Glenn Branch
@glennbranch.bsky.social
Deputy Director, NCSE. Views expressed on BlueSky are my own and not necessarily NCSE's.
Glenn Branch is the deputy director of the National Center for Science Education. He is a prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design and an activist against campaigns of suppressing teaching of evolution and climate change in school education. He is also a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. .. more
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Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | National Center for Science Education
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Дарвин күні құтты болсын!
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Climate.us
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· 2d
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Crazy Town: Episode 119. Getting Real about Resiliency with Emily Schoerning
Dr. Emily Schoerning and her nonprofit, American Resiliency, translate the latest and most urgent climate science into useful information for communities across the United States. Jason and Emily disc...
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My former colleague Emily Schoerning of American Resiliency discusses resiliency with the Crazy Town podcast!
Cy-Fair ISD board reverses conservative policy, restores banned textbook chapters
The Cy-Fair ISD board reinstated 13 chapters from five textbooks that were censored by the board's previous conservative majority. It marked the first rollback of policies by the new board .
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Good news for science education in the Cy-Fair Independent School District in Texas. (With comments from yours truly.)
From classrooms to communities: How adolescents and youths are reimagining climate education across Eastern and Southern Africa | Brookings
Ellen Chigwanda highlights how adolescents and youth in Eastern and Southern Africa are reimagining climate education through practical, community‑rooted approaches.
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"Across Eastern and Southern Africa, young people are not just learning about climate change -- they are shaping how it's taught."
Evolution Is Wrong Book by Erich von Daniken | Red Wheel/Weiser
Order Evolution Is Wrong by Erich von Daniken from Red Wheel/Weiser, your online bookstore for occult, spirituality, and personal growth books.
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I read the late Erich von Däniken's Evolution Is Wrong (2022) recently. It's remarkably bad, for a variety of reasons I would be pleased to explain, if a suitable venue presents itself ...
Florida DOGE embraces Trump’s disputed climate report
The DeSantis administration, seeking to curtail local spending, cited a Department of Energy report to question the "so-called climate crisis."
www.eenews.net
"The Department of Energy's misleading climate report is getting a second life in Florida."
High-stakes rock-paper-scissors: These lizards are all in on an evolutionary game
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"High-stakes rock-paper-scissors": the latest Evo in the News from Understanding Evolution.
DOE scientists blasted climate report ordered up by boss
Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five climate contrarians to write about global warming. Department experts pushed back on the findings.
www.eenews.net
"Misleading. Unjustified. Hypocritical.
Those are just some of the words that Department of Energy scientists used to describe a 141-page report on climate change that was commissioned by DOE Secretary Chris Wright."
Those are just some of the words that Department of Energy scientists used to describe a 141-page report on climate change that was commissioned by DOE Secretary Chris Wright."
When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us
YouTube video by PBS Eons
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Since I've been baking rye bread recently, I was particularly interested in "When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us," from PBS Eons.
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Maryland's House Bill 620 would, if enacted, require the state's governor annually to proclaim the first week of April as Maryland Climate Education Week.
Lessons for Teaching Evolution
The issue of teaching evolution in public schools is much more nuanced than a caricaturized “battle” between faith and science.
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Jamie Jensen and Joe Shane both offered thoughtful responses to a great article about Kitzmiller v. Dover, "Of Pandas and Science Curricula" by Monya Baker (@monyab.bsky.social).
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"Climate change and sustainability in science and social science primary school curricula": a new report from UNESCO.
A Chat with Mr. Scopes Monkey Trial
YouTube video by Secular Rising US
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Wesley Roberts, a veteran biology teacher in Tennessee, discusses the Scopes trial with Secular Rising US.
After Decades of Deflection, ExxonMobil Moves to Reshape Global Climate Accounting
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing Carbon Measures’ accounting scheme, which moves pollution “liabilities”...
www.desmog.com
"An ExxonMobil-backed initiative, Carbon Measures, is pushing to reshape how the world does the math on climate change. Their system, outside analysts point out, leaves consumers holding the bag."
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Climate.us
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Our project director Rebecca Lindsey features in a new TIME story, “The Women Saving America’s Climate Data.” The article features our efforts to save content created on behalf of NOAA and the Fifth National Climate Assessment.
You can access the full article through Climate.us "In the Press" page.
You can access the full article through Climate.us "In the Press" page.
Celebrate Darwin Day by attending Alex Bezzerides's talk for Bay Area Skeptics on "Evolution Gone Wrong," online at 7:30 p.m. Pacific on February 12!
Prof Ben Santer: Trump administration is ‘embracing ignorance’ on climate science - Carbon Brief
In an interview with Carbon Brief, Santer says the Trump administration is “engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science”
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In a wide-ranging interview with Carbon Brief, Ben Santer says the Trump administration is "engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science."
Conant the Barbarian? Part 1 | National Center for Science Education
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
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In which I discuss creationist misuse of a quotation from James Bryant Conant.
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence.
"Until 1832 the only legitimate supply of cadavers came from the end of the hangman's rope, and, although Britain had many crimes punishable by death, the supply was never enough to meet the demand."
"Until 1832 the only legitimate supply of cadavers came from the end of the hangman's rope, and, although Britain had many crimes punishable by death, the supply was never enough to meet the demand."
New Climate Reports Show ‘Unprecedented Run of Global Heat’ - Inside Climate News
Data from multiple international agencies shows the reality of a rapidly warming world.
insideclimatenews.org
"Data from multiple international agencies shows the reality of a rapidly warming world."
Tyrant Lizard Queen
From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T Rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehistor...
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Tyrant Lizard Queen: a new book on its way from Riley Black (@restingdinoface.bsky.social)!
Glenn Branch
@glennbranch.bsky.social
· Jan 15
Pulling out of 66 international organizations, Trump turns his back on science, facts, reason
Under the Trump Administration, international law, conserving nature, protecting children from war, developing renewable energy, and building peace are issues antithetical to US interests.
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"I hope that the decision to withdraw from the IPCC will not be lost in the noise of dysfunction and chaos that now characterizes daily life in the United States," writes Ben Santer.
Glenn Branch
@glennbranch.bsky.social
· Jan 14
The development of just-in-time information acquisition behaviors in Generation X
The ways that humans acquire information is undergoing a fundamental change comparable to the introduction of Gutenberg’s moveable type and printing press and the development of broadcast systems i...
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A new publication from yours truly, along with the rest of Jon D. Miller's team: "The development of just-in-time information acquisition behaviors in Generation X."
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Climate.us
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· Jan 14
E&E by Politico gave a shoutout to Climate.us in a feature on the challenges of rescuing canceled climate data.
See this and other stories at www.climate.us#press.
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See this and other stories at www.climate.us#press.
#ClimateForUs
Glenn Branch
@glennbranch.bsky.social
· Jan 13
Erich von Däniken, Who Claimed Aliens Visited Earth, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com
News of the death of Erich von Däniken, not only pseudoarchaeologist but also antievolutionist -- see, e.g., his Evolution Is Wrong: A Radical Approach to the Origin and Transformation of Life (2022).