Andy Dobson

Our political cartoonists know the score.

(Clay Bennett for the Chattanooga Times Free Press)

Really excellent review

Mo Salah respond to a post by UEFA with: Can you tell us how he died, where, and why? The UEFA post reads: Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the 'Palestinian Pelé'. A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times

Well said, Mo Salah.

Suleiman al-Obeid was shot dead by IDF forces whilst waiting for food aid in southern Gaza.

Good news for Ireland and Austria....

I’m pretty sure neither her “ass” or her “hips” know which bathroom she’s supposed to use.

Once again...

www.rawstory.com/immigration-...

A twitter post of "No Way to Prevent This" in reply to an NYT headline that's nearly identical.

I posted to Twitter for what looks like the fifth time this year yesterday. Checked back today and the post has 39,000 likes, 3.2k retweets — and 9 replies, and 4 quote tweets. I'm sorry folks those numbers ain't real. Bordering on a statistical impossibility. It's gotta be almost entirely fake.

@gates.bsky.social

North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.

Great to work on this amazing paper with Gates DuPont

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.

Great to work on this amazing paper with Gates DuPont

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Earth’s Underground Fungi Networks Need Urgent Protection: Study - EcoWatch The underground fungi networks that help sustain Earth’s ecosystems are in need of urgent conservation action, according to SPUN.

“For centuries, we’ve mapped mountains, forests, and oceans. But these fungi have remained in the dark, despite the extraordinary ways they sustain life on land.” @tobykiers.bsky.social , @spun.earth

As always, Larry and Paul get it spot on!

Zero scandals, strong leadership. Repost if you like President Obama too 🙌🏻

Civilians cannot be targets. Never.

The images from Gaza are unbearable.

The EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian aid.

And for the full respect of international and humanitarian law.

Are LLMs truly intelligent? New study questions the ’emergence’ of AI abilities - TechTalks A new paper argues that "emergent abilities" in LLMs aren't true intelligence. The difference is crucial and has implications for real-world applications.

Very nice summary of our recent paper on emergence and LLMs:

bdtechtalks.com/2025/07/14/l...

"Train is the new private jet." Dua Lipa continues to promote taking the train over flying, boarding a Eurostar to London at Gare du Nord. This is climate-conscious messaging done right. Posted by lejeuneengage on IG.

Trump Fuels Fear, Rage and Hope in California’s Central Valley

Expanding H-2A’s can help some of these workers and the industry, but it’s not going to help long-term unauthorized folks some of whom are profiled here.

Great overview, including remarks about mechanization. But apricots turn brown by looking at them

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

The 2025 Bat Infectious Disease meeting is now on. Looking forward to several excellent talks, along with talks by Rita and Victoria from my lab. #BatID
Thanks to Dr. Cara Brook and her lab for organizing and hosting us!

Jul. 7, 2025 Re the Kratsios editorial on the "Gold Standard" Executive Order John P Holdren Formerly the Science Advisor to President Obama (Jan 2009 - Jan 2017) Currently Research Professor at Havard University's Kennedy School of Government Reading the June 24 Editorial by Michael Kratsios on the “Gold Standard” can only reinforce the impression, already well established by President Trump’s pathological prevarications, that George Orwell’s 1984 has finally arrived, 41 years late. How bizarre is it, after all, that an administration that has been cancelling crucial research projects and databases right and left―and whose top officials lie routinely about practically everything―has issued a demand for more reproducible and transparent science? And now we have the President’s under-qualified Science Advisor lecturing the readers of SCIENCE on what scientific integrity and transparency require. As for the “Gold Standard” Executive Order Kratsios praises, the poison pill is not hard to find (as many others have noted): the EO gives political appointees with no science background the power to declare a scientific result they don’t like is the result of “misconduct” or some other alleged shortfall on the “gold standard”. Aside from that, the only proposals in this EO that are sensible call for measures that both Obama and Biden implemented—and that Trump in his first term did not. And now the fox in the henhouse overseeing it all is Michael Kratsios? What a charade!

Skip the editorial by the director of Trump's Office of Science and Technology Policy on "sound science."

Read the letter by John Holdren instead: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ANTS: We're just waiting for this 'ere aphid to squeeze out a drop of honeydew. Oh come on, we haven't got all day...

JoJoFromJerz: How can MAGA celebrate Trump’s agenda when it hurts so many of us and our children? Trump’s cruel agenda, which Republicans gleefully passed, decides who gets to live and who gets to beg for mercy.

My first ever newspaper byline — and it’s in the state paper I grew up reading with my dad. 🥹
www.nj.com/opinion/2025...

Headline of New York Times story from May 2nd. It reads: Former Weather Service Leaders Warn Staffing Cuts Could Lead to 'Loss of Life' The former agency directors say current employees will face an "impossible task" to maintain service just as hurricane season begins.

By Camille Baker May 2, 2025 Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives. "N.W.S. staff will have an impossible task to continue its current level of services," they write in the letter, dated Friday. "Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life." Hundreds of Weather Service employees, or about 10 percent of the agency's total staff, have been terminated or accepted buyout offers since President Trump began his second term, according to the letter.

🚨2 months ago, every National Weather Service Director of the last 34 years took the unprecedented step of signing a joint, open letter.

“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”

The Houston office is 44% UNDERSTAFFED.

Vital and deeply disconcerting reading...

In the face of anti-science politics, silence is not without cost More scientific leaders need to speak out about anti-science agendas and threats to academic freedom across the world.

“an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere”. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #science #DefendScience #ScienceAcrossBorders #ScienceWithoutBorders

Vital and deeply disconcerting reading...

Leaving the Landmine Ban Treaty puts civilians at risk This week, Finland looks set to vote a final time on withdrawing from the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines, and Poland may soon follow. Mary Wareham and Laura Lodenius write that t...

"The treaty withdrawals threaten to erode fundamental tenets of international humanitarian and human rights law.

Withdrawals from multilateral disarmament treaties have been extremely rare until now, which makes these denunciations grave & concerning."

europeanleadershipnetwork.org/commentary/l...

Happy birthday, loser!

proud to have @padilla.senate.gov representing me and angry about how he was treated today

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

I urge others to similarly support our patriots at NIH who use their training and talents to improve human health and position the US as the world’s leader in biomedical discovery, innovation and technology development 🙏