"States' Rights" www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨 We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: lnkd.in/ews3JDNw

partial to the recommendation of Kate Garman Burns of @scientistsorg.bsky.social : reduce or eliminate parking minimums www.notus.org/perspectives...

Kohler claims its smart toilets are end-to-end encrypted. They don't seem to understand what that phrase actually means

@alltechishuman.bsky.social is offering a series of free courses on responsible AI alltechishuman.org/rai-courses

Nerd alert

"We are in the midst of a national organ harvesting crisis, and corruption within taxpayer-funded organ procurement organizations is the problem." FAS Senior Fellow Jennifer Erickson just testified before Congress to hold corrupt OPOs accountable. Here's (just some of) what she told them 🧵👇

Someone once told me that the difference between tragedy and comedy is that in both cases bad things happen but in the former only the audience can see them coming. This tragedy started with John Henry and just keeps coming. Thread: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

be the first in DC

DC resident here! And happy to connect you with more, but this is not needed or wanted by any “civic leaders” or the actual residents here.

With the impending expiration of New START, it is vital to prevent arms control progress from backsliding. If on-site inspections are impossible, then "Cooperative Technical Means" can fill that gap. ✍️ @mattkorda.bsky.social + Igor Morić 🔗 fas.org/publication/inspections-without-inspectors/

One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.

Climate change is the greatest driver of health for a child born today and the “Make America Healthy Again” report fails is big ways and small to direct the nations attention to the biggest upstream drivers that could make children healthier. Read my take with Grace Wickerson on why

Digital State Capacity After the Age of DOGE open.substack.com/pub/vanderbi...

he's already stimulating the local economy

Want to learn about how AI is being integrated into military decision-making and connect with experts working on this issue? Register for our reception on November 19th, in partnership with the @futureoflife.org 🔗 luma.com/2zkutj53

I originally invited conservation photographer @chasingbugs.com to write this for the @sejorg.bsky.social magazine, but I thought it deserved an even bigger audience, so I'm republishing in on @therevelator.org today: therevelator.org/write-about-...

@lastweektonight.com Trump going 1992 & testing nukes?! Gotta speak to Hans bsky.app/profile/nuke... or Jon @jonatomic.bsky.social

🧛‍♀️ Is the chill you've felt lately due to missing federal datasets? That is, federal data you have previously used that has disappeared. We invite you to nominate a dearly departed federal dataset, data element, or tool that has been terminated. 🔗⤵️

I’ll give someone $1000 if they can find one factually correct statement in this post

1/n - Trump says something about nuclear weapons tests...It’s hard to know what he means. As usual, he’s unclear, all over the map, and wrong. 1. The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. Wrong. Russia has more nuclear weapons than the United States.

Extreme weather events are rewriting the rules. So state health officials are rewriting their playbooks. In town for #APHA2025? Join FAS and STAT Network in discussion with state public health officials to learn how they're addressing compounding challenges. 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/protecting...

Am hearing rumors that @departmentofenergy.bsky.social plans to announce a new Manhattan Project for AI. This has been and remains a bad frame and a bad idea on a number of fronts, but just a word or two why the analogy of a Manhattan Project is historically accurate. 1/

FAS is proud to be part of a broad, bipartisan coalition that supports the #FixOurForestsAct and looks forward to continuing to work with partners and decision-makers to support a comprehensive and effective federal wildfire ecosystem.

Anthropic says its AI won't help you build a nuclear weapon. Will it work? And can a chatbot even help build a nuke?

"Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky" (a study) h/t @colesci.bsky.social

"Experts and insiders warn that the tumult within OCED and the DOE more broadly is eroding the private sector’s trust in the federal government and its ability to drive energy innovation." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

🚨Call for policy proposals If AI adoption is not slowing down, policy governing safety and security practices needs to speed up. This is where you come in.

👉SUMMER, WRAPPED How everything went wrong this summer, even though for once it wasn’t the hottest on record (still third hottest, which, isn’t, you know, very inspiring to hear)

insanity... what a loss

hey DC, peak bird migration right now...over 2M last night! please keep extra exterior lights off to help them fly south! dashboard.birdcast.info/region/US-DC

"Better, & more expansive, east-west transit [is] a moral imperative for residents who live east of the Anacostia River. They [...] face some of the greatest transit burdens in the city, & their relative exclusion from public investment is now, cynically, being used to justify another project"

absolutely loved this story

DC, it is #WeekWithoutDriving ggwash.org/dcten/week-w...

"Ideas whose time has come" @scientistsorg.bsky.social CEO Daniel Correa talks about policy entrepreneurship during rapid tech transformation on the Accelerate Science Now podcast, here: tinyurl.com/55mzhhn9

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

happy to chat on record/on background/off record!

thank you @wired.com for these first person accounts of DOGE in the federal government www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

kudos to the descriptive skill of this writer, Oliver Kornetzke

"Computers can now invent viable — even potent — viruses." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Recent college & grad school alumni: Work for 6 to 9 months with one of over 2 dozen NGOs in DC on international peace & security issues, including nuclear arms control, peacebuilding, & diplomacy. Apply by Oct. 20 to @scovillepf.bsky.social for the spring '26 semester. scoville.org

hold space for your outrage, but remember that they want you to be outraged. the thing they’d hate the most is for you to stay head down and focus on securing your rights, your health care, your environment. they’d despise it if you focused on a better future, hand in hand. that would show them.

Russia's “‘PolitStacker’ is the world’s first television program created by artificial intelligence” by @mjgault.bsky.social on @404media.co www.404media.co/russian-stat...

Con-GRACE-ulations to our very own Grace Wickerson for their well-deserved recognition as a 2025 @grist.org 50 fixer. Grace works tirelessly to develop and promote evidence-based solutions to the extreme heat epidemic in particular and the climate crisis at large.

Read the full series here: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

In the second part of Peter Bonner’s series on the cancellation of the 2025 FEVS, he addresses common complaints and offers both short- and long-term recommendations. Read the full blog post to learn more: dataindex.us/newsletter/a...

"Losing this data for 2025 hamstrings federal managers from making evidence-based decisions" writes Peter Bonner of @scientistsorg.bsky.social

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.