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Business idea: Japanese Hotel Bathrooms - we will convert your crummy American bathroom into the transcendental experience you had when visiting Japan

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

submitted 26 days ago • 46 comments

Please join the @nationalwildlife.bsky.social, @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social & others at the “Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science” in support of the USGS's Ecosystem Mission Area Thursday, May 22 12 – 1pm EDT www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Calling all scientists! There's less than one week left to boost support to protect endangered species' habitat safeguards in the Endangered Species Act. Sign on to the scientists' open sign-on letter here and please share: biodiv.us/4mojih5

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

submitted 45 days ago • 296 comments

Report from @science.org: • NSF staff told that its 37 divisions are being abolished. Programs within to be drastically reduced. • Layoffs expected, details via memo Friday 5/9. • Another round of grant terminations expected. (Already 1400 cancelled ~$1bn) www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 48 days ago • 10 comments

Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.

submitted 49 days ago • 176 comments

🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.

submitted 51 days ago • 711 comments

Oh fuck off. America has always been awash in get-rich-quick scams and we don’t need to treat this one with emotional heft because it takes place on the computer. Stop painting these people as anything other than credulous rubes or you’re going to encourage them.

submitted 53 days ago • 8 comments

It'd be nice if editors at major media outlets did a basic refresher on journalistic ethics so they could understand that claims require a factual basis. By any reasonable metric, DOGE has increased the spending of the government and increased the deficit while reducing the quality of services.

submitted 53 days ago • 13 comments

“The Trump administration is asking us to reimagine America as a country that not only does not value public service but actually torments its public servants,” @elainegodfrey.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/U64UnPy2

submitted 59 days ago • 8 comments

“The Trump administration is asking us to reimagine America as a country that not only does not value public service but actually torments its public servants,” writes @elainegodfrey.bsky.social :

submitted 71 days ago • 11 comments

The proposed cuts to NOAA aren't just numbers on a budget—they're a direct threat to public safety. Protecting NOAA funding is about protecting your family, your community, and your future. Learn more about these dangerous cuts here: bit.ly/4iaKpJ2

submitted 75 days ago • 8 comments

Super happy to see our new article on how pharmaceutical pollution can influence salmon migration out in @science.org! This was a huge effort by a great team of researchers over the last few years! You can read the paper here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…!

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

submitted 95 days ago • 63 comments

We used to talk around the @marketplace.org office about what the first question would be if we got got an interview with him. I think we landed on asking him to tell us how tariffs actually work.

submitted 90 days ago • 48 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 92 days ago • 1060 comments

It's Sweet Again. www.mgoblog.com/content/swee...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 101 days ago • 625 comments

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

submitted 107 days ago • 117 comments

Maine said it wouldn't break state law to follow President Donald Trump's order barring transgender girls from playing girls' sports. Then came a barrage of investigations and threats.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Riding into the weekend like

submitted 110 days ago • 6 comments

The question is settled, this is going to funnel money to quacks and grifters to create a CDC-approved fake "study" that supercharges vaccine misinformation. It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.

submitted 111 days ago • 48 comments

Today in Columbia SC #StandUpForScience

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

“A worst-case scenario is a harmful algal bloom forms and our drinking water managers aren't prepared, and people get poisoned,” planetdetroit.org/2025/03/noaa...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Scoop: ~33% of NWS offices no longer have sufficient staffing to safely keep 24/7 operations. Critically understaffed @nws.noaa.gov offices now include: Boston Miami Houston Omaha Wichita Kansas City Marquette, MI Sioux Falls, SD Rapid City, SD Cheyenne, WY www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 111 days ago • 59 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 112 days ago • 1565 comments

As I read comments on social media posts about NOAA, I am calling on all of my broadcast media friends to do a story about everything that NOAA does for the public.

submitted 114 days ago • 10 comments

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

submitted 115 days ago • 67 comments

President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.

submitted 116 days ago • 42 comments

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

submitted 116 days ago • 3419 comments

NOAA Fisheries is vital for both ocean health & human well-being. It safeguards marine ecosystems & species, ensures sustainable seafood, and supports coastal economies. Without it, overfishing, habitat loss, and food insecurity would threaten us all. Protect our oceans—protect our future!

submitted 117 days ago • 19 comments

The Trump Administration has abruptly pulled $4.5 million in Maine Sea Grant funds (via NOAA), which were used to protect Maine’s working waterfront and ocean ecosystems. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...

submitted 117 days ago • 19 comments

NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing

submitted 116 days ago • 96 comments

Has anyone seen any outdoor brands, besides Patagonia, making statements, action or voicing opinions against public land agency cuts and/or the potential privatization of public lands?

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”

submitted 117 days ago • 92 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 119 days ago • 1564 comments

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

submitted 122 days ago • 205 comments

DOGE quietly deleted the 5 biggest spending cuts it celebrated last week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

submitted 121 days ago • 18 comments

NOAA carries a two century legacy of America’s first government science agency www.southernfriedscience.com/noaa-carries...

submitted 122 days ago • 3 comments

It is almost impossible to explain the sheer insanity of Elon Musk apparently having the capability to email the entire federal government evidently without getting approval from anyone—and, apparently, against the wishes of most Cabinet departments.

submitted 123 days ago • 84 comments