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Dr. Peter Doran
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Professor and Endowed Chair. Polar environments, Earth System Science, water/lakes/ice, hydology, ecosystems, astrobiology and protecting planets. Made in Canada. Opinions are mine and mine alone https://www.lsu.edu/science/geology/people/faculty/doran.php
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Just now in front of McMurdo Station. Very rare to see Emperor's come right up to the front of McMurdo Station, especially so early in the summer. #scicomm 🧪
Landed yesterday at Phoenix Air Field (NZFX) near McMurdo Station Antarctica. I will be headed to the McMurdo Dry Valleys for research from here for the next month or so. Follow along #scicomm
Starting my 29th expedition to the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. First leg is home to Christchurch N.Z. There for 3 days (plus or minus) then head down from there. Will be posting here as much as I can. #scicomm 🧪
Found this old photo. Late 80s, Canadian High Arctic near Eureka (Ellesmere Island). I was on an ATV, and this guy just trotted behind me at the same pace no matter how I sped up or slowed down. No aggression at all. To this day I wonder - if I’d stopped, would he have just licked my face?
But the triple bypass and 8 stents saved your life before you changed diet (and I am plant based as well). Also all the access you’ve had throughout your life to modern medicine.
The statistics are not necessarily incompatible. Degrass-Tyson said half the population died by their thirties. That is not the same as average life expectancy
I eat organic, avoid processed foods, and load up on veggies, - but modern medicine, treatments, drugs, and vaccines are what truly extend our lives. That other stuff gives a little booster. Science matters. Watch this short video—it nails the point. www.youtube.com/shorts/mEOeC... #scicomm 🧪
“Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson
YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj
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So short sighted. At a time when Russia and China are growing their ice-breaking capabilities because they get it, the U.S. is in denial of what is happening on the planet. #scicomm 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker
Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
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Very cool. #scicomm 🧪https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/science/citizen-science-ecology-inaturalist.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.3vfc.5j3FnJJNj3U8&smid=url-share
Citizen Scientists Are Accelerating Ecology Research, Study Suggests
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Not sure the "some good some bad" in the beginning is representative www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u... #scicomm 🧪
Ima going to have to up my popcorn supply for this Trump v Elon breakup flame-a-thon.
"The sprawling legislation carrying President Trump’s domestic agenda squeaked through the House with one vote to spare, but some Republicans now say they didn’t realize what they voted for." OMG! This is your job! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
After Muscling Their Bill Through the House, Some Republicans Have Regrets
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"Funding for the NSF, as for all other federal agencies, is set by the US Congress. To date, the agency has received only about one-quarter of the funding that Congress appropriated to it for the current fiscal year, which ends on 30 September." #scicomm 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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A few weeks ago, I voted in the Canadian election for the first time since being in the U.S. (35 years - I never felt educated enough about Canadian politics while away to vote). Paper ballot and you hand write one name (your local MP). Simple and efficient. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/w...
Paper Ballots, Hand Counting, No Machines: This Is How Canada’s Election Works (Gift Article)
Canada’s federal election is on Monday. Here are the details.
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This is a submarine cable. Looks expensive to have that cross oceans
A lot to worry about here. Where is Congress? This is the moment in history for the moderate Right to save science and the future of the U.S. #scicomm 🧪. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b...
Trump vs. Science (Gift Article)
We explain the administration’s cuts to research.
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Ooooh, new Last of US. See ya
Spent this week at Institute of Aerospace medicine in Germany. They do a lot of experiments on the effects of space travel. You could get paid 15000 Euro to lie in this bed for 3 months with your head down. No getting out of bed for any reason. No pillow. Would you do it? #scicomm
Got a great tour of the European Space Agency’s new Lunar analog training facility today at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR). Cool things that forward-looking governments fund. More info here www.esa.int/Science_Expl...