Phil Manlick

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November."

It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Shutting the government down because the president’s thug army keeps murdering American citizens for no reason seems pretty reasonable, IMO!

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

If the government executing us in the streets isn’t your red line, then you’ve already decided to endorse it.

There’s no gray area left. No ambiguity.

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

A graphic comparing two quotes: "Fuckin' bitch." ICE agent after Renee Good was shot and killed two weeks ago. "Boo hoo." Federal agent after a man was shot and killed today.

These monsters are sick.

Zoom chat is terrible

a man in a blue hoodie is talking to another man . ALT: a man in a blue hoodie is talking to another man .

Teams is better than zoom

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US Forest Service cabin covered from an early winter snow in Big Cottonwood Canyon #landscapephotography #photography #Leica #Utah #mountains #winter

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health

Fosso mama needed a nap.

Zoogeochemical niche construction: how animal-mediated biogeochemistry affects evolution Animals exert control over biogeochemical processes within their ecosystems – the study of which is called zoogeochemistry. However, most zoogeochemical research stops short of examining how animal-dr...

This looks very cool

Zoogeochemical niche construction: how animal-mediated biogeochemistry affects evolution: Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

‘The city is dead’: D.C. restaurant reservations drop amid federal crackdown August restaurant week can be a lifeline for D.C. food businesses, but high-visibility arrests and heavy law enforcement presence are driving some diners away.

Restaurant owners tell the Washington Post that sending troops into civilian areas seems to have scared off their customers

www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/08...

Ha! I agree we can save it. We already got lucky once. This monster cedar fell right between the exclosure and the camera in April.

Trees are starting to come down in our small mammal exclosure study. @ambystomax.bsky.social found the first potential casualty this week 😩 (I still think we can save it!)

Scientists’ role in defending democracy The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“More than 62,000 emails and 5,000 calls in the first couple weeks, all but a few in vehement opposition to Lee’s plan.”

“‘People were fired up. It was like a declaration of war.’”

Join us at the University of Washington in the #HarveyLab in the School of Environmental & Forest Sciences.

We're currently recruiting a postdoc in forest disturbance & landscape ecology for a project focused in western US + w/ international collaborators.

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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner suggests suspending the monthly jobs report | CNN Business EJ Antoni, nominated by President Donald Trump Monday to become the next commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, suggested that the agency should suspend its monthly jobs report, claiming it ...

www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/e...
If no news is good news, no data must be great news.

I'm giving a talk on Tuesday about carnivores as dispersers of mycorrhizal fungal spores as part of a special session on fungal spore dispersal. Come check it out if you are here in Baltimore and like fungi, carnivores, or trophic interactions. #ESA2025

Everybody needs to call this what it is: extortion

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

And Congress certainly did not grant these authorities with the Director of Management and Budget, no matter how much he wants to be a deputy dictator.

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We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

Washington State Braces for ‘Inevitable’ Megafire. Climate Change May Bring It Sooner.

Years ago, at a workshop we held on changing wildfire risk in western Washington, I was struck by the analogy that preparing communities for megafires in our fuel-rich forests is similar to tsunami: rapid evacuation, because they can't be fought.

Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.