@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Wake the fuck up to what's going on in this country... We're going to put everything on the damn line... People haven't given up yet. We're going to do this. We can win this November. We can win next November, and then we can get this country back on track."

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Since I just pulled it up for another reason, please enjoy my article for @americanscientist.org @sigmaxi.bsky.social about how former Science Twitter has found a home here on Bluesky. Quotes Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team

www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.

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Yesterday we did a team #oceanCANDY away day - our last “away day” was to the connecting building to give talks so this was a vast improvement
@bengustafson.bsky.social

Nothing should shock me by now but somehow I continue to be…
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Way to go WIRED!

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

You know why hurricanes have gotten less deadly over the past century? Not because they're less dangerous. Because scientists at NOAA have gotten really good at predicting their tacks, enabling people to get out of harm's way.

Gutting NOAA will kill people.

🌊 Save the date! The Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is coming to Glasgow, Scotland, 22-27 Feb 2026—the first #OSM outside the U.S.! 🌍 Join scientists, students, journalists and more to grow our global ocean community, foster partnerships and build a sustainable future.

happy friday! just leaving this here...

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House.

Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality.

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February 20, 2025

Name it whatever you want 😁

February 8, 2025

We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.

Like many people I have been deeply affected watching the fires burn LA. Nearly every summer of my childhood we would drive from Iowa to the west coast. We would drive down the PCH and stop to watch the surfers and admire their cool VW busses. 😍

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