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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · May 13

They’re just trying the hasten the end times, right?

Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · May 12

Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down!

www.404media.co/republicans-...

Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill

Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.

www.404media.co

Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · May 12

Honest question - is calling red state senators doing anything at all?

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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · May 12

Nektonic’s “After the Reef” lays it bare: coral scientists are sounding the alarm on climate change. Governments are not acting fast enough if at all. The clock is ticking. If you want reefs to survive, here’s where your time, money, and voice must go.
#OceanOptimism #ClimateAction

Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · May 12

#coral #coralreef #climate #science
open.substack.com/pub/nektonic...

After the Reef

Imagining a world without reefs

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · May 12

#coral #coralreef #climate #science
open.substack.com/pub/nektonic...

After the Reef

Imagining a world without reefs

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Apr 11

Asking that question like...

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Apr 11

Deepthroat the boot.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 1

It’s so crazy that climate deniers think humans don’t cause climate change but volcanos eruptions do.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.

Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.

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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · Mar 20

Heat exposure on Western Australian coral reefs is literally off the charts.

24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded.

6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals.

>20 is catastrophic.
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 19

Just a reminder that the protestations that the admin's activities have been illegal have proven true. As federal workers are reinstated - even if only before future *legal* RIFs - remember that this was a victory.

Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 18

I think we need to talk about the abuse of the Presidential pardon. There are no consequences for the next 3 years at least.

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 16

I have to agree with those below. If you know how to use one of these softwares you can use the other. Opportunity cost is minimal.

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 15

I will not stand for this BS.

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · Mar 15

It’s incredibly hard to see a national treasure like the NIH descend into the atrocious servitude of stripping out an image of one of their most successful Institute Directors in an effort to please the thinnest skinned President of all time.

Mural at NIH, Bethesda, including an image of Dr Tony Fauci who served as Director of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases for 38 distinguished years.

Same mural at NIH today with Tony Fauci’s image clumsily removed.

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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · Mar 15

It’s incredibly hard to see a national treasure like the NIH descend into the atrocious servitude of stripping out an image of one of their most successful Institute Directors in an effort to please the thinnest skinned President of all time.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · Mar 15

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 15

I think you’re spot on. But also pretending the liberalism of two of the oldest universities in the country is a new, audacious, and “low quality” phenomenon is… dumb?

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is notably insane because Columbia was est. in 1754, and UC Berkeley was est. in 1868. I mean, what the hell.

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is notably insane because Columbia was est. in 1754, and UC Berkeley was est. in 1868. I mean, what the hell.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Mar 15

Utterly unconscionable – though hardly surprising – for the New York Times to print such vile fabrications, completely untethered from empirical reality, and to keep platforming a man who would spread such extremist propaganda as one of their most prominent columnists.

Bret Stephens in a piece published in the NYT this morning: "I’d say the lowest-quality institutions created since the 1990s have names like Columbia and Berkeley — these are essentially factories of Maoist cadres taught by professors whose political views ranged almost exclusively from the left to the far left."

Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 14

Just terribly sad and wasteful. The major investment in these labs has already been paid by the American people. What we see now are the returns.

Scott Dance @byscottdance.com · Mar 14

New: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with @washingtonpost.com.

Trump moves to close government lab that tracks planet-warming pollution

The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 14

Right? Schumer’s reasoning here makes no sense to me.

A3 @aythree.bsky.social · Mar 14

An underrated point. Republicans didn't have to pass a spending bill, they could shut the government down all on their own if they wanted. They voted for this because it achieves their goals. Schumer is helping Republicans achieve their goals.

Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 14

This appears to be Schumer’s argument - but where’s the evidence? What gives the POTUS the right to unilaterally and permanently eliminate programs or furlough employees during a govt shutdown? If this is true, Schumer needs lay it out more carefully.

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 14

The NYT needs the headline “Schumer: Traitor to His Cause”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Mar 14

Senate Democrats watching scenes like this and thinking “how can we signal that we’re on the same side of this House Republican?”

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Mar 13

Wow.

Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.

“I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”

Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.

We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

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Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 13

On the one hand, yes vote blue. On the other hand, demand his resignation. This is the end of his career.

Dan Holstein, PhD @drdanholstein.bsky.social · Mar 13

My god. Are these… DINOs?

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Mar 13

The word for what Senate Democrats are doing right now is "betrayal." Not only are they voluntarily surrendering the only leverage they have, the leverage they have spent months promising to use against Trump, they're doing it while lying and pretending they want the opposite.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 13

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 12

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

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