Climate-driven changes in pine cone availability trigger mass movements of pine siskins known as irruptions, which can predict outbreaks of salmonellosis, a bacterial infection that can lead to severe illness in humans and other animals. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/w7ju50XWUyl

Thanks for writing, @juliametraux.bsky.social, in honour of Alice. Crips for eSims for Gaza is in the red again, but you can donate here: bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

The 16-year-old was dragged away and arrested by Worcester PD because she kicked the car ICE was holding her mother in as her mom was taken away. The day earlier, ICE had taken her dad as well.

2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹 "In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming." + #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003... + Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn

As someone who has reported on deepfakes for years now, I’ve had a few moments while reporting on Grok where I feel sick to my stomach thinking about the continued escalation of sexual abuse with this technology and where it’s going. We’re not ready for this. And it didn’t have to be this way.

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: X influencers are using Grok to unveil Muslim women in hijabs and show them being beaten by men. Women in sarees are also being stripped: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

We are in the worst flu season in over a decade. Children have died. Hospitals are filled with people sick from flu. 13 million fewer Americans have taken the flu shot this season compared to last year. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

I'm filing two lawsuits against the Trump administration for illegally trying to stop construction on offshore wind projects off Long Island that will power over a million homes. New Yorkers deserve clean energy, good-paying union jobs, and a government that follows the law.

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them. It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

This winter's @instbirdpop.bsky.social thank you card might be my favorite one yet! I painted a pair of Sandhill Cranes investigating Ackerson Meadow in #Yosemite, where ongoing restoration of the meadow did actually draw in some of these birds during our 2025 banding season! 🎨 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt 🌎

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The fact that we're just supposed to...keep going on about our days.

It’s absolutely the right call and fucking surreal that our public schools have to close because of the threat posed by OUR OWN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. I am beyond livid.

Climate obstruction takes many forms.

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

man the video is circulating so settings > content & media > uncheck auto-play video & gifs

What a pleasure it was to write the epic story of plate tectonics - and the woman who brought the theory from the ocean to the land - with the fabulous editors at @highcountrynews.org. Give a read! #womeninstem #science #geology #scicomm

While Trump kept the American people in the dark on his plans for Venezuela, Big Oil got a heads up “before and after” the attack. The public deserves to know if they’re footing the bill while oil companies reap profits. Chevron, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips must answer.

There are so many things wrong here, but I can't stop thinking about how generating new research project ideas is one of my favorite things I get to do for my job. Why would I want a machine to do that for me?

For current PhD students:

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

You cannot simultaneously care about maintaining measles elimination status while actively campaigning against the vaccine that allowed this elimination status to be achieved in the first place. That's not how any of this works 🤷🏽‍♀️ www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!

I know this feels impossible now, but I swear, on January 6 itself, there was a pretty broad bipartisan consensus that storming the Capitol to find and kill lawmakers was bad, and that Trump was responsible for inciting his followers to try it

22 months of pregnancy – the longest of any mammal – and Zongoloni's seemed to stretch on forever. But Zigi was worth the wait. She was notorious for trying to 'kidnap' friends' babies. Now, at last, she has a son of her own. sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n...

A driving force in #ClimateAction, the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change transformed youth advocacy into legal action, bringing the climate crisis faced by Pacific nations to the world’s highest court. Learn about these #EarthChamps fight for justice: www.unep.org/championsofe...

“I want every single person who was in the hallway charged,” Velma Duran, whose sister Irma was killed in the shooting, told the AP. “My sister put her body in front of those children to protect them, something they could have done. They had the means and the tools to do it. My sister had her body.”

"Morning Stretch" American Goldfinch, 7"x5" oil painting on panel (2019). 🪶

NEW: Venezuelan Oil Brought to the U.S. Would Be Refined in Black Gulf Communities Black community advocates in Texas and Louisiana say U.S. control of Venezuela’s heavy crude will worsen “environmental racism” along the Gulf. capitalbnews.org/trump-venezu...

Just a remarkable amount of fossil gas involved in US data centre development right now www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-gre...

It’s not too late to get your flu shot (and your covid booster!) and wear a mask.

More Perfect Union organiser Elise Joshi just posted this on Insta

COVID killed >100,000 people per year over the course of 2023 and 2024 in the US alone. The level of indifference to this massive annual toll among both the public and the majority of my public health colleagues is stunning. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

here's my complaint

And a timeline that shows how closely Trump's pivot on #Venezuela followed Maduro's actions around oil in Guyana (also embedded in the piece):

"Drilled reporting shows US oil majors don’t necessarily want back into Venezuela’s declining and decrepit oil fields so much as they are eager to protect their interests in neighboring Guyana, home to one of the world’s most productive oil fields, which Maduro has aggressively been trying to claim"

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

Glad for the chance to share my two cents on energy infrastructure development, based on our team's research over the past several years, for this OPB article on a proposed transmission line in WA. @portlandstate.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

Newts we can use

Year-end tally of Trump admin combat actions in 2025: —Yemen—1,000+ strikes* —Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid** —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids*** —Iran—3 B-2 strikes —Iraq—1 strike —Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Venezuela—1 known CIA strike

In the old days, we would seek comment on stories about climate change from experts in the field who have spent decades studying evidence of the effects of greenhouse gases and findingsolutions. That ends today. Now we'll get your uncle Rooster who you had that big argument with at Thanksgiving.

I'm working on a review of Kim De Wolff's "Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastics and the Persistence of Trash Islands" (@mitpress.bsky.social) for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org & I truly cannot wait to explain why this book is so fantastic & I encourage anyone at all interested in pollution to read it.

ROV pilots filmed this giant phantom jelly, or Stygiomedusa gigantea, at 253 meters during an ROV descent to explore the Colorado-Rawson submarine canyon wall. #ArgentinianDeepSeeps

The driving force behind all CORE employees is supporting and enacting the mission of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters, a FEMA staffer tells me. This is seismic.

One last fucked up 2025 scoop—FEMA has begun issuing termination notices to CORE staff (appointed under the Stafford Act, ordinarily extended for 2 years) effective Jan 2, agency sources tell me. Sr leadership was asked if they could be given more notice but Acting Administrator Karen Evans said no.

The work of F.E.P. is needed now more than ever. ⏰ ❗ We support the rights of farm workers by standing behind their boycotts, centering their voices, and giving back directly to their families. 🔗 Support F.E.P.'s work today at buff.ly/BFsiPVf

Awful. And so sad to lose such a talented climate journalist