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Climate, water, environmental security scientist, birds, bluegrass mandolin. Member US National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow, Carl Sagan Prize, author of The Three Ages of Water (2023). Also on Mastodon. @[email protected]
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The intentional destruction of US science and academia by Trump and the GOP continues to accelerate. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

In China and just saw R1D1. #starwars

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

I've been in China for a week at a major International meeting on the future of #water. And the view from here is that while Trump and the GOP are slamming the brakes on support and investments for science, technology, education, and infrastructure, the Chinese are massively hitting the accelerator.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

An important message on the need for Congress to step up and save American science by two former presidential science advisors. thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

This reminds me of the saying that mainstream economists know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I've been in China for a week at a major International meeting on the future of #water. And the view from here is that while Trump and the GOP are slamming the brakes on support and investments for science, technology, education, and infrastructure, the Chinese are massively hitting the accelerator.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

A pox on ... Well, you know.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk only has to flip a couple of Republican senators and a handful of Republican congressmen.

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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.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Science: PFAS in drinking #water is tied to cancer. Trump policy: Cancel #PFAS drinking water regulations and cut research funding. usrtk.org/healthwire/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

So now the totally amoral Republicans in Congress are going to have to choose between money and power.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Pakistan People's Party Chairman and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto threatens India 'first nuclear water war'.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I'm in China. It's 6:30 in the morning and I'm just waking up and reading the news. I guess I'll get popcorn for breakfast.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The China South-North Water Transfer project is the largest in the world. It moves water from the Yangtze River to North China and crosses UNDER the massive Yellow River in two giant 4-km long tunnels.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Electric cars in China have green license plates.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Just FYI. The United States has 330 million people. China has 300 million people over the age of 60.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Transport trivia. 18-wheelers in China have 22 wheels.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Okay, I admit this may be weird but in my electric car with its GPS navigation system, and with a smartphone in my pocket, I still have a stack of paper maps in the door.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Surprise! - Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

You know that apocryphal saying: "Americans will do the right thing only when they have exhausted every other possibility"? Well, I'm exhausted.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

When Trump and the GOP hire dangerously incompetent people, we get dangerous. Incompetentence. "the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season" www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

@jtemple.bsky.social James, just released from embargo at Nature (Human Behavior). "The Trump administration has launched an extraordinary and dangerous attack on US science...History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"In short, the dismantling of US science now underway will make us poorer, sicker and blind to developing problems." www.nature.com/articles/s41... @petergleick.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

United flight 888 to Beijing had an engine problem on takeoff. We're dumping fuel and returning to San Francisco.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Imagine being literally the richest person on earth and having this be your legacy: disease, starvation, and death. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

In Pakistan, thousands of protesters have fought against the Cholistan Canal Project, which would divert water from the Indus River to irrigate millions of hectares of desert for corporate farming. Opponents say the project leave small-scale farmers in Sindh province without the water they need.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

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.

submitted 7 days ago • 461 comments

STOP asking AI systems for "opinions" and presenting their outputs as reasoned responses. AI systems don't think or reason. They don't have "opinions." All they're doing is rewriting/recreating answers cobbled together from whatever materials were fed to it.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Imagine being literally the richest person on earth and having this be your legacy: disease, starvation, and death. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

While pushing through absolutely devastating cuts to research, science, and scientists, RFK Jr. blatantly lies to Congress saying there have been no cuts to research, science, and scientists. www.factcheck.org/2025/05/rfk-...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Look, either AI wrote this BS report and fabricated science and references, or a MAGA hired by RFKJr and the Republicans did. Which is worse? White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Oh bugger off.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Hey Utah and Florida. This is what you're going to have to do when your cavities and oral disease rates start to rise again too. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment