trump Dictatorship. gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoi...

Why call? Why sign letters? Why protest? What does it do?? It. Adds. Up. And PRESSURE WORKS! Keep it up, Dorks! #StandUpForScience www.politico.com/news/2025/07... 14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds - POLITICO

Congratulations to Netenyahu in managing to unite the Express and the Guardian in outrage.

🧪New review on important evolutionary mechanism. "Conjugative plasmids are ... the textbook image of plasmids, yet they are now known to represent a minority. Many plasmids are mobilized by other mobile genetic elements, some are mobilized as phages, and others use atypical mechanisms of transfer."

🛰️ Read the Voyager Declaration 👉 www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager... 🖊️ Sign the letter of support 👉 actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor... One small signature from you. One giant way to stand up for NASA. 📢 Share and flood the zone. (4/4) #StandUpForScience #VoyagerDeclaration

🚨BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 🚀 the Voyager Declaration has LAUNCHED. NASA employees join a growing rebellion against Trump’s anti-science, anti-American agenda. 🧵(1/4)

🧪 Good news, for now at least. Senate Appropriations Committee passes the Commerce, Justice and Science Bill. NSF: flat funding, not -55% as requested by Trump! NIST, NOAA, NASA get strong support, R's push back cuts requested by Trump. Summary: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

📣 CALL TO ACTION - Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee that determines the funding for NSF proposed a 23% cut to NSF’s 2026 budget. If one of these members listed is your representative, use our link to easily call your rep & demand NO CUTS to NSF➡️ actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...

Now with a 🧪 Please see thread below.

Today, 1,152 NAS members/Nobel Laureates (as private individuals) sent a letter to Congress regarding the cuts to science being proposed by the Administration, and currently going through the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. tinyurl.com/5n7y7853 @standupforscience.bsky.social

This is really important. I could not believe my ears this morning when I heard the NSF budget under discussion. If this gets passed by the Appropriations Committee, the next obstacle is Senate and House. it will be critical for fans and beneficiaries of science to reach out to their lawmakers.

"...people from Doge or its proxies are scrutinizing applications with absolutely devastating consequences. The ... US [is] willingly conceding global supremacy to competitors like China in biological, social & physical sciences. It is a mind-boggling own-goal." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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