You are welcome.
#podcast #kuow @kuow.org

Happy to provide some info. News background + social for research. https:/seattlesciencewriter.com

Four pussy willow catkins on stem with bright blue sky in distance.

Game = poem. Solving words ladder contemplation.

Seed, power of creation,
Dense, containing future
Sensed, pulling from edges
Endless, unspooling generations
Idleness, what we need to see

Thanks to The New Yorker games dept. for this 4-18 list of words. #shuffalo
#bloomscrolling

We should be learning from other countries...

Picture of drawing of cat.

Nobel prize winning scientist Mary Brunkow, who works in Seattle at the Institute for Systems Biology.

Thank you to Mary Brunkow of Institute for Systems Biology in #seattle for speaking about her #Nobel prize journey. My PhD student friend gasped at slide of page 343 in the lab notes. (Because, they had to wait 342 pages for success. )
#education #science #process #SciEd #women

Pulitzer Center - Open Call: Climate Digital Storytelling Accelerator | Eli Kintisch Climate reporters: want to develop some visual storytelling skills? Please share with your networks a new free training from the Pulitzer Center. I'm the co-instructor. Climate Digital Storytelling A...

Climate reporters - apply for a FREE workshop to help you develop a climate story into a video. You don't need to have any experience with video. #climate #journalism #tools #multimedia

www.linkedin.com/posts/elikin...

A gloved human hand holding a greenish liquid in a vial about to be placed inside a centrifuge for spinning at high speed to separate different densities.

How many layers of nerd? #seattle theater event in April. Random built in. 5 science plays created from scratch in ... less than a week.
Research as catalyst, but theater as method.
No recording. You have to come see.

theatreoffjackson.org/event/centri...

ProPublica Journalists Strike for a Day, Partly Over A.I.

If you value the #union avoid visiting @propublica.org site today.
#journalism #workers #AI
Explainer www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

A person in jeans and hat crouches next to a tulip field of mostly purple flower that stretches almost to infinity. From Skagit River area of Washington state during peak bloom.

There needs to be a neuroscience of scale that explains when we see something - tulip X 1 million. #bloomscrolling #skagit #tulips

Yellow tulips with darker orange feathers of color at edges of each petal. About 6 tulips in view.

For #bloomscrolling

My daughter was part of that research in Sevilleta. (NM) So sorry to see this.

Long-term studies are vital to understanding how species and ecosystems are responding to climate change and other environmental stressors, but difficult to sustain under typical short-term grant cycles. LTER has been funding these since 1980.

This is breaking something that can’t be replaced.

Peace, love, and hugs. #science #astronomy #music

What a tragic and unnecessary loss brought on by cruel policies cruelly enforced.

The broader picture is that while some of the GOP's war on science will be reversible, some won't. Never again in my lifetime will the best and brightest from around the world want to study and work in the US.

from the Guardian 'Unhinged madman': US politicians react to Trump's expletive-laden threat to Iran Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing 'open the fuckin' strait, you crazy bastards'

now THAT’S how a major publication should write a lede www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Who Gets to Do Science? Who Gets to Do Science?: A neuroscientist who spent the last decade tearing down the class, race, and language barriers that keep people like him out of research

How science favors the majority students #dei #cuts #privilege

nautil.us/who-gets-to-...

H.H.S. Takes a First Step Toward Restoring Vaccine Advisory Committee

The Health Department is quietly laying the groundwork to revive a vaccine advisory committee whose membership and decisions were frozen last month by a federal judge.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/h...

Nara has been an unrelenting supporter of our faculty and trainees throughout this chaos. I don't know when he sleeps! Sad to read this piece and reflect on all of the ways that this Administration is trying to destroy medical research.

Panicking scientists, canceled experiments – federal funding cuts turned my work as a research dean into crisis management When the Trump administration took aim at higher education and the scientific research enterprise, a university dean had to figure out on the fly how to support scientists and their work at his school...

You need to read this dean's description of science dissolving around him. From Nara Parameswaran at @michiganstateu.bsky.social
#scicomm #sciwri #cuts @theconversation.com

theconversation.com/panicking-sc...

Our own PNW star, @ferrisjabr.bsky.social of Oregon wins Rachel Carson award. @sejorg.bsky.social #scicomm #sciwri

At @townhallseattle.bsky.social ..IYKYN

Any @nswa.bsky.social folks here to see @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social with our VP Lynda Mapes? #science #ecology #forests

LIVE: No Kings rally, march through downtown Seattle YouTube video by KING 5 Seattle

Livestream here of #seattle #nokings rally
Currently, state attorney general Nick Brown speaking.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dw6...

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape.

What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

Sally James at Seattle SUFS 2026 YouTube video by Stand Up for Science Seattle

If you missed it on March 7, listen to my speech here.
"We need #science #journalism," I said.
and "Don't complain about the paywall."
@standupforscience.net @sufsseattle.bsky.social
youtu.be/HBIrC0wGMS0?...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results.
(One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Wish #seattle #tech would embrace the #OpenDataWeek with nod to @inaturalist.bsky.social City Nature Challenge here in Puget Sound. www.inaturalist.org/projects/cit...

What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...

“If you’re watching television and the words ‘woke and weaponized’ come out of a politician’s mouth, you can know that this is coming ... from the strategies we’re putting out,” Vought boasted in a recording obtained by ProPublica.

(Published Oct. 2025)

I have a yoga joke. You need to breathe in for 4 counts to truly reach it.