Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska map.

We are heading to Sugpiaq land to load the #NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑

The research cruise will be in the traditional waters of the Unangan, Alutiiq, and Yup’ik people.

www.uaf.edu/anlc/

Cut and polished section of a permineralized ammonite. The original aragonite has been replaced by hematite, likely after pyritization. Many of the camerae are infilled with coarse grained quartz crystals and the specimen has been glued after breaking across the middle.

I guess that I am obligated to make an offering for #MolluskMonday, since I missed #FossilFriday last week. Not doing a long thread this time; this is just an ammonite my brother gifted me years ago. Diagenesis had a field day here, replacing the conch with hematite infilled with quartz. ⚒️🧪

💥 🏛️ Harvard Sues !!
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Good analysis - see thread

Impressive legal team led by William Burck & Robert Hur (see complaint below signed by 17 member legal team)

👿 🧪 NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts

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NIH Notice # NOT-OD-25-090

Overview NASA's Lucy Mission to Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids

The Lucy mission is named after Lucy the hominid fossil. Donaldjohanson is named after Donald Johanson, who co-discovered the fossil.

The fossil, in turn, is named after "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," because Johanson's team did a celebratory dance to the song. 🧪

lucy.swri.edu/mission/Over...

The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom - Nature Communications The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.

A paper in Nature Communications maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines and finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-23 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston. 🧪

(over an image of a chalkboard with chalk and an eraser) SAFE SCHOOLS FOR EVERY STUDENT A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR ACTION

The Safe Schools for Every Student campaign is about making sure school boards adopt policies that keep schools safe for all students, no matter their immigration status: indivisi.org/safe-schools

The messaging is simple, folks. @vanhollen.senate.gov has it down.

@nasawatch.bsky.social

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A Great Horned Owl launches out of a hole in a tree. Here wings are above her and one of her fluffy youngsters can be seen behind her in the tree cavity.

A Great Horned Owl leaves her increasingly cramped nest located in the hollow of a tree. #wildlife #birds #owls

landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

@protectparks.bsky.social

National Park Week - NPS Commemorations and Celebrations (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov/subjects/nps...

National Park Week - NPS Commemorations and Celebrations (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov/subjects/nps...

A breaching humpback whale propels itself from the ocean backwards with its fins towards the sky

Now streaming: Monterey Bay’s sublime symphony of whale vocalizations! 🎵🐋

Spanning more octaves than a piano, humpback whales sing powerfully into the vast ocean. These songs are beautifully complex, weaving phrases and themes into masterful compositions.

SpaceX’s Latest Starship Explosion Marks Two Consecutive Failures The new version of Starship will be tested again in four to six weeks. A third consecutive failure could indicate fundamental problems with the updated design.

The new version of Starship will be tested again in four to six weeks. A third consecutive failure could indicate fundamental problems with the updated design.

Read the Full Text of Obama's Speech in Selma The President spoke on Saturday in Selma, Ala.

It’s the 60th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at Selma, and thus the 10th anniversary of President Obama’s speech there, my favorite of all his public oratory, although it reads differently now. 🧵

time.com/3736357/bara...

WE GOT THIS!

Starts NOW - through the 14th. Don’t touch Amazon or anything Jeff Bezos owns.

President Trump says rates of pediatric cancer are way up, but his incompetent fanatics on DOGE fired my guest tonight, Dr. Lauren McGee, a remarkable pediatric cancer researcher who was sacked from NIH as part of Musk’s Valentine’s Day onslaught.

They try to silence us, hold us back, and strip away our rights, but women always fight back. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re doubling down, because when women lead, we all move forward.

From the all staff Indivisible meeting just now: 30 new local Indivisible groups have formed in March. It is March 4th. 🎉

This is the way to defend democracy bsky.app/profile/geor...

Have you seen the comments on literally every single post on Target’s official TikTok page?
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Target’s going to have to fight for its life. And they deserve it.

Caution to all corporations who think they will be better off by bending the knee to Trump at our expense. We’re watching you!

Every single Senate Democrat just voted against Linda McMahon's nomination as Education Secretary

Americans believe in public education

They don't want to see education funding slashed to give a tax break to Trump's billionaires' club

Democrats will not stop fighting for our kids’ education

📍Maryland! More MD events may still be coming. Please check the website for new listings, we will continue adding events until 12:00am: www.FiftyFifty.one.

50 Protests. 50 States. 1 Movement.

#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #ImpeachTrump #NoKings #Maryland @polrev.bsky.social

Extended Interview: Mark Graham on Internet Archive’s Work Preserving the Web as Gov’t Sites Go Dark Extended interview with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. He is also part of the End of Term Archive for federal websites.

Extended Interview: Mark Graham on Internet Archive's Work Preserving the Web as Gov't Sites Go Dark

Does Anyone Have any Data Showing Any Impact from the Economic Boycott on 2/28/25?

Was there a noticeable lessening in spending that day?

Is there any way of knowing?