i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten

Funny that one of the big talking points from the administration was they had “rebuilt the military” then turned around and used up all the PRsM’s, ATACMS, and half the tomahawks on a idiotic war of choice in the Middle East

George Pearkes@peark.es · yesterday

Okay Reuters on a heater this morning *US ARMY USED 'VIRTUALLY ALL' LONG-RANGE PRECISION MISSILES:RTRS

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

AGU listserv: Dear colleagues, serve on these committees! Totally useless to those of you not already faculty. GSA listserv: Dear colleagues, I no longer believe in mantle convection--change my mind. Do not use math.

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.....

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Last weekend, the largest Natural History Museum in South China opened - the Shenzhen Natural History Museum! Let me take you on a brief tour 🧵

Blanketing effects of fine dust which condensed just after the K-Pg impact. The dust enhanced (by reflecting thermal radiation backwards) the microspherule re-entry-caused heating of the Earth's surface, which caused global fires agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

A BILLION YEARS OF MISSING TIME The Great Unconformity at East Bluff, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin: 1.63 Ga Baraboo Quartzite overlain by a boulder breccia at the base of the sandstones of the Cambrian Sauk Sea (600-505 Ma). ⚒️

honey, this Sunday's imminent deal just dropped

The Friends of UMMP BBQ was a success. I am tired. No one went home hungry. I have a few new fossils. The trilobite cookies were amazing. Time for sleeping.

Believe it or not we have addressed this! Here you go: single gar = gar multiple gars, same species = garrison multiple gars, different species = garmada

Frank Hogan@charleyphogg.bsky.social · 5d ago

A group of Gar can not be called a school it’s not tough enough

I need to apologize to the posters who I thought were overreacting about the timing of bombings seeming to match market closes, now that we have evidence that they were actually doing that on purpose

what do you even say at this point

The difference between Will Stancil and Kat Abughazaleh is that Kat used a bad faith quote tweet dunk on Will to solicit cash donations to her campaign consulting business and Will refuses to let anyone give him money to fix the slashed tires on the car he chased ICE agents around in.

Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil

One drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

You got it! At UCLA!

Ambrose Wolfinger@ambrosewolfinger.bsky.social · 6d ago

Is this the athlete whose teammates piled and stacked bats, gloves, and I believe a cereal box on her while she was giving a postgame interview?

The Danube's low enough people are finding mammoth bones in it.

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 6d ago

Des os de mammouth découverts en Bulgarie dans le lit du Danube, dont le niveau est exceptionnellement bas à cause de la sécheresse

it's pretty critical to the Epic of Gilgamesh that Gil makes himself one (1) Good Friend

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 7d ago

Even the rich immortality guy is giving up

The goal of the battle over the origins of COVID19 is “to sow distrust in science and scientists”. This article shows why experts believe that this was a spillover event and not a lab leak. The maps showing the cluster of the first cases around the wet market are old school Epidemiology. Solid.

Animal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19

The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic diaries has rekindled the debate over the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Here's how scientists have weighed in.

npr.org

Not a coincidence that the literal same guys who "science-washed" smoking for Marlboro started working with oil companies on climate change.

Merchants of Doubt - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 7d ago

The right-wing attacks on scientists are part of a larger story about the right-wing efforts to undermine trust in science and public health, which is part of a larger story about the right-wing alliance with major business interests.

why not try killing yourself, Google

Why we should ban helium party balloons.

ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · last wk.

You've got a captive audience on a plane, and you know they can't open the doors and yeet you out. What subject are you gonna do a 30 minute sermon on?

[reclining] why is shark week different from all other weeks

Astounding traditional Chinese artworks of the Cretaceous invertebrates from the Jehol (远古小精灵系列), featured at the Nanjing Paleontological Museum. Glad to see creative representation of insects in palaeontology.

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

if you reverse the aesthetics right wingers attach to strong/weak, the "strong men create good times / weak men create hard times" doesn't get the last thousand years or so of military history all that wrong

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"

"Scientists — not political appointees — should decide what research gets funded. That’s the only way to ensure that the United States upholds its reputation as the leader of scientific innovation." - Dr. Neena Qasba, UCHC-AAUP @aaup.org @aftct.bsky.social

Scientists, not politicians, should decide what research is funded

By Dr. Neena Qasba

aftvoices.org

The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.

lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2w ago

zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money

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