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This sort of discovery just 🤯 To think a very distant ancestor of ours on a particular day 236 million years ago looked at a plant and thought: "I'll have a bite of that!" And later it pooped and then we dug up the poop and found it also ate a butterfly and now we're talking about it. Just 🤯.

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More Hells Canyon coverage - this time an interview with @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/national-par...

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Louisiana is working really hard to earn “the dumbest fucking state” title right now www.newsweek.com/louisiana-pi...

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Oldest known fossil evidence of lepidopterans (butterflies & moths), from the Triassic (~236 mya) of Argentina! Scales from the wings of these insects were preserved in dicynodont coprolites, & were likely on plants eaten by the dicynodonts. www.science.org/content/arti... #PoopScience 🧪💩🪨🦋

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An official with DARPA, a military research agency, cited “grave and immediate harm to national security.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/m...

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It's not comforting to realize that the United States -- which fared much worse in pandemic deaths per population than most other wealthy countries -- will end up being much, much less prepared for the next pandemic

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❗️SHAME❗️Avelo Airlines signed a contract to run deportation flights for the Trump regime. Human rights & laws be damned, the Avelo CEO wants the 💰 from ICE flights. Near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, we're over the Kennedy, spreading the word: #BoycottAvelo

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Hold the Light Lee Munn 2023

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Forgot the osprey! #ocb2025 in woods hole

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🧪⚒️Just posted Folarin Kolawole @lamont.columbia.edu on continental rifting. I've always thought that the rifting of continents is a really counterintuitive notion. After teasing out the various early stages with Kolawole and invoking plumes and far-field forces the process makes more sense to me.

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My take on Elon Musk and his plan to leave government. www.economist.com/united-state... With a mini scoop at the end - the workers going back into the United States Institute of Peace offices found a whole bunch of weed apparently thrown away by the DOGE staffers who had been hanging out there

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Check Engine xkcd.com/3096/

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Slava Ukraini!

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I sincerely hope Western militaries are paying close attention and implementing upgrades to emulate Ukraine's innovation of warfare. Rather than turning our backs on them (USA) we should be treating them as mentors.

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Willows Bertram Brooker 1940

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South Africa rose 6 mm from 2012 to 2020 primarily due to climate-change-related water loss. Mantle upwelling, which was blamed for the rise until now, is a more minor factor. 🧪⚒️💧 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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"with the interrogator in place, each 10-meter segment of fiber optic cable captured seismic waves – the equivalent of 8,000 seismometers" ⚒️🫨 www.mercurynews.com?p=12047196/

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An astonishing raid deep inside Russia rewrites the rules of war - @economist.com www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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Save NASA Science: Please join me in signing this petition from The Planetary Society, urging Congress to reject the deep cuts to science that have been proposed by the administration. www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...

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This is such a perfectly condensed little parable of the horrors of the bullshit machines: a completely ignorant and illiterate shibboleth against standard punctuation, born from nothing and threatening to take over in no time—meme as prion chewing holes in the brains of a generation

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🇺🇦 www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...

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⚒️🧪 Thick black goop pouring from the earth is a horror often seen in TV shows or movies. Fortunately this is an amazing geological feature, and not a malevolent monster! This 1956 pic is of a natural bitumen or asphalt seep pouring into a mine shaft in Lettomanoppello, Italy. 🧵 Pic: Cazzini (2018)

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Always released on Fridays.

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Very depressing reading. Long-term shift away from Democrats except in wealthy, educated counties. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Sometimes you do have to root for the pathogens

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Interesting new research into the role of Arctic clouds in climate warming. TLDR: models underestimate warming now but the upside is that the effect maxes-out after more warming. 🧪 🧊☁️ phys.org/news/2025-05...

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🧪🌋⚒️. Mesmerizing timelapse of #Kilauea #Volcano #eruption episode 23 in its entirety from V3 webcam this past week, courtesy of USGS. Original video and caption at www.usgs.gov/media/videos.... Lava fountains reached 300m,and the ensuing solidified tephra plume reached an amazing 1.5 km!

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Make America Medieval Again

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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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HOLD UP. Are you telling us that the President of the United States is refusing regular briefings about threats to the country so his minions are creating a briefing TV show just for him? WHAT THE HELL? www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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A case can be made for reworking the PDB into a video because that’s how Trump consumes information but I have some questions about the details. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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not to be histrionic but I kind of feel like the confluence of Trumpism, algorithmic social media, and LLMs have placed language and the fundamental proposition that words have meaning under unprecedented strain and it’s freaking me out more than a bit

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Lmao you can't close ONE of the LIGO sites. It's like closing one of only two fax machines left in the world. The remaining fax machine wouldn't do anything!

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Last day at the GISS building (Wed. May 28th). 🥲

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"only models simulating a weakened historical Atlantic overturning can broadly reproduce the observed cooling and freshening in the warming hole region" 🧪🌊

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How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

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The AI generated MAHA report has more extensive fingerprints of AI use than I initially thought: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... The White House is using hallucinating robots to formulate and justified policy What could possibly go wrong?

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🚨 JUNE 14 🚨

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This has been a fantastic event, keep spreading the word!! #saveamericasscience

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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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What utter #AINonsense 👇 The idea that life's Last Universal Common Ancestor was a kind of aquatic bear-human swimming among other improbable creatures is an insult to science & the idea of a universal common ancestor 🧪⚒️ Shame on "Sustainability Times" & Google for promoting this nonsense

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