Also vaccine preventable...

Sadly, another example of the Kentucky legislature picking up the pace in the race to the bottom just like they did for watersheds with last year's SB89. I'm glad to see that Fitz is still fighting the good fight regardless of the odds!

A reminder of how incredibly accurate climate science was in the 1970s. The term “uncertainty” was successfully rolled out to muddy the waters of political debate, but as far as the general trajectory of warming caused by CO2 there was *never* any uncertainty.

I'm reading this over and over and thinking he surely must have meant grifting, not gifting.

Interesting, if oddly written, summary of the nascent efforts to refill Utah's Great Salt Lake before Salt Lake City gets overwhelmed by the toxic dust on its floor.

Medical experiments on prisoners? Where have we seen this before?

Why did federal prosecutors ask New Mexico to drop its investigation into Zorro Ranch in 2019? And why are these files not in the file release by the DOJ under the Epstein Files Transparency Act?

Where do oil prices go now that Iran counterattacks w missiles all across the Gulf. A literal trillion dollar question Insurance → shipping costs → oil prices → a global inflationary shock. reporting @leeharris.ft.com ft.com/content/2dc1...

Good piece on the “brain drain” from the U.S. and the history of its “brain gain”. For the moment, while the numbers might be up, it looks like the real loss is in talented junior and future scholars, rather than senior “stars” (as most of these programs are not competitive for the latter).

This is so good and necessary. Thank you, Bob.

A standing reminder: a small handful of Republicans in Congress could stop this chaos tomorrow. They simply choose not to.

Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works

Today is Nisqually Earthquake Awareness Day! “Prepare, don’t despair”—that’s our message on the 25th anniversary of the 2001 M6.8 earthquake. Learn more in this clip: www.king5.com/article/news...

This morning, Donald Trump launched direct strikes against Iran without congressional authorization—endangering regional stability, American service members, and U.S. national security.

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

Trump has decisively collapsed the US empire’s sleight of hand. There is no distinction or space between the brutality of the colony and the empire itself. ICE has brought home colonial barbarity. USAID has disappeared, along with the facade of imperial benevolence.

As always, I don't repost, even to bring zen to your timeline, if you don't have alt text in your post 🥰

'"I live in constant fear": surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... 'Falling groundwater, extreme heat and water-intensive farming are accelerating land collapse' #ClimateEmergency #PublicSafety

Restrictions on international researchers at NIST stand to be the latest blow to the US research community. #physics #quantum

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Geofriends! I am hoping someone can help. I do talks on local geology, and have wanted several times to use the wonderful paleo-North America maps made by Ron Blakey. However, they're not on SERC and I don't have institutional library access. Can anyone share the non-commercial use package with me?

I’m obsessed with this slab of gypsum!! Look at all the squiggly folds and faulting showing the deformation of the evaporite!! #FridayFold #FaultFriday ⚒️🧪

Everything about today’s deposition showed how deeply unserious the GOP is about investigating Epstein’s crimes. From asking questions about UFOs, to not a single GOP member attending a key deposition, to failing to hold Pam Bondi accountable for violating the law. This is not a game.

Apparently, Oversight Republicans are now asking Hilary Clinton about UFOs. Wow. If these guys were serious about addressing the Epstein crimes, why are they not asking the AG and FBI to answer for the cover-up of files and why cases have been left unprosecuted for decades?

Why are women predominantly being asked to answer for men’s crimes—and why are perpetrators not being held accountable? ⬇️

The selective rejection of authoritative peer-reviewed studies like this one based on the flimsiest of arguments suggests to me that the motivated reasoning displayed by glysophate fanboys is as problematic as the antiscience we encounter in other areas (see #ScienceUnderSiege)

M5.7 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 04.59 UTC on 26 February 2026. P-wave recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

As climate change pushes more destructive weather across Georgia, a new storm recovery charge could soon hit Georgia Power customers’ bills.

It's easy to mock people who hold unscientific beliefs about food, chemicals, or medicine. But those fears don't exist in a vacuum. You can't change minds about vaccines, diets, etc. without understanding that those fears have root in distrust in industries that have a history of lying about safety.

“The wages are higher in the U.S. but the quality of life is higher in Europe.”

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

The @kentuckylantern.com is looking for its next editor to lead our award-winning nonprofit newsroom, a strong team covering politics, policy and power of decisions made in the state capital of Frankfort and across KY. See below! statesnewsroom.com/staff-openin... #JournalismJobs #JournoJobs

Looking back on the history of water in the American West, it's pretty clear that 1) we should've listened to John Wesley Powell and 2) it's not just an engineering problem of apportioning water from a pipe to various states.

The opportunity to go beyond majors and requirements is, in my mind, something that sets a good college education apart from job training. It adds essential dimensions and insights from different perspectives; new ways of thinking about the world. It encourages leading rather than following.

Why are we the horses in this analogy and not the people the horses / cars are transporting?

Climate denial is expensive! The American Academy of Actuaries warns that closing the National Center for Atmospheric Research — which the Trump regime calls “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism" — would lead to higher prices for home insurance and thus for housing itself.

Screenshot from here: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... [ @whitehouse.senate.gov ]

Unlike the very public dismantling of FEMA's billion-dollar BRIC program (which a judge then ruled unlawful), the agency secretly shelved a much smaller resiliency program focused on the everyday Americans. Here's the story, exclusively @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

From the standpoint of the precautionary principle, the burden is to show a potentially dangerous intervention is safe. Vaccines have met that burden. Fossil fuel burning has not. Nor, it seems increasingly clear, has glyphosate. And attempts to compare the latter to the former are disingenuous.

The cruelty and inhumanity of this Administration’s policies have left another person dead—as CBP dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee living in Buffalo NY, alone on a cold winter night miles from his home. This cruelty must end.

The Winter That Forgot to Happen... 🥵 With just three days remaining in meteorological #winter (Dec-Jan-Feb), the outcome is "baked in" that it will be the warmest winter in #Albuquerque 's long history by an enormous margin. [1/3]

NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day today is NISAR images acquired before and after the magnitude 7 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake in Yukon near the border with Alaska. It shows the huge number of landslides and avalanches in the mountains triggered by the earhtquake science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Heads up 🧪science folks. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to generate some examples of issues in how Chat-GPT 5.0 answers intro bio type things. I'll stick at least some of them here in a thread so you're free to use them, rather than having to waste resources asking it stuff we know it gets wrong

Another gift of the petrochemical industry. youtu.be/xsrTm1M99uc?...

Happening now with Epstein Survivors: Mr. President, we will not move on, and the world will not move on.

It’s time to turn the Epstein files into the Epstein trials. - Rep. Andrea Romero, Chair of the NM Epstein Truth Commission

It's time for a U.S. Geological Survey Photo Thread --- July 22, 1980 The first clearly visible eruption since May 18.

Structural geologists: Cody would be great to work with.