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The internet is the greatest single scientific innovation of the 20th century Brought to you by NSF

NSF Funds Supercomputing Facilities Bringing You: Weather Forecasts Heat Advisories

NSF and NASA Maintain GPS Satelites Bringing You: Navigation Apps

NSF Funds Supercomputing Facilities Bringing You: Surf Forecasts Severe Weather Alerts

❤️❤️❤️ these posters in the Geology building at UC Riverside ❤️❤️❤️

Seriously, why aren't we putting messages like these everywhere? I'd happily chip in some pro-NSF and pro-NIH billboards? 🧪

YouTube video by Varietopia with Paul F. Tompkins Vampire - Paul F Tompkins

Here is me singing Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” based on the top ten hit by Bram Stoker

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Hani just told me he could hear the bombings in Rafah so loud despite being 17 kilometers away 💔

I wrote about the group chat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”

The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

BBC Radio 4 - You're Dead to Me, Arctic Exploration: the fatal quest for the Northwest Passage Join Greg and his guests to learn all about the perilous history of Arctic exploration.

Final plug for my foray into #Arctic Exploration with You're Dead to Me - and also an endorsement: if the YDTM crew ever contact you to take part, say yes! I'm open about my mixed experience with "the media" & can say @gregjenner.bsky.social & team are the BEST I've ever worked with 🗃️

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

Weather and climate data shown on this website and countless others are at risk. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the U.S. agency responsible for global weather forecasting, hurricane prediction, ocean observation, and many other services vital to public safety. Its satellites, supercomputers, and research teams provide essential data that help us understand our planet and protect lives. On February 27, the new U.S. administration initiated mass firings at NOAA. These actions are unethical and deeply disruptive to the talented scientists and engineers who dedicate themselves to the public good. The firings, along with expected budget cuts, have serious implications for the availability and quality of weather forecasts produced by the United States. They must be reversed immediately. Much of the data on this website is downloaded directly from NOAA's servers. In this environment of uncertainty, access could be disrupted at any time. While I'll strive to keep all features on this website functional and switch to alternative data sources if necessary, some datasets have no substitute if they go offline. If this concerns you, speak up. Share on social media. And if you're in the U.S., contact your representatives. - Cameron

All websites that depend on NOAA data should display something like this.

earth.nullschool.net

i’m reading Steve Harvey’s dating advice book and there’s a bit where he has a meltdown whenever his wife does anything adventurous, and he frames it as his masculine drive to protect her

Boycott Amazon from March 7-14. No Whole Foods. No Prime. No audible. #resist

1/6 Fish can recognize you when you dive

This has been tested on fish in the wild off the coast of Corsica. One person fed them regularly while another did not. The fish learned to distinguish them and progressively improved.

(paper) https://buff.ly/4jY895r

It brings me great joy to love something that everyone hates, and vice versa. There is a malevolence so ancient and terrible in me.

i think i finally found my "random line(s) of text" tattoo. tyvm @jpbrammer.bsky.social

My mother is an English teacher and she once assigned her students to write poems using unhinged spam email subject lines as the first line or title. Anyway.

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the next big protest is scheduled for...TODAY at 3pm...

"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

This is Twilight Zone stuff....

Regardless of how you voted, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE voted for Elon to do this shit.

Demand action from your reps.

Text or chat PYFGHI to @Resist.bot and send it to your reps.

You don't have to talk to anyone and sending by email is free. You can do this from your blanket burrito in 2 minutes or less.

Can we please remember that very recently South Korea showed us all what we should do when the president does illegal shit

People posting like the US is already over are complying in advance.
That is all. They haven't won and if we have anything to say about it they won't win.

On the Nomination PN11-3: Douglas Burgum, of North Dakota, to … -- Senate Vote #26 -- Jan 30, 2025 Senate Vote #26 in 2025, in the United States Congress.

26 Democratic US senators cooperated with the Trump Administration again today.

This is what passes for an opposition party in this age of rising fascism.

www.govtrack.us/congress/vot...

All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive Here's all the information you might need. Official website: https://eotarchive.org/ Wikipedia:...

Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive

Let people know, download your own copies.
Don't let this digital book burn continue.

#Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI

Earthquake warning system among projects threatened by NSF funding freeze Small nonprofit that helps manage network could soon run out of money

One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles.

EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

I'm obviously worried about the evil things Trump and Elon have said they will do, but the crash reminds me to be worried of what I think of "death by jank." these people are far from being as smart as they think they are and their incompetence is going to kill people