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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · 1d

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End of the Joides Resolution
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Dismantling the Ship That Drilled for the Ocean’s Deepest Secrets (Published 2024)

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · 22d

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Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee. Plus, Librarians Under Siege | On the Media | WNYC Studios

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show has been pulled off the air following his comments about Charlie Kirk’s killer. On this week’s On the Media, how threats to free speech have escalated i...

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · 22d

In a broadcast from Oct 2019, Free Speech Absolutism discussed by @onthemedia.bsky.social @brookegladstone.bsky.social with Andrew Marantz on JohnStuart Mill, Richard Rorty and guests @profjohnapowell, P.E. Moskowitz, @susanbenesch.bsky.social
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Highly recommended.

Sticks and Stones | On the Media | WNYC Studios

A look back at our country's radical and inconsistent free speech tradition. 

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 22d

20 September 1820: Cambridge geologist Adam Sedgwick visits Lyme Regis, noting in his journal: 'After breakfast purchase fossils of Miss Anning'. This is the earliest known reference to Mary Anning junior now taking the lead in the family fossil business run by her mother (who was also Mary Anning).

Portrait of Mary Anning wearing a green cloak and a straw bonnet tied with a red ribbon. She holds a hammer and has a basket over her arm.

Portrait of Adam Sedgwick in a dark coat and academic gown.

Extract from Sedgwick's journal: '20. [September] After breakfast purchase fossils of Miss Anning - walk to the Charmouth Cliffs'

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 22d

Russian MiG jets stayed in Estonian airspace for over 20 minutes without flight plans, with transponders off, and made no contact with air traffic control, according to Estonia’s Ministry of Defence.

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking forward to more and deeper reporting from the raid on the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions battery factory in Ellabel, GA, and related situations.
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Immigration Raid Exposes Tensions From Seoul to Washington to Rural Georgia

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Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · Sep 2

🌋 On Aug 27, 1883, Krakatoa erupted with cataclysmic force. The blast was heard 3,000+ miles away, unleashed tsunamis over 30m high, and darkened skies worldwide. Global temperatures dropped, and vivid sunsets inspired artists for years. #OTD #Krakatoa #VolcanoHistory

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Gift 🎁 article #WarOnScience
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...

Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Sep 1

War on Science
www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

RFK, Jr., Demanded a Vaccine Study Be Retracted—The Journal Said No

In a rare move for a U.S. public official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted...

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Aug 22

Re: Constitutional crisis
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Opinion | One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Perspective on Covid-19

Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · Aug 20

The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.

It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”

Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)

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Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · Aug 18

On Aug 17, 1959, a Mw 7.2 #earthquake struck near Hebgen Lake, Montana, just west of Yellowstone. Fault scarps up to 6.1 meters offset, shaking lasted 30 - 40 s, and seiches surged across Hebgen Lake for 12 h. Aftershocks up to Mw 6.3 followed. (1/3) 🧪⚒ #geology

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USGS earthquake intensity map of the Aug 17, 1959 Yellowstone earthquake. Intensity up to IX.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 17

Things you might not know about chronic, low-level lead exposure and heart disease, including the lead-estrogen hypothesis
"In 2019, a total of 5.5 million deaths from cardiovascular disease were attributed to lead exposure"
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Chronic Lead Exposure, a Risk Factor for Heart Disease

Plus: My Recommendations for Reducing Risk of Heart Disease

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Aug 8

Social networks and super-agers
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The One Quality Most ‘Super-Agers’ Share

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · Aug 6

Carbon emissions are good, mRNA vaccines are bad. How to be wrong about everything.

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.

hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · Aug 4

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Aug 2

I tangled wasps two weeks ago but not these 8vo
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‘Hot Wasps’ Found at Nuclear Facility in South Carolina

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Jul 29

What a graph

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Jul 28

Tom Lehrer passes away.
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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · Jul 24

Ha-Joon Chang on the neglect of climate and the environment in today's economics degree @financialtimes.com
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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Jul 20

Coastal Geology and people.
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An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America’s Beaches. Here’s How.

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Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Jul 19

Senate Appropriations Committee recommendations on FY 2026 Science agency budgets

Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · Jul 17

Bill passes 19-10 and is off to the full Senate for consideration. The bill currently keeps NSF's budget flat at $9 billion.

Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · Jul 17

Senate Appropriations Committee is resuming consideration of the bill that contains the FY 2026 budgets for agencies like NASA, NOAA and NSF. Watch the markup here: www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

@nature.com has a good summary of what's happened so far: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Allen J. Dennis @ad3nnis.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Leah Berman Williams @leahwrenn.bsky.social · Jul 19

“This year the NSF has awarded only $32 million, representing a 72 percent reduction. By this metric, mathematics is one of the most deeply affected subjects, second only to physics, which has seen an 85 percent reduction.“

Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · Jul 19

🥲 The cost to future society will be much more than the dollars they think they’re saving #mathsky www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...

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Madison Swart @madisonswart.bsky.social · Jul 17

She walked out of her immigration hearing smiling — papers in hand, standing tall. She had no idea the man waiting in the hallway was ICE. No idea she was about to be detained.

This is happening inside NYC’s immigration courts. Every day. #ICE

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