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Whatever QAnon-inflected rhetoric Trump and his supporters use about fighting child sex trafficking, this administration is aggressively gutting the kinds of federal programs that might have helped people who were trafficked, as the Guardian exposed a few days ago:

Anybody still think not everybody deserves due process??

The exploitation of his death is worse than any criticism of his life.

Leadership.

well, well, well..... might also have to do with the shitstorm that had Disney just about to be sued, investigated & lose a TON of Disney + viewership..... www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

Jesus Christ: 'Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you' (Matthew 5:44) Donald Trump: 'I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them' (speaking at a eulogy!) Be like Jesus.

Meltdown on "Truth" Social in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Take a moment to think about midcentury dinosaurs today

2024 now in 4k resolution! In just 45 years, only a quarter of #Arctic sea ice remains in September. It is sobering that what usually happens on geologic timescales, we have caused in half a lifetime. #ClimateCrisis #Dataviz #ArcticDeathSpiral www.youtube.com/watch?v=NphV...

Apparently the hippie bashing factor wasn't high enough in their informatics, so the Times tweaked the headline:

PeerJ<br><br>The braincase anatomy of Simosaurus gaillardoti (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) revealed with X-ray micro-computed tomography<br><br>https://peerj.com/articles/19932/<br><br>@peerj.bsky.social

This is bad

Feeding strategies of the Pleistocene insular dwarf elephants Palaeoloxodon falconeri and Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis from Sicily (Italy) - Strani - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Geol104playlist Plate Tectonics, Ecology & Energy in the Biosphere youtu.be/_mTRvJ9fugM?...

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

As a reminder, land areas (where we live) are warming around twice as fast as over the oceans. Subsequently, most of us are 'feeling' temperatures rising faster than the global mean record. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

"Some say we can ‘solar-engineer’ ourselves out of the climate crisis. Don’t buy it" [even if it's being sold by the #NewYorkTimes] | My evergreen @theguardian.com commentary with Ray Pierrehumbert: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1890s fancy French whorehouse

100 years of August sea surface temperature anomalies updated through 2025. There is a lot of variability from year-to-year (like El Niño/La Niña patterns) in addition to human-caused climate change evident through long-term warming. Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...

In #ScienceUnderSiege (www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...), @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I criticize the NY Times for pushing unhelpful antiscience (like the "Lab Leak Theory" for COVID-19) or fossil fuel-friendly framing (e.g. in this case, "geoengineering" as a climate solution):

Strauch RJ, Berv JS, Fraser D, Pyenson ND, Peredo CM. Morphological diversity of the cetacean mandibular symphysis coincides with novel modes of aquatic feeding. Paleobiology. Published online 2025:1-10. doi.org/10.1017/pab....

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...

Leah G. Demetriou, Michael J. Benton & Christopher J. Duffin (2025) Richard Owen’s Dinosauria in context: the rhetoric, politics and legacy of the dinosaurs Earth Sciences History 44(1): 151–180. doi: doi.org/10.17704/194... pubs.geoscienceworld.org/hess/earth-s...

Some folks seem to think it is possible to have a pact with the devil and use it to teach about ethical AI.

I heard the words "my friend Chat gpt" at a talk this week. The "friend" had produced some fake images that in no way helped understand the talk. He used energy in a heating planet and someone else's drinking water to "decorate" a slide.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Every time I see the trope that Nazis were socialists, I repost this article. www.theguardian.com/theguardian/... My dad was 4 months old when this was originally published in 1932. Quit sharing Nazi propaganda.

this exists it is called thinking

Canada created an immigration category for educators www.financialexpress.com/business/inv...

Does summer seem to be lasting longer? Check out this recent data analysis from @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... Find your town here (United States) and share the result: www.climatecentral.org/graphic/ling...

#ScienceUnderSiege went to press months ago. But this ending paragraph feels like it really resonates today:

In light of the increasing prevalence of pepper balls and tear gas at the Broadview site, I just want to reshare this toolkit from Vision Change Win, which includes best practices for treating tear gas and pepper spray exposure. You can also find this info in the appendix of Let This Radicalize You.

THIS. 👉

He finally got his revenge against the man who asked him if he was up past his jail time. Now it's up to us to ask why he's terrified to release #TheEPSTEIN_PedoFiles. #StandWithTheSurvivors

I will as well.

This is beautiful.

J. Llewelyn et al. (2025) Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113294 doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The revision of baphetids from the Middle Pennsylvanian of the Czech Republic: Morphology, ontogeny, palaeoecology, and the reassessment of the phylogeny of Baphetoidea - Barták - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The 2025 Ig Nobel-winning research was as wacky as ever. But wars, visa restrictions, Trump's border and research policies, and even an all-too-frequent airplane incident kept nearly half the winning teams from traveling to Boston @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

This #LochNessMonster photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n

#Geol104playlist Fossils from the field to the museum youtu.be/tKQ47h6S6p4?...

#FossilFriday A succession (anagenetic?) of Two Medicine Formation centrosaurines from @museumoftherockies.bsky.social: Stellasaurus, Einiosaurus, Achelousaurus

Kimmig, J., Nanglu, K., & Jamison, P. G. (2025). A problematic soft-bodied fossil from the Cambrian (Miaolingian, Wuliuan) of Utah. Geological Magazine, 162, e37. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

BREAKING: Saying that the Trump administration’s explanation for its Labor Day weekend effort to send children to Guatemala “crumbled like a house of cards” upon examination, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, grants provisional class certification and a preliminary injunction.

DONALD, YOU DIDN'T SOLVE INFLATION. YOUR ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL & DISCREDITED TARIFFS JACKED UP PRICES & AMERICAN FAMILIES ARE PAYING THE PRICE. BUT ENJOY YOUR TIME AWAY FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES W/ YOUR STRANGE JAUNT IN THE UK W/ A “KING”—REMEMBER WE DON’T ALLOW THEM HERE SIR!!