A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

Hello, excuse me, I can't help but notice you seem to be enjoying that chicken.

"Taken together, the record is striking. Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens wrote in their own words to warn OMB that putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded would erode the quality and independence of federally funded science."

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

Maxwell House Coffee illustrations by Moebius In 1989 Jean Giraud (aka Moebius) was hired by the Paris office of Young & Rubicam to create illustrations for Maxwell House. The French magazine ads promoted four flavors of instant coffee. #moebius #youngandrubicam #advertising #frenchart #illustration

More reasons to avoid Substack.

new desk f(r)iends this week! say hello to the Pufferfiend. they contain tiny magnets so you can swap out their little knifes for other small metallic objects. available for adoption July 18th 8PM CEST, on stellabialek.com/shop

I was sad to discover today that the Libby app is private equity owned. Attached is a good article discussing this. I'm currently exploring using Palace, the app by the Palace Project, which is owned by a nonprofit organization. (Link to that in the comments.) unhingedlibrarian.com/research/who...

"Okay, your first mistake here is not letting the fire die out before putting the meat on the grill, but I honestly think your main issue is that you put a bear in charge of making the food."

Switch to DuckDuckGo. Or some other search engine you favor.

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

Here it is, after years of having this shot in my head, chasing the murder the night before the full Moon: dozens of crows flying in front of the Moon, my first edit. 🪶

Habitat destruction is the number one threat to endangered species and Trump’s decision is a death sentence for America’s wildlife. It will leave imperiled species at even greater risk of going extinct. We're going to fight back with everything we have. Help support our fight. ⬇️

Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.

The owners of Scum & Villainy, a Sci-Fi / Star Wars theme bar in Hollywood, are crowdfunding for the opening of “Rendezvous.” They claim 20% year over year growth on the investment site. In an article they claim they’re barely hanging on, and negotiated rent reduction.

the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable

Secretly fix the building, at night, with a hurricane approaching And without telling the student who only found out she'd saved a LOT of people when watching a documentary years later That's utterly fucking bonkers

"Russian horse breeders are reporting a surge in sales because a steed is now cheaper to maintain than a car." billmckibben.substack.com/p/oil-as-ach...

A Green Heron goes into maximum neck mode to grab a tadpole and then resets into minimum neck mode after the snack was acquired.

"Initially, he planned to remove dust from the surface of the photovoltaic cells using a cylindrical brush mounted on the rear of a train. “However, we realised that each time a train passes, it creates an airflow that sweeps away all the dust" What a brilliant idea.

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

This looks very cool, I wish I were going to be in Edinburgh! See link in this 🧵 for a description of Strandfall. I liked the thoughts about convenience and player expectations when using smartphones vs custom devices.

"Once this decision goes into effect in the days or weeks to come, hundreds of thousands of people lawfully present in the country will lose their status."

"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?

I uncovered a bombshell that hasn’t been reported anywhere else. It’s a new rule DOJ quietly adopted which gives the Attorney General tremendous new power to punish political enemies and reward friends and donors. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/rcee4...

California’s new eight-hour battery is making its grid even more renewable. California has switched on Tumbleweed, the first major US battery project able to discharge power for eight hours, twice the usual duration for grid batteries. Canary Media buff.ly/jBKQxrf #ShareGoodNewsToo

This is Bryan. Once a week, he takes a shelter pup on a New York City adventure in his ‘Adopt Me’ backpack, hoping someone will fall in love. He films their big day out, and almost every dog he’s featured has found a forever home. [📹 madmax_fluffyroad] Original post

Blanche v. Lau is devastating for green card holders. It means that if they leave the U.S. then return, a border officer can claim they committed a crime at some point, revoke their lawful status, and confiscate their green card without meaningful evidence of wrongdoing. It's really, really bad.

LA today. Stay inside.

Kiddo asked for his sandwiches to be cut into triangles. He did not specify that they had to be congruent.

Levels of 'forever chemicals' in dolphins and whales are rising globally https://phys.org/news/2026-06-chemicals-dolphins-whales-globally.html 🐋 #cetaceans #marinemammals #marinelife #marinebiology #whales #Science #dolphins #OceanPollution

HALF of all federally funded clinical trials would be “illegal” under the new OMB rule. LEAVE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT AND YELL AT YOUR CONGRESS CRITTERS.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-live-w... #Conservation

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Looking at the national year-over-year estimates, the current year is noted with the red line. We're not far off of the orange and green lines (years 6 and 4). Look ahead. THREAD 3/3 🧵

Jailbird! It's been crazy busy here, we've started averaging a hundred calls a day on our wildlife rehab line and I can't keep up. One of today's rescues is this great-horned owl chick who was down in someone's yard. Dehydrated and too thin, our staff is driving it up to TRC for a vet check. 🪶

Oysters are even better at cleaning up coastal water than we thought, according to new research from @annesmiley.bsky.social of @unc-ie.bsky.social. Comments by Rachel Smith from @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, story by @lisasgardiner.bsky.social eos.org/articles/oys...

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

The oldest "tapiroid" fossils are found in North America, in Montana & Nebraska. The diversity of tapir-ancestor fossils suggests they originated in North America about 50 MYA from dog-sized forest browsers called the Helaletidae. On an unrelated note: here's a furry watermelon.

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Ruffed grouse

People with retirement savings in index funds are forced to buy SpaceX stock at an overinflated price only to lose money once SpaceX prices inevitably crash. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...

Dr. Jason Herbert is a historian, public scholar, and outdoorsman from Kentucky. Herbert tells us about the Acadians, French settlers expelled from British Canada, who helped to create today’s Cajun culture. #WeAreAmerica250

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Armando Iannucci (‘The Death of Stalin’) and Simon Blackwell (‘Veep’) are writing the script for ‘PADDINGTON 4’.

Pop quiz, no googling: Which US state gets the highest percentage of its total power from renewable energy? (Counting sun, wind, & geothermal, but excluding hydro.)