AI can complete a dissertation in 30 minutes, huh? I don't think AI can camp for weeks every summer for three years describing and sampling stratigraphic sections and doing lab work and modeling the rest of the year. And I'm sure AI can't talk those grumpy farmers into giving them access.

That math aint mathing! www.npr.org/2026/06/06/n...

An illustration of modern-day resistance by scientists 1. Scientist et al. pen editorial criticizing Trump's policies on science 2. Attends professional meeting, distributes reprints of editorial 3. Meeting organizers expel him 4. Video goes viral, public is outraged 5. Streisand Effect achieved.🧪

I just learned that OMB is required to respond to every comment on the anti-peer-review rule. So that means our comments really matter, at the very least by gumming up the gears. Send your comment today.

exactly the right response

"The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months" lol heatmap.news/politics/ame...

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

Proposed changes by the Trump administration to rules that govern how federal dollars are spent "would inevitably lead to unlegislated reductions in funding and damage US leadership in science, both in academia and industry," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4uK0fBj

Don’t forget to doom-scroll and share the wins, too! www.cpr.org/2026/06/01/f...

I think this part is even more alarming than the brake lines being cut: someone also removed the airbag trigger sensor and rewired it not to trigger any failure mode logic

This is depraved

Some cool new full art basics for Arena will be on sale tomorrow. All proceeds of the sale going to Oceana and Rainforest Alliance orginizations. Neat!

We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

GOP priorities on full view:

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Incredible pokemon street art find in River West (please ignore the invasive curly dock plants in front of it) #streetart #pokemon #Milwaukee

one of the incredible things going on is for the past few years companies have been using millions of dollars of computer power for like $20/mo and concluding wow this is the future but are now facing the question is its trash output with no bottom line benefit worth paying millions of dollars to do

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

impartial scientific research is the enemy of despotism and so naturally vought wants to destroy it

The US Forest Service Research budget is once again zeroed out in the presidential budget. He doesn’t want research to exist.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

They will need to appropriate minimum several hundred million dollars just to get the white house back to some kind of normality and sweep it for hidden cameras and listening devices and the media will cover the expense as their first scandal

i was such an avid reader of stuff i did not even get CLOSE to understanding as a kid and all it did was make me read more, and ask more questions about the world. there's a concerted effort from almost every consolidated power on this planet to make people less curious!!!!

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

Data centers are just the current blight put upon us by a shortsighted greed-obsessed ruling class.

Sam Altman says the most evil things you can imagine on the daily like it's nothing. Every time he opens his mouth he has to inform us that he is a sincerely morally repugnant human being.

For decades, native plants couldn't be given away. Now a Chicago park sale that normally draws 1,100 people drew 2,300 this year—and sold out completely. "It's not a fad," says one nurseryman who's watched the trend for 44 years. "This is a long, steady climb."

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

AOC: “Trump is less popular than he has ever been. He is underwater on virtually every issue. If you oppose & are disgusted by what this administration is doing, you are in the company of a majority of Americans. You are not alone”

A great piece on one of my favorite preserves and an absolutely stupendous artist!

May 20 is World Bee Day. 🧪🐡🐝 There are ~20,000 different bee species in the world. Here in Ontario we have at least 400 native bees (none of which are the honeybees, which are from Europe). Bees are key to pollination. According to the UN nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend

Look what I found in local stationary store. Japanese dinosaur pencil sets!

Happy International Bee Day! In the Rethinking Lawns lab @negauneeinstitute.bsky.social Chicago Botanic Garden, we're working to help turn our lawns into better spaces for native pollinators. To celebrate, have some id keys for Midwestern/NE American bumblebees! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

A quick reminder: No they didn't. Colossal edited some dire wolf genes into wolf embryos. They are no more dire wolves than golden rice is carrots. This is a bullshit tech grift that's taking money away from actual ecological restoration and extinction prevention.

They did not resurrect the dire wolf. They cannot resurrect the mammoth. And none of this will rewild or restore ecosystems. - Signed, a restoration ecologist who is also the EIC of the global journal of the same and has seen this sort of hype too many times before

get Flock out of your community, now. once again grateful to City leadership for finally seeing the light, even if y’all did ignore us when we warned you about this shit before you installed it.

It’s gardening season! Do your friends and neighbors know about the positive ecological impact we can have by planting native plants?? Help get the conversation started with our Native Plants t shirt! (Modeled by our buddy @wowthanks.bsky.social) Get one at squidfacts.net

If you are ever in Milwaukee, please do yourself the favor of visiting the Domes

The result of AI boosters getting booed at commencement will NOT be them getting a wake-up call about AI skepticism. They will just stop speaking at commencements. But that’s a small win!

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

If I said how this made me feel I'd be put on a watchlist, so let's just say that I think this is bad and one of the reasons I resent the lumping of science and technology

I still think this is one of my favorite candid photos of me in the field. If ya see some mountain-mint, ya gotta give it a little sniff

this is very funny

Happy Mothers' Day. Here's a toad and her dandelion.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

“To some public health experts, the alarming thing is not the hantavirus… It is that the administration’s sluggish response and lack of communication suggest the United States is ill prepared for a larger health crisis, such as another pandemic.” Great story by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social 🧪

Ok so this house has an exterior (as most houses do…) and it’s awesome. It’s called the steel house and was the passion project of of sculptor Robert Bruno

Today in History: Benito Mussolini executed

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."