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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is insane.

By Maxine Joselow
Reporting by Washington Post
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Sadly, the Trump admin is trying to undo this exact monument. I spoke with @sierramagazine.bsky.social's @keakrause.bsky.social about why defending it is crucial. On a happier note: how wild is it we share a planet with the largest animal to ever exist? 2/2 www.sierraclub.org/sierra/monum...

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This Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public Lands

Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument could be opened up to commercial fishing

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/02/2026

Housing👏policy👏is👏climate👏policy!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2026

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

There is a tiny island off the coast of Vieques, off the coast of Puerto Rico, with a power-house fisherman's association. This was my favorite story to write all year and I hope you will read and get inspired! My latest for @reasonstobecheerful.world: reasonstobecheerful.world/tiny-island-...

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Tiny Island, Big Dreams

A fishing cooperative on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra is redefining conservation and 'making good things happen.'

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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Remembering this 2022 study that found that universal health care in the US could have saved 330,000 lives in the early days of covid. It could also have saved us $105 billion -- ON TOP of the annual $438 billion we could save in non-pandemic years. www.scientificamerican.com/article/univ...

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Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID

The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says

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nsfw neru | Comms Open @neruatnight.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now. If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Spent the summer in the woods writing this feature for @bowdoincollege.bsky.social Magazine about some of Maine’s oldest trees and how to care for a forest over time. Just your neighborhood ocean gal lost in the trees: www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/11...

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Letting in the Light

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Took a break from my fisheries beat to write about mycoremediation and specifically fungi that are first responders to wild fire burn areas. My latest for @reasonstobecheerful.world: reasonstobecheerful.world/fungi-first-...

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Fungi Are Becoming Invaluable First Responders in Eco-Crises

When environmental disasters occur, live fungi are helping to quickly clean up everything from oil spills to toxic runoff.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

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Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

"There are only seven full-time book critics left in the United States...The rest of us are freelancers—and according to the Freelance Solidarity Project, nearly one-third of freelance book critics make less than the federal minimum wage for their reviews." worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

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Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan

What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I’m thrilled to be teaching a workshop this fall over at Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance! Things are bad bad bad right now, I know, but perhaps a slow down and some time spent marveling and writing about the natural world with me is a good antidote: www.mainewriters.org/calendar/bra...

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Generating the Braided Nature Essay — Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance

A 5-Week Nonfiction Workshop

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

It seems so simple but getting locally caught fish into school lunch rooms direct from the fishers both nourishes children and helps to fix local supply chains. My latest for @reasonstobecheerful.world: reasonstobecheerful.world/sea-to-schoo...

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How Fresh Fish From Monterey Bay Reaches School Lunch Trays

With Sea-to-School programs, the cafeteria is an extension of the classroom, where kids can learn to love sustainable local seafood.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

ICYMI: I wrote about birth control, plants and women's traditional medicine for @orionmagazine.bsky.social. Come for the crazy world of birth control over the past 5,000 years and stay for my simmering rage! orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

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The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine

Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 27/07/2025

This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Earlier this year I traveled to Australia to report on a unique, localized geoengineering effort: Scientists are investigating whether they can help save the Great Barrier Reef by changing the weather, generating fog and brightening clouds @nytimes.com Magazine 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/m...

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The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

For @orionmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about plants and birth control, and what we can learn from plants *about* birth control: orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

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The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine

Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

For @orionmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about plants and birth control, and what we can learn from plants *about* birth control: orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

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The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine

Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Service Journalism - News you can use. The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Once upon a time, I wrote a piece for @orionmagazine.bsky.social about seed saving and the end of the world, a feeling which I once hoped would be a passing phase:

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Can't not wait to get this book in my hot little hands!!

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

A map of the US with the states the republican senators are from marked in red and states the democratic senators are from marked in blue:
Senator Susan Collins (Republican - Maine)
Senator Mitch McConnell(Republican - Kentucky)
Senator Lisa Murkowski(Republican - Alaska)
Senator Lindsey Graham(Republican - South Carolina)
Senator Jerry Moran(Republican - Kansas)
Senator John Hoeven(Republican - North Dakota)
Senator John Boozman(Republican - Arkansas)
Senator Shelley Moore Capito(Republican - West Virginia)
Senator John Kennedy(Republican - Louisiana)
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith(Republican - Mississippi)
Senator Bill Hagerty(Republican - Tennessee)
Senator Katie Britt(Republican - Alabama)
Senator Markwayne Mullin(Republican - Oklahoma)
Senator Deb Fischer(Republican - Nebraska)
Senator Mike Rounds(Republican - South Dakota)
Patty Murray(Democrat - Washington)
Richard Durbin(Democrat - Illinois)
Jack Reed(Democrat - Rhode Island)
Jeanne Shaheen(Democrat - New Hampshire)
Jeff Merkley(Democrat - Oregon)
Christopher Coons(Democrat - Delaware)
Brian Schatz(Democrat - Hawaii)
Tammy Baldwin(Democrat - Wisconsin)
Chris Murphy(Democrat - Connecticut)
Chris Van Hollen(Democrat - Maryland)
Martin Heinrich(Democrat - New Mexico)
Gary Peters(Democrat - Michigan)
Kirsten Gillibrand(Democrat - New York)
Jon Ossoff(Democrat - Georgia)

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Future-Stealers. Every last one of them.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

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Jason Dove Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is basically the meteorologist’s version of Cronkite telling the nation that the US was cooked in Vietnam. Give it a watch.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Chilling final paragraph and editor’s note.

We know that tech corporations, fossil fuel companies, and governments bear the most responsibility for the accelerating climate crisis — not individuals. But you can choose to opt out of the Al hype.

Editor's note: In August 2024, Condé Nast, Teen Vogue's parent company, announced "a multi-year partnership with OpenAl to expand the reach of Condé Nast's content."

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This is wild and wonderful and humbling and all the things

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

My new thing is run-on sentences. Why the heck not?!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/05/2025

New in PN: Maine fought the law, and Maine won "After weeks of public fulminating, the administration quietly folded and quit trying to steal kids’ lunch money for the grievous sin of letting a couple of trans girls play sports. It’s a reminder that Trump, like any bully, can be fought and beaten."

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Maine fought the law, and Maine won

The Trump administration can't defend the indefensible.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Declaring emergencies to circumvent legal protections, in this case to justify logging national forests. "The memo has the effect of declaring nearly 60% of all national forestlands to be in a state of emergency, thereby lifting the usual requirements for public comment and environmental review..."

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

very nice of the @nytimes.com to republish my National Geographic story from 2 years ago under a different byline www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

headline from 2025 NY Times story: "Invasive crabs have taken over New England. One Solution? Eat them." My story, published in National Geographic in 2022, had the headline "Invasive green crabs: If you can't beat them, eat them."

My story, published in National Geographic in 2022, about eating invasive green crabs to handle their abundance in New England and Maine.

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Kea Krause @keakrause.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

For Seattle Met, I wrote about Cascadia 9.0, a video game being developed to help players learn how to survive in the aftermath of The Big One. This video game, quite literally, could save your life:

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Can a Video Game Actually Prepare Us for the Big One?

'Cascadia 9.0': The video game teaching Seattle and the Pacific Northwest basic emergency preparedness one level at a time.

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