Dan Holstein, PhD

They’re just trying the hasten the end times, right?

Honest question - is calling red state senators doing anything at all?

Nektonic’s “After the Reef” lays it bare: coral scientists are sounding the alarm on climate change. Governments are not acting fast enough if at all. The clock is ticking. If you want reefs to survive, here’s where your time, money, and voice must go.
#OceanOptimism #ClimateAction

After the Reef Imagining a world without reefs

#coral #coralreef #climate #science
open.substack.com/pub/nektonic...

Asking that question like...

Deepthroat the boot.

It’s so crazy that climate deniers think humans don’t cause climate change but volcanos eruptions do.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.

Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.

Heat exposure on Western Australian coral reefs is literally off the charts.

24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded.

6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals.

>20 is catastrophic.
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...

Just a reminder that the protestations that the admin's activities have been illegal have proven true. As federal workers are reinstated - even if only before future *legal* RIFs - remember that this was a victory.

I think we need to talk about the abuse of the Presidential pardon. There are no consequences for the next 3 years at least.

I have to agree with those below. If you know how to use one of these softwares you can use the other. Opportunity cost is minimal.

I will not stand for this BS.

Mural at NIH, Bethesda, including an image of Dr Tony Fauci who served as Director of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases for 38 distinguished years.

Same mural at NIH today with Tony Fauci’s image clumsily removed.

It’s incredibly hard to see a national treasure like the NIH descend into the atrocious servitude of stripping out an image of one of their most successful Institute Directors in an effort to please the thinnest skinned President of all time.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

I think you’re spot on. But also pretending the liberalism of two of the oldest universities in the country is a new, audacious, and “low quality” phenomenon is… dumb?

This is notably insane because Columbia was est. in 1754, and UC Berkeley was est. in 1868. I mean, what the hell.

This is notably insane because Columbia was est. in 1754, and UC Berkeley was est. in 1868. I mean, what the hell.

Just terribly sad and wasteful. The major investment in these labs has already been paid by the American people. What we see now are the returns.

Right? Schumer’s reasoning here makes no sense to me.

This appears to be Schumer’s argument - but where’s the evidence? What gives the POTUS the right to unilaterally and permanently eliminate programs or furlough employees during a govt shutdown? If this is true, Schumer needs lay it out more carefully.

The NYT needs the headline “Schumer: Traitor to His Cause”

Senate Democrats watching scenes like this and thinking “how can we signal that we’re on the same side of this House Republican?”

On the one hand, yes vote blue. On the other hand, demand his resignation. This is the end of his career.

My god. Are these… DINOs?

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

Your constituents are watching!

I don't have an answer for you other than, in my opinion, you don't have to make this call (and it's not your job to). I'd send it up to the Division of Student Affairs or whatever you've got at your institution and leave it at that.

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives.

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars | US EPA EPA News Release: EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars

This wild press release from the EPA is… something. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

I have to agree with these comments - Been a longtime supporter, but please get angry, please update your messaging, please tap into the zeitgeist. **THEY ARE STEALING FROM YOU**