Andrea Bair

My 6 colour linocut showing collision of Theia (here a large cratered purple sphere, only half of which remains) with the proto-Earth (swirling blue and white sphere) in a comic book Pop Art influenced style. There are zigzagging orange, yellow and white shapes like a comic book explosion at the impact site and projectiles splashing up. Theia is shown moving with wide yellow and blue stripes and the word “BANG!” In red with darkest blue outlines. The bodies are on an extremely dark blue background and in the bottom left corner is a yellow rectangle (or trapezoid) with text “4.5 Billion years ago”.

The #Spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 4 prompt is moon so I’m sharing my Theia #linocut about the formation of our moon. 🧪🐡🔭⚒️ This 6 colour hand printed linocut print illustrates the formation of the Moon in a comic book influenced pop art style. The favoured model of Moon formation 🧵

Jennifer Doudna, 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for her work on CRISPR gene editing.

“There has been a collective forgetting” of how life was before vaccines.

🧪Source: The Atlantic on IG

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks.

Joy Reid nailed it.

"Resolved: Debate is stupid"

by Aisling McCrea in The Outline from 2018

"Wow, that is correct and there is no counterargument. Debate is indeed very stupid".

theoutline.com/post/6709/de...

We Are All DC On September 6, we march to Stop the Trump Takeover. Show up at Malcolm X Park (16th St NW & W St NW) on Saturday, September 6 at 11 AM. We march at 12 PM. Allies join us!

It’s official.

September 6th.

From all across this nation.

We march in D.C.

Join us.

The calvinball reference is priceless!

MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.

This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”

gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

Just how bad will climate change get? The only way to know is to fund basic research Nature News & Comment

Predictions of global warming are uncertain, which is why we need to keep finding out how the climate system works, Tim Palmer writes in Nature. 🧪

Weird microbial partnership shows how complex life may have evolved Connecting tubes between bacteria and a kind of microbe called archaea may reflect a symbiotic relationship that led to complex cells more than 2 billion years ago

Never-before-seen tubes that seem to connect bacteria and microbes called archaea may indicate how the symbiotic relationship between such species led to the first complex cells more than 2 billion years ago @newscientist.com #science 🧪 #evolution 🦑

www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

Scientists’ role in defending democracy The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

Read this.

In this political climate, it is our duty as scientists to collectively mobilize, reveal the deceit & the malicious misrepresentation of science happening here.

This is why we have op-eds, letters of dissent, petitions & public statements.

#Pinks
🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

US plans to incinerate $9.7M in USAID contraceptives The Trump administration plans to incinerate more than $9.7 million worth of contraceptives funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that have been lying in a warehouse in Be…

Your tax dollars are going to be spent by Trump to incinerate contraceptives and other medical supplies that you paid for. Welcome to your New World.

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thehill.com/policy/healt...

A Breakthrough Beneath the Skin How a bold idea and smart federal investment created jobs, built a company, and is helping diagnose Americans in all 50 states.

Fantastic story about how NIH funding helped transform an unexpected hypothesis into a scientific breakthrough and a successful commercial biomarker assay for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and related disorders: www.ninds.nih.gov/about-ninds/75th-anniversary/cnd-life-sciences 🧪

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I developed mRNA vaccines. RFK Jr is endangering US public health Katalin Karikó says the health secretary’s decision to pull research funding for the technology is akin to ‘dropping a bomb on the US’

“They have dropped a bomb on themselves.”

-Katalin Kariko, the Nobel laureate whose work led to the development of the Covid mRNA vaccine.

The majority of the clinical trials have already moved to China.
"China has already taken over. Scientists will move."

🧪 www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Regardless of the details here, the boundless sense of entitlement these folks have—over us, the American people—is boundless.

Join our 31 Days of Action for science now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Help add to the pressure on Congress to ensure ZERO CUTS TO SCIENCE in the 2026 Budget Battle this fall.

For USians!
The Trump administration – aided and abetted by a compliant Congress – just spent seven months dismantling a world of American science it took 80 years to build.
Let’s spend the rest of this summer making it an August our US Senators and Representatives will never forget. 🧪

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.

www.propublica.org/article/grou...

We Can Save Public Radio and Television Viewers and listeners like us.

"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."

Wendy Bohon: Quelling Fears and Sparking Geoscience Joy - Eos This earthquake enthusiast and science communicator wants you to know that a “whole ecosystem” of scientific careers exists outside of academia.

Through social media, talks, and more, @drwendyrocks.bsky.social shares the joy of understanding our planet with audiences that might otherwise have never taken a second look at a rock.

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Read more in our August issue: bit.ly/Eos-Aug2025

Experts say Texas is ignoring root cause of deadly July floods: unregulated development Our analysis of FEMA flood maps in the Austin area show many homes devastated by July floods were in high-risk areas. Experts say the state must …

NEW: As #txlege weighs disaster policies, experts say they're is overlooking part of what made the July floods so devastating: unregulated development in flood-prone areas.

Our interactive map shows some impacted sites in the Austin area were directly in floodways. www.statesman.com/story/news/l...

Check out @climatecentral.org's new interactive tools for monitoring ocean heat around the world: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Using the Ocean CSI system, you can find the influence of human-caused climate change on daily sea surface temperatures and around the paths of tropical cyclones.

Hahahaha! Or autocorrect!

Why plane turbulence is really becoming more frequent and severe Flights are getting bumpier, thanks in part to climate change. But new studies are looking into innovative potential ways to turbulence-proof wings - using AI and owls

Yet another way Republicans’ science-denying greed made life worse for us and made us less free.

Today 25 people were injured on a flight from SLC bc of severe turbulence. Climate change is a major factor in worsening turbulence, making more Americans afraid to fly.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not funny, but true: All tyrants eventually fall. But after that happens, the people and institutions that bowed down to them will never regain their reputations.

Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump The administration's new AI plan gives Silicon Valley everything it wants — for a price.

New in PN: Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump

"AI companies now face a choice: Either create two sets of AI systems — one for general use, and a right-wing version for government — or just make all their systems Trump-compliant."

Fun fact: the Heritage Foundation emailed me about this piece....

Wait! FEMA has money to build concentration camps but doesn’t have money to help communities rebuild from floods, hurricanes, and wildfires?