please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state" ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

“If I do not file a complaint, where does that leave all Mexican women?” Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday. www.jezebel.com/one-of-the-w...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss. ------------------------------------------------ "In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.' Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.' In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"

If you're feeling energized from being in the historically massive crowds that gathered this weekend, now is the time to figure out where to go next! Join us on Sunday 10/26 to learn what you can do next

If you’re a journalist who started following me bc of Gavin Wax this week, you should start with this story I wrote over two years ago.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

'this is a long answer not bc the question is hard but bc you're so wrong in so many ways and I'm gonna go through all of them' is a hilarious way to open a court opinion

Left unchecked, openAI and other infotech providers will destroy any remnants of the American education system that manage to escape the Trump administration. Read the full thread.

Try taking the COVID competency exam yourself, and share it around! Great way to bust myths (and the person who wrote it is an epidemiologist, and well-informed, so it really does). seanmullen.com/covidcompete...

Now I'm no big city white shoe marketing guy but idk if "you are permitted to delete your account" is really that compelling of an app feature in fact it tends to raise questions like "what the fuck" and "are you planning on making it so we CAN'T leave" and "what are you TALKING about" and "WHAT"

I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.

For our scientists. By @ellecordova.bsky.social

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this is cool - @standupforscience.bsky.social will send a "Quack-O-Gram" - an actual rubber duck! - on your behalf to your representative, asking them to impeach RFK Jr for all our sakes. act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here.

This is written for my own benefit as much as anyone else's. It's so that I can have it all in one place and point people at it. It's what the Reference Rants are for. Needless to say, someone is in trouble. Likely several someones.

Among Brighter Stars is my take on the Trek formula, with its own captain and crew, a growing roster of characters, and its own philosophy. I feel like some of you will like the captain, Kathérine Durand, a trans woman and war veteran :3

Hey #iteachphysics folks, @ioppublishing.bsky.social allowed me to post the first chapter to provide an overview of the forthcoming book. You can find it here: dannycaballero.info/posts/iop-bo...

🍎🧪🎢🧬 Any excuse to share this masterpiece: Mustached Bats Vs The Doppler Effect Congratulations Tom!

This is true and it sucks. Not enough characters on here to explain it, but science is in a dire position and it seems increasingly unlikely to change.

Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go! Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.” Ahem. *takes a sip of water*

✊ support the NASA employees here: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor...

Tell a friend to tell a friend NO buying produce July 16,17 & 18th. #USA #Strike #KeepGoing #Cali #California

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‘The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants’ democrats organised a fair to mark the fact that Trump cancelled so many research projects and showcase the research that has been lost 🧪

Following the success of "Why Sharks Matter," lots of science colleagues have asked for my advice about whether or not they should write a book. By request, here's that advice in handy blog post form. www.southernfriedscience.com/considering-...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.

It was my honor to work with distinguished lawyer colleagues on this statement of commitment to the principles that must undergird American democracy. It appears today as full page ad in the @nytimes.com & in papers around the country. Learn more at @weholdthesetruths.bsky.social

When we finally start to build community and solidarity.

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

The thing about Corrie ten Boom and her family was that their “Hiding Place” work was a later, secondary add-on to their primary Christian vocation of forgery. They were devout, evangelical (Dutch Reformed) forgers & frauds who created IDs for those the state had deemed non-persons.

as it turns out, Trump’s mass deportation agenda relies upon some crucial choke points. Here they are. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Here's my full report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-con...

Generative "AI" is a cheating tool designed by cheaters. It's creating devastation in education systems...but those education systems were already primed for this kind of devastation. They were primed by standardized testing and grade-based advancement, both of which incentivize cheaters. 🧵

There’s something powerful about protests in smaller communities. While there's a unique energy to large protests, these local actions remind us what it’s really about: showing up, speaking out, and building community—and power—together. #NoKings

NEW: Absolutely incredible images coming out of San Diego. The streets are filled with tens of thousands of anti-Trump protestors. This is what resistance looks like 👏 #NoKings #50501Movement (📸 Scott Dworkin)

"After completing the two years of required courses in OSU’s PhD program, Joy decided to start transitioning in 2022. This was the culmination of feelings she’d been having since she was 8 years old." 🔭🧪🏳️‍⚧️ astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

“Yo no soy de aquí, pero tú tampoco.” #Classics youtu.be/lIGRyRf7nH4?...

Tom Lehrer performed this satire something like 70 years ago... www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFvx...

Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer. Countdown to #ShowYourStripes Day on the 1st day of summer: 12 days! Each line represents one year 🔵Cooler-than-average temp 🔴Above-average temp Find your city's stripes here 👉 observablehq.com/@climatecent...