Ars consistently writes heds the correct way:

On one hand, social media eats time and attention. OTOH social media informed me about the study on farts.

I really hope they are able to expand the study. If there's a massive open study on farts and my data isn't part of it I will be forever disappointed.

I will endeavor not to disappoint.

Becoming successful is not luck. It’s math. If your probability of success is 1/100 and you try 100 times, you have a 100% chance of success. Community note: Trying 100 times with a 1/100 success probability per independent trial gives a 63% chance of at least one success (1 - 0.99^100), not 100%. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1885662/something-with-a-probability-of-1-occurring-100-times

The probability of getting your maths wrong while influtweeting is higher than you think

C&EN Volume 104 | Issue 5. How do you study microplastics when they’re everywhere?

This week in the C&EN Magazine: How do you study microplastics when they’re everywhere? + Facts are in crisis. What are we going to do? Read more: cen.acs.org/magazine/104...

#chemsky 🧪

Chlorine Triflourode is a “molecule” in the same way a guy, his wife who he cheated on, his mistress who just dumped him, and the raccoon in his back yard are a “family.”

We can compare data!

I just tried to sign up but will have to wait due to the “overwhelming response” 😂

Hellll yes

Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...

BIG DAY FOR @wired.com, congrats to my genius colleagues www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

The SPLC has long monitored and exposed white nationalist and Christian nationalist hate groups, so it makes sense that an administration staffed by many people sympathetic to one or both of those movements would use the DOJ to go after them.

Ok not for me personally but definitely the musicians should have instruments.

All people want is enough money to live, a small garden, a green path to walk down, a friendly corner bakery, and a working public transport system. It's not that hard.

I'm a fan of happiness through ethical politics and strong communities. :)

Species like turtles who need to surface to breathe are particularly vulnerable when an oil spill occurs:

- they inhale oil vapours, harming their lungs, oil gets into their food + onto the skin, + chemicals from oil enter their blood.

uk.oceana.org/reports/sea-...

@oceanauk.bsky.social

I always feel so sad for them.

Remember that Twitter account that was like "I am half an onion in a bag" and would be a better President? Yeah. That shit held up.

Dear filmmakers: The real world is dystopic. Remind us what it looks like when things are good. Show us possibilities to build toward. Inspire us with images of a better future.

Can anyone recommend a show or movie in which regular people rose up to avenge/topple/overpower/win against wealthy/powerful/corrupt/evil structures or people and then went and like helped out the poor and made public parks and planted things? That's the kind of stuff I want to see right now.

Senate votes 50-49 to overturn mining ban near Boundary Waters The vote clears the path for Twin Metals to reapply to open an underground copper mine near Ely, just outside the wilderness area. Conservation groups argue mining in the region poses an unacceptable ...

Boundary waters de-protection has passed in the US Senate. People I know in Minnesota are freaking out.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Where Can I Publish My Global Health Blog Post or Op-Ed? This is a crowd-sourced list of blogs and media platforms that publish opinion pieces and commentaries

Where can you pitch your op-ed, essay, or blog post on global public health?

There are plenty of options!

Here is my updated list 👇

communities.springernature.com/posts/where-...

“Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” Better cities are climate action. URBAN Truth Collective

Remember, not density OR trees. Density AND trees.

Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

"You mean you want me to build a house for books?"

Wildfire season's gonna be lit!

Tale as old as time:
Create a class of vulnerable people and others move in to exploit them. This happens with: children, poverty, sex workers, immigrants, prisoners. Every. Time. If you want fewer people to be preyed upon, create systems that empower the vulnerable and prosecute the predators.

OK that one was good

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones. Abortion bans are failing.

Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

i'm not sure how to live in a country in which the murder of eight children doesn't ... stop everything