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This is such an important point.
Also: pangolins are the perfect animal. I love them so much I almost can’t stand it.
Also: pangolins are the perfect animal. I love them so much I almost can’t stand it.
Despite the current administration, it’s important to remember that there are still many dedicated people in the federal government who are doing good things, including trying to save the pangolin.
The world's most trafficked mammal is the pangolin. US officials say it's an endangered species
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species Act.
apnews.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is such an important point.
Also: pangolins are the perfect animal. I love them so much I almost can’t stand it.
Also: pangolins are the perfect animal. I love them so much I almost can’t stand it.
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if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
March 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
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I had to bring this here because it’s so good
March 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I had to bring this here because it’s so good
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I was honored to speak at the MN #StandUpForScience2025 rally yesterday abt the need to shift science outreach focus from informal settings to formal K-12.
Invigorating to gather w so many concerned abt anti-science efforts in the US!
Thanks for your leadership
@standupforscience.bsky.social👏👏👏
Invigorating to gather w so many concerned abt anti-science efforts in the US!
Thanks for your leadership
@standupforscience.bsky.social👏👏👏
March 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I was honored to speak at the MN #StandUpForScience2025 rally yesterday abt the need to shift science outreach focus from informal settings to formal K-12.
Invigorating to gather w so many concerned abt anti-science efforts in the US!
Thanks for your leadership
@standupforscience.bsky.social👏👏👏
Invigorating to gather w so many concerned abt anti-science efforts in the US!
Thanks for your leadership
@standupforscience.bsky.social👏👏👏
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Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”
March 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”
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Science is (ideally) the careful collection and documentation of observations, and an honest, ongoing debate about what those observations most likely mean.
Lab coats optional.
Lab coats optional.
March 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Science is (ideally) the careful collection and documentation of observations, and an honest, ongoing debate about what those observations most likely mean.
Lab coats optional.
Lab coats optional.
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I think at this point if you’re not getting censured by congress it’s probably a sign that you’re simply not going hard enough
March 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I think at this point if you’re not getting censured by congress it’s probably a sign that you’re simply not going hard enough
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Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘
March 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘
I really didn’t want this to be true. But it is. HHMI funding is all private. There is no good reason for this program to be pulled.
If anyone has the resources to resist, its HHMI. Ending this program with no notice and literally scrubbing evidence it ever existed from the website is shocking and dosappointing
February 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I really didn’t want this to be true. But it is. HHMI funding is all private. There is no good reason for this program to be pulled.
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We’d all love for climate science to be apolitical. But it’s not—and can’t be.
This book explains why. Eye-opening and highly recommended!
For the short version, read: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This book explains why. Eye-opening and highly recommended!
For the short version, read: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
February 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
We’d all love for climate science to be apolitical. But it’s not—and can’t be.
This book explains why. Eye-opening and highly recommended!
For the short version, read: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This book explains why. Eye-opening and highly recommended!
For the short version, read: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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@matthewherper.bsky.social explains how we know that vaccines do not cause autism. www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/v...
February 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
@matthewherper.bsky.social explains how we know that vaccines do not cause autism. www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/v...
One of my biggest pet peeves is the phrase "dig for fossils." Fossils really need to be on or at the surface to be found, and that means that what we have found is a teeeeeeeeeny little portion of what's out there. Isn't that exciting?
www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...
www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...
Scientists Think the World's Oldest Dinosaur Fossils May Still Be Awaiting Discovery
We just have to find them... and that might be a problem.
www.popularmechanics.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
One of my biggest pet peeves is the phrase "dig for fossils." Fossils really need to be on or at the surface to be found, and that means that what we have found is a teeeeeeeeeny little portion of what's out there. Isn't that exciting?
www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...
www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...
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Please share far and wide! @ncse.bsky.social is hosting Montana Science teachers for a free climate science PD in a few weeks! K-12 teachers invited!
January 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Please share far and wide! @ncse.bsky.social is hosting Montana Science teachers for a free climate science PD in a few weeks! K-12 teachers invited!
I definitely do not send my kids to school to “provide [my] children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation” anyone else?
A must read if you are a US educator. This EO is a doozy. Buckle up colleagues. #edusky
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I definitely do not send my kids to school to “provide [my] children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation” anyone else?
This feels important.
Just in case anybody has doubts about what "Make America Healthy Again" really means, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. filed a trademark request to use the slogan to market supplements, essential oils & cryptocurrency. Scammity scam-scam scamming scammer. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. sought to trademark MAHA for vaccine marketing, transferred to ally
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. transferred ownership of the trademark application in December and its abbreviation — MAHA — to an LLC managed by Del Bigtree.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This feels important.
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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
robert f. kennedy jr. submits his application to harvard university. his application is, in its entirety, a single page with his name "Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
he is accepted immediately.
he is accepted immediately.
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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Very chilly week here, so got some suet pellets as well as peanuts.
Steller's had to pause to sort out how to get more in their beak.
#ThursJay #birds #becurious
Steller's had to pause to sort out how to get more in their beak.
#ThursJay #birds #becurious
January 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Very chilly week here, so got some suet pellets as well as peanuts.
Steller's had to pause to sort out how to get more in their beak.
#ThursJay #birds #becurious
Steller's had to pause to sort out how to get more in their beak.
#ThursJay #birds #becurious
Keep this place The Good Place!
Bad actors are now working hard to turn BlueSky into another Twitter/X cesspool. Don't let them!
Beware--there are more and more of these inauthentic accounts flooding to BlueSky now. They pose as climate doomers but are actually doing the work of polluters by attacking climate advocates and dividing the climate advocacy community. Block and report them when you encounter them:
January 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Keep this place The Good Place!
You could think it's not a big deal to say "biological change over time" instead of "evolution," but you'd be wrong.
January 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
You could think it's not a big deal to say "biological change over time" instead of "evolution," but you'd be wrong.
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There's @katharinehayhoe.com on the cover page of the Climate/Environment section of @elpais.com! Reminding us that no one person or government can stop the fight against #climate change. And China? They installed more solar in the last yr than the US ever has.
Katharine Hayhoe, climatóloga: “Solo el año pasado, China instaló más paneles solares que EE UU en toda su historia”
La jefa científica de Nature Conservancy y profesora en Texas considera que “ninguna persona ni ningún Gobierno” puede detener la lucha contra el cambio climático
buff.ly
January 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
There's @katharinehayhoe.com on the cover page of the Climate/Environment section of @elpais.com! Reminding us that no one person or government can stop the fight against #climate change. And China? They installed more solar in the last yr than the US ever has.
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I became a law professor, a Secretary of State, and a candidate for Governor — all with the tools that a public education gave me.
Let’s give every kid in Michigan a strong education — no matter what zip code they’re born in.
Let’s give every kid in Michigan a strong education — no matter what zip code they’re born in.
January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I became a law professor, a Secretary of State, and a candidate for Governor — all with the tools that a public education gave me.
Let’s give every kid in Michigan a strong education — no matter what zip code they’re born in.
Let’s give every kid in Michigan a strong education — no matter what zip code they’re born in.
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If you need a break from terrestrial news, please join me on a trip 200 million miles from earth for some clues about how life began. (Gift link) nyti.ms/3Cu9gsr
Life’s Building Blocks Lurked Inside NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Samples (Gift Article)
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.
nyti.ms
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If you need a break from terrestrial news, please join me on a trip 200 million miles from earth for some clues about how life began. (Gift link) nyti.ms/3Cu9gsr
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I say this with love to my friends in science who don’t know what to do right now: think about kids playing soccer.
We can all just chase the ball & try to kick it at the same time. (It may even go in the direction we want it to!)
But we can play better, together, if we know our positions.
We can all just chase the ball & try to kick it at the same time. (It may even go in the direction we want it to!)
But we can play better, together, if we know our positions.
a group of young children are playing soccer on a lush green field
Alt: Little kids playing soccer on a green grassy field. It’s chaotic.
media.tenor.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I say this with love to my friends in science who don’t know what to do right now: think about kids playing soccer.
We can all just chase the ball & try to kick it at the same time. (It may even go in the direction we want it to!)
But we can play better, together, if we know our positions.
We can all just chase the ball & try to kick it at the same time. (It may even go in the direction we want it to!)
But we can play better, together, if we know our positions.
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ANYWAY, sorry, here's a bird. Pause and regard the bird. The bird is happy, for the bird has found a peanut. May we all find the small joy of finding a tasty snack today.
(photo by me)
(photo by me)
January 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
ANYWAY, sorry, here's a bird. Pause and regard the bird. The bird is happy, for the bird has found a peanut. May we all find the small joy of finding a tasty snack today.
(photo by me)
(photo by me)
New newsletter! It’s almost Sunset Day, social media is a mess (though @bsky.app is not), and I’m looking for a new lesson partner… is it you? eepurl.com/i8F6ro
January 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New newsletter! It’s almost Sunset Day, social media is a mess (though @bsky.app is not), and I’m looking for a new lesson partner… is it you? eepurl.com/i8F6ro