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Meanwhile in Ontario, the Ford government’s own research warns removing Toronto bike lanes may not ease congestion and may make roads less safe www.thestar.com/news/gta/for...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

submitted 42 days ago • 46 comments

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

submitted 53 days ago • 434 comments

Applications are now open for the Excellence in Science Communication awards from @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. This great program recognizes work by journalists, independent communicators & scientists www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel... #scicomm

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Hey Ontario voters! If you haven’t already done so, get out there and vote today. If you’re not in the loop, here’s what #DougFord has cost us. #VoteFordOut (Great info, @westendphoenix.bsky.social - we needed fliers of this in every mailbox weeks ago, but thank you!)

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the Trump administration's devastating cuts for decades to come: www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

Well, it finally stopped snowing, and there’s sunshine and blue sky, so a run to & along the lake seemed like a good idea. (It was. But it was just a *tad* windy. And the snow was too deep for me to get close to the water.) #breatheinbreatheout

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

“The job cuts, which amount to roughly 10 percent of the agency’s work force, could hobble the Forest Service, which was already struggling to remove vegetation across its vast land holdings at a pace that matches the growing threat from fires, according to current and former federal employees”

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

submitted 67 days ago • 507 comments

This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.

submitted 68 days ago • 184 comments

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 69 days ago • 1039 comments