🧪 NEW STUDY: microplastics may play a role in osteoporosis. • MPs found inhuman bone tissue • animal studies show MPs induce cell senescence, promote osteoclastogenesis, impair bone marrow cells. • MP accumulation in bones impair microarchitecture link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@newrepublic.com I must demur. "Let this sink in" implies it's a done deal–like it or lump it. You say the president can murder people and face no legal judgment. We wouldn't tolerate a Mafioso ordering a hit. We mustn't acquiesce. This needs political solutions first. Legal solutions come later.

We are here now. The woman is a Dem political candidate. The masked man grabbing her breast and throwing her to the ground is presumably some kind of federal agent. www.commondreams.org/news/kat-abu...

Important story! Gift link! The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater. By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

Climate denial is child abuse. “Kids want the EPA to preserve the endangerment finding. Our generation is expected to live through three times as many climate disasters as our grandparents, and we’re already living through them.” —a 12 year-old insideclimatenews.org/news/1909202...

Noting that renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels should be a ‘no brainer’ for anyone who’s concerned about the high cost of living in NY City! Thanks to @petesikora.bsky.social for pointing that out & to Zorhan Mamdani for prioritizing the environment to make NYC a better place to live.

Happy to see that climate scientist extraordinaire Sandra Steingraber also points out the link between the high cost of living in NY City and the high utility costs of fossil fuels. We need a true environmentalist like Zohran Mamdani to bring our bills down! bsky.app/profile/sste...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

💥 NEW NUMBER-CRUNCHING REPORT from Oil Change Int’l @oilchange.bsky.social The U.S. federal government is giving the fossil fuel industry $34.8 billion every year. *blinking emoji* #Climate oilchange.org/publications...

Journalist Emily Atkin on the climate disinformation peddled by Charlie Kirk, his fundraising for TP USA in “fossil fuel spaces,” and the relationship between climate denial and far right extremism. Someone needed to follow the money and lay this out. heated.world/p/charlie-ki...

Hey everyone who’s not a New Yorker but following the Mamdani phenomenon: here’s a great new update on NYC mayoral race + fantastic interview with NYC organizer @petesikora.bsky.social linking #climate and affordable housing in the campaign. Master class in messaging. youtu.be/13yZsstG6Es?...

Yes we here now so do something: Plans to build a massive gas-fired power plant plus four nuclear reactors to supply energy for a data center complex to be called the “President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus” are advancing in Texas. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/texas-c...

Other US states’representatives, please show up!

71 people arrested in NYC protesting conditions at ICE detention facility. Among them 11 Dem electeds, including one of our finest state legislators Emily Gallagher @emilyassembly.bsky.social GIFT LINK 11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

If Ohio had fair voting districts, we would not be fracking under state parks and public lands. We'd be embracing renewable energy, not quashing it, and creating thousands of good-paying jobs. @jobsohio.bsky.social @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social @vivekramaswarmy.bsky.social

Katherine Nadeau, @greenwatchdogny.bsky.social: “With every new pipeline approved, New York is further locked into a fossil-fuel future that we cannot afford.” Gift article

This week, I've talked to students who were previously considering PhDs, but no more over funding, outstanding students who are only looking for grad schools in Europe, Australia & Canada, and now jobless former students who have lost their NIH/NSF grad/postdoc funding. The #BrainDrain is real.

Starting now in DC: funeral procession for the EPA with bagpipe, cello, dirges, a chorus of lamenters, roses, eulogies, and many marching tombstones. Mine says RIP SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS. 🧪 More images to follow. Climate crisis = public health crisis

🧪 New National Academies report concludes that rising greenhouse gas levels imperil public health and the 2009 endangerment finding “has stood the test of time.” Game on. Gift link: Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

www.karboneconomics.com is a student-powered journal that explores how economics drives real-world change—from climate policy to financial systems, inequality, and innovation.

Karbon Economics features essays, explainers and soon-to-be-published student research that explores “how economic forces shape our world—from the #ClimateCrisis and carbon markets to inequality, trade and development”—including stories of people living on the front lines of climate catastrophes.

🧪 I had something to say about NIH, CDC, EPA, vaccines, climate science, lead paint research, tobacco industry studies, and the fact that American Sign Language was advanced in part with funding from the National Science Foundation so yeah DEI in science is a good thing. kpfa.org/episode/gree...

New @iea.org report out: www.iea.org/news/decline... Interesting insights on the - foreseeable - steep decline of US shale #oil / #gas production (if no additional investment in new wells pops up)! @tadziomueller.bsky.social @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

Sad news: Theologian, farmer, and sustainable ag leader, Fred Kirschenmann, has died. In 1976 he converted his family’s farm in ND to an organic operation. He directed the Leopold Center in IA and was president of Stone Barns in NY. He believed in the power of soil. clf.jhsph.edu/viewpoints/r...

They're trying so hard to make this their Reichstag Fire moment. It ain't gonna work. They just don't have the critical mass of support.

So inspiring to see young students working together to confront the climate crisis. "We’re going to be inheriting this problem, and we might actually have a chance of slowing it down," the teen founder said. Many thanks to @ssteingraber1.bsky.social and @doctorvive.bsky.social for comments.

🔥 Great story by @lizagross.bsky.social about a new peer-reviewed journal on climate economics that was launched by a 16-year-old, and what are YOU doing about the climate crisis, fellow grown-ups with actual resources? #StopGivingUp Proud be quoted here: insideclimatenews.org/news/1509202...

Hey European friends, this guy once drank fracking fluid to prove it’s safe. His opinions on climate, CO2, and solar energy have been widely condemned by US scientists as “wildly and embarrassingly wrong.” We know him as an idiot. Feel free to ignore his sound and fury and just send him back home.

The Adoptee Citizenship Act would fix this. 🥚

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries: looking you boys now. Hochul Endorses Mamdani for Mayor of New York www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/n...

🧵 I’m here in DC and decided late last night that I needed to make a pilgrimage to process some feelings with this guy. I forget the name of my 8th grade social studies teacher but she made us memorize the Gettysburg address. Reading it again, as words carved into stone, was a whole-ass thing. 1/

🧪You don’t have to be surprised but you do have to keep up: In a shift of longstanding precedent, political appointees, not scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world’s largest biomedical research funder: National Institutes of Health. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

It’s possible to condemn the summary execution of a loathsome individual who greatly harmed the single garment of destiny to which we are all tied without Disney-fying the loathsome individual or the great harm. Condemnation all around: it’s not that hard. —biologist who has required security

🥚Phoenix adoptee, 53, w rare health issues has launched a public appeal. Reminder: the privacies of adoption intended to protect everyone’s feelings don’t apply to adoptees. We’re forced to turn our DNA over to for-profit labs and call reporters to find out who we are. iol.co.za/thepost/comm...

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

EPA plans to roll back GHG reporting—just as we learn US transport emissions have cost the US economy $68B: zenodo.org/records/1708... The proposal isn't deregulation, it’s a tax on Americans through unchecked pollution.

🥚 My adoptive mom grew up on a farm in the 1930s and always brought cantaloupes to school to celebrate her 9/12 birthday with her classmates because there was no money for cupcakes. Sweet, right? So I ate cantaloupe today in her memory. But read on… 🧵

Remember what happened in #Nazi-Germany after Reichstag's fire? www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/gui... @tadziomueller.bsky.social @profbobhowarth.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

Same. Including that editorial I wrote for the student newspaper in 1988 when Ed Meese resigned in a cloud of scandal that we ran under the headline “One Less Pig at the Trough.”

Reminder to all that the CDC includes “physically inactive” as a risk factor for severe Covid, the CDC does not define “physically inactive”, and whoever you are, your middle school gym teacher probably thinks you aren’t active enough ☺️

🚨Urging all New Yorkers to get their COVID booster asap. YES Gov Hochul signed an emergency order easing access for us all-in an end run around new dumb federal restrictions on eligibility—but it’s for 30 days, expiring Oct 5. Might be a legislative fix after that? www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Just got a COVID shot at CVS in Hudson, NY. Simply had to attest—by checking a box—that I’m eligible. (I’m 65+ but form was generic.) Pharmacist: “I’m giving out a lot fewer vaccines of all kinds as compared to last Sept.”😳 But COVID vaccines came in last week, she said, and they are going fast.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

You know what's really shitty? Finding out you're adopted later in life and then learning everyone else in your life knew, including teachers, but not you.

🥚 #Adoptees may be interested in this thread among biology educators. The unspoken assumption that we can’t of course converse with our students about uncertain ancestry or their possible adoption but it’s fine to propose all kinds of other explanations (“hey maybe you’re a mutant!)…fascinating.

Q: What has more than doubled since 2017? A: U.S. subsidies to the fossil fuel industry (tax breaks, lower rates to acquire land, direct appropriations, and other financial support from the US) that all together allow the sector to receive stunning 30,000% ROIs www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔥NY Assemblymember Anna Kelles’ compelling statement calling on Gov Hochul @governor.ny.gov to REJECT the Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline that NYS already rejected TWICE but now, after a private meeting w Trump, is resubmitted for fast-track approval. NO to NESE! nyassembly.gov/mem/Anna-R-K...

This reminds me a lot of the oilsands museum in Fort McMurray

Choose your fighter.

🥚Just a media outlet from BRUNEI reporting on US adoptees at risk for deportation bc they were brought here as infants on tourist visas, and “an offence that cannot be rectified…left without citizenship by loopholes in law that Congress remains unwilling to fix” borneobulletin.com.bn/stateless-in...