Huge news: Jordan Acker, who infamously pushed state to prosecute UM student protestors, loses bid for re-election to UM Regents. The winner: Amir Makled, who provided pro bono legal support to those same UM students. Enormous victory for the Palestine/student solidarity movement.

This is embarrassing for science PEOPLE ARE DYING BECAUSE OF SOME OF THESE SPEAKERS, KATY bsky.app/profile/katy...

Great summary of the cognitive dissonance of seeing the U.S. celebrate the Artemis mission while the current administration cuts science, by @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social in @eenews.bsky.social www.eenews.net/articles/art...

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

let's be clear about what's happening: donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, whose countries have been committing genocide in gaza since 2023, unilaterally started a war with iran, and are now threatening genocide there.

I called my 89 year old grandma and she said “We only heard it but nothing more.” It’s ‘normal’ for her to hear a strike. At least it wasn’t too close. This isn’t normal. It just isn’t.

We do have fabulous maps of the Moon already, but the photos the astronauts are taking right now are very likely the ones you'll be seeing on magazine covers and in documentaries for decades. These distant, wider views, from odd angles and with human descriptions, are *contextual* 2/n

The astronauts actually acknowledged that at one point. One picked out some brown hues, and another was asked to confirm at a different window, but that one had a thermocouple on it with Kapton tape, which is bright orange, and he said it was messing with his perception of color.

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

What this also means: We should be grateful for our atmosphere 👀

Total solar eclipse! Solar corona! From behind the Moon! #Artemis

This is where I was vaccinated as a kid. Many Iranians are posting their Pasteur certificate of vaccination online 😞

I’m not. But then again, I sat through an interrogation in June 2023 from Jim Jordan’s “Weaponization” committee where he threatened my and my team’s funding (studying online rumors and disinformation). They’ve been at this for a few years now. Using science funding as part of their culture wars.

High end, potentially destructive severe thunderstorm moving across southern OKC metro including Moore. Radar showing winds up to 90 mph and likely brief tornadoes.

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

Sometimes I come back to this post, stare at it for a bit, then gaze off into the middle distance

Spring is arriving across much of the West more than 20 days earlier than average when looking at when plants first leaf-out - even reaching almost to Canada! I'd expect significant ecological impacts from the heat this March. Graphic/data from @usa-npn.bsky.social: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...

I looked into if Medicaid-funded providers who oversee disabled people living independently are ready for worsening climate events. The support they need from the federal government isn’t there, and it’s worsened under Trump. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Awful. Conditions just continue to worsen for Colorado's snowpack (and across many other western U.S. states), with average snow water equivalent nosediving after the historic March heatwave. (which actually continues today with more record heat!) Graphic: nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-p...

"the blackout is of course hitting hospitals hard. People aren’t able to get crucial surgeries, or even get to the hospital, which means Trump is simply killing the sickest Cubans."

Another day, ANOTHER study shwoing clear benefits for the baby when mom gets vaccinated against COVID during pregnancy I'll never forgive Bhattacharya, Makary, & RFK Jr for posting that horrific video that recommended AGAINST vaccination in pregnancy; it was dreadful disinformation

🚨 This analysis piece in @bmj.com is absolutely 🔥 (disclosure: I was a peer reviewer) The authors argue that US actions to dismantle public health at home & abroad “constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under international law” 1/2 www.bmj.com/content/392/...

MAGA/MAHA did all it could to destroy the CDC "It will cause generational harm, which always makes me tear up. The harm that's going to come to people that don't even know what CDC was protecting them from." www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

I'm also thinking about how the things we do to make talks & knowledge production more accessible are being weaponized by tech bros to steal (1-Record talks, 2-Provide those recordings post-talk, 3) Add captioning). So angry because they are making it harder for disabled People of Color to access

I know I'm not saying anything new but I'm saying it anyway that in tech bro culture there is both a specific commitment to 1) harassment, the way everything is done without consent & 2) theft, the way they steal knowledge & art from creators that is so deeply built on colonization & white supremacy

The 2025 federal employee viewpoint survey was a pretty sobering read. Absolutely brutal year for public servants and everyone is feeling it. Thread below and full document here bestplacestowork.org

As I keep saying, this is easily one of the most anomalous out-of-season heatwaves that I’ve observed. Its impacts will be far-reaching after an already historic snow drought this winter. Without a pattern change, water concerns will then amplify this summer.

Excessive heat warnings, red flag warnings for wildfire conditions, and monthly temperature records being shattered yet again. This historic heatwave continues, with temperatures made at least 5× more likely by human-caused climate change today. See: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Spring Parade. Gouache on paper. Featuring some of the local wildlife + wild and planted flowers from the garden 🍃🪻🌼 Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

I am reviewing a simply amazing paper from a relatively young US-based lab, which is in danger of shutting its doors later this year. My emotions are all over the place. The fact that this does not uniquely identify the lab I’m referring to just deepens the tragedy of this moment in US science.

MA along w/ CA, CT & NY is leading a multi-state coalition challenging the Trump EPA's biggest climate action rollback - the repeal of the GHG endangerment finding "The Trump EPA has ignored the law and ignored the science" says CT AG William Tong www.climateinthecourts.com/dozens-of-us...

Well, if yesterday's map was ridiculous, I'm running out of superlatives to characterize today's. Countless locations from Pacific Coast to Great Plains are currently experiencing all-time record March warmth, w/ some locations approaching/exceeding April (or even May) records.

Peace and fossil fuel dependency are inherently incompatible

The Israel-US illegal war on the Middle East could push an additional 45million people into acute hunger... which history tells us likely means child malnutrition, pregnancy complications, child labor and marriage will also surge www.wfp.org/news/wfp-pro...

New from @latimes.com: “Yet new COVID infections are producing new #LongCovid patients. People who were healthy and active just a few months ago are still arriving at USC’s clinic with cardiovascular and cognitive problems that have upended their lives.”

“There has been a societal move to go past COVID as if it’s not around anymore—but it definitely is,” McAuley said.. “And people will bounce in and out of the ER, and they will potentially have a degree of disability [to] the point where they just lose their job, and no one really is addressing it.”

A girls school got blown up and killed more than 150 kids. On the first day.

"Why aren't the youth out protesting right now?"

My latest for @science.org on the fraught future of NCAR as NSF's deadline nears. It can still go so many ways.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a cornerstone of U.S. weather science. AMS urges a transparent, community-driven review before restructuring such critical infrastructure. Read our response to NSF's "Dear Colleague Letter": https://bit.ly/4bglx16

I am literally at an NCAR-hosted, NCAR-led meeting where the future of U. S. radar meteorology - one of our most lifesaving enterprises - is being articulated by 180+ diverse participants. NSF NCAR is the only institution capable of convening our community so effectively.

They should ask the MLA how many people have cancelled due to their feckless inability to allow members to vote on scholasticide because lemme tell you— it’s lots

NEW REPORT: Did you know that weather and climate disasters cost the U.S. $115 billion in 2025? From severe storms to tornadoes and wildfires, disasters came with a steep price tag in the U.S. last year. 🔗Read more in the full report: www.climatecentral.org/report/us-bi...

Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?

$2bn/day, with $2.8bn/day in munitions alone over the first two days. I tend to think of myself as a Large Number Scale Understander but this is just mind-boggling amounts of money.

Emmaia Gelman wrote about this here in 2019:

Black rain in Tehran: Toxic smoke has swept over the city transforming day into night. The World Health Organization says damage to Iran's oil facilities released dangerous hydrocarbons, sulfur oxides & nitrogen compounds into the air. Black rain refers to acid rainfall w/ atmospheric pollutants👇