🗃️ JOB: History and Social Science Education at San Jose State University

Reminder that if you’re still using Google Search for whatever reason, you can add a “-ai” to the end of your search to get regular Google hits. Works, ironically, about 80% of the time (similar to AI)

Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated

Walking in a monsoon wonderland. Video from recent storm in Tucson, Arizona Anyone who says deserts are boring has never been to the Sonoran Desert. IG: mylife_in_arizona_

The comment period on the proposed OMB rule closes July 13. Your input can help protect merit-based science funding. Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates and submit a comment today: vist.ly/59mbt #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky #medsky

On June 28, 2011, Google launched Google+, its social network built to rival Facebook. It never gained broad popularity and was shut down for consumers in April 2019 due to low user engagement.

Not sure how I missed this: thehill.com/policy/techn...

Dearest friends, I am in need of an epically banger short story collection. Please regale me with stories of your finest stories! Wash me in your teeny prose! Flood me in your mini-fiction references! Please— PLEASE BLUEKSY! I beseech thee!

You can buy any book FROM YOUR FAVORITE BOOKSTORE through BookShop.org, and they'll ship directly from the store to you, just like Amazon (but without the ick!)

After spending $14 million in taxpayer funds, Trump's renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are peeling off and floating to the surface

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

Zero. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't know this Rebecca Helm, but I have news Google news alerts set up to ping me whenever my name is mentioned, and she's been making headlines here lately. Really proud of other Rebecca Helm 🥰 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Took a 20 mile bike ride this morning to check out the Reflecting Pool

My inbox is filled with AI-agent written emails. This is bad practice, but it is also fundamentally undercutting the democratization of the internet. The internet makes it possible for people to find mentors and make connections. This erodes that trusted process. Do not do this.

In 2017, I had to abandon ship. I was lost at sea. Caribbean fishermen, in the dead of night, risked their safety to pull me out of the ocean. Ever since the first illegal boat strike, I've been haunted by the betrayal of our duty to render aid and what it means for the safety of life at sea.

“Based on falling clean-energy costs, climate policy, and recent emissions trends, the highest-emissions pathway had become, in their words, “implausible.””

When I had students ask me why they should take US history in college when they took it in high school—“I got a 5 on the AP!”—I would tell them it was because now I could teach them things that they wouldn’t have been allowed to learn in high school because someone’s parents would’ve been mad.

Washington DC: where you are regularly assaulted by abject political horrors and unabashed professional levels of whimsey.

Kinda obsessed with this new friendo. What’s he dreaming about??

What in the name of Beetlejuice ARE these things? They're zebra morphs of 'squat lobsters', likely in genus Allogalathea. They're not true lobsters & are more closely related to hermit crabs. Now which one is white with black stripes & which is black with white stripes? (📷: hoopderscotch)

Reading for the Hugo Awards? Try the finalist for Best Short Story "10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days" by Samantha Mills @samtasticbooks.com! It also placed 2nd in the Uncanny Poll! You can read it here or in the Hugo packet! buff.ly/7IFySa1

This is the creator dilemma I find myself in: on the one hand, I can share honest content that’s not AI slop, but on the other hand, that content will then be stollen and used to make more AI slop. How to do??

Wake up y’all new structure ambiguity exercise just dropped. #linguistics

I wrote about one specific way AI is ruining my life defector.com/ai-animal-vi...

Happy World Ocean Day!

Who, specifically, ordered the Ocean Observatory Initiative destroyed? Someone made this decision. Reporters, get on this. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

I assign an AI evaluation in my classes. Here’s what I’ve learned: Unless you’re an expert, you can’t see the slop for what it is. You have to deeply know a subject to smell the bullshit. What this guy is doing isn’t being edgy, he’s revealing that he’s too ignorant to understand this basic fact:

There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.

There are over 10,000 known species of amphipods, a type of crustacean found from ocean beaches to the deepest depths on planet Earth, the Challenger Deep. Terrifying & beautiful, all at once. (📷: Alan Jamieson)

Don’t forget to doom-scroll and share the wins, too! www.cpr.org/2026/06/01/f...

It is hard to deny clear evidence that the Earth is warming. Instead, Trump's NSF is removing the data collecting tools. This expensive removal of working marine monitoring equipment will hinder future assessment of dangers in El Niño strength, speed of hurricane intensification, AMOC shutdown, etc.

The New York Times is hiring another climate policy reporter. Come work with me! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

America is racing towards willful obsolescence: “the National Science Foundation is removing 900 ocean data collecting buoys that cost $370 million to install. If left in place, the buoys would have continued to provide climate-related data …for another 15 years” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

All aboard the #Hype4Hydrozoa bus! 🪼

I strongly encourage US-based astronomers to attend the virtual Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee meeting tomorrow (Mon June 1st), where the heads of NASA, NSF, and DOE astronomy/astrophysics divisions will be presenting updates & taking questions 🔭 www.nsf.gov/events/astro...

The deep sea equally fascinates me and scares the shit out of me.

PSA: you do need to hit ▶️ to properly appreciate what ‘glittering holographic orange layer’ means.

Invertebrates are always doing the coolest shit. Vertebrates really need to step up their game (Friggin' Bonies!)

You can't convince me this isn't from some other solar system.

omg look at the children

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

The filmmakers of 1958 Disney documentary "White Wilderness" imported lemmings to a location in Canada & forced them over a cliff, creating an enduring myth of lemmings driven to suicide. But the Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus) has a new take on that myth: They go Viking BESERKER.

If you are aware of AI use on an animated production at a signatory studio please e-mail [email protected]

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final say on research grants www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit... How about no?

If any AI company steals my persona and work to use via an AI generated form of me, they do so without my consent, and I am making it clear that I will sue for millions. Be warned motherfuckers.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n