Alan MacEachren

‘Growing Impact’: Strengthening public response to air-quality warnings | Penn State University In the latest episode of "Growing Impact," a research team at Penn State is exploring how people in the Northeast receive, interpret and trust air-quality alerts to identify ways to make smoke-related...

Do air quality alerts work? Penn State researchers podcast provides insights! www.psu.edu/news/researc... #environment #riskcommunication #wildfire #airpollution #geography

This composite of three photos shows a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker on the left side of a suet feeder in all three images. The left image has a Downy Woodkpecker on the right of the feeder, the middle image has a (larger) Hairy Woodpecker on the right, and the right image has a Norther Flicker on the right.

Had a very accommodating Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at the suet feeder yesterday on the coldest morning of the fall/winter thus far ... sharing with three "friends" -- Downy Woodpecker, then Hairy Woodpecker, then Northern Flicker. #birds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #birdwatching

A great story about some innovative GeoAI research by a stellar international team: www.ems.psu.edu/alumni/stay-...

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

Have you heard about this?

"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."

h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com

Donnie dipshit between the announcers in the Fox booth on November 9, record 40th day of the GOP shutdown

Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.

Because of Republicans' health care cuts, families will be forced to the brink of bankruptcy from one bad medical diagnosis.

That's what this shutdown fight is about.

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress own this government shutdown.

Under Donald Trump, 688 prescription drugs have gotten MORE EXPENSIVE.

And last night, he shut down the government to avoid lowering Americans’ health care costs.

Donald Trump is making your life more expensive.

Sarah Simeonoff at CU Boulder provided a wonderful review of this book for the AAG Review of Books journal. Available online now, and publishing in the next issue (insider tip: the editor selected it for open access)

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

This is exactly right. Vaccination is a national security issue and with every anti-vaccine step RFK Jr. takes, the United States is rendered more vulnerable to bioterrorism.

On his decision to end $500M worth of research on mRNA vaccines, RFK Jr. said:

“The the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu”.

These vaccines saved 3.2M lives in the U.S.

He is running a disinformation op against Americans.

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life

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Netanyahu's government has created an epic disaster in Gaza. 6,000 food trucks are lined up at the border, children are starving, and still Netanyahu blocks help.

History will remember this moment.

New: I spoke with Bill Siemering, who co-founded NPR a half-century ago, on what might be lost if public radio gets defunded
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/b...

Collateral Damage in Federal Work Force Cuts: Summer Interns

At the very beginning of their professional lives, some young people have had their summer internships derailed by the Department of Government Efficiency.

Ahem. @aoc.bsky.social was an Intel Science Fair National Prize Winner. She studied the influence of antioxidants on aging in C. Elegans.

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Warren slams Trump policy restarting interest on millions of student-loan borrowers Borrowers enrolled in the SAVE repayment plan are set to see their balances start growing again in August

With costs already out of control, the Trump Administration is choosing to restart interest charges for 8 MILLION student loan borrowers.

I'm pushing Secretary McMahon to stop throwing working people under the bus and reverse course immediately.

Federal judge reverses rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports A federal judge in Texas removed a Biden-era finalized ruled by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed medical debt from credit reports.U.S.

Democrats worked to remove medical debt from credit reports — because getting cancer or going to the ER doesn’t make you financially irresponsible.

A Trump judge just threw out our rule, hurting millions who have debt just from getting sick. apnews.com/article/cfpb...

In one fell-swoop, TACO turned DOJ into his personal law firm.

It’s job now is to defend him personally, and go after his enemies.

How on earth can ANYONE be shocked that DOJ is coving for him in the Epstein thing?

That is precisely why he picked a spineless sycophant to be AG!

Investigation reveals two cases of voter fraud in Laramie County CHEYENNE — Out of 24 individuals flagged by the Laramie County Clerk’s Office for potential voting violations, two were found to have voted illegally last year, according to the Laramie

One thing that's misunderstood is that voter lists are known, so it is easy to investigate claims of non-citizen voting. Laramie County in Wyoming just did that, and found 0 cases of non-citizen voting and 2 cases of people with felonies voting, out of 35,000.

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Carlos Santana passes Earl Averill for sole possession of fifth in franchise history in HR with a two-run laser beam to left-center.

109.3 mph. 4-2 Guardians.

Yesterday, July 8th, House Democrats held a science fair of canceled grants in D.C., to call attention to research projects that the Trump administration has defunded. Hear from AAG Member & professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Julie Cidell, on her defunded research with the EPA.

I’m the tall woman gesticulating expansively at her tall poster about her team’s no-longer-funded-by-the-EPA research on freight vehicle electrification, air quality, and human health.

U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.

RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines is hurting America's kids.

Donald Trump just signed a bill into law that'll kick 17 million people off their health care and make it harder for families to put food on the table.

Republicans sold you out so billionaires can get even richer.

We won't let them forget.

Update: The Environmental Protection Agency placed 139 employees on administrative leave today and launched an investigation into their signing of an open letter criticizing agency leadership.

See our initial reporting. ⬇️

Skilled scientists at these government agencies are quietly being let go, union reps say Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged that scientists are not part of his workforce reduction efforts. But many scientists recruited for their expertise at the nation’s...

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RFK Jr. says “working scientists” aren’t part of his staff cuts. That’s a lie. Scientists are quietly being forced out of CDC and NIH through Title 42 contract lapses - with no public announcement and no plan to replace them. 🧵

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’ Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shuttered

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USA hurricane forecasting capabilities diminished because cuts to an important data source stream.

I guess we will see how it goes this summer.

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Imagine North Carolina having a more pro human rights senator than Pennsylvania??? 😭