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Al Michaels: Aaron rodgers, now that’s a guy who makes his opinion known

Kirk herbstreit: oh absolutely, and his teammates love him for that, he really—

Michaels: sometimes you wish he’d stay quiet about it!

Herbstreit: oh absolutely
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Trying to decide if I care enough about Bruce Springsteen to watch this movie that I know is gonna be terrible
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My boy Jared Goff is so charismatic
September 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐
September 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Totally changed my view on Gaza when I learned that the starving kids were… also really sick
August 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Cybertruck just let me merge. Maybe we aren’t so different after all…
August 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We put together a really exciting session on root exudation at #ESA2025 tomorrow, with an elite group of speakers! I suspect this is the first (but hopefully not last!) exudate-focused session at ESA. Hope to see you there!!
August 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Such a fun project & massive team effort. We sampled tree cores my 1st yr of grad school then took a year to figure out how to grind wood… ! But we were amazed to find such a complex & unexpected ecosystem inside trees. And we’ve just scratched the surface! We explored 150 trees— 3 trillion to go!
August 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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“look i don’t care what it’s about just give me 300 words”
August 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
July 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I know so many dedicated and brilliant scientists who work (and I guess now worked) at EPA. The loss of expertise and ability to make science-informed decisions will have lasting damage for our health. Academics and advocates will have to try to fill the gap.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."

Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
July 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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i'm the guy who replies to your top 10 favorite albums list, an extraordinarily subjective and exclusive list by its very definition, with "you forgot music o'clock by gary guitar and the rockin' instrument band"
July 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated

archive.is/8sYNv
July 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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we worked so hard on this, nights and weekends, trying our best to do a good job for the American people
BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S.

This is what you get when you try to access them online
June 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Paper now out in Science Advances — “Soil carbon formation is promoted by saturation deficit and existing mineral-associated carbon, not by microbial carbon-use efficiency”

with Noah Sokol

science.org/doi/epdf/10....
June 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is interesting, because he says he wants to create “in-house” publishing outlets instead. I’ve often thought institutions should publish peer-reviewed manuscripts directly to repositories rather than subscribing to the journal system, but this shows there’s some value to having a third party
RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc.

It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.
May 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking Harvard enrollment of foreign students reut.rs/3FfWGi3
May 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM