Andrea Bair
@pikaspeak.bsky.social
Scientist, educator, Earth dweller. I teach geosciences and invite everyone to "do science".
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The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.
January 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.
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Statement from Stand Up For Science: Politicizing the Childhood Vaccine Schedule Will Cost Lives.
"Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, this change will lead to preventable illness, death, and devastation for American families. Congress must act now to impeach and remove Secretary Kennedy."
"Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, this change will lead to preventable illness, death, and devastation for American families. Congress must act now to impeach and remove Secretary Kennedy."
January 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Statement from Stand Up For Science: Politicizing the Childhood Vaccine Schedule Will Cost Lives.
"Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, this change will lead to preventable illness, death, and devastation for American families. Congress must act now to impeach and remove Secretary Kennedy."
"Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, this change will lead to preventable illness, death, and devastation for American families. Congress must act now to impeach and remove Secretary Kennedy."
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In all the craziness since the attack on Venezuela, it’s easy to lose sight of some basic international laws and principles (not to mention our Constitution and the War Powers Act) that Trump has now trashed. I lay them out to build a common foundation to argue from, in today’s piece.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
In all the craziness since the attack on Venezuela, it’s easy to lose sight of some basic international laws and principles (not to mention our Constitution and the War Powers Act) that Trump has now trashed. I lay them out to build a common foundation to argue from, in today’s piece.
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The Trump administration said it was breaking up one of the world’s preeminent earth and atmospheric research institutions — a move some state officials and scientists called an assault on science and education.
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center
Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...
wapo.st
December 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Trump administration said it was breaking up one of the world’s preeminent earth and atmospheric research institutions — a move some state officials and scientists called an assault on science and education.
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The #Spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 4 prompt is moon so I’m sharing my Theia #linocut about the formation of our moon. 🧪🐡🔭⚒️ This 6 colour hand printed linocut print illustrates the formation of the Moon in a comic book influenced pop art style. The favoured model of Moon formation 🧵
October 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The #Spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 4 prompt is moon so I’m sharing my Theia #linocut about the formation of our moon. 🧪🐡🔭⚒️ This 6 colour hand printed linocut print illustrates the formation of the Moon in a comic book influenced pop art style. The favoured model of Moon formation 🧵
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Jennifer Doudna, 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for her work on CRISPR gene editing.
“There has been a collective forgetting” of how life was before vaccines.
🧪Source: The Atlantic on IG
“There has been a collective forgetting” of how life was before vaccines.
🧪Source: The Atlantic on IG
September 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Jennifer Doudna, 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for her work on CRISPR gene editing.
“There has been a collective forgetting” of how life was before vaccines.
🧪Source: The Atlantic on IG
“There has been a collective forgetting” of how life was before vaccines.
🧪Source: The Atlantic on IG
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Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks.
Joy Reid nailed it.
Joy Reid nailed it.
September 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks.
Joy Reid nailed it.
Joy Reid nailed it.
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"Resolved: Debate is stupid"
by Aisling McCrea in The Outline from 2018
"Wow, that is correct and there is no counterargument. Debate is indeed very stupid".
theoutline.com/post/6709/de...
by Aisling McCrea in The Outline from 2018
"Wow, that is correct and there is no counterargument. Debate is indeed very stupid".
theoutline.com/post/6709/de...
September 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"Resolved: Debate is stupid"
by Aisling McCrea in The Outline from 2018
"Wow, that is correct and there is no counterargument. Debate is indeed very stupid".
theoutline.com/post/6709/de...
by Aisling McCrea in The Outline from 2018
"Wow, that is correct and there is no counterargument. Debate is indeed very stupid".
theoutline.com/post/6709/de...
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It’s official.
September 6th.
From all across this nation.
We march in D.C.
Join us.
September 6th.
From all across this nation.
We march in D.C.
Join us.
We Are All DC
On September 6, we march to Stop the Trump Takeover. Show up at Malcolm X Park (16th St NW & W St NW) on Saturday, September 6 at 11 AM. We march at 12 PM. Allies join us!
WeAreAllDC.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It’s official.
September 6th.
From all across this nation.
We march in D.C.
Join us.
September 6th.
From all across this nation.
We march in D.C.
Join us.
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This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
gizmodo.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
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Predictions of global warming are uncertain, which is why we need to keep finding out how the climate system works, Tim Palmer writes in Nature. 🧪
Just how bad will climate change get? The only way to know is to fund basic research
Nature News & Comment
go.nature.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Predictions of global warming are uncertain, which is why we need to keep finding out how the climate system works, Tim Palmer writes in Nature. 🧪
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Never-before-seen tubes that seem to connect bacteria and microbes called archaea may indicate how the symbiotic relationship between such species led to the first complex cells more than 2 billion years ago @newscientist.com #science 🧪 #evolution 🦑
www.newscientist.com/article/2492...
www.newscientist.com/article/2492...
Weird microbial partnership shows how complex life may have evolved
Connecting tubes between bacteria and a kind of microbe called archaea may reflect a symbiotic relationship that led to complex cells more than 2 billion years ago
www.newscientist.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Never-before-seen tubes that seem to connect bacteria and microbes called archaea may indicate how the symbiotic relationship between such species led to the first complex cells more than 2 billion years ago @newscientist.com #science 🧪 #evolution 🦑
www.newscientist.com/article/2492...
www.newscientist.com/article/2492...
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Read this.
In this political climate, it is our duty as scientists to collectively mobilize, reveal the deceit & the malicious misrepresentation of science happening here.
This is why we have op-eds, letters of dissent, petitions & public statements.
#Pinks
🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In this political climate, it is our duty as scientists to collectively mobilize, reveal the deceit & the malicious misrepresentation of science happening here.
This is why we have op-eds, letters of dissent, petitions & public statements.
#Pinks
🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
www.science.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Read this.
In this political climate, it is our duty as scientists to collectively mobilize, reveal the deceit & the malicious misrepresentation of science happening here.
This is why we have op-eds, letters of dissent, petitions & public statements.
#Pinks
🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In this political climate, it is our duty as scientists to collectively mobilize, reveal the deceit & the malicious misrepresentation of science happening here.
This is why we have op-eds, letters of dissent, petitions & public statements.
#Pinks
🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Your tax dollars are going to be spent by Trump to incinerate contraceptives and other medical supplies that you paid for. Welcome to your New World.
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thehill.com/policy/healt...
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thehill.com/policy/healt...
US plans to incinerate $9.7M in USAID contraceptives
The Trump administration plans to incinerate more than $9.7 million worth of contraceptives funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that have been lying in a warehouse in Be…
thehill.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Your tax dollars are going to be spent by Trump to incinerate contraceptives and other medical supplies that you paid for. Welcome to your New World.
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thehill.com/policy/healt...
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thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Fantastic story about how NIH funding helped transform an unexpected hypothesis into a scientific breakthrough and a successful commercial biomarker assay for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and related disorders: www.ninds.nih.gov/about-ninds/75th-anniversary/cnd-life-sciences 🧪
A Breakthrough Beneath the Skin
How a bold idea and smart federal investment created jobs, built a company, and is helping diagnose Americans in all 50 states.
www.ninds.nih.gov
August 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Fantastic story about how NIH funding helped transform an unexpected hypothesis into a scientific breakthrough and a successful commercial biomarker assay for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and related disorders: www.ninds.nih.gov/about-ninds/75th-anniversary/cnd-life-sciences 🧪
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New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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“They have dropped a bomb on themselves.”
-Katalin Kariko, the Nobel laureate whose work led to the development of the Covid mRNA vaccine.
The majority of the clinical trials have already moved to China.
"China has already taken over. Scientists will move."
🧪 www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
-Katalin Kariko, the Nobel laureate whose work led to the development of the Covid mRNA vaccine.
The majority of the clinical trials have already moved to China.
"China has already taken over. Scientists will move."
🧪 www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
I developed mRNA vaccines. RFK Jr is endangering US public health
Katalin Karikó says the health secretary’s decision to pull research funding for the technology is akin to ‘dropping a bomb on the US’
www.thetimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“They have dropped a bomb on themselves.”
-Katalin Kariko, the Nobel laureate whose work led to the development of the Covid mRNA vaccine.
The majority of the clinical trials have already moved to China.
"China has already taken over. Scientists will move."
🧪 www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
-Katalin Kariko, the Nobel laureate whose work led to the development of the Covid mRNA vaccine.
The majority of the clinical trials have already moved to China.
"China has already taken over. Scientists will move."
🧪 www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
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Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
August 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Regardless of the details here, the boundless sense of entitlement these folks have—over us, the American people—is boundless.
Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
August 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Regardless of the details here, the boundless sense of entitlement these folks have—over us, the American people—is boundless.
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For USians!
The Trump administration – aided and abetted by a compliant Congress – just spent seven months dismantling a world of American science it took 80 years to build.
Let’s spend the rest of this summer making it an August our US Senators and Representatives will never forget. 🧪
The Trump administration – aided and abetted by a compliant Congress – just spent seven months dismantling a world of American science it took 80 years to build.
Let’s spend the rest of this summer making it an August our US Senators and Representatives will never forget. 🧪
Join our 31 Days of Action for science now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Help add to the pressure on Congress to ensure ZERO CUTS TO SCIENCE in the 2026 Budget Battle this fall.
www.standupforscience.net
August 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
For USians!
The Trump administration – aided and abetted by a compliant Congress – just spent seven months dismantling a world of American science it took 80 years to build.
Let’s spend the rest of this summer making it an August our US Senators and Representatives will never forget. 🧪
The Trump administration – aided and abetted by a compliant Congress – just spent seven months dismantling a world of American science it took 80 years to build.
Let’s spend the rest of this summer making it an August our US Senators and Representatives will never forget. 🧪
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"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."
We Can Save Public Radio and Television
Viewers and listeners like us.
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August 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."
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Through social media, talks, and more, @drwendyrocks.bsky.social shares the joy of understanding our planet with audiences that might otherwise have never taken a second look at a rock.
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Read more in our August issue: bit.ly/Eos-Aug2025
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Read more in our August issue: bit.ly/Eos-Aug2025
Wendy Bohon: Quelling Fears and Sparking Geoscience Joy - Eos
This earthquake enthusiast and science communicator wants you to know that a “whole ecosystem” of scientific careers exists outside of academia.
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August 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Through social media, talks, and more, @drwendyrocks.bsky.social shares the joy of understanding our planet with audiences that might otherwise have never taken a second look at a rock.
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Read more in our August issue: bit.ly/Eos-Aug2025
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Read more in our August issue: bit.ly/Eos-Aug2025