On the day the Joides Resolution is on its way to be shredded, we also find out about NSF's removal of ocean observation arrays; here is the update that was posted before a U.S. holiday weekend oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/nsf-...

Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is genuinely entertaining; the interviewers are absolutely owned by Zack. It's informative and educational too, thanks to Zack's skill at communicating

The politics of hope are back. The politics of fear are in crisis. New column on the Green victory in Gorton and Denton 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member. We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"

This is emblematic of the consumer culture that fees have engendered. What the hell did the students expect? It was a ONCE IN A CENTURY PANDEMIC. There were LAWS against congregating in public. Staff worked themselves to the bone to get online delivery working. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

Had the Labour party been reading Private Eye in 2009, when business columnist Slicker was already laying out the peculiar Mandelson-Epstein connection, they would have known exactly what they were dealing with. ➡️ Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCe...

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”

Quick vid on @globalenergymon.bsky.social's new gas plant tracker update: US planned gas increased 3x, 1/3rd of that is JUST dedicated, off-grid gas plants for data centres! @mrchrisadams.bsky.social's new term applies perfectly here: PETROTECH globalenergymonitor.org/report/betti...

"Stiopa… Stiopa…" the man cries over the body of an 18yo boy russia killed in Zaporizhzhia today — alongside an 18yo girl. That video tears you apart. How many more boys and girls have to be murdered before the free world understands: terrorists don't stop by appeasement?

A reminder! George Lakoff came up with the 'truth sandwich' concept during Trump's first term. It's not magic but it's good basic information hygiene and should be the default when fighting against bullshit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_s...

11. This story is being spun as one bad apple. That awful man went off-piste and betrayed the national interest. Yes, he did, and he did it secretly in his disgraceful dealings with Epstein. But in other respects he undermined democracy with the full backing of the government. It was the policy.

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Many of my science colleagues are not speaking out-I suspect due to the fear Phil notes, that they'll targeted for loss of funding. I hope they read this account of what happened at a faculty meeting at Frankfurt University in 1933 as the Nazi's took control 🧪 www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what an Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. (Published Dec. 2025)

Epstein makes Page One. If you can find it. @wsj.com

new details in here with @justinglawe.bsky.social, who I’ve had the privilege of reporting with at the daily beast, rolling stone, and now at @zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/trump-geor... Subscribe to his @americandoom.bsky.social

AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti: "This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE." Full statement:

Sorry I know this sounds like a shitpost but it is so mental that a portion of the UK hard left has gone from “no platform for fascists” to “pay a fascist to share a platform with fascists” in like five years

Your constant reminder. This will be happening here too, if you vote for #Farage. 👇 Our media & press never tell us the truth, so it's up to us to get the message out there: DON'T VOTE #REFORM!!

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

You know who”stayed a little back” in VIetnam? DJT.

Disinformation around climate action is surging just as threats escalate. Governments can’t sit by in silence while public understanding is undermined. Resilience comes from honest communication. Time for a televised emergency briefing. MPs please sign: www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

UK Universities cut 13,300 jobs, paid £300m+ in redundancy. Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn. Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale. Govt want skilled labour. archive.ph/favYt

Unhinged

It was inevitable.

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

If you or your organization is still using X/Twitter, what the heck are you thinking? Forget politics. It’s just dangerous and awful. It even gleefully spreads AI pornography of innocent people — including children. It disabled all safety controls. It is harmful to the world.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In the strain on scientific publishing, we showed that total publications have grown out of control. A huge part of that was guest edited special issues by groups like #MDPI and #Frontiers. This ongoing practice is the largest delegation of editorial power academia has ever seen. 2/n

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

Minneapolis, after the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

@royalsociety.org you should be ashamed of honouring a paedophilia publisher and distributor within your membership.

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.” Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me. So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.

Excellent idea. Is there a downside?

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing. Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this? Background readings: Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

There you go. I remember the covid amulet paper well. Too bad for those who published their honest work in Science of the Total Environment (even the name makes no sense). Plenty of community or society journals to choose from. Avoid Elsevier, they only care about profit.

If you publish in Scientific Reports, you run the risk of never being taken seriously and potentially ruining your career. Deeply unethical and shameful that Springer Nature continue publishing this steaming pile. "Everybody knows" there's no peer review there, but ECRs often don't!

Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete. This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪 (via @smutclyde.bsky.social)

Job alert: #PhD position in isotope hydro-biogeochemistry, "Weathering vs. climate change: Quantifying recent silicate weathering using novel isotope tracers", University of Durham (UK). Apply by 5 Jan. More info: buff.ly/mHkWOdb

Job alert: Research Engineer (RI) in isotope geochemistry of lake biogenic silica, University Savoie Mont-Blanc (USMB), Fr. Apply by 4 Dec. More info: buff.ly/mHkWOdb