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

Multiple positions (PhD and postdoc) available at Durham university, (co)advised by me. If interested in any of these, feel free to DM or email me for more info. Otherwise please share with any motivated ECRs in your network!

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

History repeats.

Pathetic.

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2014, when the world refused even to recognize russian aggression. Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2022, when the world expected us to fall in 72h. Ukrainians won't surrender in 2025, either. For us, freedom and sovereignty are not empty words.

If you'd like to offer comments on the misleading & error-ridden US federal report, "Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," the link to do so is below. Comments are due by Sept 2. Pls see next post for links to resources that debunk the claims in this report.