ALA Clean Air School Symposium NOTE: All times listed below are in Central Time. Agenda times and order of topics are subject to slight change. 10:00 AM: Opening Remarks + The Case for Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) 10:50 AM: Core Elements and the Intersection of IAQ and Energy Efficiency 11:25 AM: Voices from the Field - a Panel Discussion 11:55 AM: Break 12:05 PM: Taking Action: 6 Key Drivers 12:35 PM: How to Make it Happen - Programs and Resources for Schools 12:50 PM: Voices from the Field - a Panel Discussion 1:30 PM: Closing Remarks and Adjourn Featured Speakers Speaker list and bios coming soon!

The American Lung Association is hosting a 3.5-hour virtual "Clean Air School Symposium" on May 5.

Register: action.lung.org/site/TR?fr_i...

NASA science faces 'very serious threat' from new White House budget, experts say "This is the least transparent NASA budget request I've ever seen — and I've literally looked through every single one since 1960."

"This is the least transparent #NASA budget request I've ever seen — and I've literally looked through every single one since 1960." -- @caseydreier.bsky.social

Love that slush fund line for "Mars Technologies" underwriting more Elon promises he can't keep.

#space

www.space.com/astronomy/na...

NASA absorbs but a tiny fraction of the federal budget, yet produces astounding scientific and technological achievements.

The current administration wants (once again) to significantly reduce NASA’s budget. That achieves no savings, but it badly damages US space science.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

What he said.

That’s orbital mechanics 👍. Thank you, Sir Isaac.

👇

*live* broadcast.

“We will construct science outposts, we will drive rovers, we will do radio astronomy, we will found companies, we will bolster industry we will inspire, but — ultimately — we will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other."

–Christina Koch, first woman to the Moon

I love the fact that women figure prominently in the Artemis II mission love broadcast.

Perspectives.

How I turned online misogyny about my PhD into momentum for my career A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research.

A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research, says Juliet Turner

go.nature.com/4sQu3uX

“The aurora borealis is the sun’s farts”.

– Science teacher

Image Credit & Copyright: Adrien Mauduit.

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180621.…

Perspective.

MIT CSAIL on X: "A guide to remembering everything you read: https://t.co/b4DwxJnUki v/@CuriousMindsHub https://t.co/8XZdhlGbF0" / X A guide to remembering everything you read: https://t.co/b4DwxJnUki v/@CuriousMindsHub https://t.co/8XZdhlGbF0

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Imagine if the US collaborated with China on bringing back little pieces of Mars back to Earth, much like the US collaborated with the Soviet Union in the Apollo-Soyuz program during the Cold War.

Graph of CO2 concentrations for the past 800,000 years from the Antarctic ice cores, showing current CO2 levels of 430 ppm are far, far higher than any level over this period, which never exceeded 300 ppm. Also shown is the emergence of Homo sapiens around 200,000 years ago -- so CO2 levels are higher than we've ever experienced.

You are here.
We've breached 430 ppm CO2.
#climatechange

Earth’s sky hasn’t always been blue, and won’t always be.

Please share far and wide.

There likely was a lake there billions of years ago and maybe, just maybe, tiny microorganisms lived on the lake bed and left chemical traces of their meals for humans to recognize.

Paper Quotes:

"Because the biosphere, as a living system, processes information in ways nonliving systems do not, information-theoretic approaches can capture aspects of coupled system dynamics that might otherwise remain invisible to purely physical or chemical models".

On the left, 24 amber colored debris disks are shown in six rows of four disks. They are ringed structures of various densities and inclinations. On the right, a column of blue disks matches the last column of amber ones, revealing the location of gas in the dusty structures.

#PPOD: This ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) gallery of faint debris disks reveals details about their shape: belts with multiple rings, wide smooth halos, sharp edges, and unexpected arcs and clumps, which hint at the presence of planets shaping these disks. 🧪 🔭

“Seeing is inference from incomplete information”.

– Jaynes, E. 2003, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

The gas between the stars also moves.

Signs of ancient life may have been found in Martian rock – new study The rock is peppered with spots that could have been formed by microbes four billion years ago.

"...in astrobiology, the lack of a non-biological explanation isn’t where life detection ends – it’s where it begins."

Signs of ancient life may have been found in Martian rock – new study
theconversation.com/signs-of-anc...

Airborne microplastics enter plant leaves and end up in our food Evidence for a previously overlooked route for microplastics to enter crops and reach plant tissues has implications for ecology and human health.

Microplastics are airborne too.

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

The rust that could reveal alien life Iron rusts. On Earth, this common chemical reaction often signals the presence of something far more interesting than just corroding metal—for example, living microorganisms that make their living by ...

"Finding iron biosignatures on another world wouldn't just confirm life exists elsewhere, it would reveal that the same fundamental chemistry... operates throughout the solar system."

phys.org/news/2025-11...

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.

For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

Timely reminder.

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.

Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT