Heather Kostick

Obsessed with the mini art prints that can be found around Philly maps.app.goo.gl/Ux6sTk58PWJD...
#art #philly #miniprints

Join us for the Climate Week at Penn keynote event on 10/17 at 12pm for "A Conversation with Bill Nye The Science Guy"! Registration and more information here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversa... #PennClimate #ClimateWeekatPenn @michaelemann.bsky.social @pennenvironment.bsky.social

I take him at his word:
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Pasta was found by an uber driver in Philly before going to ACCT before coming to us for foster through Fishtails Animal Rescue - she’s so cute & our cats are having fun with her. She’s a good kitten, but she’s going to make a great cat! #philly #cats #kittens #pasta

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

It’s early June but my garden is blooming already 👀 #gardening #climatechange

Ancient Bone Proteins May Offer Insight On Megafauna Extinction Collagen from a fossilized bone fragment can identify the animal it came from. And, some new info about our galaxy’s eventual extinction.

An extinct wombat…the size of a hippo? According to new research, you read that right. Plus, scientists have long thought that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies were on a collision course. Is it actually true? 🌌

a drawing of a pigeon holding a $20 bill in its beak. the background is a bunch of dollars. purple text says "yeah can i get a uhhhhhhhhh crumb"

a photo of a pigeon holding a $20 bill in its beak

share the money pigeon for 10,000 years good luck 💸🍀🤞

Tornadoes Reported as Central U.S. Faces Another Round of Severe Weather

Several tornadoes swept across Oklahoma and Arkansas on Monday as part of a menacing storm system that forecasters warned was capable of producing large hail, damaging winds and flash flooding in several areas.

No, global temperatures are not "rising faster than climate models seem able to explain".

They are rising EXACTLY as fast as climate model predicted.

AND THAT'S BAD ENOUGH!
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#TruthIsBadEnough

Spreading the word that for this local election in Upper Darby, PA area: this incumbent candidate is not a democrat - she’s a republican that cross-lists in the primary bc she can. Also has no formal legal education. Is a realtor by profession. Vote for #GabbyColemenforMDJ #election

Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media hosts first Research Day Showcasing the ongoing work at PCSSM, the Research Day will include research talks by a number of PCSSM staff and researchers, as well as a poster and networking session.

Coverage our event happening now from The Daily Pennsylvanian with quotes from @heatherkostick.bsky.social on what PCSSM Research Day is all about:

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A chart shows where U.S. importers will pay more under Trump's tariffs, including China, Mexico and Canada.

It will cost an extra $714 billion in tariffs to bring shoes, TVs and all other imports into the U.S. under President Trump's tariffs, a new analysis of trade data shows. nyti.ms/4j5bD4U

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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Protecting urban tree canopies is a matter of public health, biodiversity conservation, and mitigating the impacts of climate change.

Be part of protecting (and improving!) your city’s native tree canopy!

There's more happening than coincidence. This just didn't happen at this severity and scope under Biden. It's likely not a single issue deal, but a multifaceted problem that has quickly developed.

Trump has dismissed the director of the Office of Government Ethics. David Huitema, the former director, played a key role in vetting Trump administration appointees for conflicts of interest.

My linocut portrait of Katherine Johnson in a upward gradient of raspberry to purple ink (she is a Black woman in a shirt dress, with pearls, glasses and a watch, holding a pencil, facing left with her arms out on an unseen table like she was writing, looking at the viewer over her right shoulder). Behind her on the right is the Project Mercury rocket with capsule and launch trajectory in black. Beside her on right is the Earth in blue with two images of the Moon in silver above to show the trajectory for the Apollo Lunar Module.

It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918 – 2020). 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬🧮 #histsci One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex 🧵

SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...

Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14!

These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience.

Apply here!
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The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed.

A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...

Here’s something else to think about: this ad for pizza I saw outside a Centra in Ireland.
#pizza #ireland #whatishappening

That was my suspicion - that they’re pushing more conservative ads 🤢

Let’s be clear here: it’s not a “conflict” it’s an invasion of Russia into Ukraine and Ukraine is defending itself. Putin wants imperial Russia to be a thing again, that’s what this is.

It’s Caturday over here #cats #caturday

And honestly it’s so confusing - it took me a bit to figure out what was going on bc it was clearly code but not like effective code either

Did you turn off Meta’s ability to tailor ads bc you don’t want them using your data for it? are you also getting bombarded w/ conservative ads & misinformation? I’ve had my ad data turned off for a while (before Jan 20) & the increase in conservative ads makes insta unusable 🫠 #meta #instagram

More from inside NIH:

Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday.

That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.

Just missing the slightly warmer weather this week. A tree from one of my dissertation field sites in fall 2024 #trees #cemeterybiodiversity