One agent literally moves to stand in front of the vehicle (she has no other way to move) and two more agents, including the one who shot her, approach the vehicle. Those are not the actions of people who have a reasonable belief that they are in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury

Honk if you love RSV, I guess.

Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach

RFK Jr. is expected to announce in the new year that American children should be immunized according to the schedule followed by Denmark — which is much smaller, mostly homogenous and has universal health care. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

Fossil bee nests in fossil bones! News article by @sipappas.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social (with a few quotes by Yours Truly) about this very cool discovery from a Late Quaternary cave in the Dominican Republic. 🧪🐝🕳️🦴

Rare winter bloom in the Anza Borrego desert @anzaborrego.bsky.social

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 13, one from my 2018 Turbulent Skies Project. I Can See It…With My Imagination 44x60 112×152cm Oil on Canvas 2018

It feels WEIRD

Today is an upsetting day. <20 infants a year contracting a chronic, often ultimately fatal virus was too few for these people, I guess.

Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar: A frog that’s not mad, just disappointed. #watercolour #watercolor #frog

My person was temporarily replaced by a being of pure light roaring "science journalists exist" when I got to this section

Neat neat neat

CDC website edited to say that maggots spontaneously generate from spoiled meat, and all studies demonstrating this fact have been ignored by science authorities.

Well, this is depressing.

This is incredible work.

Measles could officially become endemic again in the U.S. The country (and Canada) risk losing their measles elimination status if they have a year of continuous transmission, which could have happened already. By @sipappas.bsky.social‬ @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Baby KJ, in a tiny tuxedo, shows up at the #STATSummit. His parents Kyle and Nicole Muldoon give an update on how he’s doing after his life-saving CRISPR treatment for a rare liver disease earlier this year. Read their story: www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/c...

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

I'm just gonna leave this decade-old information here: www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...

I love her.

“And that’s what makes this movement so smart. Grandparents have the lived experience. Grandchildren still have the capacity to listen. Together, they cut through the noise.” open.substack.com/pub/theunbia...

This is why everyone should just be watching 'Kingdom,' which is very specifically about how the only way to survive a zombie apocalypse is to stop being selfish and start being self-sacrificing. Also, it's ridiculously good.

Ooh this looks like a cool book

Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Here’s a really nice alluvial fan I thought you should see

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.

Media has been hollowed out from the bottom and a lot of that was beat reporting and grassroots stuff. The top is left without much to support it. There are about a fifth as many reporters per capita compared to 25 years ago.

This is what I and many other parents I know have been looking for! Thanks @meghanbartels.bsky.social

Absolutely scandalous that these ACIP members supported vaccination over… *checks notes* drowning in your own lung fluids while fever wracks your brain. Smdh

Abundant Eocene fossils of plants and animals are found in the Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. This fossil Pseudosalix Hanleyi, with stems, leaves and flowers preserved, is harder to find than a T-rex tooth!

Read up for the full thread, but this is the core.

To celebrate its 180th birthday (!!) @sciam.bsky.social is running a photo contest (details here: sciam.com/180contest) to take #SciAmInTheWild. Where do you read about science?

Crocheted a geode, like you do 🧶 #crochet

It’s a real service to have all of this fact-checking in one thread.

Very clarifying walkthrough of the Covid vax claims coming from RFK Jr!

Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass. Beautiful examples of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago! The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

The fact that the online news-reading experience is increasingly and insanely hostile doesn't get nearly the amount of attention that paywalls do, but it really should

The NOTUS reporters said they spent five days (!) going through the 522 citations in the report.

I remember when government reports were at least a little trustworthy

Holy hell, this is exciting.

Phantom of the Opera is a lot like Frankenstein in that the modern cultural understanding of the story is severely distorted from the original novel. This tweet gets pretty close to the gist of the book, though:

Just deranged. This was a *solved* problem.

Yeesh

this is why you shouldnt believe what you see on the internet. It was actually closer to 50 years. His name was Porphyrios, he actually caused the creation of entirely new trading routes just to avoid him and was declared enemy of the state by Justinian. He is the hero we need.

This isn’t particularly useful but, well, I hear from a lot of people from the science-centered agencies these days (NIH, NOAA, EPA, couple others) and the degree of, I dunno, grimness (?) is really palpable. The whole gov scientific enterprise is just getting ground into dust. It sucks so hard.

My grandfather’s sister (born 1936) died of juvenile diabetes, this man just says stuff.

depends on your beat. it’s been bad out there for govt agency scientists awhile if you didn’t already have a reason not to rank Cuomo in the primary: he had such a culture of fear going at the state DEC that trying to talk to a bear scientist or a beetle guy was like breaking into Fort Knox