SpaceX's 1 million AI satellites could cause "massive ozone depletion" and change the night sky forever - but the FCC has no requirement to check before approving them.
Astronomers are now scrambling to submit their concerns.
Story by me in New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
He did great work with the migrant communities in Miami-Dade when schools were closed because of COVID amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Could be worth reaching out to these folks. Not archaeology but they may know of people doing similar work there news.clas.ufl.edu/geospace-pro...
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Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Such good advice. Making connections and making a difference in your local community -whatever that looks like for you- is so important these days. Always, but especially now
This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?"
Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.
Anyway the photos are precious, blended bird families are the best, this is surprisingly great scicomm from People magazine, and this is the kind of story I needed today: people.com/crane-family...
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
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I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money.
"If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”
"The great John Lewis said, 'Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It is the struggle of a lifetime.' That's our struggle, no matter what, Mr. Speaker, you decide to do today, that's our struggle…”
It’s why U of F banned bans ‘Gator bait’ cheer.
“According to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Michigan’s Ferris State University, white hunters sometimes used live Black infants to lure alligators during slavery and the Jim Crow era.”
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The truth is bad enough folks!
Let's not play the same games climate deniers were playing a decade ago with cherry-picked time periods and misleading trend lines
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Well the “NOAA Climate” and “NASA Climate” social media feeds - a key tool to communicate the massive challenge of climate change to the world - are now gone.
Or private philanthropy. Or endowments, which are often restricted. We are not set up to absorb this
Austerity means firing staff and teachers and setting aside 500k for a new VP.
7 of 9 planetary boundaries now crossed: “By 2020 the oceans condition were very close to or beyond the planetary boundary for ocean acidification (calcium carbonate levels >20% below preindustrial). The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said.”
Important and provocative piece by Michael....one of the top hurricane experts around and not just a talking head
NEW: Of the 238 men deported to the prison in El Salvador, DHS data shows:
• 130 had no U.S. criminal histories aside from immigration violations;
• 32 had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.;
• 6 of those were violent crimes.
Well said, @friedman.house.gov and @wassermanschultz.house.gov:
“We don't fight antisemitism by making Jews the reason to gut cancer research, or cut scholarships, or deport foreign students.”
This is completely false. Even the largest university endowment cannot sustain large-scale scientific research.
In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*.
This is an extinction-level event.
More of this, please: Catalogs of Trump's and the Republicans' destruction and the cost to society:
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
NIH isn’t some bloated bureaucracy—it’s the reason you survived COVID. It’s why cancer treatments keep improving. It's why gene therapy exists.
Now? We’re defunding it. That’s not just foolish. It’s strategic surrender. A thread 🧵
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