I hope everyone knows I’d rather not post about the theft of my country. Ride your bike. Have a burrito. Study benthic diversity. Have a beer. UGA Professor. He/him. PRO diversity. PRO equity. PRO inclusion. www.wareslab.net
🚨🚨 FEDS and everyone else 🚨🚨 🧵Tomorrow is the last day to comment on the Office of Personnel Management rule, “Promoting Employee Accountability" at www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... This rule eliminates employee protections and rights, and hastens the firing process. Specifically, it... 1/4
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Published early 2020, Sarah Kendzior's HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, made several top ten bestseller lists. "He doesn't care if Americans live or die. And that might sound harsh and blunt, but that's the truth of the matter." ~ Kendzior in Vogue.
Sarah KendziorInterview in Vogue about HIDING IN PLAIN sight, on sale for only $2.99: “Trump covers up crime with scandal and covers up malice with incompetence. His administration would like you to think that they’re inept, that they’re just stumbling into these situations.” www.vogue.com/article/sara...
Where have all the bugs gone? Scientists are finding sharp declines | CBC NewsMany people remember road trips back in the day that left windshields splattered with insects – and may get the uncomfortable feeling that things have changed. Here's what researchers are finding.www.cbc.ca
Throughout the year, and especially today on #MPADay, the team at @montereybayaquarium.org promotes sustainable fishing and aquaculture, helps recovers species like the southern sea otter, and, through science and advocacy, works to protect essential habitats such as kelp forests and seagrass beds.
It's #MPADay, an opportunity to celebrate marine protected areas that protect critical ecosystems, help vulnerable ocean species recover, and support the long-term sustainability of fisheries and other ocean resources. mpaday.org
MPA Day websiteCelebrating local actions for global impact
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Those in power told us there was no money to feed hungry children. Only to turn around and immediately spend billions on war.
H681.4.2 How deep is the sea? At first, knee-deep; further on, waist-deep, neck-deep; and beyond that over the head.
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph CoxNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Listening to Gillian Welch’s The Revelator while sipping a Negroni and prepping a Dutch baby for dinner #FriYay
Scientists have begun to re-deploy ocean monitoring equipment yanked from Pacific Northwest waters by the Trump administration (as my @kuow.org reporting exposed) in September. www.kuow.org/environment/...
Northwest’s yanked ocean observatories start to return to seaScientists have begun to re-deploy ocean monitoring equipment yanked from Pacific Northwest waters by the Trump administration in September.www.kuow.org
1/ A major new global review published in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, featuring BTO authors CEO @julietvickery.bsky.social & Senior Research Ecologist Chris Hewson, finds that 51% of the world’s migratory bird species are declining! #Ornithology 🌍🌐 📖 www.bto.org/MigratoryBir...
The DSA is filling a vacuum, both rhetorically and (see below) practically that a lot of mainstream Democrats seem to have forgotten: Make people's daily lives materially better.
wishdaThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Very cool pair of papers demonstrating little link between amount of additive genetic variation and amount of nucleotide variation within species: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Levels of additive genetic variation vary substantially between speciesAdaptive potential determines how populations respond to environmental change. This study compiles evolvability estimates from over 170 multicellular species, revealing substantial variation across th...journals.plos.org
Vought is still at it. Despite the thousands of comments submitted opposing his OMB grants rule, he quietly submitted changes to the policy and procedures guide for NSF grants that would implement those same unpopular changes. Send a comment and write your MOC 👇 @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info
Stand Up for Science!Register for the webinars to learn about the key NSF changes, analyze the implications, draft strong public comments, and identify target messaging for the Hill: zurl.co/TRIP1 And, leave your public comment: zurl.co/QVxp5
$11 billion. We paid *$11 billion* for people not to work for 6+ months, and now we are paying untold more to hire them back because oops! Turns out federal employees are actually important for a functioning society!
What the government lost through the $11 billion DRP | Federal News NetworkPart of this issue to me is the financial cost, but the other part is the ineffective and really incompetent management," said Doug Pasternak.federalnewsnetwork.com
“Ashley St. Clair [describes] Musk’s technological interference in the 2024 election… Trump, convicted felon and adjudicated sexual predator, supposedly won all swing states just above the threshold for automatic recount…” @thiswillhold.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/uroc... bsky.app/profile/zete...
Elon Musk’s Ex, Ashley St. Clair, Confirms He Rigged the 2024 Election Using Technology"10,000 satellites and lasers in space."open.substack.comChris⚖️Justice🧐 Ashley St. Clair implies Elon Musk interfered in the 2024 election (w/ Satellites). "He says this is not a piece they’ll see on the chess board." He was sending internal data from America PAC. On election night, Elon left Mar-a-Lago early and he told her Trump won in advance of election finals.
We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.
As you canvas everything the war in Iran is fucking up, I bet you never even thought of this one! The ships idling in the strait are undergoing "biofouling," picking up all kinds of invasive organisms that they are going to spread everywhere once they're released.
Ships stranded by war could cause marine ‘superspreader’ event, study warnsScientists warn of unintentional risks from idle ships sitting for months in the Strait of Hormuz.www.washingtonpost.com