Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Gates’s argument mirrors modern society….a false separation between human welfare and ecological stability. Poverty and disease only grow on a dying planet. apnews.com/article/bill...

Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions to reducing human suffering

Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem and that scientific innovation will curb it. In a memo released Tuesday, Gates argues for a strategic pivot in the global climate fight.

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I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

It’s absolutely devastating. People are simply disappearing all over the place. We have fallen to authoritarianism. open.substack.com/pub/mdavis19...

Reddit Thread Details Horrific ICE Encounters

These stories are happening all over the country. We CAN'T look away and we must share them.

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🚨🚨 If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute." BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE 🚨🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the Society for Freshwater Science 2026 Annual Meeting! 💡Gathering to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities 📍 Spokane, WA 📆 May 17–21, 2026 Explore our meeting website for program details, travel, accommodations, field trips & more: 🔗 www.sfsannualmeeting.org

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

ML@mlpoole.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

🚨🚨🚨 In the worst tradition of the McCarthy-era anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee, the GOP House Oversight Committee has just launch a massive, grotesque, ad hominem, partisan assault on the US National Academy of Sciences. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability. By @abrahm.bsky.social, w/ graphics by @lucaswaldron.bsky.social

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

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2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll..... 13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

Fight for teachers and education!

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

US to rewrite its past national climate reports

US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

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Social movements play an essential role pushing for action on climate and nature, and it’s now widely recognised that support from scientists can make them more effective But not everyone can take to the streets or risk arrest That’s ok – there’s lots we can do in other ways 🧵1/

Thanks to state legislation, state universities are compelling their employees to suppress their identities. Rather than prioritizing dignity, autonomy, and respect, Kansas leaders have demanded employees comply by erasing a piece of themselves. What message does this send to students?

KU staff, employees must remove gender pronouns from e-mail signatures by July 31

University of Kansas officials notified staff, employees and student employees Tuesday of a slew of changes meant to align with a recently adopted change passed by the Kansas Board of Regents.

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“Water is the messenger that’s delivering the bad news about climate change to your city, to your front door.”

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Heavy rain in southern New Mexico on Tuesday afternoon caused catastrophic flash flooding, sweeping homes away and forcing water rescues, as well as closing roads. Three people had been admitted to the hospital and were in stable condition as of Tuesday evening. Read more: https://trib.al/woWOsV4

Glyphosate was the “safe” replacement for atrazine. Now diquat is the “acceptable” fallback for glyphosate. We’re not managing risks—we’re trading poisons and calling it agriculture. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows

Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries. The US has resisted calls to regulate it

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So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry? NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion. NASA: $24.875. NIH: $47.7 billion. Fund science, not cruelty.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Environmentally friendly farming sounds great but if it's lower yield it means more land is needed - and that's worse for the rarest species So we need high yield but sustainable farming I think smallholder agroecology, rather than industrial agriculture, offers more potential for that

Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Food production does more damage to wild species than any other sector of human activity, yet how best to limit its growing impact is greatly contested. Reviewing progress to date in interventions tha...

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Sharing A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is | Grist grist.org/food-and-agr...

A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is

A “first of its kind" tool could help untangle the complex global web of food supply chains and make it more resilient to climate shocks.

grist.org

“The Resistant Palestinian Pens is an independent media platform committed to amplifying Palestinian voices from Gaza and across occupied Palestine.” resistant.blog

They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."

For those who asked: this article is now temporarily open access for everyone.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · last yr.

My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎

🧪 This is such a cool paper -- @wallyfulweiler.bsky.social & colleagues estimate that inland & coastal waters contribute 15% of global terrestrial & ocean #nitrogen fixation - despite their relatively small aerial extent 🤓https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt1511

Global importance of nitrogen fixation across inland and coastal waters

Biological nitrogen fixation is a key driver of global primary production and climate. Decades of effort have repeatedly updated nitrogen fixation estimates for terrestrial and open ocean systems, yet...

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assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last yr.

Governor Waltz has now confirmed that Hortman and her husband were killed in the attack.

We feed you. They hunt us.

#DefendResearch

Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP)@cornellasap.bsky.social · last yr.

Early career scientists, please sign this Call to Preserve the Future of American Science: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

Michigan Advance@michiganadvance.com · last yr.

The National Science Foundation was established 75 years ago this week, but as Professor Scott L. Greer writes in this commentary, it’s “been a bit of a rough birthday party.” michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...