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Federal data and tools are all around us, influencing our lives in ways we often overlook. Our new data story, Protect the Data that Nourishes Us, highlights the data and tools that inform every stage of an apple's life cycle from seed to supermarket.

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I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

Numbers are down across the board.

“You’ve got to stop the tyranny, not try and make a better case for why science should exist.” 🎯

We’re hiring: Executive Director - Open Science Hardware Foundation Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...

We're #hiring! The Open Science Hardware Foundation seeks an Executive Director to lead our growing non-profit. We seek expertise in: Executive Leadership Resource Mobilization Strategic program development Effective Communication
#openscience #openhardware
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"Nearly 25 million naturalized citizens live in the U.S., and we are accustomed to extra scrutiny...But I had never doubted that my U.S. citizenship was permanent, and that I was guaranteed the same rights of speech, assembly, and due process as natural-born Americans. Now I’m not so sure."

Disaster 101: Your guide to extreme weather preparation, relief, and recovery From packing an emergency kit to navigating FEMA aid to finding legal services and mental health resources, this is a comprehensive guide to surviving and coping with natural disasters.

Grist created a comprehensive guide to help you stay ready and informed before, during, and after these traumatic and chaotic events, as well as where to find and build support in your community. grist.org/extreme-weat...

The Boring Fund is back in 2025 and supporting more projects than before.

With support from Arm, we’re providing $80,000 of funding for the overlooked initiatives that create a stronger #conservationtech sector.

Learn more and apply by 19 August 2025: wildlabs.net/funding-oppo...

Free Lunch Is Over for the AI That Broke the Web Cloudflare, a company that runs 20% of the web, just flipped a switch that could end the open internet as we know it, forcing AI companies to pay for the content they’ve been taking for free.

“Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world’s leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content.” gizmodo.com/free-lunch-i...

PlasticList Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

PlasticList. 'Data on Plastic Chemicals in Bay Area Foods'. plasticlist.org. www.plasticlist.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress Murshed, The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment. More soon, Alexandria

Email just went out from @aoc.bsky.social to her massive email community

- no tacky ask to sign a petition
- no craven and shameless ask donation - not even a donate button

Just laying out plainly how she believes Trump has launched an illegal war and that is grounds for impeachment.

Leader.

250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in t

Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill.

It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

behold the "smarter-than-human" machines that'll soon be "too smart to control"

Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites “It feels good to win one, right?”

USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down www.theverge.com/news/666150/...

JUST IN: US immigration judge rules that deportation case against Pro-Palestinian Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil can proceed reut.rs/426ySFY

50 States, 50 Fixes A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.

From state legislatures to community groups, from tribal lands to city parks to postage-stamp backyards, people are doing quiet, vital work to confront climate change and biodiversity loss. All year, @carabuckley.bsky.social and I will be writing about these efforts.
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The wildfire that swept through Altadena, California, in January burned houses and cars as well as vegetation, generating smoke that contained a complex mix of toxic chemicals. Weeks later, these chemicals still cling to the soil and remaining structures. Researchers are working intensively to understand the lingering hazards of such urban wildfires.

After wildfires burned houses and brush alike in Los Angeles, researchers have mobilized to understand the health risks posed by urban conflagrations.

Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3DV7GR4

Here are the names of the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to El Salvador CBS News has obtained an internal government list of the names of the Venezuelans the Trump administration deported to El Salvador.

Dahlia look! Now we have names of the men who were deported to a prison in El Salvador. Share far and wide so friends and family can identify them!

www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

The Trump Administration Wants USAID on the Blockchain “It feels like a fake technological solution for a problem that doesn’t exist,” says one expert.

Little scooplet from me: The Trump administration has a plan to remake USAID. Part of that vision? Blockchain.

@wired.com

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Hi All
We started a starter pack for those interesed in sea turtle ecology and conservation. Add a comment if you would like to be added. 🐢🌍🧪🦑 #seaturtles #marineturtles
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Just a heads-up to folks who are siloed in English-speaking BlueSky - there are starter packs for Brazilian scientists and activists

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You'll also want to update your content languages setting so you can actually see their posts:
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Time for a 'Be My Eyes' type app but like 'Be My Young Person with a Computer'

Begging reporters to say whether something Trusk is doing is actually legal

Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’

Some prisons have ordered trans people to hand in gender-appropriate underwear as if it was contraband, threatening discipline if they don't. Internal memo says staff can't use correct pronouns or names. Male guards now doing pat-down searches of trans women, who say they're being groped + assaulted

You already f*cking own it. Bam. 💥

"LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre, voice, audience and the history and local politics of its place of origin.... Texts are ‘true’ only in the right context."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🦙 csv,conf is coming to town! 💥

Join us in Bologna from 8 to 11 September to share your #data love. 💚 And if you have a good story of data for #communities consider proposing a talk: the call for presentations is open until April 6th.

spite. somewhere there's a bigot who is FUMING by the idea of a trans Jew building an evolutionary biology lab where inclusion is prioritized, and i am drinking in their pathetic tears like sweet ambrosia