Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u... I

Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u... just what MAGA wanted

This is a shameful betrayal. Trump's so-called peace plan is a blatant surrender document that forces Ukraine to disarm and cede territory to Putin. It's an utter abdication of American leadership that rewards Russian aggression.

Agreed

Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime. Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I wrote about the impact of declining insect pollinators on the global food supply. 🧪🌎

🧪Let’s set the record straight. AGAIN Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.

We have a new one - Opinion in Proceedings of the National Academies of Science www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510922122

Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.

For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨

#LIBresearch: A new study introduces the Global Repository of Insect Traits (GRIT) — a worldwide initiative integrating insect trait data to make insects more understandable and comparable across ecosystems. → doi.org/10.1111/icad.70035 @cscherber.bsky.social

Really interesting thread here 🧪

I've been avoiding reading articles on the death of James Watson, co-discoverer of #DNA's structure. That is, until I saw that @statnews.com published one by Sharon Begley, a renowned science writer who passed in 2021. Yes, you read that right. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... 🧪 (1/5)

For those who don't know, the Nobel laureate had a long history of truly vile remarks. In fact, he seemed to revel in his status as an unapologetic bigot. Rather than glaze him for his extensive contributions to science, Begley presents a complete picture of a controversial figure. 🧪 (4/5)

Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑🌎🧪

With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to take action on climate change. Nature reports what can be done. 🧪

Human biomass movement may be up to 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined, according to research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. A second Nature Communications paper finds that wild mammal biomass has more than halved since 1850. go.nature.com/4oID33i go.nature.com/3LhSD7n 🧪

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🧪Tracking the Damage BY JULES BARBATI-DAJCHES It feels like every day there’s some new headline about an abuse of power by the Trump administration targeting science, scientists, or science-based policies www.ucs.org/sites/defaul...

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Hey ⚒️🧪 folks, could you help me out and boost the post below to help us cast a wide net of scientists & topics? Thanks!

I tried Elon Musk's Wikipedia clone and boy is it racist www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Just in case you are still in a spooky mood....⚛️🧑‍🔬🧠🩻🧪

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If you enjoyed the below article, may I offer up the (in)famous Shugar Kane medicine cabinets study. We withdrew the submission when it was accepted and the (predatory) journal wanted $$$. 🧪https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qM0mQDNmYbhbZSobESSTo81ihV2yguFNMNZb13C91V4/edit?usp=sharing

#MedSky 🧪

Wonderful piece out today by @phoebeweston.bsky.social showing the fundamental and intimate connections between the natural world and our own bodies. 🧪🌍🌱 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cool rotifer feeding with it's cilia beating 🐙🧪

“I thought the only thing that could stop me from getting a Ph.D. is for the world to end. And the science world is kind of ending — at least at the collegiate level.” 🧪🛟

Yup! 75% of us are considering leaving (/made plans to leave/already left) 😢 🧪 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

I’m amazed by my children. Here Lauris is interviewed on his favorite podcast:

🕷️ Britain’s craziest creature? Meet Megabunus diadema — a harvestman with eyes on a spiky turret! Not a spider, but part of its own Order: Opiliones. Learn more in our UK Harvestmen webinar on 5 Feb 2026: 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1720584467... @britishspiders.bsky.social @megabunus.bsky.social

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

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"Logging is not a substitute for controlled burns, which remove much of the finer fuels." In terms of fire/fuel effects, conventional logging is not a substitute or even similar to prescribed fire -- don't let anyone tell you otherwise. www.rmoutlook.com/banff/parks-...

“.. for those of us who, in our younger years, revered America as a shining city upon a hill, .. this is quite a painful period. “..’America has lost its moral bearings; as a result, it has also lost its moral standing in the world.” @peter-wehner.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Bug Apetit is buzzin' tonight. Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium. 😁

We are constantly told by the media and authorities that these are both 'forest'. One is a complex, diverse native ecosystem, full of life. The other is an industrial monoculture deadzone. They could not be more different.

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health

Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing some fun PhD opportunities. Today, if you're into hydrology, forests and wading 🪶 in Scotland this one might be for you! 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

He's building a gold-guilded ballroom to host the foreign officials who come to bribe him, while denying millions of hungry kids food. Just how thuddingly obvious, how over-the-top, how florid & theatrical does this story have to get before the media starts honestly telling it?

SF neighborhood mourns loss of bodega cat allegedly killed by Waymo www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

Cool we can fund SNAP, pay air traffic controllers, ACA subsidies, all kinds of stuff. Right when we really need it. When do we get the cash?

Breaking News: All Americans who buy health insurance through Obamacare can now get a first look at how much prices will increase next year.