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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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SFF friends: this is a good 75% of my energy/climate work right now. Dealing with the power demands of incipient data centers on the electric grid, and how those demands are resulting in more expensive and dirtier electricity for everyone.
August 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
SFF friends: this is a good 75% of my energy/climate work right now. Dealing with the power demands of incipient data centers on the electric grid, and how those demands are resulting in more expensive and dirtier electricity for everyone.
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mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
August 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
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With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.
July 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.
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Climate change isn't just another political thing that Republicans and Democrats argue about. It's like immigration and healthcare and the January 6 insurrection. Gigantic life and death consequences. Lies on one side, facts on another. A plea to fellow journalists to take it seriously.
Really hate how Republican politicians have managed to shift the way political reporters cover energy. Hardly matters if they don't quote climate deniers if they fail to note how many people are killed and sickened by fossil fuel pollution, and how much cheaper solar and wind are.
July 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Climate change isn't just another political thing that Republicans and Democrats argue about. It's like immigration and healthcare and the January 6 insurrection. Gigantic life and death consequences. Lies on one side, facts on another. A plea to fellow journalists to take it seriously.
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In the next few days, I will be sharing some of our work that I am most proud of from my time at NOAA/GFDL. But I would also like a little normalcy today on my feed, so here's my go-to sea ice data viz update.
#Arctic sea ice extent still remains the *lowest* on record for the date (JAXA). Not good
#Arctic sea ice extent still remains the *lowest* on record for the date (JAXA). Not good
March 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In the next few days, I will be sharing some of our work that I am most proud of from my time at NOAA/GFDL. But I would also like a little normalcy today on my feed, so here's my go-to sea ice data viz update.
#Arctic sea ice extent still remains the *lowest* on record for the date (JAXA). Not good
#Arctic sea ice extent still remains the *lowest* on record for the date (JAXA). Not good
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Did we get dogs by making googoo eyes at wolf puppies over thousands of years?
Or did wolves just hang around our garbage long enough to become dogs? A new model suggests at least they'd have been able to do it on their own.
My first for Nat Geo. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Or did wolves just hang around our garbage long enough to become dogs? A new model suggests at least they'd have been able to do it on their own.
My first for Nat Geo. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
New model shows dogs could have domesticated themselves
They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have become dogs in as little as 8,000 years.
www.nationalgeographic.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Did we get dogs by making googoo eyes at wolf puppies over thousands of years?
Or did wolves just hang around our garbage long enough to become dogs? A new model suggests at least they'd have been able to do it on their own.
My first for Nat Geo. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Or did wolves just hang around our garbage long enough to become dogs? A new model suggests at least they'd have been able to do it on their own.
My first for Nat Geo. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Not only do I agree that humans are fucking amazing, but also all the other stuff that lives on this planet is fucking amazing too.
I actually hate the "lol the giant asteroid will deliver us from this suffering" jokes.
Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?
Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?
February 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Not only do I agree that humans are fucking amazing, but also all the other stuff that lives on this planet is fucking amazing too.
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Sometimes I make angry comics too
January 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Sometimes I make angry comics too
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The courts have upheld the law. All this is nonsense that are already being challenged in court. It’s a distraction. It’s meant to make people mad. Just like in 2017. And in the end. It’s about taxes.
January 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
The courts have upheld the law. All this is nonsense that are already being challenged in court. It’s a distraction. It’s meant to make people mad. Just like in 2017. And in the end. It’s about taxes.
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These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.
January 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.
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As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years
It's nothing new.
www.teenvogue.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
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this is just as true as well, and not all of these orders are going to stand, even with *this* court. remember that shock and awe was a categoric failure, because we are on the receiving end of lawfare now.
Remember that the goal of the 5 pages of executive orders is to make you feel helpless. They’ve publicized a to-do list, nothing more. The coming weeks will be fighting hard against the bits that need a fight, and hopefully watching them flail around incompetently.
January 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
this is just as true as well, and not all of these orders are going to stand, even with *this* court. remember that shock and awe was a categoric failure, because we are on the receiving end of lawfare now.
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Look I know most of you already know this, but the Executive order about so-called “gender ideology” is patently false as we understand biology. Science does not agree with what’s written there *at all*. It’s the sex/gender equivalent of saying “we evolved from monkeys”. It’s simply incorrect.
January 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Look I know most of you already know this, but the Executive order about so-called “gender ideology” is patently false as we understand biology. Science does not agree with what’s written there *at all*. It’s the sex/gender equivalent of saying “we evolved from monkeys”. It’s simply incorrect.
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Again, the World Health Organization is the single most important global entity in preventing, tracking and controlling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics and is especially important as climate change and deforestation allow pathogens to mutate, become more infectious and spread to new regions
January 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Again, the World Health Organization is the single most important global entity in preventing, tracking and controlling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics and is especially important as climate change and deforestation allow pathogens to mutate, become more infectious and spread to new regions
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The struggle for democracy is global, and transcends national boundaries even at the micro-level.
Tyrants everywhere have started to realize their common interests. Liberals everywhere need to fully realize theirs.
Tyrants everywhere have started to realize their common interests. Liberals everywhere need to fully realize theirs.
Incredible scene in Seoul tonight as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s supporters are storming the Seoul courthouse in response to his arrest. They are smashing the windows and vandalising the offices.
January 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The struggle for democracy is global, and transcends national boundaries even at the micro-level.
Tyrants everywhere have started to realize their common interests. Liberals everywhere need to fully realize theirs.
Tyrants everywhere have started to realize their common interests. Liberals everywhere need to fully realize theirs.
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This, by Matthew Boroson, is pretty convincing. I knew exactly none of it before reading the original post on Facebook.
January 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This, by Matthew Boroson, is pretty convincing. I knew exactly none of it before reading the original post on Facebook.
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The lack of severe infections among US #H5N1 #birdflu cases up till now may have created the notion among some people that the virus has become harmless. The death of a person in Louisiana is a reminder that that is not a safe bet. www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/b...
U.S. records first fatal bird flu case amid growing concerns about virus
The U.S. has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu, in a person from Louisiana who contracted the virus from infected chickens and wild birds in a backyard flock.
www.statnews.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The lack of severe infections among US #H5N1 #birdflu cases up till now may have created the notion among some people that the virus has become harmless. The death of a person in Louisiana is a reminder that that is not a safe bet. www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/b...
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Still the best two sentences on climate action.
December 29, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Still the best two sentences on climate action.
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Had no idea: ... the United States is a leading global importer of giraffe products, which are used for knife handles, rugs, decor and trinkets. Few people are aware that, on average, at least one trophy-hunted giraffe is imported into the United States every day. (See link below)⬇️
🚨 USFWS has proposed protecting all #giraffes, and there’s something you can do to help.
Tell decisionmakers you support the plan, and encourage them to go further by strengthening proposed protection for southern giraffes.
Speak up for these long-necked beauties. ➡️ bit.ly/4f0VXgx
Tell decisionmakers you support the plan, and encourage them to go further by strengthening proposed protection for southern giraffes.
Speak up for these long-necked beauties. ➡️ bit.ly/4f0VXgx
Help halt giraffes’ silent extinction
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finally proposed Endangered Species Act protections for giraffes. Now these long-necked browsers need final protection before it’s too late.
bit.ly
December 10, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Had no idea: ... the United States is a leading global importer of giraffe products, which are used for knife handles, rugs, decor and trinkets. Few people are aware that, on average, at least one trophy-hunted giraffe is imported into the United States every day. (See link below)⬇️
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More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr.
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination
Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr.
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
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So you’re saying that healthcare in the USA isn’t allowed because it means Black ppl would be able to access it as well. And poor white ppl don’t mind not having healthcare to spite the Black community?
December 5, 2024 at 1:47 PM
So you’re saying that healthcare in the USA isn’t allowed because it means Black ppl would be able to access it as well. And poor white ppl don’t mind not having healthcare to spite the Black community?