Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Omg omg

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

My latest for @science.org. - Illegal miners have forced Peru’s oldest environmental research station to suspend work. Gold mining has so far led to the deforestation of 140,000 ha of Amazonian rainforest in Peru - about half the size of Yosemite National Park www.science.org/content/arti...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Attention current students or recent college graduates: 3 scientific diving internship opportunities are posted on the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s jobs webpage: recruiting2.ultipro.com/MON1023MBAF/...

Shared among some EEB groups, there is a new affinity group for trans scientists: transscientistcollective.carrd.co Please share.

If you could use a pick-me-up, you can hear Southern Resident orcas calling right now on a hydrophone in the Salish Sea.

It is impossible to properly calculate the depth and breadth of the courage and sacrifice of those prepared to confront white supremacy and assert their right to full citizenship. We - and by that I mean ALL Americans - owe them a great debt. Rest in Peace & Power Claudette Colvin.

A century ago, diphtheria was everywhere, killing thousands of children each year. Today, it’s a disease that’s preventable with vaccines. A recent outbreak in Nigeria that left hundreds sick is a grim warning of the dangers of letting vaccinations lapse. The full story: bit.ly/4bwSmZl

Become uncontainable

Protests in Iran continue to grow and security forces are now estimated to have killed at least 500 protesters. https://to.pbs.org/49sRow1

Your local library may have a printer that can print for you. Remember to check your libraries folks

A neighbor was taken to a care facility, and her little tortoiseshell kitty was left behind. I can't take her in but I've been feeding her and giving her water every day. No one in the neighbor's family can take her in. Is there anyone in the Inland Empire area that could foster or adopt her?

Magic ensues with photo and layout people. #scicomm is art! The underlying work is invisible - readers (hopefully) breeze through the story without noticing the stitches or scaffolds. Writing about science is hard, reading about science should be easy (and fun). 5/5

For #writers and writing-curious folks on here, how about a peek behind the curtain on this story? What does it take to bring a #scicomm feature like this one together? Short answer: time, and lots of people. Long answer: keep reading... 1/5

Tonight marked the last broadcast of PBS News Weekend for the foreseeable future. As the show signs off the air, anchor John Yang looks back at some of our top stories and highlights over the years. https://to.pbs.org/4pxYe7W

🐟 Seahorses 🐎

This is an article I keep coming back to with growing frustration, as I see so many of our mainstream outlets refusing to adapt to an authoritarian regime, and often capitulating to the regime. This particular quote from a Polish journalist strikes me as especially important today.

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.

before you decide you don't want to vaccinate your children you should have to take a 4 hour cemetery tour with me where i point out every tiny little headstone of a child that died from a preventable disease and is buried with their parents who would have done anything to save them

AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association) has partnered with Human Rights First to create the Ready Now! App. The app is designed to alert the people in your life if you are detained or kidnapped. It also included emergency planning and connection to legal support should you need it.

Five years ago.

The monthly weird birds are extremely worth your time fyi

As a parent of a five week old I gotta say: hate this A Lot.

“I think that a reduced schedule is going to endanger children and lay the groundwork for a resurgence in preventable disease,” said Dr. Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health”

I can’t fully articulate the way my stomach dropped when I saw this headline. Please know the evidence has not changed. The people in charge have changed, and they did not consult any relevant experts or the public. “This new policy has not been vetted with pediatricians, the public, or the ACIP”

For my bean’s new and growing book collection #art

Pretty ‘shroomy in my backyard today

Avoiding my geopolitical anxiety by reading the Harvard Magazine obits, and damn this issue starts off with a banger

Do I know, or am within 6° of separation of, anyone working in #Restoration and/or #Arctic #Ecology #Evolution? (For obvious reasons 🧪 🥶 ❄️⛄️ 🦣 🐺)

Sending my stupid correspondence to friggen John Fetterman, even if he's a turd who will either reply sassily or not at all, because you gotta. Write to your representatives everybody. Even if they're like, total turds. We gotta.

Opening 2026 with my daughter snoozing on one of my favorite pajama shirts, which my dad bought from Crazy Shirts in Honolulu sometime in the 90s and used to wear while baby me snoozed on him.

REMEMBER Feliz Año Nuevo = Happy New Year Feliz Ano Nuevo = Happy New Butthole

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal. Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely. By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma

Another fun little doodle that is a departure from my usual style. I just love ptarmigan. #birds #art

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Good morning! 🪶

We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

A wet desert lily flowering with a grand view while storm clouds are moving in from the west this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Happiness is hand-knitted baby socks that match mama’s. Or at least that’s happiness today. Tomorrow it might be more about a whole four-hour sleep, or an especially satisfying burp. But anyways. Wishing you joy and warmth and safety.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Hoping you all have a warm, light filled Longest Night from my little family to yours

This is the shit I’m here for

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Wow www.propublica.org/article/usai...