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Mexican food scientist Raquel Gómez-Pliego works to improve the nutritional value of foods through microbial fermentation go.nature.com/45ttCO3

Jon on ICE's Killing of Renee Good and Trump's Model of Compliance for Protesters youtu.be/-IcUQkvoRIc

A collection of wetlands equal to the size of Wisconsin is likely unprotected under current Clean Water Act interpretations, according to new research presented at #AGU25. eos.org/articles/aft...

Spot the difference: Iraq vs. Venezuela

As @jbakcoleman.bsky.social and I wrote, “Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist.” Same goes for instructors.

"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.

El desmantelamiento de la ciencia en EEUU afecta a la ciencia a nivel global.

Pure evil

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

During the U.S. government shutdown, several NASA missions observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed by Mars. Check out some of their amazing images, including this one from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter! 🧪🔭☄️ 📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

WTF? MAGA face is a thing? 🤦‍♂️

wake up babe new phil trans cover just dropped.

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?" My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.) The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope? Because Greta is right ..

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says: “The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

Trump has murdered at least 83 people with extrajudicial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats. He needs to face consequences for this. His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.

But I thought social scientists could just study LLMs now.

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Could it be that these two things are related? Like in a cause-effect relationship? Who knows

It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)

Living costs and politics have lead to PhD students studying abroad Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t

More about Avi Loeb embarrassing himself and, by proxy, the astronomical community.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.

This is bad. Some thoughts from a TAMU faculty member. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Fox News is VERY upset with politicians who make unrealistic promises

For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a supernova explosion just a day after detection, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/ 🔭 🧪 ☄️

COP30 kicks off today! 🌍 We’re highlighting AGU member voices from Brazil’s scientific community who are leading efforts to understand and address climate change. Meet Ana Carolina Vaz, an ocean-climate expert and program committee member for the upcoming JpGU–AGU Joint Meeting 2026. 💙

I guess not being allowed to sexually harass people at work really killed the vibe.

New image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS by M. Jäger, G. Rhemann & E. Prosperi. Avi Loeb's: "Is the network of jets associated with pockets of ice on the surface of a natural cometary nucleus or are they coming from a set of jet thrusters used for navigation of a spacecraft? We do not know."

Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen @masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

It’s a good night for it.

Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse? It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.

For those unfamiliar with the Halo games, the Flood is a parasitic alien lifeform so bad that superweapons known as Halos were built as a last resort to kill all sentient life in the galaxy in an effort to stop them. And the official DHS page is memeing about it while referring to immigrants. Vile.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

For decades, Earth’s hemispheres reflected sunlight almost equally. Now, #NASA’s #CERES mission shows that symmetry is breaking and the north is darkening. eos.org/articles/new...

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

The University of Arizona rejected the White House education compact Monday, with its president Suresh Garimella writing to the Trump administration that the university will compete on merit for federal

So why do I let AI in my house? Don’t I care about the environmental consequences? What about the theft of intellectual property? Don’t I understand that these are bullshit machines? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. It’s what I do all day long.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Mind blowing 🤯

Arizona's Declining Groundwater as seen from the GRACE and GRACE-FO missions. A transition to a drier climate (more La Niña years causing less rain) may explain this situation, which is exacerbated by an increase of thirsty crops in recent years earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15456...

Back in my day a bunch of us used to just show up at a friend's place and shoot the shit all night it cost like whatever a six pack and a bag of Doritos was at the time fox32chicago.com/news/young-a...

BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.

In wake of CNN reporting on administration plans to cut NOAA GeoXO satellite program, did a deep dive on the topic of our nation's satellite programs. Bottom line IMO, admin wants to take us from a Land Rover to a Honda Civic. More here: https://tinyurl.com/jjkhsvda

I think is every scientist responsibility to fight against misinformation. Here 5 core points that help with this conversation, I think they are great for talking to students. www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-f...