Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.
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What I think of trans people: they and I are paying $20/tank more for gas they and I are threatened by attacks on public health they and I have neighbors who are being attacked by ICE they and I face the end of U.S. scientific greatness they and I are having our federal government dismantled
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
My quote of the day Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy
A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat.
Truckload of squid spills into the street in Rhode Island, creating a smelly mess in the summer heat
A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat.
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Stuart Firestein's new book, It Could Be Otherwise, is out. It completes the trilogy that began with Ignorance and Failure. I read an early version and it is terrific. Firestein shows how science actually works, and he makes the case that uncertainty is a feature, not a bug.
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
the tundra when it melts #climatechange
Rick Thoman@alaskawx.bsky.social · 2mo agoUtqiaġvik, Alaska up to 68F (20.0C) at 4pm AKDT Thursday. This is a new record high temperature for August 13, breaking the previous record of 66F (18.9C) set in 1991. Climate obs at Alaska’s northernmost community since 1920. #akwx #Arctic #Climate @climatologist49.bsky.social
"How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don't understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience, New Age thinking, and fundamentalist zealotry and the testable hypotheses of science?" -The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/s...
Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking
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Good luck to everyone who's also submitting a grant today. Bon chance, little R01!
New DHS Secy Markwayne Mullin, in an interview with Bret Baier, says he wants to consider pulling Customs out of international airports in “sanctuary cities,” which would effectively shut down a huge amount of international travel to the U.S. LA, NYC, BOS, SF, Chi, SEA, Miami, DEN, Phil, SD….
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/
Gilligan & the Skipper are briefed on their “excursion” to open the Strait of Hormuz…this won’t be a 3 hr tour.
I’d rather live next to wind turbines and solar panels.
Large oil refinery explosion near Texas coast forces residents to shelter in place
Officials say a large explosion at an oil refinery near the Texas coast has shot plumes of smoke into the air and forced nearby residents to shelter in place.
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Unlike one of my opponents, I believe in running in the district where I live! Central Jersey, 26 years strong! SamForNJ.org
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Big Beautiful Blue Wall@buildbluewall.bsky.social · 6mo agoRun against a MAGA in a MAGA District Kean, Van Drew, Smith
The #NIH comprises less than 1% of the federal budget. 80% of that is allocated to universities and research institutions. That $$ ($36B) yielded $94 BILLION in new economic activity in 2025.
China is watching & taking action as we throw away the best thing we have ever built. China has proposed to increase its overall research & development expenditure by at least 7%/yr over the next five years, which translates to billions of extra dollars each year. 🧪 go.nature.com/4rqZQ4u
China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science
Funding for national laboratories and important research projects would increase under the government’s plans.
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$1B per day and $4B so far of your tax dollars to kill 1000 people in 4 days And they are just getting warmed up Let that sink in
BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 7mo agoWith this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.
If Congress were serious about its Article I powers, it wouldn’t vote to fund a war it didn’t authorize. This is not complicated. SamForNJ.org
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7mo agoIf you vote to fund the war, you support the war. www.huffpost.com/entry/ruben-...
Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...
They numbered the manholes in my neighborhood and this one is just down the block. I’ll take it as a good omen.
Supplementary Figure gone out of hand ... 🤯 #sciencepublishing
John Prensner@johnprensner.bsky.social · 10mo agoWow this is a seriously serious supplementary figure from @cellpress.bsky.social today. Panels A through UU. I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Because what you don’t know Can’t hurt you. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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