Nutrition science is NOT complicated: Fill your plate with mostly plants (Michael Pollan got this right). But the politics are. @ninaelkadi.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzvf...

Today’s good news— but can we stop calling it the DEPARTMENT of government efficiency? There is no such department and never has been. DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

No comment. Shell Reports Nearly $7 Billion Profit Amid ‘Unprecedented Disruption’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...

Worth reading this. Among other things, it is a reminder that EPA has been negligent for a long time. Assuming there is a future EPA, those of us following this need to work to rebuild it in a different way. civileats.com/2026/05/06/i...

Always interesting to talk to the great Dana Fisher!

Just reminding people tht @kaurov.org and I are blogging about science, society, politics on @reckoningscience.org science. Here are some recent posts: please subscribe! "When a Chatbot Says Water Is More Dangerous Than Glyphosate" reckoningscience.org/when-a-chatb...

I only have seven followers on Reckoning Science. I am reckoning most of you don't realize that is me (and my great research associate, @kaurov.org So please follow us! bsky.app/profile/reck...

How big AG contributes to climate change denial and delay: changingmarkets.org/report/the-n...

In many ways this isn’t even about glyphosate. It’s about our legal right to redress when regulators make a mistake, are hoodwinked, or new information becomes available. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/c...

With academics racing towards self-flagellation, I hope people will read this piece I wrote with Charlie Tyson a few years ago: www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...

Re-upping our short piece on Trump’s invocation of the Defense Production Act to produce glyphosate and shield the herbicide companies. With @naomioreskes.bsky.social

Today’s must-read. The Real Epstein Cover-Up www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer. Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

This is heart-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

File this under “What were they thinking?” Or worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

This shows how far the carbon combustion complex will go to protect the fossil fuel industry. Basically rewriting the rules of SCOTUS. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

As we’ve said many times, it’s all about blocking regulation. The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Humans were already changing the climate at the time of the US civil war www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/c...

The Iran War has once again led to a bout of what @isabelschnabel.bsky.social memorably dubbed 'fossilflation'. It's en vouge to talk about the solution as some massively complex undertaking. It really isn't. Get off fossil fuels faster. My latest just out @nature.com rdcu.be/fdxig

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Seriously? The people who deliberately corrupted the science around glyphosate (yes, Bayer) are styling themselves as champions of science? My eyes are rolled up high it's giving me a headache. @kaurov.org @fastlerner.bsky.social @careygillam.bsky.social sciencedelivers.com/dont-just-tr...

This needs repeating cepr.net/publications...

This is a very fun conversation with #AlexStrathdee about writing, my books, and how being an author became a dangerous trade: Here's the link to your episode: Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2K7e...

Microplastics are everywhere — even in the labs studying them. That’s a problem for research

I guess we can file this under "better late than never." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @kaurov.org @rproctor.bsky.social

Another example of refusing to collect data whose results you don’t like: Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

Thoughftul piece about a great but complicated man thebulletin.org/2026/03/unde...

In Stockholm? Please join us April 24 www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Insects evolving resistance to insecticudes? Who could have imagined? www.broadinstitute.org/news/malaria...

This is hilarious … or tragic www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Worth reading: SMRs continue the nuclear pattern of promising a lot and delivering very little--at very high cost. www.theenergymix.com/does-smr-sta...

Who is responsible for retracting fraudulent science? Our latest: reckoningscience.org/everybodys-b...

In memory of Paul Ehrlich legal-planet.org/2026/03/19/p...

Everyone should read this. What the administration is doing is not legal/ www.edf.org/media/record...

I just want to say: this isn’t “odd weather.”this is climate change. No snow, no refund: weird weather tests Big Ski’s business model

The positive proof that rich people don’t pay enough income tax: $1,000 Dog Grooming Session? The Pet Wellness Industry Is Booming. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/b...

Today’s bad news: Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

Today’s good news: Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

In Boston area? Join me with Jessica Riskin, March 24, to discuss her new book on Lamarck. www.harvard.com/event/jessic...

We analyzed 700,000 U.S. Catholic services to ask a simple question: how often do congregations hear about climate change? The answer: almost never. Read more: reckoningscience.org/unspoken-cri... With @naomioreskes.bsky.social at @reckoningscience.org

My latest: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.