While Finland has amazing transit (been my favorite part so far!), it also has winter. So, we will be buying an EV (duh).

Finland teaches 6-year-olds how to spot disinformation—and they might be better at it than you | Fortune "Media literacy is essential to building societal resilience, and Finland realized this quite early on."

Just gonna put this right here… fortune.com/2025/01/29/f...

At worst it’s a “win”, at best a “win win”.

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Kiitos!

I’m in Finland now and I can confirm America looks nuts from the outside too.

It’s very cool

Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain.

Proposed cuts to US science funding (tens of billions of dollars) will shrink the US economy by $1 trillion over ten years. Because investing in science results in multiple returns.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

Thank you!! Everyone has been so kind and welcoming. We had multiple heatwaves in California, so cold weather is a welcome relief. Our daughter is really wanting some last minute snow 😄

We made it! #Finland 🇫🇮

Yesterday, I overheard a woman praising the Artemis II launch and in the next breath concluded there is no way we went to the moon 50 years ago because of how complicated it looks.😑

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Good news everyone! Science still matters for space travel.

Honestly, not shocked. One study found most of the microplastics we consume come from our own clothes…so now you all have to sit with that too, I guess.

Math is the universal language after all.

The Iran War is Revealing the Messy Middle of Our Renewable Energy Transition

The Iran War is Revealing the Messy Middle of Our Renewable Energy Transition www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/m...

Very strong article by @dwallacewells.bsky.social on the transition problem: it's easy to see a future world that's better than the one we have but getting there can be messy and v. hard.

a blue and white flag with a cross on it is waving in the wind ALT: a blue and white flag with a cross on it is waving in the wind

Our stuff is being picked up and put on a barge today! Less than a week until our departure 😱🇫🇮

Every time I think there is a bottom to all this…alas.

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms

Astonishing: US taxpayers to pay out $1 billion to cancel a wind farm and pump more oil and gas. Removing an affordable source of electricity when prices are rising. Adding to global warming. Pushing up the cost to the US economy. Polluting more.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

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Social services, public trust, a competent president, and saunas are cool and all, but perhaps #Finland is the happiest country in the world for 9 yrs running due to the highest number of metal bands per capita? 🤘🏻

Hello Ricker curve 👋🏻

This! 1000 times this!

It's final: No Delta smelt found in annual survey for 8 years as ecosystem collapses One of the most significant California water stories of this decade is the virtual extinction of the Delta Smelt in the wild and the collapse of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta ecosystem that i...

So sad 📉 - they're just gone.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Things are apocalyptic for science in the US. It might not seem that way to everyone because many academic scientists have tenure and get to keep their jobs (for now), and most grants last three years, so many scientists still have funding. But it's going to get way worse.

Proposed offshore mussel farm would be US' first in North Atlantic Rhode Island-based Newport Mussels has entered the permitting phase for its proposed farm, which would be the first commercial-scale farm of its kind in the United States' North Atlantic federal water...

#aquaculture

" #RhodeIsland -based Newport Mussels announced Friday that its offshore project is designed to produce over 12 million pounds of blue #mussels a year in federal waters."

Proposed offshore mussel farm would be US' first in North Atlantic | Intrafish share.google/klyr2zHEF9cV...

It is really too bad the Sacramento Pikeminnow, and its relative the Northern Pikeminnow, are blamed for declining Salmon populations. On the West Coast, Salmon and Pikeminnow are clearly co-evolved.

Salmon are declining primarily because of habitat issues.

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse.

Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors.

📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.

This article tells the story of what researchers have been going through over the past 14 months. As funding dries up, professors struggle to keep people employed and to keep doing the work.

The Trump Administration is destroying so much science in this country.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...