NYT’s opinion writer Paul Krugman is declaring #climate is now a culture war issue 🤔 I worked in the U.S. Senate ~20 years ago. Covered climate as a journalist. Cofounded an NGO focused on science policy issues during elections. Am finishing a dissertation on how Congress has made decisions about #science policy for the last 1/2 century - with climate as a central theme. This isn’t new. #ClimateChange has *always* been a culture war issue.

I see a lot of posts here about why the other social media platforms are terrible & #Mastodon is the one to rule them all*. Personally, Mastodon is my favorite & I prefer the #fediverse with decentralized servers & open source standards. But I also don’t mind coexisting with the others. Rather, I think it’s a good thing. All of us should settle in where we feel comfortable & find community. * Overstatement, but a Tolkien reference always seems appropriate.

Did you know the most abundant vertebrate on Earth often starts life as a male & transitions to female? Scientists estimate the number of bristlemouth fish range from hundreds of trillions to quadrillions(!) of individuals.

An Ocean Mystery in the Trillions (Published 2015)

Much is still not known about the bristlemouth, the planet’s most plentiful vertebrate. What’s more, the ocean, making up 99 percent of the bio...

#science #nature

#Nature

Vote like our future depends on it. Because it does. #ClimateChange