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This was the GOP convention a year ago. The chaos, fear, and disruption of life and families were promised, voted for, and are now being acted on.

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He will undoubtedly rank among the men (it’s usually men) responsible for the most deaths of innocent humans. At 300,000 deaths, mostly of children due to starvation, he has already surpassed the death toll caused by atomic bombs.

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"The damage caused by wildfires is great and extensive, reaching into our very bodies on a chemical and genetic level and sowing discord to haunt later years of our life."

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“…the office in Jackson, KY, was one of four that no longer had a permanent overnight forecaster after hundreds of people left the agency as a result of cuts ordered by the DOGE, the initiative led by Elon Musk… until recently, most would have at least two or three people scheduled around the clock”

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One my favorite T-shirts

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"Today's challenges, though major, are not necessarily unique. Around the world, there is a long history of obstacles that science and education have faced and ultimately overcome through persistence, solidarity, and unwavering commitment to the truth." @aaberhe.com

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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

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Could somebody send this to the Department of Education that eliminated 23million Grant for PBS Children’s Shows

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In the meantime, the world’s richest man [Elon] has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.

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It’s official, JB Milliken will be the 22nd President of the University of California system. It was a privilege to represent UC faculty interests in this search. … he currently serves as Chancellor of the UT System, previously led the CUNY system, U of NE and was v. Pres of UNC

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Gardner (1991) argued that “if basic soil science did not exist, there is ample evidence that we need to invent it.” While practical applications are valuable outcomes of soil science research, they should emerge from a deep understanding of soil systems rather than define the discipline's scope.

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📢 New pub: Defining #soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs, in Soil Science Society of America Journal doi.org/10.1002/saj2... @teamrat.bsky.social & I argue, soil science, though crucial for solving environmental challanges, should not be defined solely by its applications

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Pope Francis’s first papal visit was to Lampedusa, where thousands have perished. There he criticized the “globalization of indifference”. He said we “have forgotten how to cry” for migrants and “take care of each other,” in his homily. It seems the indifference is worsening everywhere.

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50% tariff! “Lesotho’s factories have made garments — particularly denim — for manufacturers like Levi’s and Wrangler. And although Mr. Trump recently called Lesotho a country that “nobody has ever heard of,” his own Trump-branded Greg Norman golf shirts feature labels that say “Made in Lesotho.””

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It only took 74 days for Donald Trump to smash the global economic order. Why did he decide to blow up a century’s worth of globalization?

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I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

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the so-called war over California’s water is a dangerous, flawed trope that reduces certain water uses to right or wrong, and turns the Delta into a place with no local stakes. Faced with threats of drought, climate change and water scarcity, we should not reduce this place to a warring of... sides.

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“Regardless of style and tactics, everyone in the American scientific community must hold to the principles of independence, peer evaluation, and inclusion. These have enabled the country’s success in science and technology for at least a century. We will not turn our backs on them now.”

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“We’re bringing attention to what’s happening to the parks, which are every American’s properties,” Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite and disabled military veteran who supplied the flag and helped hang it Saturday.

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Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

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The real damage under the chaos.

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The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of: malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique treatment for cholera in Bangladesh a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi #USAID

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In the grand scheme of the current state of affairs, this may appear insignificant. But, I am grappling to understand the opposition to paper straws.🤔

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Like the Supreme Court?

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Could this have been avoided if high-tech education consisted serious ethics and history curriculum? #AI #history #ethics

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Before it disappears, here’s the latest climate change data that was previously accessible at the Global Monitoring Lab (gml.noaa.gov) hosted by NOAA.gov.

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Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

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They thought they hired a guy to kill climate policies, not to kill their industry www.api.org/news-policy-...

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An unelected and unvetted billionaire getting access to the nations books… what can go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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"Thousands of highly cited scientists have at least one retraction" "Oransky says the results throw into question the practice of ranking scientists on the basis of citations at all."

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headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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The Ahwahnee at Yosemite

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A foggy and rainy Yosemite. #yosemite

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Heron on a bridge.

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Geese at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge.

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A blue heron basking under the morning sun at @ucmerced.bsky.social

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Today, as President Jimmy Carter is honored, we reflect on his 2010 visit to UC Merced, where he received the Spendlove Prize and celebrated the Central Valley’s diversity as a strength of our nation. 🔗ucm.edu/lhgqp1

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“… Research Program at the UCLA, surveys first-year college students every year. The percentage who named being “very well off financially” as an important goal doubled from 1967 to 2019. Those who wanted to develop a “meaningful philosophy of life” decreased by nearly half.

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This study suggests our faces evolve to match our names. It makes me wonder - what people think when they first see my name? Do I look like a Teamrat? Like most Eritrean names, which reflect the hopes and circumstances of the family at the time of birth, it's a story in a word. #names #culture

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Congratulations to QSB graduate student Dean Wu on successfully defending your PhD!!

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