What the panel told me confirmed my fears about the scale of the assault on science & expertise now, but went much further in terms of the threat to how the free world survives. The "director's cut" podcast catches more of the context than the 26½ minute transmission. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

I hate the sea.

Recommended watch: A Netflix documentary looked at how a “crucial opportunity” to take climate action was “deliberately undermined” during the George HW Bush administration.

Apropos of nothing, Stalin purged the Red Army officer ranks through the general staff just before Nazi Germany invaded, and it almost cost the world … civilization.

Hadn't heard @gelliottmorris.com talk in media much, but damn this is like a clinic of how to do radio. Incredibly clear and systematic. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Today's winner of the White Feather 🪶 www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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🌊The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) remains robust, but it’s no longer the main mode of SST variability A new study identifies a pan-basin warming pattern dominating the North Pacific, potentially redefining how we interpret decadal variability & ecosystem impacts www.nature.com/articles/s41...

However, a WBUR analysis found that most of the major bills that cleared the House or Senate have sat untouched after arriving in the other chamber. Even though Democratic supermajorities rule both branches, legislative leaders rarely see eye to eye. www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission and did the experiments that led Pauli to postulate neutrinos, is one of my heroes. She had to work twice as hard for everything, and did so much. I tell a bit of her story here: mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...

Remarkable new insights into the archaea that are some of the closest relatives of the ancestral cell that became us! 🧪

311 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Benstonite: - A carbonate mineral containing barium - Fluoresces red under UV and x-rays - Forms in baryte deposits and in some carbonatites - Named after Orlando J. Benston (1901-1966) an American ore metallurgist who collected the first specimens #minerals

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Weather good, we are gradually working our way north in search of the Loch Ness Monster.

Am having a field day with cheese.

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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds of dismissals. n.pr/47uKYeQ

This is insane. 🤦‍♂️ Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change? They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…

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#Copper is the oldest metal worked by humans, & is 100% recyclable. Nearly 80% of all copper ever mined is still in use today. Historically significant examples of its use include the Statue of Liberty, which is made of copper. Vote info 👇🏼 #OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐

It Really Is the Damn Phones www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Bluesky - the gift that answers questions you never thought of, and does so in a scientifically sound way

I see we're reinventing phrenology, but stupider this time.

“Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists" | Article by Ryan M. Katz-Rosene for @us.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/why-bill-gat...

The FBI Director seemingly can’t stay away from Nashville.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

That's a lot of lava ⚒️

Makes me think of the movie "Leave the World Behind" apnews.com/article/rute...

This 🧵! The federal government is engaging in unjustified violence. The agents are disrupting the right to free speech and the free exercise of religion. They are disrupting the rights of news reporters. The judge also notes that the statements from the government agents are not credible. Lying.

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A judge delivered a damning condemnation of the use of force in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign in Chicago, saying federal agents’ actions against protesters “shocks the conscience.”

your energy bills are rising because they're forcing you to use millions-years-old sunlight instead of today's

And the US is going to miss out

Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...

"I find the defendants' (the DOJ) evidence simply not credible."

Most people in 9 middle-income countries we surveyed say global climate change is affecting the area where they live. A median of 56% of adults in these countries also say they are very concerned that global climate change will harm them personally in their lifetime.

🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months. The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open. 🎁 Gift link:

This🧵is a judge finding a litany of thuggish behavior by federal agents in Chicago

Up in the UP, a reporter informed me that at least one local Republican elected official said that claims of rising healthcare costs is “a myth.” Nothing about the letter you’re receiving in your hands - or the price hikes you see as you navigate open enrollment - is a myth.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

They went from “we’re going to bring prices down on day 1” to “prices always go up” inside 10 months.

Donald Trump promised to cut electricity costs in HALF by 2026. But new data shows that electricity costs have actually gone UP by 11% since he took office. Another Trump lie that's costing American families.

It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.

The Trump administration says the maximum SNAP benefits it will pay out this month will be 65% of the usual. But the way the math works, what many Massachusetts recipients get will be a much less than that, according to advocates: www.wbur.org/news/2025/11... @wbur.org

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Synchronous fluctuations in marine phosphorus, biological productivity, and atmospheric O₂ during the Great Oxidation Event ⚒️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A ~200-million-year cycle in Earth's magnetic field? "Both the Late Jurassic and Devonian magnetostratigraphic records indicate rapid reversals and weak paleointensities, similar to the hyperactivity of the Ediacaran" ⚒️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A selection of our most widely used maps have received a major update. The latest version of BGS Geology 50K now covers the majority of Great Britain plus the Isle of Man, an estimated 236 000 km2.