Every journalist on the Reflecting Pool story knows damn well that Trump’s “vandalism” claim is complete bullshit. The way they mindlessly amplify what they know is a lie is a perfect example of how normalizing Trump misinforms readers. This is a huge journalistic failure and history will be unkind.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · last mo.

Actual journalists would write “Trump tries to avoid blame for Reflecting Pool fiasco, blaming imaginary ‘vandals’; Law enforcement obliges him by arresting tourists.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"Learn how 21 fossil footprints show that some P. boisei stood six feet tall and crossed Lake Turkana's shore in a mostly male group." www.discovermagazine.com/ancient-foot... #FossilFriday

Ancient Footprints Reveal Eight Human Relatives Walked Together Along a Kenyan Lakeshore 1.4 Million Years Ago

Learn how 21 fossil footprints show that some P. boisei stood six feet tall and crossed Lake Turkana’s shore in a mostly male group.

discovermagazine.com

Just saw the Odyssey—was quite an adventure!

Via @kottke.org this amazing online repository of natural history images by William Jardine (published 1833-1843) www.c82.net/naturalists-...

The Naturalist’s Library

A complete digital edition of William Jardine’s 40-volume series on natural history

c82.net

Chat, is it bad when your onboarding tutorial windows do not display fully inside the browser window?

Are you a kick-ass designer who can help make scientific information about climate change and climate solutions come to life? If so, we’re hiring! drawdown.org/careers/seni...

Senior Digital Designer, Climate Science

Our mission is to help the world stop climate change as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

drawdown.org

This is very good (reposting, first try got deleted)

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 3w ago

This week's newsletter is about why climate advocacy and public-facing science communication is often ineffective, and even counterproductive. buttondown.com/muledesign/a...

L-R: Sam Batwi (Northern/Central Yana Indian), Dr. A.L. Kroeber, Anthropologist, & #Ishi (Yahi or Southern Yana Indian) 1911. Photo: Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology (Berkeley) Kroeber is the father of Ursula Le Guin. Her mother, anthropologist Theodora Kroeber, authored "Ishi in Two Worlds"

Back on my bullsh

I continue to be flummoxed about people who want to believe untrue things, and what to do about it. I suppose the psychological comfort of the lies is greater than the harm of accepting the truth, but how do we get past that?

Is there some good reason why the World Cup games aren’t staggered? Seems strange to split the viewing audience… is there some logistical reason?

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

The most annoying thing about the Michelle Obama discourse was all the meta analysis about respect towards the Obama family. My god. The insult is just a old attack on Black women and Trump doesnt like Black people. Its not complicated and its all tiresome. open.substack.com/pub/darrello...

President Trump Just Hates Black People

Why mince words about something so transparent and unapologetic?

open.substack.com

Graphic design is my passion.

More like PortuGOAL, amirite

Sanctuary is a human right but if you try to build the sanctuary on College Avenue they'll cut your eyes out.

✨📊 Utah Highway LiDAR Scans Utah's Department of Transportation uses state-of-the-art 3-D laser scanners to capture the surfaces and area surrounding 15,000 miles of its roads. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/utah-lidar

Utah Highway LiDAR Scans

Utah's Department of Transportation uses state-of-the-art 3-D laser scanners to capture the surfaces and area surrounding 15,000 miles of its roads.

beautifulpublicdata.com

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

"Whose Larva Is This?" A quick guide to figure out what you're looking at when you find something that resembles a worm or a Zerg unit crawling around. #insect #bug #education #SciArt

If you’ve been following the “rigged election” rumors from the CA primary and thinking, gosh, haven’t we seen this all before? Well, you’re right! Sounds like you’d be competitive in a friendly and frenetic game of “Rigged Election” Bingo! uwcip.substack.com/p/rigged-ele...

My son found this rock he's really excited about. He wants me to take it to a museum but I was wondering if any science types can tell me any cool facts to tell him about his rock

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live! 1. Seattle Symphony 2. Boston Symphony 3. Yanni 4. Dave Matthews Band 5. Modest Mouse 6. James Brown 7. Erykah Badu 8. Jamiroquai 9. Bela Fleck & the Flecktones 10. Joshua Redman

Ken@kenfergason.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1. Motley Crue 2. George Strait 3. Veruca Salt 4. Pearl Jam 5. U2 6. Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers 7. Tori Amos 8. Robert Earl Keen 9. Sarah Jarosz 10. RatDog

Have used the Crash Course video library extensively since I started teaching. An invaluable resource.

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And that reason is that you, right now, are going to ask yourself whether you can buy this year's Crash Course Coin. Some portion of you will realize that, yes, perhaps you can! And those folks will click on this link: complexly.info/CCcoin26-6

Sex is not binary for people or animals. "The result revealed that Eau10b had a Y chromosome and two X chromosomes, meaning the animal was neither male nor female. Eau10b was an intersex whale—the first of its species known to scientists." www.biographic.com/to-discover-...

To Discover the World’s First Intersex Southern Right Whale, the Third Test Was the Charm - bioGraphic

What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.

biographic.com

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

18:36 on Thursday May 14th, over the North Pacific Ocean

Biosphere, Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere, and (I guess) Biogeochemistry

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo ago

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only

“Above all else, show the data” — Edward Tufte But do biologists follow this directive? To find out, we analyzed 8,834 figures from 2,930 studies published between 2021 and 2025 in 18 journals from five fields of biology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

“Showing the data” in published biology research | mBio

“Above all else, show the data”—Edward Tufte (1)

journals.asm.org

Seems like a useful framework to introduce graphs and data comfort!

Galactic Polymath Education Studio (GP)@galacticpolymath.com · 3mo ago

Hot take: we say “data literacy” a lot…but don’t teach students the key thing–What do you do when you’re looking at a graph? 📈 We ran into this building a unit on Tom Luhring's climate change & frog research 🧪🐸 so we created a “PEMDAS for graphs”: PPSTT 👇 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/data-li...

tonight the philadelphia 76ers make history as the first and only nba team with a bluesky account to play in the second round of the playoffs