Great article from @rboyle31.bsky.social on mysterious Little Red Dots and how they might represent a class of objects we've never really seen before: a stellar atmosphere powered by black hole accretion.
stay tuned for a spicy alternative take that should appear on the arXiv later this week! 🧪🔭
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
In addition to legal experts @envirojustice.bsky.social , I'd add that environmental & conservation science experts also call for real reform, not more rhetoric, slippery words, and confident endorsements or centrist exhortations that are flatly wrong
(next post & embedded🧵 if u'd like more info)
This is an excellent write up about findings from our H2Ohio wetland monitoring. 🧪🌎🌱💧
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
That little blue dot is a young exoplanet!
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪
#Astronomy 🔭
www.space.com/astronomy/ex...
With a current value of $0.001 per ton, it does not look like coal will be making a comeback in the United States. That's the outcome from a recent coal lease bid for *subsidized* coal. They lowered the royalty rate (& cut environmental regulations) to encourage the sale. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 A short 🧵
A photo of a small, black-furred shrew climbing on a branch with text overlay that says "Australia’s only shrew declared extinct. Australia continues to lead the world in mammal extinctions."
Australia’s only shrew has been declared extinct. Australia leads the world in mammal extinctions and ranks second for loss of biodiversity. We need better funding for conservation action and stronger environmental laws to uphold our international commitments to prevent further extinctions 🧪
The National Climate Risk Assessment is now live:
www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...
National Climate Change Risk Assessment out now 👇🏽
Risk to current ecosystems VERY HIGH. Rick by 2050 VERY HIGH to SEVERE
The cost of kicking real reform down the road.
For more than three years I’ve been calling for reform of the failed JRG program alongside colleagues on the crossbench.
If govt wants to fix intergenerational inequity this is a great place to start.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This is how broken our lobbying laws are.
Every resources minister since 2001 went on to work for fossil fuel companies & 8 ex-ministers & senior advisers now lobby for gambling💰
It's time for complete reform of lobbying rules + independent watchdog.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Why not go all the way with plank time?
🚨🧵My latest:
As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding.
The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Summary of this ruling from a science perspective:
- Three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit: Clinton, Obama, Biden appointees refused to restore terminations during litigation.
- Lower court found grant terminations violate the APA (arbitrary and capricious), 1A, and statutory agency missions.
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For 30 years, vaccine recommendations from the @ameracadpeds.bsky.social have lined up with the CDC’s plan, leading to millions of children saved from serious illness.
Pediatrician @drhigginsmd.bsky.social breaks down AAP’s split with RFK Jr.’s CDC. 🩺 🧪
There is no logical justification for this, only an ideological one
Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
🧪 So, does this mean that Columbia caved to the tune of $220M and, surprise, still doesn’t get their NIH grants back? This is just absurd. Congress *should* be pissed.
This is figure 2. The plot shows the distribution of work hours at baseline (in red) and at endpoint (in green). Panel a presents company-level average work hours. Panel b presents individual-level work hours.
A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that four-day work weeks without a reduction in income boost workers’ job satisfaction and physical and mental health, driven by enhanced work performance, lower levels of fatigue and fewer sleep problems. go.nature.com/3Um75MP #econsky 🧪
This is a must watch. Here is an interview of Francis Collins, former director of the NIH w/ Stephen Colbert. He ran the NIH for 12 years.
"Medical miracles don't happen overnight. You have to invest in them. "Our investments are in trouble."
The brain drain is here.
🧪 youtu.be/lW9c6t4potU?...
Our new study is out in @natcomms.nature.com!
We present a glacial CO₂ reconstruction from the Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 2.6 million years and explore what it reveals about climate sensitivity during the Pleistocene.
🔗 rdcu.be/ewIfh
🧪1/2 With the announcement that the research arm of the #EPA is being shutdown...... It seems that organization was expressly put into place to stop things like the rise of leaded gasoline and CFC's.
This is 🥜s. Its like history is doomed to rhyme!
www.npr.org/2025/07/20/n...
Graph of median super balances by age: Age Median account balance $ 18-24 $5,170 25-29 $19,187 30-34 $38,525 35-39 $65,491 40-44 $93,351 45-49 $121,924 50-54 $147,857 55-59 $169,146 60-64 $189,618 65-69 $208,143
The 2022-23 tax stats released today show that $3m is more than 15 times higher than the median amount of super people in their early 60s have
"We have $8M in a SMSF. How can we avoid the new super tax?" – SMH
"You could hardly find a more pointed example of what's wrong w/ Australia’s economic system,
"We don’t have dental in Medicare because we subsidise inheritance of the wealthiest" @grogsgamut.bsky.social
theaus.in/grogonomics-...
Fellow climate scientists: please be better than Dick Lindzen
🐧📉 Emperor penguin decline worse than predicted
A new study finds a 22% drop in emperor penguins (2020–2023) in part of Antarctica – far steeper than climate models expected.
This highlights urgent risks from sea ice loss
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#SciComm #ClimateChange #Penguins 🧪
