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you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to elon musk”

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cool (and moist) benefit of solar energy production! 🧪 theconversation.com/solar-panels...

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if the budget cuts go through for nasa, we’re losing juno, which has given us these gorgeous images of jupiter over the years

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10/10 great legwarmers

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Don't miss our new NASA Science spending and economic impact resource at dashboards.planetary.org/nasa-science.html — see space science spending in every state and congressional district and custom reports for each region. A unique resource.

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While I'm writing heat threads, common meds that will screw you up in the heat include stimulants for ADHD, SSRIs, SNRIs, diuretics, and ACE inhibitors.

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A reminder that “America First” is a Ku Klux Klan slogan.

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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There are a lot these sorts of "tricks" in the draft budget which are merely nonsense collections of words meant to elide the fact that they intend to shut down facilities. "Turn off half of LIGO..." "Reduce Greenbank by 70%" "Reduce Gemini operations by 50%" "Sell Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololo..."

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Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

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NASA’s iconic Goddard Institute for Space Studies—home to Jim Hansen and hundreds more scientists, creator of the GISS model and keeper of the global temperature record—has been evicted from its longstanding NYC office above the “Seinfeld” restaurant. Why? The government told them to move out.

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Probably because it is 😆

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Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed. Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

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Expanded Marine Protections Around South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Take Effect Major move will help region’s rich biodiversity: Almost half a million square kilometers of ocean is now closed to fishing www.pew-bertarelli-ocean-legacy.org/en/research-... 🦑🧪🌎

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🧪🦑🌊 Abyssal and hadal macroinbenthic assemblages in the eastern Aleutian Trench (NE Pacific) "The study of deep-sea organisms...is crucial for understanding, monitoring, & assessing the integrity of deep-sea benthic ecosystems" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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👏 Official statement from Center for Open Science: "Demanding perfect evidence before action can be taken is often a way to avoid using evidence at all. Rigor and reproducibility should not be weaponized to gatekeep certain fields or findings."

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On the anniversary of their births in 1911 and 1922, respectively, remembering the lives and work of Vincent Price and Christopher Lee, both internationally famed for their skilful depictions of cinematic villainy. Masters of their dark art!

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Nighttime shorebird work! Long, cold night, but great birds and great views Lots of Sanderlings, Semipalmated Sandpipers, Rex-knecked Phalaropes, and Stilt Sandpipers 🪶

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Look at how the laws against robbing banks just devastated that once growing industry!

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The 2025 Marie Curie Fellowships are now open! If you are interested in #PlasticPollution, #ornithology / #birds, #conservation & our work at @adriftlab.bsky.social and want to discuss an application, get in touch! #PhDjobs marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

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Really neat article on one of my PhD chapters by @melissacmarquez.bsky.social! The paper is so well summarised & she nails the key messages of the project. Well worth a read 🦈 www.forbes.com/sites/meliss... You can read the original paper here too: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Have you supported your local degenerates today?

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Coral reef research dominated by rich countries, plagued with inequities: Study

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What people don't seem to understand is that even if they are not using Medicaid, a large share of their providers' patient population does. That means that their healthcare providers may be unable to stay solvent and in practice when Medicaid is cut. We all lose when Medicaid is cut.

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“Each part of NOAA plays a role in monitoring, understanding, and predicting how the environment in which we live, work, and play is doing, and how it affects each of us.” Dismantling NOAA would be bad for weather forecasting, bad for our economy, and bad for public health.

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What could go wrong

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Dear science journalism, Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.

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My personal essay: "A Different Kind Uncertainty" speaking out on the grave implications of the destruction of US science (including for GIS users). Yea verily, these are far from normal times .... dusk.geo.orst.edu/uncertainty.... #GISchat #geogchat #geosky ⚒️ 🌊 🌍 🌎 🌏

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Mexican cannonball jellies is so surreal they look almost fake, with a chandelier-like mouth and deep blue color. But this species is also the target of an active & largely unregulated fishery, which collapsed around 2017. But recent posts from citizen scientists provide hope of a blueberry comeback

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Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

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bringing my piss license to the portaloo having my groin card scanned by the wang bouncer going through the genome scanner to access the segregated wee stations all part of the extremely normal utopia we strive towards

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tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

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OH WOW! Another deepsea hydromedusae! Pantachogon! COLORS! #hydrozoa www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Jellies in space! These were really pretty jellies, but hard to photograph in the mass of sea sparkles. They have such fascinating tentacles. Is this one Aglantha digitale, @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social?

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Two views of a pelagic nudibranch. No idea what kind it is though! The rhinopores at the bottom are clear enough but I have no idea what any of the other bits are. Or which view is from the side and which from the top/bottom. Pics from Balayan Bay, Anilao #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Blacwater

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It's no longer #WorldTurtleDay, but I like them so posting more Honu. :) Here's 3 hanging out on the reef at Ulua Beach. 📷🌿🦑🐍

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1. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order. My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.

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Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.

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And this is why I like corals. The color difference between age and sex makes me 😵‍💫 🪸🐠

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Sometimes you just need a weird lungfish to break up your timeline:

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aka 'false uncertainty' -- a standard practice of creationists

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Penguin poop gives off ammonia, which enhances cloud formation and cools coastal Antarctica, allowing more penguins to poop there, probably. 🐧🧪

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Wait for it! A nurse shark parts a school of shiny jack crevalles 🩺🦈🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 #jackcrevalle #nurseshark #sharksofcoralcity #shark #jacks #shiny #staghorn #elkhorn #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers has announced the closure of lakeside parks, campgrounds and beaches across the Southeast, with most in Georgia. In a statement, the Corps said there are not enough workers to staff the 31 parks across six lakes.

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New @scrippsocean.bsky.social gel mimics reef "smells," boosting coral settlement by up to 20x — a breakthrough for reef restoration. 🌊🪸 Read how nanotech and marine biology are coming together to protect our oceans: bit.ly/4kpS0F9 #MarineBiology

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This is a beautifully prepared Arthroacantha carpenteri crinoid calyx from the famous Devonian Silica Shale of Sylvania, Ohio. Note the tiny spines on the arms that are usually blown off during prep. It also has a pyritized Platyceras snail attached to the tegmen. #FossilFriday

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