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Proud of my hometown, where apparently ~2,500 people came out!

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Seeing all the "last day" posts from EPA staff today is heartbreaking. You deserved so much better, my friends.

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NSF is rejecting near-perfect applications for DEI-related projects on the grounds that they don't fit administration priorities. And I worry that the administration's goal isn't just to stop DEI research but to push the scholars doing this work out of academia, since tenure often hinges on grants.

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Plan for the summer

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"Many of the students facing discipline and marginalization are themselves Jewish. They don’t need protection from their own political views – they need protection from institutions that would force them to choose between their Jewish identity and their political conscience."

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Fun conspiracy theory we should try to get climate deniers to switch to: believing in the greenhouse effect (carbon emissions are warming the planet), but NOT believing in the greenhouse effect (plants can grow in glass houses).

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Looking for any other scientists who were ever contributors to Twitter's Community Notes! Even if you only wrote one note or nothing reached visibility! I just talked with a journalist at Science about the feature and what it means for the state of fact-checking, and he's looking for more folks.

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YES

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Now that we are being transported back in time to the rise of these contrarians - we need to be even more clear that these movements were never about science. Manufacturing doubt was/is sadly a highly effective strategy to undermine science and public health. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This angle of the current Kīlauea eruption is even wilder! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

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You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

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Funny to think of the days when we fretted about Wikipedia's accuracy because it was written by users. Now it's the gold standard because it's written by humans, period.

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The article frames the backlash as a mostly philosophical one, but it's also a VERY practical one: editors in the trial found frequent major errors in the summaries! Link to AI bullshitting about the Cambrian for my geo crowd, but you can scroll around for more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

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While consolidating can in some cases be a fine and normal part of media management, seeing big climate-related accounts (NASA Climate, Ice, GISS, NCCS) on this list is suspicious. It'll be important to watch for changes in the amounts and types of climate info put out by remaining NASA accounts.

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"The cuts also mean that there is now also no one left to run climate.gov social media accounts, which have hundreds of thousands of followers. Since staff in charge of climate.gov did a lot of pushback on misinformation, their absence may help anti-science information flourish there more readily."

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Scoop: NOAA's climate portal, climate.gov, will soon no longer publish new content after its staff were recently dismissed. Former staff fear that the website may become a mouthpiece for the administration's anti-science views. My latest for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Looking for any other scientists who were ever contributors to Twitter's Community Notes! Even if you only wrote one note or nothing reached visibility! I just talked with a journalist at Science about the feature and what it means for the state of fact-checking, and he's looking for more folks.

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“The gender-equality paradox entails that countries with more equality have larger gender differences in behavior. Positive associations between equality & gender differences disappear or reverse when accounting for cultural clusters of countries. The paradox appears to be a methodological artifact”

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Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.

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STATES HAVE ALWAYS LED DISASTER RESPONSE

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Opened my window to let in some nice morning air and heard The Cha-Cha Slide being played loudly on a speaker somewhere in the distance, echoing off of the walls of buildings around me.

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ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

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Ok geology pals, I need some help. In your opinion what are the “best” disaster movies? Specifically - 1) The 'best' or most scientifically interesting depiction of a disaster 2) The funniest or most ridiculous disaster movie 3) Your favorite 'guilty pleasure' disaster movie

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

yeah i love waymo, way mo immigrants coming to my city

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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

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Contrary to my normal climate opinions, for the Stanley Cup I hope the Oilers are on fire and leave Florida totally underwater.

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The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

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I wrote a quick critique of that preprint on nuclear explosions to end global warming.

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I just ran across this photo from seven years ago. As always: glaciologists against ICE.

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US Earth Scientists: We know you have questions, come get them answered directly from NSF/EAR POs! Tuesday, June 17, 2p Eastern. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

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I was just reminded of a time when I was on my way to a pride event and there was one of those gross anti-LGBTQ+ megaphone preachers outside a park full of people & tents, yelling how it's an affront to Jesus. But he was at the wrong park?! Guy was just hollering outside of a Filipino culture fest?!

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I had >100k followers and (pre-Musk) verification on Twitter. I had almost no engagement with my posts by the time I deleted my account. There was nothing to keep me there even if it wasn't a values issue. The subsequent changes to moderation plus AI-enabled harassment are also not selling points.

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The main reason I use social media is to talk with other scientists about science. That used to happen on Twitter, but then the platform's decisions to foster misinformation, hate speech, and spam made it basically impossible! Why would I use a platform where I can't do the ONE thing I want to do?

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This is a horrifically bad idea.

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the issue is not just ICE. we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now. we cannot do both

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Regular liberal people must come to understand that there is no way you can appease Nazis and especially that there is no way that you can shrink yourself so they won't hurt you. Their main goal is to hurt you.

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We found out that ICE is staying at the AC hotel in #Pasadena and now there's a couple of hundred people protesting #NoICE

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