Genuine rewrite the textbooks discovery! 🧪🦑
The same team led last year's discovery of even deeper chemosynthetic animal communities. And they are in a crewed submersible, so they actually SAW THE WHALE GRAVEYARD!!! Can't wait for them to keep exploring!
Jo Wolfe, PhD
Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard.
The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.
@elizabethginexi.bsky.social explains how the OMB proposed rule changes will affect States, cities, not just destroy science.
"... in FY2024 the federal government sent $1.1 trillion in grants to state and local governments. ". ie. Medicaid, Transportation, Education.
Also how to fight back.
The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪
We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF
My in-person take on today's State of the Science and how to avert a path towards American mediocrity in a diminished vision of what is possible shared by the President & panelists.
If ever there was a time for scientists to step into our power, it is now!
đź“ŤTODAY: Join us for the national launch of #ScienceRising and learn how to get involved.
Register here: act.ucsusa.org/49oOEPN
Breaking: Judge Jackson blocks NSF from dismantling NCAR. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...
On the National Academy of Sciences Presidential address & panel on 'The State of Science' - both what was said and the many things that were left unsaid.
So I started watching Lord of the Rings again. Its been a long time. Then the Pope quotes Gandaulf in his AI encyclical. And I learn how the techbros (see Thiel, Palantir etc) are appropriating LOTR. What alternative world am I living in?
Back to the Two Towers....
