The faster tomato pickers here can fill 200 buckets in a 6 hr shift. They carry 2 buckets at once & run in & out of the field to maximize earnings during the 4-6 week harvest. Temps often exceed 100° so the workers start at 4-5am to be done by noon to avoid the heat. #WeFeedYou

Next, @stephaniemlee.bsky.social draws on internal NIH data to tell the stories of a dozen scientists who find their grants in limbo. With peer review on pause, "they’re navigating constantly changing, legally dubious, sporadically communicated whims, with no clear way forward," she writes.

Dissertation alternatives, such as capstone projects and applied group-based projects, could better prepare graduates for their future careers, write academics at @bristoluni.bsky.social and ‪‪@edinburghnapier.bsky.social‬: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/disse... #ai #highered #academicsky

This article illustrates the incredible power of the scientific method and a tale of keeping an open mind when investigating sesn or observed phenomena.

Later today I’ll be talking about my #sciart about pollinators and the future of pollination and you’re welcome to join us over lunchtime in this time zone 🐝🦋 🧪🐡

Which AI bot is best at writing? There was one clear winner in a test I just published @washingtonpost.com I had ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude and a human (me!) draft 5 different kinds of tough emails. Then I asked 5 communication pros to judge them. wapo.st/3FFo34V

#2025MMM Narrators 👀 🤔

Look at this! The area circled in red is Wheeler Geologic Area. The entire access road and the entry/parking area (circled in yellow) for Wheeler is included in the auction. This would basically privatize access. Just blatant grift.

. When you've spend hours looking for your little black kitten... . . . and then... 💙 🐾 💙

Felt it useful to update my work on the bidirectional link between whites' partisanship & their views of Black folks with the recent ANES panel taking the tests to a new context and a new method to better tease out individual change. Results persist. We should stop treating racial attitudes as exog.

Absolutely stunning work of ⚛️ history in @physicstoday.bsky.social about Ben Lee, the Korean American who was the first head of theory at Fermilab. He hired the first Black woman particle theory lab staff in global history, Shirley Ann Jackson. #BlackandSTEM 🧪 pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

Caltech and Meta have formalized an agreement that will bring together the Institute's innovative research approach with Meta research projects exploring how people interact with integrated technologies. www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

I've made this point multiple times before but if Bluesky wants to grow, the things they need aren't opinion pundits but accounts that publish new information. That's breaking news reporters, politicians and stuff like official organization accounts that publish official statements.

Trump has federalized at least 2,000 National Guard forces and reportedly plans to deploy troops to Los Angeles over Governor Newsom’s objections. If that happens, it will be the first time since 1965 that a president has sent troops into a state without a state request. 1/19

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

SCOOP from @byjoshmoody.bsky.social: Emails show UNC in discussion with officials in Florida about creating a new accreditor that could be led by a Board of Directors made up of participating state systems #higheredsky www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

🇵🇷 @umichnews.bsky.social spotlights the Puerto Rico Public Opinion Lab, a CPS-affiliated project led by @maraceci.bsky.social that's launched a new survey across the island of Puerto Rico to understand the political opinions and experiences of Puerto Ricans. news.umich.edu/new-survey-a...

Another day, another chance for Doug Ford to demonstrate his disdain for education.

Hey, you know what goes really fast, takes up a lot more space, emits a lot more pollution/noise/GHG emissions, costs a lot more public money, and is FAR more dangerous in cities than any kind of bike in a city where most don’t drive? Cars. So, about that “enough is enough”…

This whole thing has been a secret war against knowing stuff and the people who know stuff.

It is not down on any map; true places never are. - Herman Melville

Imagine how busy the SNL writing staff is tonight.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Random sidewalk lamppost has a message

It’s a question of when not if another pandemic comes and #flu is still one of the - if not the - likeliest infection to cause it. Preparing for this eventuality now could save millions of lives (and billions of dollars) down the road. 🧪 #IDsky

Elon just confirmed he’s stepping away in a post on X. Now it’s time to remove the staffers he embedded from his companies across the government.

Opium poppies decorate the stained glass windows of this church in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis. Paid for by Lady Mary Matheson, wife of James Matheson, to commemorate hubby’s opium legacy. All revealed in the @empirepoduk.bsky.social mini-series on Victorian Narcos (episodes 247-255)👍

Spiraling Vitamins. I recrystallized the combo of vitamins B12 and C from a liquid solution onto a microscope slide. I was thunderstruck to spot a good number of structures that display a spiral growth pattern. The one shown here is about the size of multivitamin pill sized right for bumblebee.

Love to watch the emergence of an all-out, whole-of-government effort to smother free inquiry and independent thought in the United States 🗽

These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution

🎊 Congratulations to Kenny Lowande @lowande.bsky.social whose book, "False Front," has won the 2025 Richard E. Neustadt award for best book on the American presidency.

Just two days to go until #SGKM2025! 🥳 Our Impulse Team shirts are ready to go. While preparations continue behind the scenes, excitement is rising — this week, we’re kicking things off with around 130 participants. See you in Chur! #SACM #BTS

@flyingtrilobite.com Morning Glendon…just an ICYMI about like-minded research on AI-generated imagery. You are not alone, G!

How are newsrooms dealing with AI-generated images? 🤖 At #SGKM2025, Dr. Seraina Tarnutzer shows how 28 newsrooms define (or avoid) rules on AI-generated imagery – and what this says about journalistic norms. #SGKM #SACM #Conference #AI #Journalism #Media

This show was straight fire. Robert Randolph playing a small bar in Tribeca while he was on the verge of being discovered. A killer guest appearance by Mr. Tony Trischka. Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi were at this show. So was my (non-famous but nonetheless awesome) dad. I miss Tribeca Blues.

Elsa Lam continues to prove & document how corrupt & full of lies the Doug Ford closure of the science centre was & is. Read & share widely - not that it matters in Ontario, a province that seems ok w a high level of this. www.canadianarchitect.com/draft-engine...

NEW #Astrophoto: Markarian’s Chain Two perfect nights in 03/2025 — one under the pristine skies of Hoher List Observatory (lum), the other at home (RGB). Couldn’t be happier with the result! Story: astrocamp.eu/en/markarian... ▼ Baader Apo 95 | SkyEye62AM '25 #astrophotography #astronomy #nature

If you know that the study design is completely unfit to answer the question that you are interested in, then I personally believe that it is unethical to conduct the study. Whatever 'answer' you get can only - by definition - be misleading, leading to potential social harms.

Fantastic photos by astronaut Don Pettit who just got back from seven months in space. Milky Way above the Pacific Ocean before sunrise. Two nearby dwarf galaxies. A cargo delivery ship docking. A comet, and to its left a meteor burning up as it hits the atmosphere. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/s...

From the eye of photographer Asahachi Kono. His interest in circles and curves persisted even as his style evolved throughout his career in Los Angeles. (🧵1/3)

AN IMMENSE WORLD: YOUNG READERS EDITION is out today! 🥳 I’m really grateful to AnnMarie Anderson for adapting it, Rebecca Mills for illustrating, Tom Russell for shepherding, and Rose Eveleth for reading the audiobook. (And it’s dedicated to Typo.) bookshop.org/p/books/an-i...

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

JWST observes a unique mini-Neptune — the first to match predictions that its atmosphere should have the same composition as a star. Article by me for Sky & Telescope skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?

Can a game boost political participation? 🎮 Amina Ovcina Cajacob explores how digital tools like Serious Games can reduce inequalities and inspire youth to engage in politics. #SGKM2025 #Media #Participation #CivicTech

Midsummer butterflies spotted early in Britain after sunny spring; scientists fear early emerging insects may fall out of sync with pathogens, predators or availability of food www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.