I was on these dives as well and they were awesome 🤩

This hit me so hard this week.

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

The deleterious consequences of war are vast and varied. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Really cool finding www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It could take a generation to recover the talent lost from federal science. But it doesn't have to. We should be ready to scale up the Presidential Management Fellowship program to triple what it once was and rebuild U.S. capacity by 2030.

Great article by the highly talented @melissacmarquez.bsky.social discussing the need to rethink MPAs if we want to protect highly mobile species like silky sharks. The article highlights recent (and very cool) work by my colleagues at the Shark Research Center! www.forbes.com/sites/meliss...

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No Kings, Bellingham, WA. Post rally dance party. #nokings @walshfreedom.bsky.social

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick. Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Calm down that rhetoric, Democrats 😒

the era of small government is over and we can either have armed thugs with badges disappearing people or universal health care and high speed rail

I’m watching a live stream

Considering he's consistently been the highest-rated late-night host for years...yeah.

I learned this the hard way with my very first conference talk (lightning talk, thank god). My first time going without notes was when I gave the actual presentation and it .... Didn't go well haha. Now, I prepare assuming no PowerPoint notes and have physical note cards in case my mind blanks

Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

Shark Week bills itself as pro science and conservation and says they don’t promote fear. One of these 2025 episode titles is real and I made up the rest. Guess which is real. 1 Great white assassins 2 Great white sex battle 3 Great white invasion 4 Florida’s death beach Lolz all real

Seems our new approach to Middle East diplomacy draws heavily from the Mars Attacks playbook.

legitimately, being able to calmly say "I was wrong, my bad" or "oh, I didn't know that!" when being corrected or encountering new information is an actual skill, something people have to work to develop, and the fact that so many adults are incapable of doing it is a problem

There is a lie that shapes our governing ideologies & institutions in this country: that property is of more value than people. The idea is as pervasive as it is destructive & has to be completely destroyed for justice & equality to be made more than empty phrases & meaningless gestures.

I don’t know how to communicate with someone who believes that Elon Musk is not an out of touch elite, but my colleagues who make $65,000 a year and have $150,000 in student loan debt are out of touch elites.

Amen

"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Contrast this to the announcement yesterday that the government would garnish wages, SS, etc. of student loan borrowers who defaulted. I'm no economist, but taking as much money as possible from low/middle income folks while taking relatively little from the rich seems financially inefficient, no?

Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science

Sharks Might Save Us Fuel, If We Let Them Biomimicry from sharks is shaping cleaner air travel, but continued human impacts on shark populations may rob us of these real-life blueprints. www.forbes.com/sites/meliss...

Bro spoke not a single lie and if they keep this up the GOP gonna delete that app tomorrow

I'm sorry, this is too perfect to not post. Trump is Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the global economy is the basketball game, and the other world leaders (who are out of Trump's league) are the big guys who show up 30 seconds in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJtI...

The unspoken "solution" to this is prison labor

Seems like we’re having a “great new people should run for office” chat again. Awesome! However: I have yet to be convinced that “more scientists in office” is a better outcome for science than “people who are talented politicians who understand and value science and listen to their advisors.”

Incompetence is not a bug of authoritarianism, it's a feature. The goal of authoritarianism is to avoid any & all consequences. And this by definition insulates incompetence from being ferreted out. Also, the suck ups get elevated over the competent folks. Competence simply isn't a qualification.

This video puts words to the sorrow, anger and exasperation that scientists are feeling better than any video I've seen anywhere. Thanks @adamconover.net youtu.be/46XaJvIxPeY?...

"I want parents who have children to know that opportunities for your kids, if they aspire to be scientists or engineers, are being stripped away right in front of you," the NSF employee told Axios. www.axios.com/2025/03/10/a...

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

you hear Crouching Tiger and you're thinking, well that's gotta be the most fearsome and best camouflaged creature in this title,

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

Elon acolytes targeting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it.”