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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My favorite thing is when you stop petting a dog and they put their paw on your arm like, "we're not done here."

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 08/12/2025

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/10/2025

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

When you see a headline that makes a claim that sounds absolutely bananas & cites some “study”, don’t just believe it because the headline used one science word. Look at the source. Was it even peer reviewed? Where? What are experts in the field saying about it? If it sounds ridiculous it might be.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

let the gourd times roll

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

this is a great thread about CDC protest, check it out. I appreciate the info. Also this photo, I must admit, made me a bit teary. There are so many people who took government jobs to do good, to help. I know one incredible person at the CDC & she's just ... well, shellshocked would be an upgrade.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Heartbreaking.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/07/2025

1. You can train dogs to be better citizens, but you can't train them not to be dogs. If your dog is doing something because it has a need not being met, you're gonna have to figure out how to meet that need.

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Anna Bell @annabellreads.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The National Climate Assessment sites all went dark today after the Trump administration announced in April that it would allow the main contract supporting the report to expire. With no backup plan for hosting the reports elsewhere, it appears they have just been allowed to disappear.

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Trump Administration Cuts Funding and Staff for Flagship Climate Report

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

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nasa-needs-help.bsky.social @nasa-needs-help.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Protest planned to save NASA from Trump cuts! Join us in DC Monday, June 30, from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

am i having a stroke

NEWTON Right. I mentioned that one way I use large language models is for fact-checking. I’ll write a column and put it into an L.L.M., and I’ll ask it to check it for spelling, grammatical and factual errors. Sometimes a chatbot will tell me, “You keep describing ‘President Trump,’ but as of my knowledge cutoff, Joe Biden is the president.” But then it will also find an actual factual error I missed. So I get to see the limitations of the chatbot but also the power.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 17/06/2025

Publishers don’t pay for nonfiction books to be fact-checked, the author does out of their advance.

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I spoke with Mamta Patel Nagaraja about her 24 years of working at NASA in which she trained astronauts and designed instruments that explored the moon and Venus, and how slashing funding for space research harms everyone living on Earth. defector.com/an-interview...

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An Interview With A Fired NASA Associate Chief Scientist | Defector

Mamta Patel Nagaraja grew up in a small town in West Texas, where her parents ran a motel. Nagaraja and her older sister were both fascinated by space, which felt like a portal into the unknown. “Ther...

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

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This Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science

Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the National Science Foundation

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 17/04/2025

Romaine outbreak! The people who normally inform the press about this have been fired.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 17/04/2025

The story gets you all excited about this molecule in the air of a distant planet that is believed to only be produced by living organisms, and then it ends this way:

But Joshua Krissansen-Totton, an astrobiologist at the University of Washington, said he worried that American astrobiologists may not be able to follow up on the latest results on K2-b18b.
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut NASA's science budget in half, eliminating future space telescope and other astrobiology projects. If that happens, Dr. Krissansen-Totton said,
"the search for life elsewhere would basically stop."

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Maria Varmazis @varmaz.is · 02/04/2025

I love love love this shoutout to the Mission Control team from Wilmore here in this great @sciguyspace.bsky.social piece: arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Wilmore: "Thankfully, these folks are heroes. And please print this. What do heroes look like? Well, heroes put their tank on and they run into a fiery building and pull people out of it. That's a hero. Heroes also sit in their cubicle for decades studying their systems, and knowing their systems front and back. And when there is no time to assess a situation and go and talk to people and ask, 'What do you think?' they know their system so well they come up with a plan on the fly. That is a hero. And there are several of them in Mission Control."

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

If you’ve never gotten into a bed you expect to be cold but it’s warm because a dog has been curled up on the middle of it like a donut, you’re missing a really high-end simple pleasure.

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Allison Kelly @allisonkkelly.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Delighted that this exoplanet bot is here.

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