A huge and tragic loss rocks the mountaineering world. As always, we all have to make the most of every day. Get out there! But, live to wimp again. 🍻 to the climbers. explorersweb.com/breaking-ava...

Updated: Ten Missing, Including Nirmal Purja, After Avalanche on Broad Peak » Explorersweb

An avalanche has swept the upper side of Broad Peak just as a big group was going to the summit. Among the missing is famed Nepalese climber Nims Purja.

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The Beggiatoa plate crawl, a fresh harvest from a freshwater marsh at Microbial Diversity 2026 @mblscience.bsky.social

Swell; another swipe at unprotecting federal lands that were set aside for multiple reasons, the most important ones, indigenous. Land management should not be a pendulum. Speak up. www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

President Trump drastically shrinks 2 Utah national monuments — again

Trump cuts nearly 3 million acres out of the two monuments in southern Utah.

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The Volta, brought to you by @lesliedaymicro.bsky.social, Daniel Bond, myself and Microbial Diversity 2026 @mblscience.bsky.social It never gets old!! 🔥 🦠 🦠 🦠

All of Us—is out! Healthcare is going to change for the better. Now if we can just get rid of / fix health insurance in America… www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/s...

N.I.H. Announces World’s Largest Integrated Health Database

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To me, this is another step in the death of America by corporate America. Here you have Bret, an amazing individual with SO MUCH knowledge between the ears—being let go. America—we are killing ourselves from the inside. To Bret—thank you so much for the share of your gift. Best!

Bret Saunders@bretsaunders.bsky.social · last mo.

To My Friends: Thank you for 28+ years. I've loved every day with you, and being a small part of your lives has been my greatest honor and pleasure. My time at KBCO has come to an end. I will miss the laughs, the countless people I've met, and being a part of the community. Love, Bret

The death of American science; the likes of which the world has never seen, nor benefitted from, appears imminent. I need to be reviewed and second guessed by—a politician? Pay attention. Wake up. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

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IMO, stupid choice to dismantle the Ocean Observatories—at least 15 years too soon. Dumb. But what do I know?—I’m just a scientist. Another step backwards for America. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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Pollen grains spinning in rain water on a barrel. It’s the little things that are cool.

A worthy read from Carlos Lozada. Think. Use your voice. Do the right thing. Be a guardrail. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/o...

Opinion | Stop Whining About Guardrails. Become One Yourself.

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At last check, no one is above law in America, including the payment or auditing of taxes. No one. Pay attention. US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns - The Guardian

Here we are rightfully going after someone making a ton of $$ in the predictive ‘market.’ But why them? What about the millionaires and billionaires and politicians doing the same with inside knowledge? apnews.com/article/soli...

US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid

A U.S. soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an on...

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A Passing. What a legend, Jim Whittaker, 1st American to summit Everest in 1963; an era of mountaineering few understand, or could even do, today. Made REI, REI. Mountaineer. Sailor. Legend. A loss. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/s...

Jim Whittaker, First American to Reach Everest’s Summit, Dies at 97

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Women’s professional soccer @denversummitfc.bsky.social —Colorado Style with >60,000 people on a BlueSky day!

Bubble! Bubble! Toil & Trouble! Cyano’s & Algae & associated microbiota + virome at work in a Winogradsky Column on a Sunday afternoon.

Like to breathe? Yea, me too. Like a climate that sustains life? Yea, me too. Like to make less impact on Earth? Yea, me too. …then there is the U.S.A. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

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Another giant step backwards for the health of the planet. Another giant step forward for those who need even more money. Both oil and coal are too valuable, as substrates, to be burning. Shame to the greed. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/t...

Trump orders Pentagon to buy power from coal plants

Trump declared coal essential to U.S. national and economic security last April.

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Want to ride the front of the wave of all-things-microbiology; field work, cultivation, microscopy, molecular, bioinformatics and AI tools? Me too! Please join us @mblscience.bsky.social for the 2026 Summer Microbial Diversity Course! Applications due soon. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Microbial Diversity | Marine Biological Laboratory

The goal of the course is to teach professors, postdocs and advanced graduate students how to discover, cultivate, and isolate diverse microorganisms catalyzing a breadth of chemical transformations, ...

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Another awful day in American history. Another life lost in the name of…what? None of this should be happening. Where are the adults; politicians with brains; policy makers? As for this adult, I am ashamed to be American. ‘Nuff said.

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The guy in grey disarms the man on the ground being beaten—BEFORE shots were fired

A major loss of an outstanding creator. An amazing gain of a true meathead. Don’t ever treat any human in such fashion. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s post on Rob Reiner sparks outrage from lawmakers and celebrities

President’s statement blaming acclaimed director’s death on his dislike of him described as ‘disgusting’ and ‘vile’

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Winogradsky column algae + afternoon ☀️ = a bunch of oxygen 🫧 🫧 🫧 🫧

Thanks @spencersoicher.bsky.social @nexton9news.bsky.social for a story on the importance of environmental contamination, site clean-up and of course, microbes!🦠 🦠 www.9news.com/article/spor...

Here's what the remediation for environmental issues may look like at Burnham Yard

The historic railyard likely contains subsurface contamination from decades of industrial use that will need to be addressed before the planned stadium.

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The Aurora Borealis over Castle Rock, Golden, CO—outstanding!

Every now again walking to class @coschoolofmines.bsky.social you have to make sure you look up and take in the view!

Science and the impact of people who work for more knowledge in all fields can and do change the world—lessons for all of us on the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall.

Filamentously tethered, afternoon fresh, photrophically generated, oxygen bubbles on top of a new @mblscience.bsky.social Microbial Diversity Course produced Winogradsky column!

The latest and greatest from an amazing team of authors. See what you think: A Comprehensive Framework for Assessing Terrestrial Analogue Field Sites for Ocean Worlds - Stern - 2025 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A Comprehensive Framework for Assessing Terrestrial Analogue Field Sites for Ocean Worlds

The choice of analogue field site for ocean worlds research requires traceability to a well-developed science question We present a two-step process to evaluate field sites with respect to their ...

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Today’s first day @coschoolofmines.bsky.social ain’t yesterday’s. A small, niche engineering school discovered.

Insanity, the dominant paradigm, will disintegrate world class health and science research in America. What say you Congress? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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How to Winogradsky from 2025 Microbial Diversity @mblscience.bsky.social