🧐 “Gabbard is the fourth Cabinet member to depart the Trump administration after Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Kristi Noem, and Pam Bondi both left the administration earlier this year.”

What weirdo is this? About an inch long on the outside door jamb.

Odd measurement alert: “…asteroid estimated to be about as long as the Lincoln Memorial is tall…”

“The real outbreak is one of fractured trust, unhealed trauma, and absent leadership.”

🤔😑🫠 “Rozanski’s team defined optimism as “the tendency to think that good things will happen in the future.”

“Dangerous levels of paralytic shellfish toxin (PSP) have been detected in CA. The California Department of Public Health issued health advisories alerting people not to eat mussels, clams, oysters, or scallops that are recreationally harvested from Del Norte, Sonoma, Marin, and San Mateo counties.”

“We have to recognize that we are part of a complex, biodiverse planetary system,” Shepherd said, “and that we screw with it at our peril.”

This is fascinating ⭐️

Rukiye Garip's fabulous watercolor painting, which won 'Best Watercolor' in ARC Competition, will be exhibited at Sotheby's New York July 17-27 (watercolor, 76 cm x 56 cm / 30 in x 22 in)

NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

When you wake up and know it’s going to be an unproductive day…

💕🌎💕 “I think we’ve all been getting concerned for quite a number of years about not being comfortable with the way some things are going…”

News Alert: Cookies were made and eaten. 🍪

We are devo D EV O

AI transcription. 🤣 “Hello, this is Social Security. Someone with this phone number has an appointment with the Social Security representative. We are calling to remind you of disappointment.”

“Gibraltar’s macaques have been observed engaging in geophagy, the consumption of soil and clay, in an apparent attempt to quell their nausea from eating fatty and salty foods offered by tourists.” 🫠 www.scientificamerican.com/article/gibr...

CDC = “Fox News” of public health. ☠️ “Kennedy, founder of a prominent anti-vaccine group, once referred to covid-19 shots as the “deadliest vaccine ever made.”

Reminder: Speaking at Stanford this Thursday, planning to share some sound breakdowns and discussing why biophony matters. Come for the sound, stay for the science, and watch the screening of two episodes (one of which may not be airing yet)!

Note to Iranians who want to make trump go 🦇💩: Demand that the Pope be present as mediator for the next round of peace talks. 😏

Spoiler alert: they swim a lot more

Interesting 🤔

I'll be giving a lecture and a screening at Stanford later this month! Event details with a RSVP link: cesta.stanford.edu/events/life-...

Nice.

In Chinese #folklore, the cat is the tiger’s hidden master. It taught the tiger how to stalk, leap, pounce, and kill, nearly every skill that made it feared. But when the tiger turned on its teacher, hungry for total power, the cat revealed the one lesson 1/2 🎨 Sun Qifeng(1920-2005) #caturday

About time. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/d...

Kali…contemplating how much emotional support she had to give me today.

Human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, as part of Saturday’s nationwide “No Kings” protests
 🎥 Adam Pardee/for SFGATE

Good read

Cats in sun squares

San Francisco! Help me get the word out to your friends/coworkers. I am hosting a screening of my PBS nature series LIFE UNEARTHED the day before it premieres. Tardigrades and bison and fireflies on the big screen! March 31 at 7pm. Get free tickets here: tickets.arielwaldman.com/events/order...

“PVT is…not defensible based on existing neurophysiological and evolutionary evidence. The psychological elements composing the superstructure of the PVT are primarily derived from earlier psychological literature and are neither clarified nor strengthened by PVT constructs that lack evidence. “

Announcing: Coming to PBS on April 1! LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a visually striking science-driven nature series that reveals Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale—from microscopic wildlife to the planet’s most iconic species, and even the potential for life beyond Earth. 🧪🦠

Where can I get these?

Trump: "The President of the United States Gavin Newscum admitted that he has learning disabilities." Yes, he actually called Gavin Newsom the "President of the United States" while trying to insult his cognition.

Science doesn’t care what you believe 🧪 “Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government did not base its decisions on SCIENCE in limiting Covid shots and changing the childhood immunization schedule.”

Another attack on science that affects all of us. “The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in understanding of weather and climate.” Call your representatives.

Just do it 🖊️ 💻 ☎️

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

😑 “The people in the study didn’t think the AI autocomplete suggestions were biased or to notice that they had changed their own thinking on an issue in the course of the study. We TOLD people…that the AI is going to be biased, and nothing helped, their attitudes about the issues still shifted.”

🧐 NYT headline today: “U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says” WaPo headline today: “Nations agree to release oil reserves as war in Iran hits global economy”

timeline cleanse featuring my two cats: Mooney, the food seeking grey tabby and Kali, the big black floof.

A great video about the ethics of using chatGPT as a student, that also works as a general discussion of generative AI, by one of the teachers on my masters, Gwen Varley @gwenvarley.bsky.social

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

“I was inspired to write a folk song — about how soldiers have no choice in the matter but to follow orders — but with the irreverence of rock ’n’ roll,” Mr. McDonald told The New York Times in 2017.” He wrote one of the best anti-war songs of my generation. I have a poster signed by him. 😢

My father’s birthplace, so excuse me if trump’s criminal narcissistic regime is particularly triggering to me. He has killed thousands quickly, but these consequences to the planet will slowly kill all of us.

Look for it on your local PBS stations April 1. (Antartica!) “LIFE UNEARTHED…a visually striking science-driven docu-series that reveals Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale—from microscopic wildlife to the planet’s most iconic species, and even the potential for life beyond Earth.”

Social Dominance Orientation: A belief “that harming ppl is legitimate, are observably disagreeable, cold, and vindictive, are low in benevolence, and do not hesitate to humiliate others. Their dog-eat-dog mentality leads them to support economic competition and war over social welfare programs.” *

Present mood…after writing 4 pages of my required minimum 80 page lit review…

😒 Per Star Trek history: “Enterprise” said that World War III began in 2026 and ended in 2053. Today’s WaPo headline: “Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say”