Never in my life have I had such great success Wordle 1,654 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Finally arrived in New Orleans for my first AGU conference!

Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

A trove of e-mails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released by a congressional committee on Wednesday

This is an insane metric of how awful the American government has become.

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

OMG

Please, my friends, vote for this brilliant idea from Lego! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Even chimpanzees think rationally and weigh the evidence when making a choice ;-) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My labmate @kevinricks.bsky.social and I decided to complete a side project during the last year of our doctorate programs, and I'm happy to say that it's finally been published in New Phytologist !! doi.org/10.1111/nph....

The Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund is now open for applications. ⏳ Funded by Archaeological Research Services Ltd and the SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, the fund covers the full cost of radiocarbon dating for community projects across the UK.👉

A new analysis shows that out of 22 selective admission institutions, 20 showed a decline in the share of enrolled Black freshmen this fall, with nine seeing decreases of 30% or more. #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

“More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.“

Fellow academics, I'm doing it. Going all in. Pulling the plug, literally. This is on my syllabus for Spring 2026: "This is an analog class. No Canvas; this syllabus is your guide." All readings are printed books; hand-written exams; no laptops. #academicbluesky #Highered #academia #Rutgers

As far as I can tell, this $8B in cuts to clean energy as part of the government shutdown is on top of the $13B from the pocket rescission. "...this administration is not serious about American energy dominance”. Big surprise. www.energy.gov/articles/ene... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump EPA moves to repeal landmark finding that allows climate regulation | AP News share.google/4j8mjz3qQ3wD...

Do not organize conferences in the US with an expectation to invite international scientists. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...

Peer review ≠ projection. You’re a reviewer, not a co-author. Judge what’s there—not what you wish was. We are not here to realize your fantasies. It is really not that hard.

Glad to hear this 👇🏾(below) for Sarah Kapnick. The best of success to a singularly brilliant scientist! www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/w...

After the NIH & Dept. of Health & Human Services announced plans to use private medical records for an "autism database", Gov. Pritzker signed an order preventing IL state orgs from sharing autism-related info without informed consent, @nberlat.bsky.social reports: prismreports.org/2025/05/27/i...

Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

Nothing like a dust storm to start the weekend

If you're lucky enough to live someplace where you can see Brood XIV cicadas, I highly recommend the experience. Plus, you can help scientists map zombie hotspots on @inaturalist.bsky.social, entomologist @humanbyweight.bsky.social (author/artist of a guide to N. American cicadas) explains how!

Cannot emphasize this too strongly.

Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This got WAY too little attention. 50 more Americans will die every day from cancer, heart attack and stroke than would have if the ban on harmful menthol cigarettes had been implemented.

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

This is so horrible! Hopefully everything can be returned when he is gone gone gone! www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...

Fungal endophytes may not be a reliable way to improve plant resilience to global change. Warmer temperatures disrupt symbiosis between plants and fungal endophytes by reducing fungal colonization and diversity in plant tissues, with stronger effects in leaves than roots. dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments. If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.

Study Finds Plants Increasingly Reliant On Gig Workers For Pollination theonion.com/study-f...

It’s like Satan is whispering in the year of everyone working for this administration

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

Really scary stuff. the US NSF is following the lead of Ted Cruz cancelling "questionable projects that pushed onto science neo-Marxist perspectives about enduring class struggle". I've worked with NSF for 32 years. Something is wrong. This is not what they do.🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

The cover of this week’s Economist.

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

Gave a presentation at a hospital today about Microbiomes and One Health, and I definitely said, "Microbes exchange antibiotic resistance genes like pokemon cards." 🙃

Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...

"Black resistance...has always existed. This exhibit, and this museum more broadly, allows us to see it. It also reminds us that resistance is possible in our own time—which is exactly the sort of thing that’s led authoritarian regimes around the world to scrub examples of political resistance"

NSF has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into STEM. Not anymore. scim.ag/3RUtgZg

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

I am sorry to say it, but this is probably one of the most important things you can repost today.

Who could have foreseen that firing all the experts would have consequences?

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

GODDAMIT. IT’S NOT A RESURRECTED DIRE WOLF. 20 edits in 19,000 genes. IT’S NOT GOING TO AID CONSERVATION. EVERY WRITE UP THAT SWALLOWS AND REGURGITATES THIS GUFFERY WOLFSHIT IS DOING PR FOR A FUNDING ROUND.

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool