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See you at school Simon

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These are one sentence apart. Words, what do they mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

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These would look so much better if they had hand woven handles but it’s too cold outside to source the wild willow

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🧪 Science in universities fuels industry - here's an example for pharmaceuticals: "from 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. Even more stunningly, 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions" www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

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Maybe it’s not people speaking truth causing outrage…maybe it’s the actual outrageous tactics being used for mass deportation 🤔

submitted 12 hours ago • 27 comments

Republican science cuts cede technology leadership to China 💸👇 www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

submitted 20 hours ago • 35 comments

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

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ONE WEEK UNTIL NO KINGS DAY! At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS. There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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So many connections between star knowledge and ancient societies. Some have been embodied in monuments like Stonehenge, but the knowledge of they sky and its relation to natural and social cycles is vastly older. www.johnhawks.net/p/when-did-o...

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Day 40 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Yes, John (our H. sapiens), they really did think Coelophysis looked like all those reconstructions at different times, even the orange one. #fossilfriday ⚒️

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For #FossilFriday meet an absolute unit of a fossil. This is a ~75 cm chunk of Arthropleura - an animal closely related to millipedes, and found in ~325 million yeat old rocks in the UK. The whole animal was probably a little over 2.5 m in length. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

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"The fossil record effectively provides a set of natural experiments," Wright said. "By studying these historical events, we gain insights into how ecosystems respond when pushed past their breaking points, which has direct implications for understanding biodiversity loss today." 🧪 #FossilFriday

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There's plenty of fish in the Ocean biotite-fishes happily swimming to the east in a sea of recrystallized quartz and feldspar. FOV 3 mm CPL #geology #thinsection #mylonite #granite

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New research helps explain why drought kills some trees whereas others survive.

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With such short days, the Antarctic sunrises and sunsets start to merge into one... yesterday's was spectacular.... Another week or so, and the sun will not rise at all. 🧪🥼❄️🌊

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Did we all just accidentally pass through a wormhole into a universe where everything, every day, comes from @theonion.com ?

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I'm no ornithologist but listening to this grey catbird sounds just as complex to me as listening to a human conversation in a foreign language (apologies for wobbly zoom) 🐦‍⬛

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It looks like RFK & company want to open up the floodgates to unproven stem cells treatments, but deny millions of us the ability to get updated Covid vaccines this fall to protect ourselves and immunocompromised loved ones. Reporters, please bring this up anytime they claim to care about evidence.

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More on what happened to us: www.npr.org/2025/06/04/n... "They were left uninsured – despite the fact that they'd been paying their health care premiums through paycheck deductions..."

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"The scientific research base of the United States of America is the research university. We made that decision 80 years ago. We don't have a Plan B." — Condoleezza Rice

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Elon Musk revealing that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files is a perfect example of the powerful hiding their own corruption until it serves their purpose to reveal it.

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🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

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If you don't like the gutting of our future 👇 make your voice heard - 🚨 JUNE 14 🚨🧪⚒️ www.nokings.org arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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Quay Crowner believes she may have been targeted for dismissal because she attended a DEI training program offered by the first Trump administration. However, she says white colleagues who attended the same training hadn’t been pushed out. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social‬

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What is the point of the National Academy? I understand that it's an exclusive group of very accomplished people, but what do they do? If there's any time to use their influence to advocate for all of science and all scientists isn't it right now?

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This article is a difficult compilation of science budget cuts across agencies…and the lukewarm pushback from leadership

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Another data point in the evolution of the Tibet Plateau: Early Eocene date + paleoelevation of the Qaidam Basin is estimated at 1600±980 m ⚒️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Listen to @micahloewinger.bsky.social and Cory Doctorow's live conversation about "enshittification" from the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival in Seattle this past weekend: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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The deadly 2022 Eastern Kentucky flood was a turning point. Investments we made in geohazard resources at the Kentucky Geological Survey before and after the 2022 flood—lidar drones, computers, amazingly collaborative and smart people—are paying off but that’s now being threatened by Trump cuts.

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I usually don’t answer replies like this, but I know just how hard legislative staff and most legislators work. So what the heck, let’s have a transparency moment (swipe to find out!)

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🔥🔥🔥Missing the big picture: US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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We’ll keep saying it: the Jewish community’s legitimate fears and concerns should not exploited to undermine core democratic norms, or otherwise advance discriminatory & unconstitutional policies. Doing so only makes Jews - and all communities - less safe.

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Really interesting 🧵 on causes of 2023 record heat 👇

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Part of a 🧵 explaining the hot summer of 2023

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We're fans of @briannosek.bsky.social & he nails the problem precisely, pointing out how the bulk of Trump's #FoolsGold Executive Order - "...goes off the rails. If you’re not using scientific evidence, ideology is what is left.” www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025... #StandUpForScience

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Happening in a few minutes 👇

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