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Semi-retired computer scientist, ancient UNIXer, "Big Data" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mashey Last 20 yrs: chasing anti-science disinfo, especially on climate or tobacco, helping defend scientists. Supporter of CSLDF, NCSE, CSI, member AAAS, AGU.
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Trump should be the first to complain at this egregious example of someone failing to adhere to his rules of Gold Standard Science

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Gold standard science

submitted 18 hours ago • 76 comments

Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order. with @cdelawalla.bsky.social @vambros.bsky.social Carol Greider @michaelemann.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

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He was born in Massachusetts and lived for decades in California.

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Truisms of California wildfire.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

They were planning on streaming from the NASA GISS building on the last day it was a NASA building. However, NASA officials are preventing speakers from entering the building. Join the stream and show your support!

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Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed. Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

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Btw.... that early warning came because *scientists* and *technicians* were monitoring the glacier above the town. #climatechange 🧪

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Thankfully, the Swiss trust science and evacuated the town days earlier. But yes, add this town's disapperance to the many, many costs of climate change.

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“The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields” - Marco Rubio, 5/28/25 Pay attention to his use of the words “including” & “or.” This is NOT limited to Chinese students with CCP connections. 1/

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Flattened Blatten was just the warmup. Collapsed Swiss Glacier was supporting an even larger slab of mountain that now looks ready to fall thinc.blog/2025/05/28/b...

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Question from a livestream viewer: “How many lives are collectively impacted by [NOAA's] monitoring and rapid response work.” John Cortinas: “I don’t have any exact numbers, but I would probably start by saying the entire population of the United States…"

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How Many Vaccine Doses Do Kids Get by 1 Year of Age? Not as many as anti-vaccine activists claim, but we are able to protect children from more dangerous diseases than we used to be. open.substack.com/pub/stopanti... via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social

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There is no clearer indication of the danger of RFKJr. He's pulling vaccine recommendations for pregnant women and healthy children, despite unambiguous science these are important health protections. You give vaccines to healthy people to prevent them from GETTING sick. apnews.com/article/covi...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Barnes & Noble link: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un... Publisher's (@publicaffairs.bsky.social/ @hachetteus.bsky.social) link: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha... #ScienceUnderSiege @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Headline from The New York Times in 2020. "US deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss." #covid As of today, that "incalculable loss" is 1.2 million Americans. And RFK Jr is taking away our vaccines.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Pittsburgh 1945. Also, where we’re headed in 2025.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

A must-read thread. CO2 is unlike other pollutants in that its effects cumulate. Once emitted, it stays in the atmosphere for centuries, so we need to get emissions to zero asap to stabilize the climate.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

An excellent corrective to the recent abundance debate. We need to avoid "deference to private capital and hostility to public governance". Well-regulated capitalism, baby!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Since Lincoln was President, the National Academies has provided unbiased expert guidance to the government. I’ve had the privilege of serving on multiple committees, and the excellent staff takes their responsibility to help the country very seriously. What are we doing here?

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Making America smoggy and filled with acid rain again 🙄

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment