Chris Cappa

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.

This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

Most western European countries spend 2-3% of GDP on research. Germany 3.18%. The CA GDP is $4.1 TRILLION, right behind Germany. Just imagine...

Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...

CA needs to create a new research funding infrastructure that is independent of the feds. Total non-patient federal research funding to the UC is $5.7B, only 1.76% of the state budget. This is doable. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...

Just rode by the Blue Diamond Almond factory and smells like they are making a bluebberry batch today

When I see things like this it makes me wonder whether the 1918 pandemic was responsible for so much of the bad stuff that followed in the next three decades.

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

Wow. The Trump regime is taking #Climate Denial to a whole new level. This is truly what @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social labelled "End Times fascism."
#ClimateSky 🔌💡

What the F are we doing, people????

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
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LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'

WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING

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Sniffing ozone, 1910.⠀⠀
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One of the many bizarre photos in High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) by champion of electro-therapeutics Samuel Howard Monell, who did “more for static electricity than any other living man”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...

RealClimate: The Endangerment of the Endangerment Finding? RealClimate: The EPA, along with the "Climate Working Group" (CWG) of usual suspects (plus Judith Curry and Ross McKitrick) at DOE, have just put out a document for public comment their attempt to res...

AI in the DOE report? This ref (p29) is fake:

Lee, S., Byrne, M. P., Loikith, P. C., & O’Dell, C. W. (2024). Zonal contrasts of the tropical Pacific climate predicted by a global constraint. Climate Dynamics, 62(1–2), 229–246. doi:10.1007/s00382-023-06741-7

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Air-Borne - 99% Invisible This week, a conversation with Carl Zimmer about his new book Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. Air-Borne is an epidemiological history of how we think about the air and its relati...

I'm a big fan of the @99pi.org podcast, so I'm thrilled to be on this week's episode talking about AIR-BORNE with @romanmars.bsky.social We discuss air as infrastructure. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/637-...

This is absolutely extortion. And when viewed on top of the "investigation" into the George Mason Faculty Senate for supporting their president it's clear that higher ed is on a precipice. If Harvard capitulates, things are going to go down hill fast.

Remember more than 80% of US federal career employees work outside of the Washington DC area. EPA is shutting down its scientific research division, which helps keep our air & water safe. It’s overwhelmingly staffed in Cincinnati, Ohio, with ~1000 employees there. The OH & KY Senators don’t care?

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

The science office “is the heart and brain of the E.P.A.,” said Justin Chen, president of A.F.G.E. Council 238. “Without it, we don’t have the means to assess impacts upon human health and the environment. Its destruction will devastate public health in our country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.

This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

Come to Toronto and be my colleague!

/11 If you are a friend or colleague of Caravello, it’s likely that his first appearance will be before the Criminal Duty magistrate on Monday at 11:30. Not on the calendar yet.

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I follow you because I heard you on On The Media from WNYC. Not live though. Podcast.

College me says “never again”

A friend (from Queens) recently got a hot Bourbon (68%). We made Manhattan’s that we dubbed “Big Apple’s.” I recommend. But only one.

Romeo & Juliet (you know the one)

Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪

How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Joel Thornton named interim dean of the College of the Environment University of Washington Provost Tricia R. Serio announced that Joel Thornton has agreed to serve as interim dean of the College of the Environment, effective July 1, until a new permanent dean is...

Welcome to Joel Thornton, who will serve as interim dean of the UW College of the Environment.

Thornton is an @uwatmossci.bsky.social atmospheric chemist who studies the impacts of human activities on air quality and climate. #UWEnvironment

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You've probably been hearing a lot about budget bills, environmental reviews, and labor fights out here on the West Coast. It's all adding up to probably the biggest policy change in modern California history. Here's a breakdown for the perplexed.

We now have a concentration camp in Florida.

Stop pretending any of this is normal.

If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.

Be human.

It's hard to fathom how bad this is. Absolutely sickening to see the decimation of science infrastructure. If this goes through the US will be set back decades.