Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...

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1/2 “#Plastic credits are a false solution that can enable #greenwashing while potentially sidestepping transparency and accountability” says Prof. @abonisoli.bsky.social, from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and co-author."

These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution

Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait Management tried to quash outpouring of support for beleaguered agency

A poignant picture: NSF staff overcome obstacles to mark agency's 75th anniversary. www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Trump plan would eliminate NOAA climate research, slash agency budget The plan would cut NOAA’s budget by 27 percent overall and eliminate a research branch of the agency studying the world’s weather, climate and oceans.

How many lifetimes' worth of work is being destroyed by all this? And to what end?? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Last known REAL Dire Wolf in the world

In LA today - love the La Brea Tar Pits shade:

Terrific work, Michael! 👏🏻 It'll go straight into my ecotoxicology class. 🙌🏻

Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.

NEW: EPA is planning to eliminate requirements to report greenhouse gas emissions for thousands of facilities.

“It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill”
@maibached.bsky.social told me

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Generative AI reminds me of single-use plastic in terms of how it's being rolled out: no one asked for it, everyone lives fine without it, but a company will manufacture demand for it through sheer brute, bloody force

Thanks for this – including the shout-out to La Battaglia di Algeri, a massive piece of art.

A ground-level color photograph of the large and orange-red glowing ROMEO mushroom cloud rising above Bikini Atoll, with an eerie reddish light reflecting on the ocean in the foreground. The sky is red all around and a circular condensation cloud is forming above the cap of the mushroom cloud.

An aerial color photograph of the large and yellow-orange-red glowing ROMEO mushroom cloud rising above the clouds at Bikini Atoll. The sky is red and the long mushroom stem rising from the surface is clearly visible. A condensation cloud is forming above the cap of the mushroom cloud.

Today in 1954 at Bikini Atoll, the United States conducted Castle ROMEO, its third-largest thermonuclear weapon test (11 Megatons, a proof test of the Mark-17 bomb) and the first set off on a barge (inside the March 1 BRAVO crater, because testing was rapidly vaporizing the atoll’s coral islands).

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At least they are freezing the hire of admin too? Here they are just talking about hiring freeze of faculty & staff!

Congrats Rafa!

Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.

Republicans are helping Putin abduct and disappear Ukrainian children.

They’re destroying the one real path to reunification these kids have.

They don’t care about child trafficking, unless it furthers their goal of imposing white Christian purity culture.

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Chart showing very large increase in top 1% wealth in the US.

But how on earth can the US pay for the transition to a low-carbon society?!

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Long letter from NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, available here: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Letter-to-the-Community.pdf

🧪 The NSF director is lying to you.

Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵

@theperegrinefund.bsky.social is hiring a Social Scientist. Come help us save raptors from extinction!

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But they can only conceive creativity as content, entertainment – and the profits from it

EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History

This "Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History" will cause countless deaths, and go down in history as infamy www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

Great feature being announced! This may well soon make @bsky.app as useful a place for science communication as Twitter once was.

Coverage in @highcountrynews.bsky.social of our recent paper where we document that Turkey Vultures in California remain exposed to anticoagulant #rodenticides, despite recent state-wide bans.

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Thanks for covering our paper!

Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted

The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA

#Plastics matter in the #food system

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