Alexandra Witze

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The world is getting hotter faster — its pace nearly doubled in the past decade Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds.

Climate change is accelerating. A new paper from @rahmstorf.bsky.social and Grant Foster argues they've nailed it statistically for the first time. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Of all the things Isaacman might overlook, I can't imagine that boosting Hubble is one of them....

Just here to serve as a chaos agent in US science journalism

dooooo itttttttt paul, you know you want to

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I have not been since my grandmother’s burial there in 1995! But yes Evansville looms large in the family mythology. My grandfather was very involved in the Evansville Philharmonic.

Ran Ohio Valley Hardware in Evansville, Indiana

Aviation journalist in Providence, RI, and Washington, DC

Both my grandmothers were librarians

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Here's the reporting from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social & me on what's going on

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Slow Release Of Federal Science Funds Holds Up Research Podcast Episode · Science Friday · March 4 · 13m

Thanks @scifri.bsky.social for having me on to talk about federal research budgets. TLDL: Congress voted to reject the president's big science cuts, but the White House is slow to release those approved funds. 🧪

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Just not peanut butter whiskey.

Sarah. The appropriate response is Cereal With Whiskey.

Been noodling around the edges of this, thanks for the additional information.

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

In our latest coverage of the Trump administration and federal science budgets, @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social & I wrote about how the White House is stalling the release of monies approved by Congress. TLDR: it's not how things normally work. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looking forward to seeing you at LPSC

Oh wait 😭

This was going to be hard to explain to the FOIA office

with or without NASA support presumably

I’m just reporting for the public good

be right there

I can’t stop thinking about BWEAG

What is this AG of mystery

Those also weren’t final numbers, but an estimate made during the conference. I might just ask them!

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained.

The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

Trump sidelines climate contrarians in science rollback The president has mocked global warming as a “hoax,” but his administration avoided testing that claim in court as it targeted the endangerment finding.

E&E News has some on that www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Final Rule: Rescission of the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and Motor Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards Under the Clean Air Act | US EPA The final rule on the reconsideration of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding and motor vehicle rule.

The final EPA ruling revoking its 2009 endangerment finding is posted: www.epa.gov/regulations-...

The agency is no longer trying to invoke the discredited DOE climate working group report as justification for the rule change.

US repeals key ‘endangerment finding’ that climate change is a public threat Overturning the 2009 decision means billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.

Today’s action “is a rejection of the most basic laws of physics”, says #climate scientist Friederike Otto.

I report on the EPA revoking its own ruling on the danger of greenhouse gases:

www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

please make this happen, tyvm for your service

Why curling rocks come from just two spots on Earth The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so special?

Yes, we talked to a geologist who curls about the very special geology of curling's stones, please enjoy

the skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world

omg 🤩