Tomorrow 14 rising highschool seniors join me for two weeks of #forest ecosystems, #carbon, and disturbance #Hotchkiss #immersive #research. Follow along on IG: @matthiessenscholars 🌿🌱🌳🪾💚

Storm paused for a beautiful sunset tonight #timelinecleanse

As an ocean scientist, I'm frankly amazed at the attention the dismantlement of OOI has gotten, while the removal of the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer (our only Antarctic icebreaker) and the failure to replace the JOIDES Resolution (our only scientific drilling ship) were met with near silence. 🌊

Happy Pride from the dogs of justice! #loveislove #dogsky

You can learn so much about a person by noticing what they joke about. This is the president of our National Academy of Sciences.

“Compared with non-active travelers, the cyclists had a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia, a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer's, a 40% lower risk of young-onset dementia (before the age of 65), & a 17% lower risk of late-onset dementia.” Connecting bike-riding with reduced dementia risk. #UrbanTruth

Mocking early career researcher's exploitation while arguing for their replacement is absolutely vile.

Astonishingly generous. Much appreciated.

A small amount of Good News Monday: #SaveNCAR #Climate eos.org/research-and...

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

Just deeply shocked and saddened to hear about Raúl’s passing. He was an exceptionally generous community builder in the scholarly world. He will be sorely missed.

🌈 Diversity makes our community stronger The Paleo Society appreciates each one of you who makes science richer and more welcoming. Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Well, this is super fucking dangerous. Hello, I am a person with long COVID who improved after trialing a lot of medications and therapies. Let me tell you how much “retraining your brain” so you can pretend not to be sick anymore works. It doesn’t. I was forced to do graded exercise. Got worse.

Keep cats inside. It's better for wildlife and better for cats, as you never know what habits they'll pick up in the local park

If you don’t like what you’re seeing at Delaney Hall, pay attention to what’s happening in Congress this week.   We must stop giving ICE and for-profit companies like GEO Group a blank check to create chaos.

They’re not even just leaving it in place and ignoring it, they’re paying more to actively remove it. I’d say “why”, but we all know why.

Oh happy Pride. I haven't heard back from my first and only art contest I have ever submitted to so I think by now it's safe to share my submission

More than 400 scientists, young people, Indigenous leaders, and conservation experts have written collectively to @albomp.bsky.social and @jimchalmers.bsky.social, pleading for adequate $ to protect and restore nature biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/scienti... - @biodivcouncil.bsky.social

Happy Pride Peeps

Life changing #booksky

It’s absolutely crazy they can void an election with no consequences.

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

If this pisses you off…get in. Register for our Emergency Science Meeting, yell at your Congress critters, and leave a public comment all in one place: fight2win.standupforscience.net

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.

And again, it's not that any of us, as faculty, staff, graduate students, or undergraduates, expected to win. It's that we expected our leaders to fight instead of putting their heads in the sand, or worse, actively collaborating.

You may not "do politics" as a scientist, but politics is doing you. Might as well start fighting now! events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

It's been ten years since he died. Seems like forever and just yesterday at the same time. Tana and I went and planted some thyme and cat mint at the family plot yesterday, as T said: he loved it when a cat chose his lap for a nap ❤️ miss you always dad.

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

I had my high school chem students reflect on @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social's work after her visit & the scientific process. They did not disappoint: "I believe that both processes [chemistry & writing] require curiosity and patience, but must be driven by wonder..."

just signed off a message to a student - great! so glad it worked. now let's see if Canvas thwarts or supports our learning today... 5 days of classes left, not that i am counting

My latest Substack on what the demise of Princeton's Honor Code reveals about the erosion of norms of honesty and trustworthiness...everywhere asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

It's VERY important to understand what's happening with the NASA 🔭 budget. White House proposed cuts to everything *but* Artemis. The GOP-led House proposal restores the size of the budget BUT shifts spending, which is to say *House committee and White House agree on cutting NASA astrophysics* 🧪⚛️

#womeninstem phys.org/news/2026-05...

Georgia congressman Mike Collins has opposed rules that experts say would reduce the odds of serious trucking crashes. Those rules could have required Collins’ family business to sink substantial money into new safety measures for its own fleet.

Holy smokes -- blown away by Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- her writing is so ❤❤❤ -- lucky enough to get to hear her read her work at Hotchkiss tonight. check out her newest work bookshop.org/p/books/nigh...

How come whenever someone fails to kill the president, the whole conservative establishment blames us for correctly labeling him a fascist, but when trans women are murdered there isn’t a single call to “tone down the rhetoric?”

John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of”

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

None of us alive will experience climate better than what we have now. How much worse it gets is up to us.

This is science under fascism. Our institutions should be fighting for us, and with us. But instead, they are collaborators.

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Blast from the last, when little Breyer joined our family (he turned 5 this week) #dogsky #timelinecleanse

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

Friends if you do this please change your password afterwards since no one seems to know wtf is going on

More than a dozen former NFL players join sex-abuse lawsuits against Ohio State University - NBC News 1/ apple.news/AHRRIZTUjS52...

Ivermectin in an anti-parasitic. It kills parasites. Viruses are not parasites. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

“If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they’re going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can’t think of anything more un-American.” -Sen. Mark Kelly

I am channeling this bird for the rest of my week.

students: we can't have our test tomorrow bc Canvas is down Me: what if I email you all the materials? Students: 🦗 Me: we've reviewed the last two class periods, have you actively tried to unlearn chemistry since then? Students: 🤔 Me: do you really think i'm being unfair? Students: no, but...