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...

They hacked Canvas during finals week. This is why the faculty need a secure ballroom.

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

I always dreamed of getting a PhD so I could spend half my work week struggling to investigate AI use in essays

Amazing session on oxidation of peatland carbon - vital for understanding biogeochemical cycles through time and how we have perturbed them. Big thanks to the organisers for creating a divers, inclusive and friendly session. #EGU26

Please call ☎️ your Congressfolk at 202-224-3121 & tell them to protect the National Science Foundation! @5calls.org In all this chaos, NSF is being attacked. 🔬Rehire experienced scientists 🧬A serious, qualified nominee should lead 🔭Increase the budget, don’t gut it! youtube.com/shorts/ms5Dz...

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Scientists are invoking cruise ships to get ppl to pay attention to the climate crisis. No problem there, whatever works is fair game. Stipulating, of course, that the cruise ship industry must die, the sooner the better. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

I Fully Endorse this Idea….

When someone has a 63% disapproval rating and goes to a Yankees v. Tigers baseball game. Sound up:

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

California Bill Would Create A $23 Billion Fund For University Research

Roberts went to a judicial conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania today and complained that the public wrongly sees Supreme Court justices as “political actors.” He said people mistakenly think the court makes policy decisions rather than legal ones.

Literally just snarfed my coffee... If it looks like a duck & quacks like a duck, it can't possibly be a duck? I missed this line of reasoning in my law classes

It says so much about how much work we still had to do even before the horrors of the last year that someone her age still struggled with coming out And biphobia was specifically a factor people.com/hayden-panet...

Sweet boy turned 5 yesterday #dogsky #adoptdontshop

Governments, funding bodies, and other institutions increasingly emphasise Indigenous engagement, yet publication practices have failed to keep pace, leaving communities without real control over how their Knowledges are used, cited, or shared. conservationbytes.com/2026/04/30/c...

Mainstream media is starting to cover the dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. Thank you for speaking out and helping keep this story alive. #SaveUSFS

As a scientist, this is my worst nightmare. There are one-of-a-kind instruments that you spend your life perfecting. When they’re lost, no amount of time or money will bring them back. My thoughts are with @oceanandclimate.bsky.social @ashevenell.bsky.social and others @cmarinescience.bsky.social. 🥺

No surprises here ... US faculty members report high levels of anxiety www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What is this now? Trump fires the entire National Science Foundation NSF board? This is worse than ever. #science #NSF #highered #scienceeducation

“our trip” 😂

Confession

I’ve been approved for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor!

He’s seriously delusional.

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

It me!

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..." www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.