Jorge Colón

Químico,cocolo,socialista,ambientalista,sindicalista,amante esposo de Luz Delia,padre de cuatro hijas:Jiany,Liany,Loly,Natalia,abuelo de Caribe,Kaiamar y Sixto.

[Jorge Colón @JorgeColon]

Budget cuts by the federal appointed @FOMBPR have already reduced state funding for the @UPR_Oficial by 48%, jeopardizing the University of Puerto Rico's capacity to drive economic R&D and produce STEM professionals for the US and Puerto Rico. https://t.co/6SOsosxecm @CienciaPR

[Jorge Colón @JorgeColon]

Red Alert: The OMB regulations could disable science permanently. https://t.co/kpRtWjuEjf

[Jorge Colón @JorgeColon]

Contento con el lanzamiento hoy de ReCiTe-Puerto Rico: Red de Museos y Centros de Ciencia y Tecnología de Puerto Rico, iniciativa impulsada por @CienciaPR. La red es una comunidad comprometida con llevar la ciencia a todos los rincones del archipiélago, inspirar curiosidad, despertar vocaciones y aportar al desarrollo económico, social y cultural de nuestro país. Enhorabuena. https://t.co/BaHmOPFP95

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

This is a really striking paper. It shows that vehicles "Made in Germany" are mostly not made in Germany at all. 

Only 46% of the labour that goes into producing "Made in Germany" vehicles occurs in Germany. The majority of the labour is performed elsewhere (with wages as low as one-fifth the level), and the majority of the emissions occur elsewhere, but the value is disproportionately captured in Germany.

The paper was led by our colleague Laura Pérez-Sánchez at ICTA.
https://t.co/HrGLgvwszN

[The Associated Press @AP]

From stronger hurricanes to longer droughts and heavier rainfall, a warming planet is intensifying weather extremes and making them more frequent.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Democratic Governor primary.

If elected, she will make history as the nation's first Native American governor.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

If implemented, this would be one of the most significant shifts in federal research governance in modern U.S. history.

The concern is not simply budget cuts. It is political review moving into individual grant decisions - fundamentally changing how American science operates.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Moving the world to clean, renewable energy costs less than world fossil-fuel subsidies

Worldwide subsidies to the fossil-fuel industry exceed the annual cost of transitioning the world to 100% clean, renewable energy for all energy purposes. This means that eliminating fossil-fuel subsidies more than pays for an energy transition. Let’s look at the numbers. Transitioning the world to renewables costs $6.8 trillion dollars per year. According to the International Monetary Fund, fossil-fuel subsidies alone cost $7.4 trillion dollars per year, or 6.4% of world GDP. These subsidies include $730 billion per year in explicit subsidies and $6.7 trillion per year in tax-code benefits, unpaid air pollution damage, unpaid climate damage, and other unpaid environmental and road damage. So, if we want to eliminate the over 7 million air pollution deaths per year from energy, the growing climate damage from energy, and energy insecurity arising from fossil fuels, one sure-fired way is to stop subsidizing the fossil-fuel industry.

Cost of subsidies
https://t.co/v8c1fFoPM8

Cost of transitioning world
https://t.co/c3RjxqKhcO

Video
https://t.co/d434yPOtA5

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

In 1956, Caltech scientist Clair Patterson determined the age of the Earth: 4.55 billion years

To do it, he used five meteorites and a sample from the ocean floor

Learn how in this week's paper

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Senator Bernie Sanders exposes the massive AI scam. He confirms big tech oligarchs literally stole humanity's collective knowledge, art, and research to build models without permission.

The elite class is executing the greatest wealth theft in human history!

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

El Niño is arriving on our doorstep in the coming months with 90% certainty.

The world must treat it as the urgent climate warning it is.

The only effective response is #ClimateAction equal to the crisis – ending the addiction to fossil fuels, accelerating the shift to renewables, protecting the most vulnerable, and delivering early warning systems for all.

https://t.co/owmmCChyb3

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Artificial Intelligence is built on the creative work of millions of writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary people. That work has been stolen by Big Tech oligarchs.

Now's the time to reclaim it and ensure AI works for ALL, not just the few.

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

El Niño confirmation: @WMO has confirmed the onset of El Niño, warning it could drive hotter temperatures and more extreme weather worldwide. It’s urgent that countries invest in early warning systems to help communities prepare. #Climate #ElNiño

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Rafael Bernabe @BernabeMVC]

200 muertes extrajudiciales por la armada de EUA en aguas internacionales. Doscientas.

[María de Lourdes Santiago @marialourdespip]

Ciudadanos del Karso (CDK) ha preparado un espacio digital de fácil utilización para transmitir el reclamo por la protección de ese recurso vital. ¡Firma y comparte!👇
https://t.co/tYFMc68hU7

[Arturo Portnoy @portna]

Hoy la facultad de artes y ciencias del RUM aprobó una resolución en repudio de Zayira Jordán y Miguel Muñoz y en defensa de la UPR.

Fue UNÁNIME la aprobación, con más de 200 profesores presentes. Esto es muy raro. Estamos HARTOS de la crisis en la UPR. Texto aprobado:

[María de Lourdes Santiago @marialourdespip]

Como dice el profesor Rafael Joglar: jamás se ha visto “tanto peligro…tanto olor a muerte en términos de biodiversidad y de especies en peligro”. Mañana miércoles, a las 3:00 pm en el Centro de Convenciones, levantamos la voz por el Karso y por todos nuestros recursos amenazados.