Richard Lynn's pseudoscientific racism is more normalized and mainstream in right wing circles than ever before.
They don't care what science actually says, the racism is the key motivation.
The rise in climate pollution from the US is 2025 canceled out the reductions from China, India, Japan, and the EU combined.
The University of California system and California State system together enroll 770,000 students.
770,000
That's three quarters of a MILLION students in a PUBLIC education system that ranges in quality from good to world-class.
This is a miracle.
I have just finished reading The Technology of Teaching by Skinner it confirmed two ideas for me.
First, the image of Skinner as an “evil” behaviorist is false. Reading him directly, I find a profoundly humanist thinker.
Second, he may be more useful than expected in our AI-powered era
Few takeaways
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
Recovery crew opening the hatch and welcoming the Artemis II crew home after a nearly 700,000-mile journey.
Video: Reid Wiseman
What better way to torch your scientific organization's credibility than by having an anti-vaxxer speak at it?
You know this is shameful. He literally has destroyed NIH--he's not an advocate for reform. I am shocked you and the NAS think he should be platformed--he was just at CPAC USA, destroying anything that was left of his credibility
Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees Kennedy Vows To End ‘War’ On Stinging-Insect Diets
Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-ame...
This is real
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
Whether it's Trump threatening a nuclear war on Truth Social or Hillary Clinton sharing risotto recipes by email, both leaders made controversial use of digital communication.
This might be the MOST STUNNING photo from Artemis II yet
Crescent Earth illuminated by light above 🤩
📷 Artemis II
A Giant Sea Spider (genus Colossendeis), also known as a pycnogonid, found on the deep seafloor at depths between 2,200 and 4,000 meters. 🌊🦀
While some species are small, those in the deep ocean can grow over 50 cm (20 inches) across due to deep-sea gigantism.
#ocean #deepsea #nature #wildlife
The decision to overfund a military to “defend” a people who are far more likely die of preventable causes because we refuse to ensure that they have healthcare is maddening
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.
That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
The Planetary Society has re-launched our Save NASA Science action hub today given the draconian cuts proposed in the FY 2027 NASA budget — follow here for running updates, statements, charts, and advocacy actions you can take now:
planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
Overview of changes in NSF funding proposed by the FY 2027 President's Budget Request. Most programs are significantly cut. OMB did not give numbers for STEM and NCSES, so the numbers appear to be increases (they are not).
Giving folks a sense of what the cuts to NSF funding in the 2027 President's Budget Request actually looks like. Note the significant cuts across domains--even to research security! STEM and NCSES aren't captured for prior years, so they appear to be cuts, even though they are not.
Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget
❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH.
❌ EPA: -4.6B
❌ NSF: -3.8B
❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion
❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M)
❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100%
And there's more.
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭
Listening in to the birthright citizenship oral arguments. I won't be fully live-posting through them, but will highlight some comments. I'll have a quick analysis up after the arguments, later this afternoon.
This ruling, supported even by liberal justices, betrays a fundamental misunderstanding:
Therapy is not the expression of a personal opinion - it's medical care. There is no first amendment right to medical malpractice.
