Howard Lee

The Trouble Covering Tehran As U.S. and Israeli forces launch deadly strikes on Iran, the inherent challenges of covering the country are exacerbated by recent newsroom cuts, social media distortion, and a White House prone to t...

“In January, WashPost reporter Yeganeh Torbati, who had been covering Iran, appealed to Jeff Bezos on social media, noting she had spent months covering developments inside the country and wanted to continue the work.

“The appeals to Bezos went unheeded.”

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Greenland Dust Delivers Nutrients to Ice-Melting Algae - Eos Researchers scrutinized aerosols above and within the ice sheet, finding phosphorus and other mineral particles.

Aerosols carry significant amounts of phosphorus that can fuel massive algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet, according to new research, underscoring the importance of tracking dust emissions to understand how the ice sheet will change.

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Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any li...

Story time:
The CDC (Kennedy) gave $1.6m to fund an unethical Hep B trial in Guinea-Bissau. WHO/scientists denounced it.

Enter @standupforscience.bsky.social. They briefed congress on this study. It is now cancelled.

Science activism is essential right now.
🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

A superposition

Obsequious excrescence

Here in Massachusetts we're still drenched in white and headed to -14C tonight...

Thick feather moss on a rock. Slender sporophytes reach upward from the moss. In the backround are trees and a leafy forest floor.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi! Happy St David's Day in the Wye Valley (Dyffryn Gwy).

Everything is drenched in green, moss smothering every stone. And from the moss, sporophytes burst out to welcome Spring.

More North Korean Style Posters in DC.
This time it's Charlie Kirk on the Department of Education.

6 DAYS TILL SUFS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE RALLY! standupforscience.net/march7

In just 6 days, the Take Back our Science Rally hits the streets in Washington DC and all across the country! Join at local rally, or start your own pop-up rally! Details at standupforscience.net/march7
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#March7
#standupforscience
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Trump Is Attacking Climate Science. Scientists Are Fighting Back. It’s easy, looking at the past year, to see the damage the administration has done. But researchers are also stepping up, trying to fill the gaps.

One year in the federal assault on climate science — a review and prospective

I appreciate Senator Murphy including the action item here - he's not just criticizing something, he's saying what he'll do about it with his power as Senator.

His colleagues should take note.

A dual left/right stereoscopic pair of black and white photographies capturing the Mars rover Curiosity instrumented turret standing above a thin, triangle-shaped rock. This dual image is intended to be used to obtain a Stereo3D rendition of the scene through parallel viewing, and not cross-eyed viewing.

Stereo3D view captured yesterday by Curiosity

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.

#Mars Feb. 28, 2026 - Sol 4822
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

The Great Ocean Sync: How Melting Arctic Ice Links the World’s Most Powerful Currents This blog post and the “Deep Dive” podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on “Evolving synchronization of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension in a changing climate” by Joh et al. (202…

Have you noticed synchronized SST anomalies between the Pacific and Atlantic in global maps? It’s not a coincidence. According to a new study in Science Advances by Joh et al. (2026), this "oceanic handshake" is directly linked to the retreat of Arctic sea ice. 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/03/01/t...

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The Basij headquarters in Azadi Street in Tehran has also been hit. This was the centre used for launching attacks on citizens during the protests.

She is actually the best. Imagine if Musk, Bezos, or Zuck had even 10% of this woman’s creative generosity

'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair." n.pr/3N9Foa8

The Washington Post sacked all of its Middle East correspondents a couple of weeks ago. Useful.

Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei, his likely successor, has also been killed. (Kan)

People already out in Tehran celebrating Khamenei’s death.

I thought it was a pencil drawing

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

M5.3 earthquake shakes Kolkata and Dhaka "Like all of the world is shaking and the sky will fall on the earth."

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A M5.3 earthquake struck western Bangladesh earlier today. The USGS estimates that more than 150 million people in this densely populated delta experienced at least intensity IV shaking. What do we know about this earthquake, and the geology that caused it?

of course the goal of the administration is to destroy academia broadly esp the top schools that have international reps and can powerfully act as counterweights against oligarchy

NEW: Russian forces have likely begun artillery and drone preparation of the battlefield for the anticipated Russian Spring-Summer 2026 offensive against Ukraine’s Fortress Belt in Donetsk Oblast. 🧵(1/6)

Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar022726

It was 104 degrees in parts of Texas today. That's the post. It's February

Voting rights groups sue Georgia for refusing to release voter purge records Without full access to the records, plaintiffs say they cannot determine whether eligible voters were wrongly removed.

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office’s sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state’s voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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A sight for sore backs- a robotic snow thrower! If only...
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Screenshot of an X post by Eric Boehm reading, “Spoiler alert: He stopped,” quote-tweeting Republicans Against Trump, which shares a 2016 clip of Marco Rubio saying he would never stop trying to prevent a “con man” from taking over the Republican Party and conservative movement. The embedded image shows Rubio speaking at a campaign event holding a microphone.

Not letting you forget this promise, Little Marco.