I met Dr. David Ho! He’s responsible for the fact that HIV is no longer a death sentence and his work has saved tens of millions of lives. Why he doesn’t have a Nobel Prize is beyond me. AMA.

A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence:

As a reminder, land areas (where we live) are warming around twice as fast as over the oceans. Subsequently, most of us are 'feeling' temperatures rising faster than the global mean record. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

264 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Epidote: - Silicate mineral - Its colour & density depend on its iron content - Forms via metamorphism - Often associated with asbestos minerals - Its name comes from the Greek word "ἐπίδοσις/epidosis" (addition) because one side of its base is longer than the other #minerals

Yesterday was fun! (And exhausting) I ran four children’s workshops at @geolsoc.bsky.social as part of London Open House Festival. We built geological timescales, put together tectonic plate puzzles and talked about how the Earth works and what being a scientist is like. Thanks for having me!

I've started reading @peterbrannen.bsky.social's "The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything" and I'm going old school by underlining and jotting down notes in the margins here are a couple of excerpts in the section introducing silicate weathering and the carbon cycle ⚒️📚

August 2025 comes in third hottest for NASA's GISTEMP surface instrumental record, behind only 2024 and 2023. 🧪⚒️ A bit less spatial coverage than typical due to underlying GHCN data delays. Data freely available from GISS: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

Cool study showing how the physical forcing of the background geochemistry of oceans, drives multiple convergences in the mineralogy of bryozoans! 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐 www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2...

Donald Trump’s Firing of a Federal Prosecutor Crosses the Reddest of Lines www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

Deeply thankful that Merrick Garland preserved the integrity of the Department of Justice. Can you imagine the impropriety if it were perceived to have been used to go after the president’s political rivals?

Can't argue with that. Two Friends Chocolates, Boxborough, Massachusetts 🦖🦕⚒️ (really outstanding handmade chocolate truffles)

these details are less memorial and more nuremberg

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

From "How to obliterate foreign investment in your country," p. 254

The way to understand the importance of cancelling Disney+ is that it is an opportunity not just to exert power, but to pop the Twitter bubble execs have lived in for the past half decade, and show them their insular information environment has put their bottom line at risk.

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Photo makes it look like he has flames coming out of his head. Apt. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

The Republican war on Science continues: EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say 🧪⚒️ www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Starvation. Mass displacement. Slaughter of innocent children. A siege of Gaza City. This is wrong. The U.S. should not send one more penny to fund Netanyahu's war machine.

🧵 Yesterday, the House passed Republicans’ government funding proposal, which does nothing to protect healthcare or stop Trump’s illegal power grabs. Only one Democrat (Rep. Golden) voted yes before the House GOP announced they were going into recess to try & jam the Senate with a shutdown deadline.

One of the United States' leading scientific groups published its strongest rebuke of the Trump administration's dismissal of the dangers of climate change, saying the evidence is "beyond scientific dispute." 🧪 www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

What in the literal hell is this bullshit? Current USDOT is on a mission to try to turn any crime on any transit vehicle anywhere into an excuse to not fund transit. They. Do. Not. Care. About. Actual. Problems. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/19/m...

My stepfather is 103. He was in Germany at Hitler's 1937 Nuremberg Rally and laughed. He fought against Rommel and then behind the lines in Italy... he fought against what America is becoming.

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Or it raises questions about 3% of the coverage.

Ukrainian drones are currently hitting Saratov oil refinery. This is the third attack in six weeks. #explodey

⚡️Russia, Vietnam concealing arms deals via joint energy profits to evade US sanctions, AP reports. The two nations used profits from joint oil and gas enterprises to fund defense contracts, bypassing the global banking system, Vietnamese government documents show.

Idiots www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

UPDATE: Democrats just put a bill on the floor to save health care. Republicans voted to shut down the government and keep up the health care crisis THEY created. We're not giving up on this.

🤯 possible detection of perovskite to post-perovskite change in D'' layer at core-mantle boundary ⚒️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thanks to the great science-based State of Massachusetts I got my updated COVID shot today! 💉

Discussion of the wider context and implications of new genetic evidence for Denisovan mixture into the Papuan ancestral population by @johnhawks.net 🏺🧪🧬 www.johnhawks.net/p/a-shorter-...

Former Harvard University President Claudine Gay Blasts Harvard’s ‘Compliance’ With White House www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Great to see this new work by Sam Mitchinson published this week! He quantified the uncertainty in expert classification of volcano seismic events, with important implications for ML model accuracy. 🌋

261 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Siderite: - An iron carbonate mineral - It's an iron ore but it's difficult to smelt because it contains carbonate -Forms via hydrothermal processes or diagenesis - Its name comes from the Greek word "σίδηρος/sídēros" (iron) #minerals

Real skull of Sue the T. rex!! Did you know the one on the full display is a cast that removed the distortion due to crushing that we see here. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪🦖

"In a period of international uncertainty around Internet governance, Switzerland provides a credibly neutral and stable global home"

These innovative pavings convert the kinetic energy of footsteps into clean electric energy. www.wired.com/story/how-en...

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Also, amidst the turmoil in DC over science funding, the uncertain future of NASA's Juno mission, which runs out of cash in 2 weeks if nothing is done. Costing ~$1bn to build & launch, it's now just $10s mn to run per year, PI Scott Bolton says. But no decision on a further extension has been made.

Amusing coverage of the IgNobel awards search.app/bekac

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

This line up keeps getting better and better. Come get some direction, some togetherness, some inspiration from leaders you can trust. RSVP now to join us: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... See y’all shortly.