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AFP spoke to five scientists about DoE's new "climate" report that cited their work. Read what they have to say about it: factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

REVEALED: How the Trump admin is covertly reconfiguring online algorithms For the first time, here’s a look at the administration’s playbook for reverse algorithmic capture.

NEW: I just published what is probably my most important article in while. In it, I reveal how the Trump administration is covertly manipulating social media platforms & algorithms to boost the administration’s narrative and suppress opposing lines of thought. 1/

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What prompts interest in climate change? - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication In June and July 2025, a majority of Americans experienced an extreme heatwave that pushed summer temperatures to record-breaking highs in places like New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. As…

What prompts interest in climate change? asks a NEW survey from @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social. Extreme weather is becoming the new normal, so it's no surprise that heat waves are driving more google searches from people trying to understand the connection to climate change. buff.ly/QhQD4CP

"This report reads like an undergraduate exercise in misrepresenting climate science," James Rae, climate researcher at the University of St Andrews in Scotland

Top scientists told AFP their research cited in a flagship climate report by the US Department of Energy was misused to downplay the role of human activity in global warming.

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US Energy Department Misrepresents Climate Science In New Report Top scientists told AFP Thursday their research cited in a flagship climate report by the US Department of Energy (DoE) was misused to downplay the role of human activity in global warming.

Scientists whose research was cited in a flagship climate report by the US Department of Energy told AFP their work was misrepresented to downplay the role of human activity in global warming, via @manonjacob.bsky.social. www.barrons.com/news/us-ener...

'Make America Healthy Again' report updated to remove nonexistent studies The White House downplayed questions about its flagship report on children's health, but edited the document Thursday after authors listed in the paper confirmed it cited studies that do not

In the same vein, my colleagues @marishagoldhamer.bsky.social and @billmccarthy.bsky.social also covered the "MAHA" report and its AI-riddled nonsense back in May. You can read their coverage here: shorturl.at/N88CK.

💧 I would very much welcome more input from scientists on this developing story, feel free to reach out here or by email. 🌎

US Energy Department Misrepresents Climate Science In New Report Top scientists told AFP Thursday their research cited in a flagship climate report by the US Department of Energy (DoE) was misused to downplay the role of human activity in global warming.

📚🔥 Academics are mad. My latest for AFP on the new government "climate" report and all the backlash it received from the very same researchers it claims to cite: www.barrons.com/news/us-ener...

Thanks Zeke, if you can follow back on here, I think we only follow each other on the bird app. Thanks.

@andrewdessler.com hi Andrew, I am climate disinfo reporter with AFP, could I talk to you via DM? Thanks v much.

DOE climate report response form We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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What’s a Potato? A Nine-Million-Year-Old Tomato.

An ancient hybrid of tomatoes and potato-like plants may have given rise to the modern spud, a new study suggests.

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@hausfath.bsky.social Hi Zeke, could we DM for a story I am writing? Thanks so much!

@bortingjong.bsky.social hi, I am a journalist with AFP. Could we DM for a story I am working on?

🔎 But as for animals sensing an impending earthquake days or weeks before it occurs? That's a horse of a totally different color, USGS tells us. Read our fact-check: factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Behavioral Response of Invertebrates to Experimental Simulation of Pre-Seismic Chemical Changes We exposed two invertebrates to hydrogen peroxide to mimic some of the conditions that occur before large earthquakes. Water fleas changed their position in an aquarium to avoid the hydrogen peroxide ...

📚 Now, as to what science tells us about animals' capacity to sense seismic activity, it is accurate to say other species are more in tune with Earth's activity than humans. Worms, for example, may be able to sense pre-seismic changes 🐛!
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🐾 Images used as evidence to back the Yellowstone exodus claims, show unrelated footage of animals filmed in other regions of the world, old or even AI-generated content, like this video of moutain lions taken in Chile and this fabricated image of bears across a moutain road, AFP found.

🐂 Similarly, claims about a supposed "mass animal exodus" happening at US national park Yellowstone in July, are just as baseless.

🐋 Since yesterday, a clip of beached beluga whales has gone viral on Twitter and other platforms. Some people say the animals predicted the strong quake that shook Russia and caused tsunamis across the Pacific rim, from Japan to Ecuador. But the video is old and unrelated to the quake.

🌋🌊 While we're on the topic of earthquakes and other natural disasters... Claims of animals "sensing" or "predicting" mass seismic activity have been resurfacing on social media recently and gaining a lot of traction.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.

Breaking News: The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

🏮 To sum up, that's some tough little bugs we've got here, but we can still take action to make nature more hospitable for them. Thanks for your valuable input for my story
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🏮 Crepuscular species of fireflies have also adapted remarkably well to artificial light pollution, scientists told me. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

🏮 With over 2,000 species of fireflies worldwide and present on every continent except for Antarctica, a total extinction over the course of just one generation is basically impossible.
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🏮 Researchers nonetheless raise their concerns over a decline in species diversity, including an extinction risk for Delaware's Bethany Beach firefly, due to climate stressors and the potential destruction of its habitat by the end of the century.
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🏮 Crepuscular species of fireflies have also adapted remarkably well to artificial light pollution, scientists told me. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

🏮 With over 2,000 species of fireflies worldwide and present on every continent except for Antarctica, a total extinction over the course of just one generation is basically impossible.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

🏮 Viral posts of computer-generated montages of fireflies on Tiktok in July, gathering over 30 million views, make the claim that our generation is the last one to observe the little lantern bug in nature. As always, it's more complicated than that.