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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

submitted 7 hours ago • 134 comments

To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.

submitted 54 days ago • 22 comments

Farage said during a speech on Friday that he would advise council staff working on diversity or climate change initiatives to seek “alternative careers very, very quickly” Imagine looking at the clusterfuck that is the US doge and wanting some of it for yourself 🤡

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Lmao this is an utterly ridiculous bill that would mean absolutely destroy universities and scientific and academic research in Texas. But this being Trump Texas, it seems like it has a reasonable change of passing. Hard to overstate how terrible this is

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

I have completely deleted my Duolingo. I was informed by one of my kids that the company has removed most of its employees and 70% of the company is run by AI. I urge everyone to delete their app.

submitted 10 hours ago • 57 comments

3 elections in as many weeks. Centre left parties in two of them take on populist right and win, in 3rd they emulate populists and lose. Could there be a lesson here? And is there even a remote chance U.K. Labour might see it?

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Oh lol its official, Dutton has lost. Trump-lite leaders lost in both Canada and Australia. Great to watch.

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Well, he's called it for Labor! Dissapointed that Greens couldn't pick up more seats but relieved that the worst-case-scenario is off the table.

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I love how my feed is universally "Anthony Green is an international treasure". (people in the image: @ijayas.bsky.social @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social @pault.bsky.social)

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Ok, this is the first aussie election I am following and I can already see why Antony Green is so beloved, haha

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Remember when they called Obama the Antichrist for wearing a dijon suit or whatever? Anyway here's an "AI" image of Trump as the Pope shared to Trump's official social media.

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BREAKING: The USDA has dropped their lawsuit against Maine over its transgender student athletic policies. “I told him I’d see him in court. Well we did see him in court, and we won,” Gov. Janet Mills said. www.pressherald.com/2025/05/02/m...

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the government won't tell you this but germ theory is real

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

This is being circulated at #NASA regarding new performance evaluations to be done 4x a year. Note: "Faithful Support of Administration of the Law and the President's Policies" are Number 1 criteria for both SES & SL/ST NASA personnel.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.” - Edward R Murrow

submitted 103 days ago • 33 comments

Miasma. He thinks germ theory is wrong and we should go back to miasma. I can’t anymore

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Great 🙃

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Omg I don’t even understand this timeline anymore. This was going around on TikTok as a joke last week www.politico.eu/article/dona...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Which is the bigger Tony Blair lie? 1. Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction 2. Phasing out fossil fuels is 'doomed to fail' I'm conflicted...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

the entire democratic party needs to bury every clinton consultant at sea and just go pritzker mode. how much bigger a softball can they give you than a suit saying “we want your entire lineage in factories forever”

submitted 4 days ago • 122 comments

I’m kind of getting mad at the many, many people who are just now figuring out that it was a genius idea to have the entire conflict behind Star Wars begin with a trade dispute. Yes! That was a fantastic twist and it’s in fact how many big wars have started! Also the movie is TWENTY-SIX YEARS OLD

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Phew

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“This has now taken us to a different position, that he’s now attacking the fundamental scientific community... We never had anything like this... I think we should criticise his position clearly in public." So says Royal Society president-elect Paul Nurse. www.thetimes.com/article/e13f...

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

This top line--"nearly 800 NIH grants"--was made possible by every scientist who reported their terminated grant to us. 🙏 Small acts add up, and the country is finally learning the full scope RFK's vandalism. And don't stop now! Report your terminated NIH grant here: forms.gle/FnGLkUtK3M58...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

My postdoc advisor, Wally Broecker, said: "Climate is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks." Well, we are getting to the FOFO stage. 🧪 www.esa.int/Applications...

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

If fast fashion dies as a result of a tariffs that would be an incredibly good unintended consequence

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Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.

submitted 6 days ago • 453 comments

The left doesn’t actually need to make every decision based on what the voters currently support or what is currently possible. The conservatives in power enacted their extremely unpopular ideas over decades of chipping away at norms and building coalitions. You can just believe in things!

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

Satellite data from the European Space Agency shows the surface temperature of the oceans is warming 4.5 times faster than they were at the end of the ‘80s. It’s not easy to predict climate change, and the reality keeps turning out worse than we thought it would be 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Applications...

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

How is any of this legal when congress has explicitly allocated funding? I’m stuck at how little the universities are pushing back

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Our NSF grant was terminated. :(

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The Ohio State University Faculty Council voted 35-11 on April 24, 2025 to join the Big Ten "mutual defense compact" that would support the defense of academic freedom. They join universities of IL, IN, IA, MD, MN, NE, OR, WA, WI, Michigan State, Northwestern, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, UCLA, USC.

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

Yikes this is bad arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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I’ve never understood the protests as a way to influence Trump. I believe they’re important because they’re a way to tell each other that we’re not okay with this. They’re a way to communicate with other Americans and hopefully suppress further normalization of Trumpism in everyday life.

submitted 9 days ago • 75 comments

That was fast: HALF THE BIG TEN IS READY TO FORM A BIG TEN COMPACT! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Rutgers Nebraska Indiana Michigan State Michigan Washington Ohio State Maryland Minnesota 1) Share widely. 2) Contact presidents at the above saying: implement! 3) Contact your own univ/colleges saying: pass a compact!

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

I don't think I've ever been more down existentially than when I read about students using AI to write essays and teachers using AI to mark them. I think about it probably daily. It's some species extinction shit. It's some death of the self shit. What are we doing.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Jesus Christ

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This is terrible policy. Terrible for the planet, terrible for our future, terrible for our unique biodiversity, terrible for the cost of food, terrible for insurance costs, terrible for ...<add anything really> I really wish leaders would stop approving these things.

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Pope Francis leaves behind a legacy of compassion, courage, and a continuing call to protect our common home and all who share it with us. In his 2023 exhortation, Laudato Deum, he spoke out strongly against those who reject what science tells us about climate and deny their own responsibility. 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

Deeply saddened to hear that Pope Francis passed away. He seemed like a genuinely compassionate person who embodied what it truly meant to lead a life of service. May he rest in peace

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“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. Those who will have to suffer the consequences will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” — Pope Francis

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