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savetheacademy.bsky.social @savetheacademy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚨🚨Regardless of today, Sept. 27, 2026, being the last planned day for the Academy of Natural Sciences’ public museum, this is NOT the end of the fight.🚨🚨 In the coming days and weeks we will need you more than ever. Drexel and the board thinks the pressure will let up. It will only increase.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As the executive director of a small nonprofit working my absolute ass off to bring science to this city, hearing that the people negotiating with Drexel and the academy might brush off funding that would provide the kids of our city with access to a science museum *for a year* is boiling my blood.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anybody who would decide to close this museum does not have Philadelphia’s best interests at heart.

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As more information emerges, it’s seeming like intentional financial mismanagement from Drexel. They must be held accountable.

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s been a hard week. Joe was always encouraging during my PhD and he will be missed by many.

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

These are the bees you should think of when you hear “save the bees”. Little native bee on my strawflower (not a native plant since this is in my veggie garden but I have other native plants in my yard). #bees #hymenoptera

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Very excited to start teaching in the spring!

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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

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Penn Climate @upennclimate.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I take him at his word: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Nature @nature.com · 31/07/2025

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2025

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.

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‘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.

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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? 🌌

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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.

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chuck 🐦💐 @chuckdrawsthings.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/05/2025

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.

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

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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! bsky.app/profile/mich... #TruthIsBadEnough

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/04/2025

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

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

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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 a 🧵

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.

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Corina Newsome @corinanewsome.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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!

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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 🧵

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.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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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...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 31/01/2025

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...

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

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.

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

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

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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.

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 24/01/2025

Not only that, but much of the science community here is already stronger and larger than it was on X. On Twitter, my feed of scientists who study climate-related topics topped out at 3300. Here, we’re at 4500 already and it’s still growing. Pin here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Re-upping this one:

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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/01/2025

Good analysis of why fact checking on social media matters in a world where false claims are sticky + go viral so fast. But no mention of how X + Meta have altered their algorithms to suppress expert accounts & factual info. Fact checking on those platforms isn’t a level field. It’s a steep cliff.

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Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse

Meta’s decision could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on its apps, including misleading or out-of-context claims during disasters.

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Heather Kostick @heatherkostick.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Anyone else sign up for rednote in response to the potential TikTok ban? Curious what others are up to there. A cat tax for your thoughts:

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Firefighter in California: “This is not a drill” Orange politician in Washington DC: “Drill, baby, drill”

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

"We can already see the devastating consequences of the warming we've already experienced," Mann said, "in the form of the apocalyptic wildfires currently ravaging Southern California."

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