Emily Gardner

This Is What a Vindicated Iguana Looks Like

And good for him!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/s...

"Women ruining men" sent me over the edge hahaha. Sorry about that, boys! 🤷‍♀️

Really cool audio story on our recent ditch paper by @emfurd.bsky.social. Let's all pay more attention to our ditches...

What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.

Meta PR has been challenging us to philosophical debates about the difference between its AI glasses harassment machine and an iPhone, this is my answer www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

Trump Again Names Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA After Pulling His Nomination The nomination of the billionaire entrepreneur, private astronaut and Elon Musk ally was before the floor of the Senate when the president abruptly withdrew it in June.

Déjà vu: Trump has nominated Jared Isaacman to run NASA….again. 🧪🔭

For a space drama, this saga is pretty wild. Here’s what’s happened:
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

Repeating the Curtis Rule of Media Reporting:

When they call your outlet "storied," that means something really bad is happening. www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-...

New audio story in Eos today! Ditches and moats are subbing in for witches and ghosts this Halloween. 🧙‍♀️👻

A photo taken from above the clouds shows gray clouds beneath and a pink cloud ahead. Photo by Alex Cruz.

An overhead photo of a small island in a lake, framed perfectly by a circular rainbow. PHoto by Geshuang Chen, Shuchang Dong

A photo of a column of dust and wind on the Texas Plains. The dust clouds and red surface of the plains meet in the middle in a whirl of reddish dust. Photo by Jonah Lange.

A photo of two fishermen in a small craft caught in a rainstorm. The photo is taken from above at night, and the rain streaks down on the two men, as one paddles and one bails water out of the boat. Photo by Kyaw Zay Yar Lin.

Winners of the @rmets.org Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year competition are out! Running around announcing this like Paul Revere because they are so beautiful!📣📣📣

PCs:
Alex Cruz
Geshuang Chen, Shuchang Dong
Jonah Lange
Kyaw Zay Yar Lin

Learn more: www.rmets.org/standard-cha...

EPA flush with cash for ‘priority’ staff The agency is taking an unprecedented approach to furloughs during this latest government shutdown.

The EPA is picking and choosing who gets to work during the shutdown: "virtually everyone who is working to undo marquee Biden-era regulations for air pollution, climate change and
water quality is still on the job."

This is, to put it mildly, not normal.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

2025 State of the Climate Report: Our Planet's Vital Signs are Crashing - Eos A yearly analysis of climate change’s progress and effects shows a “planet on the brink” of ecological breakdown and widespread crisis and suggests that only rapid climate mitigation able to avoid the...

A 2025 “State of the Climate” report shows Earth’s vital signs are crashing, requiring humanity to “rethink the way we live,” says @williamripple.bsky.social. eos.org/research-and...

How Trump’s ballroom will dwarf the White House Trump’s new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom would be almost as large as the rest of the complex.

I did not understand how big the ballroom is gonna be.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.

Continents

xkcd.com/3159/

god, i love the sky. every now and then you'll just be going about your day and then WHUMF whole lake gets dropped on you. fantastic stuff

"Yes, things are pretty bad right now. A frank assessment of the state of the country."

The subject line for today's @tanglenews.bsky.social newsletter 🫠

This is bad news for people who are afraid of anteaters (e.g. me).

Universities Reject Trump Funding Deal - Eos The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” developed by the Trump administration and sent to nine universities, proposes that the institutions agree to a series of criteria in exchange...

Really great explanation from @gvd.bsky.social of the funding deal Trump is offering to universities (and why, so far, none have accepted but several have refused).

eos.org/research-and...

One Redditor raved, "The bar is on the floor but I guess he's fine."

Silver and Gold On the 25th anniversary of *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay*

Happy 25th to one of my favorite novels!

michaelchabon.substack.com/p/silver-and...

We’re on Capitol Hill with 225 Earth & space scientists — including @aas.org and @planetarysociety.bsky.social — urging Congress to reopen the government and protect NASA science. 🚀🌍

Join us: buff.ly/a3YuGgY

#ScienceIsEssential #AGU

Give yourself a break - High Country News On the necessity of recharging the spirit in order to keep fighting.

A really nice ed note from @highcountrynews.org EIC Jennifer Sahn:

"If something you love is under attack, you do not bury your head in the sand. In whatever way you can, using whatever skills you have, join the chorus of people saying No, we won’t let this happen."

www.hcn.org/issues/57-10...

when they tell you publishing is slow they mean S L O W

i've been working on this for five years and we sold it six months ago but now i get to announce to the world! i'm writing a book! never say the word "talent" around me if you don't want a whole ass dissertation!!!!!

Climate Change Could Slash Global GDP 24% By 2100 - Eos Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions could cause the world’s income to fall by nearly a quarter within the century, projects a new study published in PLOS Climate.

Climate change will likely cause widespread income losses, with low-income and hotter countries faring the worst, according to new @plosclimate.org research.

eos.org/research-and...

I love the Ig Nobels.

The literature prize went to a guy who documented the growth rate of one of his fingernails over 35 years.

The nutrition prize went to researchers "studying the extent to which a certain kind of lizard chooses to eat certain kinds of pizza."

The aviation prize went to a team studying drunk bats.

Here are the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners. Ten Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded tonight, September 18, 2025, at the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Each winner has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. News reports and …

Ooh, the Ig Nobel Prizes for unusual & imaginative research are out.

The peace prize went to a team who showed "that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language."

100% true, in my experience.

improbable.com/2025/09/18/h...

Amen!!

If nothing else, we have made it through to decorative gourd season.

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Did I make a Wicked reference in this skeet? Yes I did.
Did I make a Lady Gaga reference in this headline? Yes I did.
Did I make a Jane Austen reference inside the text? Yes I did.

Click for the references, stay for the wonky planet systems! 🔭

My latest for Eos.