Scientists: We desperately need long, unbroken records of North Atlantic currents to see how close we are to a #climate tipping point. US government: sending ships to rip 900 deep-sea sensors out of the water. Congress voted twice to keep them funded. They're being pulled anyway.

It has the highest levels of toxic Pfas in drinking water in Scotland. But how did this remote island become awash with forever chemicals?

I think there's a connection there to how their worldview on industrial regulation went from "pro-industry, even if it's bad for the environment" to "anti-environment, even if it's bad for industry". (Case in point: Trump's war on water efficiency standards.) They're like Captain Planet villains.

The founders would have been astounded that the Constitution lasted as long as it did. It was a great achievement in the 1780s. Even if it were still operating as written, it would need an update based on 240 years of global experience with democracy.

The Arctic Ocean food chain is collapsing. Exposure to sunlight of vast shallow regions of the ocean previously covered by ice breaks down the nutrient nitrate and removes it from seawater, limiting plankton growth.

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

Interesting

If you've ever been to ISPS, you have almost certainly met Pam Greene, who is retiring this week after 35 years: bit.ly/43hvNml

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I tried to tell y'all.

The core of Trump's second term project is undoing the liberal project of creating a government based on neutral rules, and replacing it with the monarchical logic of personal ties to the king www.vox.com/politics/489...

This week the government quietly published a 'Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security assessment': www.gov.uk/government/p... Meant to be out last year, but rumoured to be blocked by Number 10: www.theguardian.com/environment/... The judgements are stomach-churning

The facts: -Bezos paid $0 fed'l income tax in 2007 -He paid $0 in '11 -Btn '14-19, his wealth grew by $99 BILLION and he paid $973 million in taxes. Sounds like a lot but it's 0.98% of his wealth growth (which is his true income). www.propublica.org/article/the-...

Truly astonishing levels of corruption and self-dealing. Every day Donald Trump does something new that, in any other period of American history, would be an immediate presidency ending scandal www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's like "look--the ozone hole's doing fine, so why was there all that worry" (the ozone hole recovered BECAUSE of policy intervention, i.e. the 1987 Montreal Protocol to ban ozone-depleting chemicals, which Ronald Reagan supported). It's a mendacious fallacy that targets the logically challenged.

Breaking news: The EPA proposed repealing limits on four types of “forever chemicals” in drinking water. The proposal would end the Biden-era restrictions on four PFAS compounds and give utilities more time to comply with limits on two others.

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Peer review is not equipped to fix this, or any other form of research fraud. We rely, collectively, on researchers' own sense of integrity. However, I fully endorse strong sanctions when fraud is detected. Any submission with a fraudulent citation should be rejected, or if published, retracted.

3. The Pentagon's own internal estimate, from weeks ago, was $50 billion, according to CBS News. Popular Information added up the costs, with a detailed methodology, and arrived at $72 billion over the first 60 days. Other independent estimates are even higher.

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

A rare perfect work of satire. “We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots“ www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

Three reasons for the partisan diff: - Rs are older - Rs are exposed to more AI slop depicting Trump as physically fit - Expressive responding (lying)

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

Scandalous on many levels: the cover up, the risk to troops, the material losses, the lack of preparedness, the losses to a much “weaker” foe, the cost, and the fact we brought this on ourselves, it was all so unnecessary.

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

From our FirstView: Partisan Expressive Responding: Lessons from Two Decades of Research by @mattgraham.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Trump: "No president has ever taken a cognitive test except me. I've taken three of them. One in the first administration. They're hard. The first question is easy. You have a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a squirrel. 'Which is the squirrel?'"

In 23 states, including five presidential swing states, candidates who've denied election results are running for offices that have a direct role in certifying future elections, a new report finds. n.pr/4nhAMwj

On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.

Trump: "I took three cognitive tests. Aced all of them, by the way. I'm the only president to take a cognitive test. I don't think Obama could pass it. The first question is very easy -- it's a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. They say, 'Which one is the bear?'"

HEGSETH: I know that there is no country on planet earth that takes more measures to ensure that civilian harm or casualties are minimized than the United States of America and this War Department. And that is a fact. TOKUDA: You eliminated the department's civilian harm reduction staff

I have a plan. Expand the Court to 13 active seats. Create a rotational body from which the 13 active seats are drawn at random every term to dilute the individual power of any one justice. Enforceable code of conduct with strict guidelines on recusals, prohibition on external income, and more:

The capriciousness of these systems is part of the point of them existing.

At some point back in early 2025 (I can't find the exact post), @joshtpm.bsky.social made a crucial point about why there is often a mismatch between some Silicon Valley billionaires and the U.S. Constitutional system. /1

🚨 Major new investigation: The controversial weed killer Roundup is being sprayed in record amounts in California’s forests. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

The best way to be accurately informed about tonight’s events is to log off for the next 12 hours or so … and I’m going to follow my own advice

New research in POQ on vote by mail, suggesting that Trump's attack on the voting method drove his supporters away from using it academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is finally out in the world! Combining nationwide survey evidence, state administrative data, and 111 interviews with patients, physicians & others, it tells the long-overdue story of coverage barriers and their deepening of burden an inequity.

We are seeing fraudulent submissions at @jeas-journal.bsky.social in which a researcher's name and ORCID is used without their knowledge on AI-generated submissions. I do not know what the angle is for such submissions, but this is why I think that in many domains, AI makes more work than it saves

Once again asking people not to post about poll results without links to the surveys, and not to repost anything that cites poll results without links to the surveys. This is not (primarily) about credit, it's a data credibility check.

Hey, has anyone visited TRAC Immigration and looked up asylum denial rates in US immigration courts? October 2000-January 2025: 56% of cases denied February-November 2025: 75% denied December 2025: 84% January 2026: 91% February 2026: 95% tracreports.org/phptools/imm...

Substantially more rigorous than the papers that are scaring everyone

One of my favorites paper got published 🤓 It covers a lot of ground and it’s the best summary of my views on misinformation and what to do about it. Give it a read :) 🔓 osf.io/preprints/ps... 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]