Oh, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist billionaire who won’t let the public have access to a public beach in California just bought the Seattle Seahawks. Gonna be great. www.kqed.org/science/1955...

Mission accomplished

The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...

JUST POSTED: An updated tally is in, and the count of Trump followers turned financial losers is even bigger than first thought. Much bigger. 988,905 buyers of #$TRUMP memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

Absolutely horrific and evil. As Russia persists in its illegal war against Ukraine, suffering massive casualties in the process, it is increasingly using lies to lure poor men from Africa to serve as front-line mercenaries, subjecting them to brutal treatment before sending them to their deaths.

I’ve been messing around with LLMs today, and was reminded of a thing that Steve Black, one of my best college profs, drew on the chalkboard in the first week of his embryology course. Revised and extended:

I don't think any American--regardless of party, despite fondness for aviation (which I share)--would enjoy being under the nonstop low-altitude, high-speed, incredible-volume of the Caligula overflights of our nation's capital right now. It feels and sounds like being under aerial attack.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

No fucking way.

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

Once upon a time, while studying disinfo about the civil war in Syria, I posted my thoughts on Gabbard as a down-the-rabbit-hole serial repeater of Russian-Iranian-Syrian propaganda. Then Jack Dorsey jumped into my DMs telling me I had it all wrong. Strange times. And yet still not as weird as this.

This headline on the NYT homepage running next to a headline that reads: "Interior Dept. Moves to Relax Rules for Drilling on Public Lands.

FIFA takes away Iranian flags at the US stadiums

The “wisdom of the crowd” on full display today as investors decided that SpaceX is worth about $400,000,000,000 more today than at the market close on Friday.

Big banner with a Teddy quote about courage on the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, headquarters of OPM. Only discrepancy is that the 26th president never said this.

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

HALAL FOOD: Delicious, or Economic Warfare?

In front of the Lincoln Memorial. This.

Charlatans taking advantage of vulnerable people - just the lowest, most grotesque sort of behavior... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Um. Hey everyone reposting the deceptively edited @factpostnews.bsky.social post about Pete Hegseth benching, maybe don't. We all fall for clout farmers sooner or later, but just because it's edited to show you what you want to believe, doesn't mean it's real. "FactPost" is lying to you.

Welcome to the future, where giant corporations prevent competitors from using their tools to create better tools. Imagine the outcry if, say, Apple tried to prevent competitors from using their devices to create better devices.

Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm www.nature.com/articles/d41... ... I have some thoughts...

The number of Black NIH-funded Fellows has plummeted by a staggering 40% from 2024 to 2025; for Hispanic trainees the number has fallen by 33%. These figures are nothing short of horrifying. The Trump administration is stealing the future of science.

Los Angeles: Shallow, But Not Spencer Pratt Shallow

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Can we please return to precedented times? I wish to be bored again by the news.

AKA the Trump administration.

More science vandalism by Trump. These sensors are extremely important for monitoring ocean climate trends. Fuck these clowns. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Breaking: Judge Jackson blocks NSF from dismantling NCAR. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

The plan will essentially transform school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles. www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

I want you to hear straight from me about what happened at Delaney Hall on Monday and what I saw inside the facility. ICE out of control. GEO Group profiting off of human misery. People living in inhumane conditions. Let me walk you through it.

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

Breaking: The Trump administration plans to send U.S. citizens exposed to the Ebola virus to Kenya rather than bring them home for observation and treatment. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

My wife went for maintenance at a car dealership on Friday. Tried to sign in, but they said she didn’t have an appointment. She pulled up her text messages and showed them: right time, right place. Attendant then acknowledged they have a new AI system doing scheduling and it isn’t working.

BREAKING: The judge has DISMISSED the criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds! A MAJOR win for Mr. Abrego. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

Working on a grant proposal. Just replaced every occurrence of "cis-SNARE" with "c-SNARE," "trans-SNARE" with "x-SNARE," "cis-Golgi" with "early Golgi," and "trans-Golgi" with "late Golgi," because this is #TheStupidestTimeline and we are governed by idiot arsonists.

Yes. This is very likely a massive crime! And they’re treating it like “oh, Trump does something outré again.”

Minnesota's "Hennepin County Attorney’s Office issued a nationwide arrest warrant on Monday for the ICE agent who allegedly shot a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and then lied about the circumstances that led to the shooting."

Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3

Oh boy. In March, as we prepared an article about the political influence of billionaires, Sen. Tim Sheehy preemptively attacked my reporting. Numerous influencers then amplified the senator’s post, including Trump Jr., Riley Gaines, and DC_Draino. But there's a twist... 1/5

Saying you're not sorry for your crime is speech, but it's also evidence that you're not sorry for your crime, and therefore a legitimate reason for a judge to give you a stiffer sentence.

Trump has appointed former GEO Group executive David Venturella to be the acting director of ICE. GEO Group was the number 1 ICE contractor last year. It has over $2 billion in contracts with ICE, and stands up profit massively from ICE locking up more people.

Look, he's not even pretending at this point. He DOES NOT CARE if you can't afford anything or get by because of his war. And this war wasn't even about the threat of Iran having nuclear weapons because there was NO imminent threat.