I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

what even is the fucking point

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

So the US is pushing its head further up its ass. Can’t come at a better time with all of these shitty AI data centers coming up 🙃 Jesus fucking Christ is this administration cartoonishly evil

But the other piece of evidence -- the point of this thread -- is that we now have an example of what it looks like when US political & corporate elites *really are* obsessed with and committed to something. Namely: AI.

yuck.

I want people to understand Columbia Heights as a first ring suburb of working class Minnesotans. It has my favorite Palestinian grocery, one of the best Mexican ones, a huge Indian grocery store, an East Asian store I haven't tried yet because there are so many, and a Palestinian sweets store.

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

There are extremely bad things happening in Iran and I wish we’d see more reporting on this. Not helping are the big accounts spreading mis/dis info. Be critical! What we know: the internet had been shut off for some time, several thousands have been killed, US ships moving into Gulf.

a substantial fraction of my adult life has now been spent watching the worst of the worst reshaping our world. This cannot go on

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/n... What an asshole, honestly. Like what even is the point of this?

Does anyone know of any sustainability focused eco-tourism programs or experiences in India? Thinking primarily in Kerala but would love to hear of other programs elsewhere in India too

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway We don't even have a word or a phrase for this! theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

I am very pleased to hear this. I will be writing and encouraging others to as well.

“What we’re seeing here is certainly not something that’s been seen before in our historical data” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Sure would be nice to have a media industry that wasn’t three billionaires in a trench coat

The latest issue of @ligomagazine.bsky.social is out now and free to read 🎉 Celebrate 10 years of gravitational-wave astronomy with us 🎉 ligo.org/wp-content/u... 🔭🧪⚛️ #GW10Years

The sheer amount of fuckery that AI enables while burning down the planet at the profit driven whims of a handful of very stupid and malicious people might be our defining moment as a species.

Front page news! 📰 Monash PhD researcher Christian Adamcwicz leads new LVK results revealing the mysterious 40 M☉ gap in black hole populations. Exciting clues about how the universe’s heaviest stars live and die! #BlackHoles #LVK #Astrophysics www.theaustralian.com.au/science/grav...

Big props to @daniel-williams.co.uk in leading this project to where it stands today!

Forgot the #astro

The O4a results (GWTC-4) of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA are now out 🥳 We have 128 new candidates of which 86 have a false alarm rate of less this 1 per year The new catalog results arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082 Update on black hole and neutron star population arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083

spent nearly half a day reading half a dozen papers to figure out the right way to write two sentences in my paper 🙃😭

For the love of god can tech companies stop shoving AI down our throats. I don’t want your annoying AI overview Google, give me a button to turn it off

procrastinated doing something tax related for two weeks that literally took me two mins please clap

Oh fuck off with this nonsense. What's the point of learning about the world around us if we also don't learn about ourselves? This is as anti intellectual as anything the T govt is doing. And this guy doesn't seem to mind the action of the govt, only their target.

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black. Do you understand?

WoodCIDE spilled 16,000 litres of oil into the Indian Ocean north of Ningaloo in May 2025 & today, news of #NingalooReef's mass coral bleaching & mortality It's extraordinary that @wamuseum.bsky.social has extended it's partnership with WoodCIDE for a further 5 years & is hosting Woodside Open Day

Billionaires say we need to increase the population so we can have more Mozarts while simultaneously saying we don’t need Mozart because AI can make music better than a human anyway. They don’t mean anything they’re saying. It’s all just words to hide their greed and white supremacy behind.

This is a town hall in a Trump +20 district in Nebraska. If this isn’t a guide to Dems on what to focus in the midterms, how to capture back popular support, I don’t know what is www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back. You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

Having a virtual carbon price would enable us to see how rubbish our current emissions abatement policies are, according to the Productivity Commission.

As someone who worked for years, and learned so much from doing so, on the NOVA series, produced by WGBH for PBS...I can't believe that we are throwing away so much of our vital cultural capital. We are led by nihilist morons.

Sign of the times- Michigan State, one of the biggest astronomy programs in the USA, is not accepting ANY applications for its graduate program this year 😖 🔭🧪🎢

Erasing history

People thought I was overreacting when I said Trump’s list of “banned” words meant epidemiology was itself defacto being banned. But this week U Michigan announced they aren’t even accepting applications for the 2026 epi PhD admissions cycle. www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

The capitulation and abandonment of civil rights continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

We are now at the climatological warmest time of year for the average global temperature. While there will be no new absolute records this year for the annual maximum, our planet remains much warmer than any previous decade in our records. 🤒 Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

I hope people who sat out or voted third party are happy. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!" Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere -"CO2 is plant food!" -pretty hard to eat when you're on fire -"Climate has changed before!" -We know, we told you that -"Scientists don't know everything!" - doesn't mean we know *nothing*

2025 has seen the second warmest first half of the year on record after 2024 – and is on track to be the second or third warmest year since records began in 1850. My latest State of the Climate report over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

As an actual Astronomer… pretty please yes this?

Astronomer was the final straw, I'm issuing a personal moratorium on naming SaaS companies with real words, which are part of our cultural heritage. No stealing reality valor by calling "containerized lambdas on the blockchain" shit like Baguette

It’s such a wanton, bizarre and self destructive act, these sustained demolitions of higher education at the demand of the far right, transphobes, technofascists and other assorted anti-intellectuals. And it’s happening in so many parts of the world.

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Heard the latest news from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration? We detected the collision of the most massive pair of black holes so far: #GW231123 weighing in at ~137 + ~103 times the mass of the Sun! So to celebrate, here’s a handy chart ✨ Just how chonky are these black holes? 🤔