Science has quite literally altered the trajectory of my life. It has created purpose for me in addition to saving my life as a child. I urge you on National #ScienceAppreciationDay to share how science has helped you or another. Tag ScienceSaves and use #ScienceSaves.

People understand that geoengineering doesn't get us off the hook in mitigating climate change by reducing CO2 - but policymakers condescendingly think they do: Andrews, Delton, & Kline 2022 anticipating moral hazard undermines disaster prevention.pdf dropbox.com/s/4j2hbchxvm6r…

Ludger Wess „That wan‘t real organic“ is the new „That wsn‘t real socialism“.

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty ... in apprehension how like a god!” Looking back, science extends our vision to the origin of time itself. Looking forward, science offers us our only hope that we’ll have a forward to look to.

Sick Codes has jailbroken a John Deere, and this is just the beginning. Turns out our entire food system is built on outdated, unpatched Linux and Windows CE hardware with LTE modems.

Just to be clear, Full Moons impart no more (or less) gravity or tidal forces on Earth than any other phase. The very high (and very low) tides we see during Full Moons come from the Sun’s tidal forces adding directly to the Moon’s.

Milestone unlocked: my research on the overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies is featured in this week's issue of The Economist economist.com/graphic-detail…

Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels. I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow. Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’ Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path. Strap in. It’s a 🧵 1/so many

Despite agreeing with nearly all of the Elon Twitter criticism, I can't help feeling that the biggest problem in all of this is that we are expecting a private company to hold the former President to account while the American criminal justice system continually fails to.

Docs show Facebook and Twitter closely collaborating w/ Dept of Homeland Security, FBI to police “disinfo.” Plans to expand censorship on topics like withdrawal from Afghanistan, origins of COVID, info that undermines trust in financial institutions. interc.pt/3Dq6TDB

.60 Minutes and CBS News should be embarrassed by their highlighting of doom-monger Paul Ehrlich's apocalyptic views in an interview on Sunday night. Ehrlich is as far from reputable scientific predictions as climate change denial scientists.

Das militärische Patt macht eine Verhandlungslösung ungleich schwieriger. Die Frage nach Mardern, Leoparden und anderem Gerät sind militärische Fachfragen. Die politische Vorgabe ist, alles mögliche zu tun, damit die Ukraine militärisch erfolgreich ist. #Ukraine️ #Illner

Bulgaria secretly provided up to 1/3 of Ukraine’s ammo in early days of war and up to 40% of diesel politico.eu/article/bulgar…

Deutschland unterstützt die Ukraine bei der Verteidigung gegen Russlands Aggression - humanitär, finanziell und mit Waffen. Das habe ich Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський erneut versichert und ihn informiert, dass wir eng abgestimmt mit unseren internationalen Partnern #Leopard|2 Panzer liefern.

Why do folks fear one “probable carcinogen” while ignoring another? Its the hypocrisy of the failed IARC classification system. My latest. #aspartame #glyphosate Genetic Literacy Project geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/07/18/con…

European scientists are encouraged July 2023, the EU Commission proposed new legislation to exempt some genome-edited crops from Europe’s stifling GMO directive. allianceforscience.org/blog/2023/10/c…

With chiulab stanford & Das Lab we have explored the 3D structure of SL5, a RNA element in coronaviruses. Despite vast sequence diversity, we found surprising structural conservation which may hint at functional roles for this RNA. doi.org/10.1101/2023.1…

A 5% improvement in farm yields could spare 2x as much land as getting rid of every: - city - home - mine - factory - road ...combined To feed 8 billion people and restore the biosphere, we need to embrace modern science.

We already published the same method last year, yet they didn't cite us: nature.com/articles/s4146…

We already published the same method last year, yet they didn't cite us: nature.com/articles/s4146…