stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Kudos for the artist slipping in Oxygen whose atomic number is the correct answer 021
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Can "ignoring all illegal directives from the current administration officials" work as a response to both prompts 1 and 2? 020
Reposted by @stevegaldi.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them. 444122652476
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Perhaps conservative think tanks and mega donors could lead the way by voluntarily relinquishing their voting rights as penance for their destructive track record influencing society? Part of a second reconstruction 040
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Add it to the list of disastrous moves to end US soft power already underway: blowing up global free trade, killing USAID, pulling out of WHO, cutting half of all science investment, threatening our allies' sovereignty, withdrawing from serious climate engagements... 010
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Just like any other science based problem like COVID, their answer is to ignore all evidence and destroy all data showing there is a problem 000
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025One lesson I'm starting to learn from the ongoing chaos is that US conservatives are in fact willing to accept higher prices but only in the service of a rich man's ego, not if it helps anyone else or God forbid the planet 010
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Not to say this isn't needed, but some of the reasons are that tenure committees typically don't value non academic outreach, and scientists that are vocal publicly tend to get a lot of negative attention from guess who. So it's seen as high risk and little reward to your career. 120
Reposted by @stevegaldi.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before. 18295325013426
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Was not expecting to see something like this from NPR, but I guess terror and intimidation are the new normal for working in government. I guess it makes morbid sense that the party that wants us to fear the government so they can shrink it are actively making it scarier to all. 000
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025If anyone was wondering why universities are often targets of people consolidating power, see their historical track record of keeping critical thinking alive in times of oppression. If only we had such bold leadership in the current rise of authoritarianism: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...nytimes.comOpinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They DareIt’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works. 011
Reposted by @stevegaldi.bsky.socialDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025You're welcome. And yes, kid 3rd from the front in the red shirt that is too into it? That is exactly how I lived my marching band life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSgj...youtube.comGeorge Mason University...Killing In The NameYouTube video by jfrela 41638154
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Imagine a 2% wealth tax that increases the stability of the middle class, upgrades infrastructure, and underwrites a new generation of high tech manufacturing facilities. Or if the wealthy investors refuse you could tax trade, which will only cost investors *checks news* ~9% and counting. 000
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I feel like it's a slightly bigger priority for Congress to check if they even have the power to fund studies at the moment. Once they get a grip on the nation's purse strings again then we can talk about what to do with that constitutional authority. 000
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025With names being rebranded and reinvented at the speed of skeets, this article points out the distraction tactic of vilifying DEI. Those in power have done this for decades to other causes to move the conversation away from their role in the unjust systems we live under. slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comTrump’s DEI Crackdown Is a Smokescreen for Something Much More SinisterIt’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else. 011
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"In conclusion, we know how to make a lot of things safer, more resilient, and prettier. But doing that would mean the rich can't have yachts or private doomsday bunkers, which is bad for the economy or something... Any questions?" 030
Reposted by @stevegaldi.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Your April Fools' Day reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it. 218119582592
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025My grandfather's family fled Mussolini's rise to America. Would be a shame if they only secured 2 generations of freedom and opportunity for the trouble 010
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Perhaps they could get some letters from psychologists explaining the emotional trauma of the new administration's workforce in having to see messages either not about them or presenting a point of view they disagree with? I'm assuming that's the root cause. 000
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Sounds like one of their strategy consultants played a little too much Fallout the week before a big pitch meeting 030
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025This whole administration is an exercise in obviously illegal, but will anyone be able to make it stick. Last time there was at least a veneer of propriety from the executive. This time it seems like being technically legal is a plus not a requirement 010
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025When national disasters pile up and our economy is less competitive than it's been in decades, I want a straight line drawn to the short sighted and vindictive cuts to federal personnel and services. While there is plenty to improve in the public sector, nuance is a requirement not a luxury. 030
Reposted by @stevegaldi.bsky.socialDr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I’m seeing an awful lot of posts from people on Bluesky responding to despairing scientists with the words “please keep going, the world needs you”. Scientists cannot keep going if we can’t keep a roof over our heads and our mouths fed. 151194216
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025It's not really surprising for a newly elected administration full of proverbial foxes to immediately move to remove all fences and ban guard dogs from hen houses 010
Reposted by @stevegaldi.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws. 1119502888239
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025There is definitely some irony in being honest about having no ethics, though that is little solace in the face of a crumbling government bowing to the pressure of reckless hate and short sightedness 010
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Back of the envelope assuming an average 4 yr sentence (quick Google) that's ~300 people a year diverted from prison with UBI at net savings of ~$32M/yr ($14M/yr for them and everyone else released in UBI - $46.5M to incarcerate those 310 people per year). No brainier for the 3 years after release 000
stevegaldi.bsky.social @stevegaldi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I know the jobs are much more human, but even the oligarchs are going to be mad at this because it for sure will hit the stock market too if those grants are not disbursed. Capital planning for a lot of energy companies was built on that money 000
Reposted by @stevegaldi.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This is insane. There are lots of scientists in the US who are on “soft money”, which means that without government grants, they’re out of jobs. This is how you destroy the best research and development in the world. 30804197
Reposted by @stevegaldi.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Even though it could use some sustainable urbanists fighting to reduce GHGs through better city-building (like those in the pack @katharinehayhoe.com & I co-curated), this is still a GREAT pack, & you should follow the folks in it! #UrbanistShoutOut @costasamaras.com go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ 108525
