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New #OMB rule could break #science in the United States
What a new proposed rule from OMB could mean, and how you can help

New OMB rule could break science in the United States
What a new proposed rule from OMB could mean, and how you can help

Watch Carl Sagan explain the 4th dimension.
#carlsagan #4thdimension #science

The Arietids peak on June 10! 🌠🧪
This meteor shower lasts from May 29 until June 17, and is famously most visible during the daytime.
#Astronomy #MeteorShower #Space

Museum of Science (@museumofscience.bsky.social)
The Arietids peak on June 10! 🌠🧪 This meteor shower lasts from May 29 until June 17, and is famously most visible during the daytime. #Astronomy #MeteorShower #Space #Science #Astrophotography

Zimmerman’s Law of Complaints:
Nobody notices when things go right. (M. Zimmerman)
#Printing #Computers #Research #Science

Veritasium: This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)
#science

Those busy (and very not-picky!) squirrels! Archivists of nature!
"Who would have imagined that ground squirrel droppings preserved in Yukon permafrost could provide such detailed insights into ecosystems and evolutionary history stretching back hundreds of thousands of years? It is both scientifically important and genuinely fascinating."
#Science #Nature #Yukon #Arctic #Mammoth #Masotodon

It's as official as it can be: The Yoder Lab has been very fortunate to receive NSF funding, in a project that will develop our TARDIS method of modeling plants' flowering activity in varying environments. Keep an eye out for grad (Master's) opportunities in Fall 2027, and a postdoc position hiring as soon as I manage the paperwork
#science

RE: #ScienceSaru

#Science
If you dropped an average bowling ball in the ocean...how long for it to reach the bottom?
The answer might surprise you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYoHYq8VRt0

GODDAMMIT #vaccines #science

"Beyond being a triumph of #Science water sanitation led to a fundamental shift in public expectations. Once people saw that clean water was possible, they demanded it.
Twentieth-century water treatment programs transformed public health by virtually eliminating waterborne diseases. Ventilation, filtration and disinfection provide us with the opportunity to dramatically reduce the bur…

What if everyone pointed a laser at the moon?
#Science

Meteor strikes active volcano!
#Science #Nature #Cosmic

Alas I have to be at a meeting abroad, so will miss @… 's talk at Science and cocktails in Copenhagen, but definitely of interest for those who are around, several from my research group will be attending and taking notes..
#science #cocktails #STEM #AcademicChatter
https://www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/copenhagen/information-disinformation-and-the-future-of-human-society

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
― John Archibald Wheeler
#Quote #Science #Physics

A nice campus press release about the lab's new #NSFfunded project, modeling plants' reproductive activity in response to environmental variation across space and time
#science #ecology

What does a balloon popping sound like?
Not what you think. Popping a balloon in a full sound dampened room
#Science #Cool

The factors that determine whether something becomes of mainstream scientific interest are only marginally scientific. #science #fashion #funding #prestige

#Science #Solar #Railroad
Apparently this prototype proved successfully.
I would have figured they'd get too dirty to be useful
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/switzerland-train-tracks-solar-panels

The #GreatLakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi
#Science #biology #tardigrade

The Great Lakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi
Scientists have discovered an almost entirely hidden world of living organisms hundreds of feet below Earth's surface.

#climatechange #environment #ecology #science

Supersonic Trebuchet!
#Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co57SfcT-h0&t=1185s

#Science #Vision #Restoration
Scientists engineered a virus to reverse age related vision loss.
Just need to stick a needle in your eye....zoinks!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k49bGcbOKwg

Liebe #WissKomm-Community 👋 ,
gibt es für den »Communicator-Preis« der #DFG Vorschläge aus dem Open Social Web?
> Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft schreibt erneut den „Communicator-Preis – #Wissenschaftspreis des Stifterverbandes“ aus. … Bewerbungen und Vorschläge bis 30. Sept., Registrierung bis 23. Sept.)
cc @… @… @…
3. August 2026
➡️ #SocialMedia #SciComm #ORCID #Fediverse #ATmosphere #DOI #OpenSocialWeb #Wissenschaft #Science

Judith Curry is possibly the most confusing and infuriating scientist in the entire climatological arena. She contributed to major understandings around the changes in the jet stream, the Arctic, and other processes that helped explain the impact climate change has already had on our day to day weather.
But then she left academia and essentially became a mouthpiece for Neo-denialism, claiming others were being “alarmist” and that while CO2 was the main cause, we really shouldn’t be spending money on reducing emissions.
Her final blog announcing its retirement is an interesting combination of declaring victory, mostly thanks to Trump and his acolytes (like Carney) who have pivoted fully into the arms of the fossil fuel industry, and declaring she was tired of it all and just wants to be in her garden and stop the flow of now $16,000 (!!) to maintain her Wordpress blog for the past 15 years.
She has done real damage to efforts to stop CO2 emissions. But another part of me wonders if this is an admission of guilt. Very often people come to a point, even subconsciously, where they realize they’re in with the wrong crowd.
I wonder if she has had that moment with Trump. She probably thinks it’s all irrelevant and out of her hands now. Other players, namely the oil industry, Trump, Putin, etc. will decide what happens and scientists like her will have no impact.
I am glad she is tapping out, as so many deniers inevitably do, but it is clear she is doing it because she thinks she’s won, and that is very very bad for the world.
#climateChange #carney #cdnpoli #canpoli #climateEmergency #climateDenial #science #JudithCurry #theAmericanFascist

20 year project criticized as dumping leads to significant ocean rehabilitation
#Science #Ocean #Rebuilding #Natural

#Science #Cancer #Cure #Frogs
When people decry the cost of saving a species or environmental studies before construction...or hell mitigating climate change before it kills off so many species.
the Japanese Tree Frog has a bacteria that literally kills cancer.
And beyond that, it teaches the body to attack any future re-occurrence of that cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VGvuEc_tLQY