UPDATE: After loud backlash, @KnoxSchools has put ‘ROOTS’, a Pulitzer-prize winning state book, back in schools. tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/26/k...

“We’re launching this storytelling initiative now because public investment is declining, and in all the debates about funding what’s gotten lost is an appreciation for the incredible gifts of curiosity-driven discovery science.” news.mit.edu/2026/3-quest...

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

The Internet Archive working with the NOAA Library to bring it much of it digital and as accessible as possible is wonderful, and a wonderful model: lets flip more libraries digital. archive.org/details/noaa blog.archive.org/2026/05/27/t...

It’s not every day that your plush Snoopy is “inducted” into a National Maritime Museum, but my #ChallengerDeep pal now lives in Greenwich 🇬🇧! I’ll miss him, but so happy for others to hear his/our story (also at photos.app.goo.gl/rXBpAVvkvYkh...) 🌊 🦑 cc @helenczerski.bsky.social

“When it happened, I was like, ‘Oh my God — it’s time,’” she said. “It is groundbreaking. It’s another ceiling broken. I still have people in the audience say to me, ‘It is the first time I’ve seen a woman conducting.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/a...

Contrary to what many think, banning books doesn't boost sales or interest in that book. It makes the books much harder for people to get. And almost always, it leads to erasure of marginalized stories, especially Black & brown and queer people.

⏳30 hours to go! DWeb Camp Early Bird ticket sales and Call for Proposals close tomorrow at 23:59 CET! Get your tickets and submit your ideas soon!

Alongside the *Ecologies of Fire / Ecologías del Fuego* collection, explore the Chile case study and watch our film segment on fire-related knowledges, networks, and technologies on Smart Forests Atlas: atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/...

Trump is still painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, racing to finish before a court can stop him. He skipped every legally required environmental and historic preservation review to get here.

"The Japanese American author’s books have been reprinted, sold and circulated in 22 countries and 17 languages. And yet for many years, “Babies” has been missing from the shelves of the Berkeley Public Library..." Gyo Fujikawa's "Babies" #kidlit #aapihistory www.berkeleyside.org/2026/05/11/g...

We do not stand for merely technical decentralisation! 🌅 The DWeb Principles guide us towards a just social ecosystem that fights unequal power distribution and labour exploitation. How? We will be reflecting about this in the “Solidarity Tech” track at DWeb Camp 🏕️ ❤️‍🔥 Happy May Day ❤️‍🔥

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

The Internet's Most Powerful #Archiving Tool Is in Peril (via @wired.com) www.wired.com/story/the-in... #archives #webarchives #digipres #publishers @archive.org

🏕️ The venue of DWeb Camp 2026 is very special 🌱 We are going to Alte Hölle because its community shares our values and our mission to collectively build infrastructure that truly matters, for everyone! 🌻 🌞 Read @tommi.space’s story, interviewing some of the members of the Alte Hölle collective

Are you a fan of the band BTS? You may have seen a teaser video last month for the band's new album, "Arirang," which shares its name with a beloved Korean folk song. The video alluded to the first recording ever made of that song, a nearly 130-year-old wax cylinder preserved here at the Library. 🧵

Protect Forests is an emergency brake climate solution. Currently, forest protection prevents around 2 billion tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere each year. If we scaled up, we could DOUBLE that. Protect more, gain more. 🌳 #InternationalDayOfForests

Some scientists had argued that the “forest gardens” of the Pacific Northwest were accidental byproducts of fire, flood, or land clearing. But a 2021 study showed the contrary: Indigenous peoples deliberately cultivated them. Learn more on #InternationalDayOfForests: https://scim.ag/3N8Th8M

Take a trip to Mr. Rogers’ real life neighborhood in this special episode that celebrates the life and work of public media’s most famous defender. #mrrogers #wontyoubemyneighborday revealnews.org/podcast/mr-r...

🥳 The party is happening! iNaturalist turns 18 this weekend. Join the Birthday Project, head outside March 20–23, and make an observation of a local species you love: tr.ee/XzVUC8Z0C2

𝗗𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 🎉 ⛺ Join us at Alte Hölle on 8–12 July 2026 to shape the decentralized, democratic, and open technology we truly need. 💡 Submit your proposal for DWeb Camp 2026: Root Systems and take part in the conversation! 🎟 Get your tickets here!

#BlueSkyArtShow #horizontal #bluemind

We are simply unprepared as a country for the looming crisis in new teacher supply.

i'm back in @science.org reporting on a newly discovered "lunar compass" used by bull ants! these ants return home from foraging trips by observing the arc of the moon and integrating it with their sense of time—the first animals known to do so 🧪 learn more in the link below:

Everything, everywhere, all at once: "How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time" @eliehabib.bsky.social @lilianwagdy81.bsky.social @wired.com (Plus- Japanese earthquake) Pay attention: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/11/d...

Needs more Munk scripps.ucsd.edu/news/researc...

A corrective to extinction narratives based on charismatic megafauna: microbes. "The diversity is so extraordinary and so, so poorly understood. There’s your freaking wonder." www.noemamag.com/saving-the-l...

Happening today at noon!

A wizard with wires: "Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer" @spectrum.ieee.org (Plus- Geoff Tootill) Plug in: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/04/s...

It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023. Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G

You had questions about the Take Back our Science rally, and we have answers! If you have more, drop them in the comments. We'll keep posting more as they roll in. See you March 7th! standupforscience.net/march7 #science #standupforscience #rally #March7 #savescience

A parting gift after yesterday’s “Catalyst for Change” class at California College of the Arts. #BlueSkyArtShow #round #1BlueMarble #slowart #bluemind #gratitude

Bring Congress back into session. Now. We should vote on Senator Kaine's War Powers Resolution today.

Lightning is so 2025 - it's time for glowing trees, instead ⚡🌲. Today for @science.org : www.science.org/content/arti... #lightning #trees #storm #science #nature #physics

Technicians spent more than a week scanning and stabilizing “Gugusse and the Automaton" – which features, by the way, the first known moving image of what might be called a robot – so that it can now be enjoyed by anyone online!

See you there! 🍿❤️

Each year, February 19th brings us back to a crucial date in 1942. On that day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, a decision that authorized the forced removal and incarceration of over 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of them U.S. citizens.

Are you an educator in a community that has been hit hard by book bans? We Need Diverse @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social is establishing the Unbanned Book Network. Educators have until February 13 to apply. 20 sites will be selected to receive free books, author visits, & other resources

THE PEOPLE'S FILIBUSTER Saturday, January 31, 2026 11AM–7PM On the steps of The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. Streaming Worldwide A living call to action. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcBP...

It will be a stellar evening for poetry tonight when poets gather at Bird & Beckett Books to pay tribute to #NellieWong. The memorial reading will close with a set by #TheLastHoisanPoets - #FloOyWong & #GennyLim, accompanied by the #DelSolQuartet. thelasthoisanpoets.ddns.net/2026/01/27/n...

Zoom in on this amber orb — see the fuzzy brown stick? That's a springtail's antenna. This tiny creature fell victim to Pandora batallata, a fungus from an order called the "Insect Destroyers." 📷 christian_neumann on iNaturalist 📍 Germany 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

What if a single bright red memory could grow into a mural that gives all of us a story worth telling the people we love? One story, two walls - murals by eL Seed Painting the Impossible: What Happens When a Prison Becomes a Neuroarts Lab www.neuroartsresourcecenter.com/post/paintin...

How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...

For many in the Trump regime it seems incomprehensible or a scam of sorts that those not categorically under attack by ICE are so committed to solidarity with their neighbors who are, and thereby to universal human rights, to standing up on principle, and will risk their lives to do so.....

"The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are." — Carl Sagan

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."