My YA kid who spent the night asking if I have an iron. Me flashing on my earliest memory: holding mom’s legs while she ironed and watched the soaps, whole days filled with ironing. “Sorry no.” Deep sighing followed by a trip to the car to find something else to wear. Irons skipped my generation.

As is my Pride Month ritual, I’m re-upping my coming out essay. 🌈 The hero of the story is one of my former students, a gay Somali refugee. I don’t know where he is now. www.terrain.org/2019/guest-e...

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m reprising last year’s daily series of queer, biologically themed posts. 6/1: Please enjoy these bi bison. friendsafforestation.wordpress.com/2024/05/19/b...

“Breast cancer gets a whole month and it’s, like, a tumor.”

fwiw stuff like this is why I pay for the Trib. this is a really extensive report on plastics pollution in the Great Lakes that identifies industry malfeasance clearly and in detail. this kind of work is why we need well-resourced local newsrooms throughout the country.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill's mishandling of protests outside the Newark ICE detention center, with violent state troopers running amok, is a national embarrassment To make it worse, Sherrill invoked the vile "outside agitator" trope of 1960s segregationists My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/miki...

🧪 “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men.” —biologist Rachel Carson

Calling all scientists! If you are interested in action against the proposed OMB rule that would politicize all federal science grants, please join the Stand up for Science call this week! events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

Your point was—and I am quoting you—“circa 1980, male college grads outnumbered female college grads significantly,” which I rebutted with actual data. 👇 Called out, you switched points—that’s called gaslighting—so basically I now find you an unreliable narrator on the whole topic of the economics.

Then: Your doctor controls disclosure of biopsy, bone scan, MRI and blood work results and will call you whenthefuckever and you develop PTSD to phones ringing. Now: a MyChart message drops in the middle of your hike and you develop PTSD to your username, password, and dual authentication code.

Listen up. We are all pouring out oblations today to the plant geneticists who brought us miniature avocados and early-season strawberry cultivars which are divinity itself.

Hahaha ok FINE: Trouble with subsidence, leachate-contaminated groundwater, and sulfide gas intrusion? Fill issue

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

From one of New York's (and the country's) most respected environmental scientists. What just happened for our formerly nation-leading climate law? Follow her thread!

Great thread here with details and context on the gutting of New York's landmark climate legislation. Shame, @governor.ny.gov. You have betrayed our children's future. #climatecrisis

I haven’t posted about this week’s gutting of our NYS climate law just bc it’s so wrenching to witness the destruction of the rule of law on a national level + the maiming of a life- and climate-saving law on a state level. But that’s not emotional maturity so here’s a thread re: what happened. 🧵

The chemicals in fracking fluid - so harmful to human health: The data base. - Must-have resource for #ClimateHealth professionals, journalists, advocates👇🏾

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.

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

I show up here every night. Which makes me rich.

Mistook one bottle in my pantry for another and now I’m eating steamed kale dressed with olive oil and apple syrup and it’s …kind of a taste sensation? So I doubled down like a maniac, poured some over roasted sweet potatoes as if I’d planned this all along, and now I may have a retirement plan.

The greater the ruling regime's desperation, the more people recognize their crimes, the more they seek to shift blame by dehumanizing. Nothing short of full throated support for groups scapegoated by regime can actually repudiate fascism. People must see there are clear sides.

I live four blocks from this spot. Which means it doesn’t matter that I hate my couch, prop my windows open with sticks, and blow fuses when I vacuum and make toast at the same time. That’s the Hudson River. Those are the Catskill Mountains. Yes, it’s a lighthouse.

🥚 US adoptee Kyle Adler has been reunited w his birthmother. “The 36-yo is one of thousands of children who were stolen from Chilean families.” Tellingly, his adoptive parents didn’t support Kyle’s search. I hate that for him. I also hate that they named him Kyle…1/3 apnews.com/article/chil...

🧐 This number should be closer to 99% give that only the 1% are getting truly rich from trashing the air. Health = wealth is universally understood equation. Air pollution causes asthma, cancer, heart attacks, stroke, preterm birth, any one of which can wipe you out financially. And kill you.

Now available: Recording/podcast of webinar I've co-organized with @europe-calling.bsky.social “Trump’s #LNG Buddies – How a US company is hijacking the EU gas market” Video: youtu.be/ZufIFmD_LuY Podcast: europecalling.podigee.io/b263-trumps-... 1/2

🧪 New database of chemicals used in fracking fluid—standardized to chemical names and function categories—just dropped. Alas, full text is published in a paywalled journal but is likely available via Interlibrary loan. Here below is link to abstract.👇 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42169502/

As much as I distrust binaries, I do think most people gravitate toward one of two instincts: 1. "I suffered so why shouldn't others?" 2. "I don't want anyone else to go through the same thing I did." I also believe it forms the basis of your politics, coping mechanisms, and how you treat others.

Counterpoint: End of the day, I didn’t have enough flaming arrows for all the Nazi reply guys or pikes for their little heads. So I came here.

Push mower. Allowing you to mow the damn grass by the light of the moon and not bother your neighbors. Pleasing whirring sound. Solid full body workout. If equipped with a heart rate monitor you could put it in a gym and make people pay to use it.

Every month is Pride Month in my CrossFit gym but the Navy Seal-inspired Murph Challenge is just one day of the year and that day was today, brothers and sisters. 1 mile run 100 pull ups 200 push ups 300 air squats 1 mile run All in 50 minutes. Cue the head banger sound track

But have you ever misspelled a handwritten word and then waited for your pencil marks to autocorrect? 🙋‍♀️

Things are fucked up and bullshit, but I planted a bunch of fruit plants today and w/in minutes of putting the strawberries in there were two bees reporting for duty.

Checking in on the World Health Organization that the United States withdrew from to see what we’re missing out on… …yeah I see right well okay fuck

Meanwhile in New Delhi…

Is there a medical test more intimate—and hence surreal—than an echocardiogram? You lie shirtless in a dark room while an ultrasound probe, with its warm goo, explores the spaces between your ribs and two technicians look inside your heart and murmur in code. what do you see what do you see what

It's very sad that the United States, with perhaps the best climate science, scientists, and science communicators in the world, has consistently had the very worst climate-denying politicians and governments. Why? Simple: The powerful fossil-fuel industry and the money they shower on policymakers.

This is so sad, especially as current administration works to undo all the work that Rafe and others did. wapo.st/3RnFVqO

This data center would worsen local heat conditions and guzzle up water that Utahns can't afford to lose. It's no surprise that people oppose it!

Would Big Tech or their political enablers like this to be their families' only source of drinking water? We doubt it.

I wrote a new essay called “On Nuclear War and Condoms” about the absurdities of seeking individual safety from a collective danger. Also I was once an AIDS Awareness Coordinator for an entire college campus and I put condoms on a lot of bananas. Which is also in here. www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/5/...

Counterpoint: the problem on college campuses is skyrocketing tuition plus the replacement of Pell grants with loans, which eroded a commitment to the common good and created an understandable demand for a financial ROI for history, philosophy, poetry, and biology classes. Not lack of farm chores.

*Adds new item to the List of Moral Injuries Inflicted by This Administration: made me root for the cops* Jan. 6 Police Officers Sue to Block Trump’s Payout Fund www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

🧪 Guys, Rachel Morello-Frosch is da bomb of environmental public health research. We need MORE energy, climate, and environment provosts. This is v exciting! news.berkeley.edu/2026/04/22/u...

Call me foolish but I think the first step towards fixing higher education is returning to the collegial model whereby major decisions are made by the collective body of professors, and administrators are accountable to said body.

If you're a VA resident worried about more utility bill increases due to the data center boom, the proposed acquisition of Dominion by NextEra is bad news. As @energyandpolicy.org explains, NextEra has a sordid history of gaining outsized profits via rate increases & regulatory capture.

A poem for the evening “Seesaws” by former poet laureate of Pennsylvania, Samuel Hazo

Meanwhile in Beijing… www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Coverage of Woolsey Fire by Dan Hirsch (1950-2025), who was director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at UCSC and pres. of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, non-profit focused on issues of nuclear safety, waste disposal, proliferation and disarmament. thebulletin.org/2019/02/a-fa...