David Moorfield Frank

Slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) last seen in 1995, declared extinct by IUCN in 2025

It's National Lie Down For A Bit Day

[flustered costanza voice] george is walkin' away from omelas!!!

“They’re barely doing anything to protect women and girls, including survivors of sexual violence. They just don’t care about women and girls.” @shiwalipatel.bsky.social

(Ralph Wiggum voice) I’m a class traitor!

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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This is the kind of disgusting, clearly immoral event that authors of dystopian stories include to make it obvious when a society has lost its way

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

never the wrong time for this classic

"Absent policy steering, AI’s modeled effects increase the carbon intensity of the global economy and reinforce fossil fuel incumbency—outcomes that current analytical and governance frameworks do not fully capture."

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

Frege watched the advent of modern math delivering objections like “Cantor doesn’t know what sets are.” “Hilbert’s definitions fail to determine if my pocket watch is a line.” “Weierstrass thinks a pile of ginger biscuits is a number.” and analytic philosophers were like this man is a genius

Claim: this book is actually very good.

one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version. buff.ly/i3f0PhR #ShareGoodNewsToo

We’re:
— Redesigning our most dangerous streets. 
— Regulating delivery apps. 
— Lowering speed limits where children play.
— Upgrading 1,000 intersections every year. 
— Cracking down on dangerous drivers and super speeders. 
— Improving our street lights.
— Building safe, beautiful public spaces.

Grazing cattle is the single largest land-use humans have undertaken. Most degrade land, & where it may reduce SOC loss, gains are temporary & outweighed by the methane year after year. Offsetting global ruminant GHGs through SOC would require nearly 2x the carbon stock in all managed grasslands

Got to work with some incredibly talented filmmakers to turn End Times Fascism into a ten minute video essay. Check it out below. There’s nothing like hearing the derangement directly from the doom profiteers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...

Did you know that a dolphin's skin is twenty times more sensitive than our own? Just like us mammals above water, dolphins need touch. Brenda Peterson peers into their high-contact lives. orionmagazine.org/article/touc...

Not sure people understand how bad El Niño already is. In Southern California today, we had an offshore pacific hurricane (not normal) take out homes and beaches. We had temperatures topping 111°F with high humidity. There's a fire in LA. And we are just getting started with El Niño.

A good piece of advice for science communication… If you want to connect with professions and experts, focus on writing. If you want to connect with novices, videos are probably best. Here’s some data supporting this: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Today, Seattle's kindergartners took their very first steps into Seattle Public Schools, joining their fellow scholars for a brand new year! This year, every single one of them - from kindergarten through 12th grade - starts the year with something new: free breakfast and lunch for each student.

Let’s go!

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples: Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.

It’s WHAT we eat (beef especially) that matters for climate. Not so much WHERE it is grown.

prompted Claude Opus 5 for suggestions about how to teach my students this: “put students in situations where the model is checkably wrong about something they can verify without expertise”

This is now a classic example of an invasion resulting from a small number of introduced large mammals. scienceblog.com/d-four-hippo...

That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?

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Despite this, many new IPCC scenarios assume a ridiculous amount of CDR — like 5-30 Gt-CO2 / year — will magically happen. But don't hold your breath. Remember, these scenarios aren't based on science at all, but on the untested assumptions of theoretical economic models...

I am to wait, though waiting so be hell

Part 2. datacolada.org/139

Knowing that the plastic dinosaurs we played with as kids consisted, to whatever actual extent, of real dinosaurs.

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

BREAN: Q2 corporate profit data “was stunning.” However, “the gap between prices and wages is something that will draw increasing political attention .. pointing to the share of labor in output and showing that for the first time in the postwar era it has fallen below 50%.”

Nature honors Dolly Parton's scientific legacy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In honor of the death of eternal legend Dolly Parton, here’s her 2023 #ClimateChange anthem “World on Fire.” “Liar, liar, the world’s on fire / What’cha gonna do when it all burns down … Still got time to turn it all around.” 😭💚🙏 m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QJX...

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

“Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030.” 😳

Today, we remember an important turning point in history: the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

Think about this guy a lot www.youtube.com/shorts/HD6kw...