Emily Greenhalgh
@emwritesscience.bsky.social
Scientist turned science writer | Enjoys pottery, puzzles, and putting 🧀 on things | Kids' science 📚 FUN WITH OCEANS AND SEAS, FUN WITH OUTER Space, and BUG EXPLORER are out now! | #AmQuerying YA SFF Novel THE ENDLESS HALLWAY
www.emilygreenhalgh.com
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Friends - My next children's science book is out! Pick up BUG EXPLORERS wherever books are SOLD! 🐛 🐝🐞🦋🐜
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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:28 PM
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
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Environmental pollution was one of the three big issues that stopped me cold from any libertarian drift as a kid
February 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Environmental pollution was one of the three big issues that stopped me cold from any libertarian drift as a kid
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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This has definitely been my experience! Far more scientific engagement here. 🧪
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
This has definitely been my experience! Far more scientific engagement here. 🧪
February 14, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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Like I said when I started, I don’t know what to expect from posting this here. Maybe in hopes it galvanizes 1 of my ~5 followers.
But at the very least, thank you if you read all the way through. We must not look away.
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But at the very least, thank you if you read all the way through. We must not look away.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Like I said when I started, I don’t know what to expect from posting this here. Maybe in hopes it galvanizes 1 of my ~5 followers.
But at the very least, thank you if you read all the way through. We must not look away.
28/
But at the very least, thank you if you read all the way through. We must not look away.
28/
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The wife of Seamus Culleton, a 38-year-old Irish man who has lived in the Boston area for nearly 20 years, is urging federal immigration officials to release her husband after ICE agents arrested him in September.
American wife of Irish man detained by ICE asks for his release
The wife of Seamus Culleton, a 38-year-old Irish man who has lived in the Boston area for nearly 20 years, is urging federal immigration officials to release her husband after ICE agents arrested him ...
www.wbur.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:59 AM
The wife of Seamus Culleton, a 38-year-old Irish man who has lived in the Boston area for nearly 20 years, is urging federal immigration officials to release her husband after ICE agents arrested him in September.
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The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)!
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act
February 12, 2026 at 12:14 PM
The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)!
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act
aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act
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Federal Debt to Hit Record Levels, Budget Office Warns www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...
Current Projections Over the Next Years Put Debt at 120% of GDP- a Level Last Seen after WW2.
This Risks a Crisis
And Destabilisation of the Economy!
Cut the Defence Spending and Balance their Books!
Current Projections Over the Next Years Put Debt at 120% of GDP- a Level Last Seen after WW2.
This Risks a Crisis
And Destabilisation of the Economy!
Cut the Defence Spending and Balance their Books!
Federal Debt to Hit Record Levels, Budget Office Warns
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Federal Debt to Hit Record Levels, Budget Office Warns www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...
Current Projections Over the Next Years Put Debt at 120% of GDP- a Level Last Seen after WW2.
This Risks a Crisis
And Destabilisation of the Economy!
Cut the Defence Spending and Balance their Books!
Current Projections Over the Next Years Put Debt at 120% of GDP- a Level Last Seen after WW2.
This Risks a Crisis
And Destabilisation of the Economy!
Cut the Defence Spending and Balance their Books!
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Amazon wants you to think their Super Bowl ad was about dogs. It's not—it's about mass surveillance.
February 12, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Amazon wants you to think their Super Bowl ad was about dogs. It's not—it's about mass surveillance.
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BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 PM
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
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I think all leaders should be around the average age of a country’s workforce
February 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I think all leaders should be around the average age of a country’s workforce
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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too many kids today have never destroyed the family PC with sketchy downloads
you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer
you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer
folks today don't know the abject fear of inadvertently downloading, for the first (and only lol) time, a .exe file from kazaa or limewire and it shows
def one of those "it only takes one time to learn" but oooo boy at what cost for that single instance
def one of those "it only takes one time to learn" but oooo boy at what cost for that single instance
February 12, 2026 at 2:08 AM
too many kids today have never destroyed the family PC with sketchy downloads
you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer
you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer
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Today's pigeons will be uploaded soon for free download if you want a pigeon-y valentine to send to someone you like or love more than breadcrumbs
Also should I put black text over hot pink text so it's more legible?
Also should I put black text over hot pink text so it's more legible?
February 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Today's pigeons will be uploaded soon for free download if you want a pigeon-y valentine to send to someone you like or love more than breadcrumbs
Also should I put black text over hot pink text so it's more legible?
Also should I put black text over hot pink text so it's more legible?
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The first think you learn in this business is reporting the news and communicating the news are two separate, intertwined jobs.
The demolition of this business has long been a function of the money people not understanding that fact.
AI can't write. And even if it could, that's not reporting.
The demolition of this business has long been a function of the money people not understanding that fact.
AI can't write. And even if it could, that's not reporting.
Reporting requires relationships and therefore it fundamentally can't be performed by LLMs. The reason why tech vultures and media CEOs talk about AI revolutionizing journalism is because they see journalism as a set of slop mills rather than newsrooms that produce new information
if we do, in some grim future, give up and decide to cede the entire practice of reporting to LLMs generating stories from their inherently out-of-date training models, we will miss huge amounts of often exceedingly important information. to an extent that I believe would rapidly turn deadly.
February 11, 2026 at 9:10 PM
The first think you learn in this business is reporting the news and communicating the news are two separate, intertwined jobs.
The demolition of this business has long been a function of the money people not understanding that fact.
AI can't write. And even if it could, that's not reporting.
The demolition of this business has long been a function of the money people not understanding that fact.
AI can't write. And even if it could, that's not reporting.
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The way that every non-governmental entity (print journalism, tv journalism, pollsters, etc) has failed us in the country's most desperate hour, is going to make fantastic reading in the history books that other countries will still be allowed publish.
February 11, 2026 at 7:43 PM
The way that every non-governmental entity (print journalism, tv journalism, pollsters, etc) has failed us in the country's most desperate hour, is going to make fantastic reading in the history books that other countries will still be allowed publish.
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When your poll numbers are so bad you coerce pollsters to stop polling. bsky.app/profile/phil...
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:17 PM
When your poll numbers are so bad you coerce pollsters to stop polling. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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drowning is impossible. your body is 2/3 water
Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."
February 11, 2026 at 3:26 PM
drowning is impossible. your body is 2/3 water
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When even the WeRateDogs guy is compelled to speak out about your product’s dangerous normalization of surveillance that may be subverted by the state, you’ve clearly crossed the line.
February 11, 2026 at 12:50 PM
When even the WeRateDogs guy is compelled to speak out about your product’s dangerous normalization of surveillance that may be subverted by the state, you’ve clearly crossed the line.