There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Let's talk the limits of (US) power: a 🧵. If Iran is able to get the Houthis to become active again, as in much more active than their currently largely overlooked control over the Bab el Mandeb (BAM), there is very little that the US can do to open the BAM & to deal w/the Houthis. 1/

It was 2pm and 92° in Mettler CA as this crew continue to harvest and then load the boxes onto a tractor. The boxes were then transported to a nearby packing house. Temps this day reached 95°. #WeFeedYou

Please take the time to review and sign this petition in support of the U.S. National Fungus Collections, which are being threatened in the face of the USDA reorganization efforts. c.org/KQWY7fNhGw 🍄

i think about this @notkissinger.bsky.social tweet a lot

EXXON SVP NEIL CHAPMAN, at the Bernstein conference: (via Eric Nuttall) #$XOM

CT technician position available at the U-M Museum of Zoology/Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

Imagine working really fast harvesting blueberries piece rate and looking down to see this huge king snake. They're harmless, but it's still intimidating. This is one of the things farm workers face in the fields regularly. Thank you "Gabriel" for sharing this video. #WeFeedYou

Must-read. Everything that Vought has done to science in the past 16 months is now laid bare as a plan to “cripple science research.” Five-alarm fire and all of us must respond. Speak out, focus on Vought.

"Why do you they get a whole month?!" What do people even mean? If you're not LGBTQ and you don't care about that stuff, no one's making you celebrate Pride any more than you're being made to celebrate Women's History in March or ALS awareness in May. Just ignore it. No one's taking anyone's month.

105 yrs ago tonight and tomorrow, an organized and resentful White mob raged through the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma—known as “Black Wall Street” for its wealth—burning and looting 35 city blocks, massacring up to 300 African-Americans, and leaving 10,000 homeless.

I see some people in this thread asking "what can I do that won't get me fired" so now might be a great time to revisit "Taking Action in Higher Ed" halperta.com/shalperta%20...

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

There's a persistent fantasy that maybe some other nice countries will start mass-hiring US scientists. That's not going to happen. A few high-profile, big name researchers will get poached, sure. But most countries, including some very nice ones, are underemploying their own scientists already.

My personal opinion is that women use AI less because they are way better at being suspicious of flattery, and because our intelligence has *always* faced accusations of being lesser than, and we’re used to doing our work regardless.

Science is for everyone! You don't have to be an expert; don't worry about finding the right words. Just speak from the heart. And if you feel despair, remember why we fight. The trees, the birds, the axolotls, the musk ox, the air and the water; they don't get a say. So we have to speak for them.

Our federal science funding agencies were designed to support science that is vetted and driven by scientists with a Congressional mandate to be for the public good. The OMB's proposed changes would replace that system with one driven by partisan cronies and special interests. 15/n

If you are a member of a scientific or educational society, please contact them and ask them what they are doing to fight this. They should be releasing statements, calls to action, explainers, talking points, or drafting letters for their members to sign.

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.

Some things I’d like to see in #Project2029 from Dems: (In no specific order) Universal healthcare Paid family leave Supreme Court reform Abolish ICE AI safety A plan to tax the fat out of the oligarchs As a phrase for comms, I like “annoyance economy”…as a dream big structural plan? Hell no.

This is terrible news for fish & wildlife and sensitive ecosystems, and for people’s safe enjoyment of public lands.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

I said this in an another post: "DEI" is mentioned 43 times in the first 50 pages of the OMB document, as justification for these changes. The would rather break a scientific, technological and economic engine of this country rather than share it, rendering all of us the poorer for it

Sounds like a plan. #BookSky

(cartoon Steve Sack) #politics

“How many times should we let a man fool us? Seven times?” Wall Street and media: “seven times seventy times”

1/ This is awful for so, so many reasons. Just to pick one: even if you thought it was lawful and appropriate to vet funded research for consistency with the government's priorities, *the president is not the government*.

If you’ve got federal funding or are going to try for a grant etc., you’re going to want to read this. 🧪🌎

I keep telling folks this but it’s not like they didn’t tell us they were going to do these things

Climate, Infectious Disease, Clean Air & Water, Environmental toxins, and more. The administration has removed the people charged with monitoring for and preventing "worst case scenarios" and we will all pay the price for foreseeable and preventable disasters, many slow-rolling and some sudden.

Folks, part of why “worst case scenario” outcomes don’t happen is because there have been people in government whose job it is to imagine the worst case for policy and then prevent it. Those people are gone now. If the community doesn’t replicate their role, guardrails are down and things break.

"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.

75% of Harvard’s NSF grants were illegally terminated. The NSF stalled 33 research proposals from the four universities or their collaborators. Top American universities continue to be targeted. One more addition to the list of assaults on science. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

according to the cottonwoods it is cottonwood awareness week

The dominant use of large-denomination currency is criminal transactions, so this fits www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...

"It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

The full announcement from Banerjee. A terrible loss for NPR and the nation. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.

Important milestone today - inflation-adjusted Personal Income for households is now lower, year-over-year, than it was last April. Households have 0.4% less income now. It's starker for my estimate of bottom 50% households - 1.6% less income.

Good thread 🧵 about the challenges of college teaching, grade inflation and learning post-pandemic & AI from a faculty perspective.

My parenting hot take is we talk too much about “wanting to have a baby” and not enough about “getting a whole ass person whose thoughts, opinions, and desires may be wildly different than anything you’ve ever imagined”

Actively tearing down the US research enterprise is a disaster for the country.

Today we learn of another new nuclear company going public to cash in on the datacenter hype. If all goes as planned they will have a commercial reactor by 2032. Their reactors would produce 1/5 of a gigawatt. Meanwhile, today, solar adds 1 gigawatt of capacity every day by noon.

today I learned that the James Talarico "six genders" thing refers to him listing six different combinations of X and Y chromosomes (XX, XY, X, XXY, XYY, XXXY) that occur regularly. that isn't even lefty in any way, that's just a factually true statement!

When Democrats regain power: Use it for justice. Fight back. Hold hearings. Launch investigations. Push impeachments. And stop acting like Donald Trump is the only one involved in this mess. 5.