New Yorkers, upstate and down! Let’s put our mighty shoulders to the wheel. Here’s your first post-election thing to do:

Dunno but I can tell you that, upon reading this headline, I suddenly remembered, for the first time in years, my first faculty meeting as a new biology professor in a department of men when I was asked to make coffee every morning. 😐 I’m lying. I think about that all the fucking time. It was 1990.

The acquittal of Sandwich Guy makes me almost as happy as the victories in NYC, VA, NJ, CA.

Friend, I urge you to visit some hilly places. You cannot plow up hills for soybeans without losing all the soil to erosion and reducing biodiversity to 1. You can however graze livestock on pasture with grasses, trees, birds and pollinators. You can’t love the meadow and hate the cow.

This post is not about Cheney it’s about the Democrats.

A truth every generation learns anew.

“cavernous” also evokes images of demagogues’ rallies (at least it does to this old person who’s seen Citizen Kane and newsreel footage of nazis).

Oh look English teachers have their lesson plan for the day on how word choice exposes POV. anointed not elected: reveals contempt with a whiff of religiosity strode not walked: implies arrogance cavernous not packed: evokes emptiness, darkness It’s you, NYT. You are talking about yourself

Dick is dead Zohran is mayor the earth is healing

What if it’s a hero(‘s) sandwich tho? This whole thread is glorious:

Every Election Day I text my YA kids this story: Story: Tom Reed (R) was our Trump-loving, ACA-hating Congressman for years before drunken sexual assault forced him out. He got his start by winning the 2007 election for mayor of Corning by just 600 votes. Moral: ALWAYS VOTE IN OFF-YEAR ELECTIONS

🧵 My eulogy to Dick Cheney as a biologist who’s been deeply involved for 15 yrs in efforts to ban fracking around the world: More than any other person Dick Cheney is responsible for the veil of secrecy and lies that surround fracking operations, and they are enshrined into law that he created. 1/

Dick & his secret energy task force brought us fracking with undisclosed chemicals... www.projectcensored.org/8-secrets-of...

Also other adjectives oppugnant to truth and morality. Gift (link): Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Knowing that 1 in 8 US families relying on SNAP can’t buy groceries rn, I’m struggling with the act of feeding myself. So I’m just staring at my plate: chicken, kale, sweet potato grown by farmers whose names I know plus lentils, rice, yogurt sauce. Pretty basic but now looks obscene to me 1/4

Iowa has the worst-in-the-nation fertilizer contamination of drinking water, the fastest rising rates of new cancers, and a bunch of science showing these trends are likely linked. Here’s an on-point thread re: the latest news on all that from a leading ag scholar at U of Iowa (and go follow her):

Canadian news outlet with this context re: the bomb blast at Harvard med school: “U.S. President Donald Trump has targeted Harvard University, threatening billions of dollars in funding cuts and a series of investigations into its governance and policies….” 1/2 globalnews.ca/news/1150859...

Good news, public health researchers and health professionals! First Do No Harm firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social is now on BlueSky. Their deal is pushing for divestment of health institutions—the one sector uniquely responsible to protect health above all else—from fossil fuels. 1/2 #MedSky 🧪

....why many health professionals are now urging #FossilFuelDivestment- from within the health sector itself. Essential research -thank you Dr. Steingraber @ssteingraber1.bsky.social Firstdonoharm.earth

NYT story on the “intentionally set” explosion in the neurobiology building at Harvard Med School campus Gift: Explosion at Harvard Building Affected Small Section of Hallway, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...

Yesterday, Illinois State Police arrested a protester dressed as Jesus, draped in American flag. When he did not walk, they picked him up and carried him.

🧪 So my immediate suggestion is that we all follow Dr Michael Baym @baym.lol —whose lab is in the Harvard Med School building that was just bombed—both as an expression of our collective solidarity and also because he posts cool things about microbes. (his own post about it says his lab is fine)

I live 15 minutes away from where this happened and I didn’t even hear about it until almost 24 hours after it happened and I was online all day!! The way news is flowing to people right now is not great, IMO.

harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

I am once again learning about alarming things happening in my nation by reading the foreign press. WTF? Can we please talk about this? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Fossil fuel-related air pollution is linked to cognitive impairment and raises risks for both major dementias: Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy Body dementia. Some pollutants are fine enough to pass directly from nose to brain. Gift link to summary of research: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/h...

Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.

Fitness hot take: CrossFit is really just exposure therapy for PTSD. Which is to say I spent a few seconds this morning staring at a rack of 20 lb dumbbells wondering which one of you MFers threatened me with back spasms the last time I snatched.

Alt text: a farm goose watching wild geese overhead and honking “Sisters! We are the same!” Alt alt text: me, who runs a 32 minute 5K, following the #NYCMarathon 🫡

Buying groceries hits different when 42 million of my fellow citizens don’t have SNAP benefits. Doesn’t matter what food bank donations I’ve made or what gift cards I’ve purchased. Going to the goddamn farmers’ market feels like living in gated community now. And they’re just potatoes. Fuck this.

Brilliant essay by one of our finest energy thought leaders who notes, with alarm, that Pennsylvania’s “leap before it looks attitude”toward data center is “eerily reminiscent of the early days of the fracking boom” and decided to ask AI if we should be afraid of it. And AI said…

Get to it, people.

Idea for a musical: a man is arrested and imprisoned for stealing bread and then is hounded by the cops for breaking parole and then there are some student protesters in the streets and everyone sings One More Day…oh wait…

🧪 Hey friends, if you need a break from *all this* and want some beautiful science, behold this new paper by @neuropharmnerd.bsky.social! It’s about how cells in our spinal cord that receive information from the body about pain are activated by special channels in cells far away. I’ll explain… 🧵

Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution. Proponents flog the stale idea that fossil gas can replace coal to generate electricity, but that no longer holds up when renewables are a far cheaper option. davidsuzuki.org/story/expand...

I’m making a list of Exceptions to My Rules Item 1: Listening to my YA son explain to me the Kennedy School of Public Policy, the war crimes of Henry Kissinger, and how haikus work: elite, highly desirable mansplaining. Love it. Want more. 🥲

This is an absolutely incredible thing to say. As someone in Ivy-ish (Duke) classrooms from 2016-2022… I call bull. Or she was saying offensive shit.

vive la France 🫡

Great article on gas cooking stoves, responsible for 12.7% of childhood asthma in US. Induction stoves are a good replacement.

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

Hey everybody all over the world! This event is TONIGHT (Thursday 10/30) at 7 pm. Listening to pediatrician and medical ethicist Kathy Nolan MD talk on any topic will make your life better. This will be a master class on fracking—gently presented, clearly explained, rigorously researched. Join me!

👀 NEW interactive database from the brilliant minds at the Institute for Energy Economic and Financial Analysis. Findings: 1) demand uncertainty is slowing EU LNG buildout 2) US LNGs import to EU now at a record high BUT 3) EU’s LNG imports likely to slump 20% by 2030 ieefa.org/european-lng...

Checking in with our leading climate scientists….

Projected ACA premiums increases: 114% on average:

🧪 PSA: There are reasons to oppose GMO crops. But asserting they are the cause of colon cancer in young adults is made-up shit supported by ZERO scientific evidence and if you come into my replies making such claims, you will be given the astrology treatment (= swiftly blocked + head on pike):

If you buy health insurance on the ACA marketplace, you can now find out how much your premiums are going to increase. Gift link: Obamacare Prices Become Public, Highlighting Big Increases www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/h...

💥 NOT TO BE MISSED! My beloved co-author and co-founder of Concerned Health Professionals NY, Kathy Nolan MD, will lay before us the evidence from our fracking science compendium showing how fracking is a public health catastrophe. And I’ll just be in the audience listening and nodding….

Your reminder that US fracking operations are driving spikes in global methane emissions, data centers are driving demand for fracking, and futuristic AI runs on atavistic light-shit-on-fire tech which has IRL health and climate impacts. Shorter: We’re blowing up America’s bedrock for AI slop.

More like Project Stupiter. To make it even worse, these monsters are powered by "natural" gas whose main component is methane. Remember, "natural" gas is only natural when it's in the ground, once you bring it to the surface... all Hell breaks loose. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/group-s...