Linda Terrill

Swamp to vacuum.

Do humans need other #species? Yes! millions of organisms are needed to keep #ecosystems in balance and ensure everyone can survive. Most importantly, #research shows other species make us happy! 🐱🐷🐎🐕🐠 #Vegan for the animals 🍅🥦 #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2022/11/23/d...

Don’t let the arrest of a Federal Judge distract you from the announcement that ICE can enter anyone’s home without a warrant to look for migrants.

Oooo - that looks like a one I saw from a while back. I’ll have to dig it out.

This is going to be important:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

YouTube video by Rep. John Larson Larson Demands Answers from Musk-Trump and House Republicans on Social Security

youtu.be/0MJDxvPL-EI

Science. Still here and making our lives better!

Clueless in D. C.

More than absurd.

DOGE targets child support database full of income data The U.S. DOGE Service’s attempt to access a federal database with sensitive information has provoked yet another internal disagreement.

“This is private, confidential data including Social Security numbers and earnings of virtually all people in the country...”

"Federal law restricts access 'to authorized persons and... authorized purposes' such as child support enforcement..."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

How scientists can drive climate action: celebrate nature and promote hope Nature - After years of storytelling and running classes and festivals, I’ve seen first-hand how a love of nature makes people want to protect it.

Science is necessary, but clearly not sufficient, for conveying the climate crisis

https://go.nature.com/3XjoJCU

Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks Nature - Imaging study reveals how fungal networks are constructed.

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots

https://go.nature.com/3QLda3z

Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

Exclusive: The U.S. Department of Defense is gutting a landmark project designed to fund social science research with important implications for national security. scim.ag/41qhiuO

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

Rage is all the rage. I’m with ya’.

US health agency seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers The mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention follows an executive order from president Donald Trump, and applies to research not yet published.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has mandated that all scientific manuscripts produced by its researchers that are under review at a journal be withdrawn so that certain language relating to gender can be stripped from them.
https://go.nature.com/40YJGp4