I can’t say enough good things about this book, which my entire lab read together several years ago. It was hugely helpful to me even after tenure, and I consider myself to be a strong writer who usually loves writing!

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 3h ago

A fully updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientists. The Scientist’s Guide to Writing, 3rd Edition by @stephenbheard.bsky.social is out now! Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Science #Education #Writing

You won't regret clicking on this beautifully told story by @lsommer.bsky.social about the Pacific Ocean and how the Trump regime is opening some marine monuments to commercial fishing.

These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections

The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, spar...

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Do we have a "made without genAI" badge or digital sticker that science communicators and artists can use so people know that our work is for humans by humans?

Running the country like a business seems to be playing out exactly as predicted. Next, we'll have venture capital buying up individual federal agencies and running them into the ground for tax write-offs.

Corey Johnson@coreygjohnson.bsky.social · 2d ago

🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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Hey, geology friends, my nephew would like to know what we’re looking at here. This is from a beach in Maryland.

This might have broken my record for fastest pre-order ever.

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · last wk.

Did you know I have a new book coming out about a graduate student who is a slime mold from beyond the galaxy? Who comes to Earth to do fieldwork and meets a badass sex worker in ancient Pompeii? It's called "A Wall Is Also a Road." You should pre-order it now! torpublishinggroup.com/a-wall-is-al...

Another paper from our NASA-funded project on ferns has dropped! UWyoming MS student Fern (really!) Holian, developed a new schema for classifying fossil ferns, which are understudied. 🧪🌿☄️

Application of a novel schema for describing fossil fern foliage and investigating taxonomic and morphological change across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in western North America

Premise The Chicxulub asteroid impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago. Ferns thrived in the aftermath of the extinction, evidenced by the.....

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The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...

‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.

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I put a call out for mural walls yesterday and I got a lot of VERY good walls for projects of a variety of scales. Unfortunately I have only sold enough shirts this summer to cover 2 of those walls. This means more people need to buy shirts. Thems the breaks. More shirts more art. SquidFacts.Net

It takes seven forms, three approvals and finally a mistake to happen for me to get a reimbursement for cheese eaten during a business dinner. Meanwhile:

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7d ago

An Army National Guard officer has admitted to using his government travel card to fund a secret second marriage

Behold, our son. He grows stronger every day. We did not plant him. He took over the tomato bed. A true warrior. July 16, July 24, July 26, July 29.

Dunkleosteus on the carousel at the Ohio State Fair! www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

"[O]ur new golden age... is going to be a golden age of taking money away from scientists and universities and giving it to companies like Scale AI." www.publicnotice.co/p/michael-kr...

The "new science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

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Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

I’m sure this was not fun to come home to but it was an absolute delight to read about!

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · last wk.

Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...

Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic

Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.

coa.edu

Really loved this @longreads.com interview with s.e. smith, a writer whose work I love, and also so excited to pick up their new book on grief (out today, in fact!).

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from t...

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I am delighted to see this data from @mattomildenberger.bsky.social & crew at UCSB which shows that leaning into climate solutions—not avoiding the issue—is a vote winner. It confirms everything we have been saying based on our polls. @mason4c.bsky.social @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social

After wildfire smoke turned Toronto's air into the world's worst, I reached out to climate change reporter Marco Chown Oved about his approach to covering forest fires and smoke, his training with forest fire rangers, and his practical advice to other journalists: emergencymode.news/one-climate-...

One Climate Change Reporter's Practical Guide to Covering Fire And Smoke · Emergency Mode for News

Karen K. Ho interviews Marco Chown Oved about the practical considerations when covering wildfires and smoke | guides for gear

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For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.

What are your favorite alternatives to @soundcloudsaid.bsky.social for podcast hosting? I have an account for our Warm Regards episodes but the customer service is non-existent. I think emails go into a black hole.

With the National Science Foundation (NSF) under threat from the Trump administration, Science Rising’s Senior Advisor, Kei Koizumi, explains why this institution is so important to American science and how, by working together, we can protect it.

Research at Risk: The Latest Proposal to Devastate the National Science Foundation - Union of Concerned Scientists

Hi, I’m Kei Koizumi (pronounced like the letter “K”; he/him). I’m new to this UCS blog so let me introduce myself. I’m a social scientist, a science policy practitioner, and a science policy maker. My personal mission has long been to use science policy to provide everyone, in every community, opportunities to participate in and benefit from science and engineering.

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New @thebulletin.org investigation out today by Bernice Yeung follows the on again, off again, and now very, very much on again love affair between Silicon Valley and the Defense Department

The rise of the military-technology complex

How Silicon Valley tech firms remade US defense contracting. And then opened the Pentagon’s checkbook—wide.

thebulletin.org

Chevron, by total emissions over the last decade, but ExxonMobil is a close second and has outspent them on lobbying and denial campaigns (though Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute have spent more overall).

Chris Bataille@chrisbataille.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sometime in the next ~5 years I’m facing the privilege of a hefty bill to retrofit my house with heat pump cooling & heating, which was designed & built for super high efficiency gas. Where I live never needed AC until ~ 5 years ago. To which which fossil company/petrostate do I send the bill😉

Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

nytimes.com

Do humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm

Can we take a moment to appreciate the many services @doctorzen.net has provided for our community? Starting with the Better Posters blog, and now this lovely curated AI slop collection. A true champion for the people.

Zen Faulkes@doctorzen.net · 2w ago

Just telling people now that if that graphical abstract made with AI 🤖 is published, I WILL include it in my collection: bit.ly/academic-slop

Now Trump’s going after Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Law, one of the last (if inadequate) barriers to destruction of cultural sites in the Chaco region and the lands removed from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument open.substack.com/pub/landdesk...

Trump looks to gut a key historic preservation law

A weakened Section 106 makes national monuments and the Chaco mineral withdrawal more important than ever

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