when this is all through and we live in the hallowed lands of Woke 2 we'll have to force every STEM major through a course in formal logic bc what even is this

Does someone you know and respect hate Dark Souls 2? Here’s a helpful decoder “It’s just not my favorite one” = “spiders” “It had the worst target lock issues” = “I hate the spiders” “The bosses have uneven difficulty” = “I love the bosses but I’m so scared of the spiders part of the video game”

Many of you do not seem to understand the spiritual and political importance of having weekly quiet thoughtful 1pm weekend breakfast at Bella’s

My views about society are pretty independent of how annoying or silly I find people in academia or on the internet dot com. So I've pretty much retained my belief in Luxemburgist socialism despite finding online socialist culture cringe/infuriating, and academic socialists shallow and embarrassing.

Was curious about JFK’s health so I asked google. TIL he was pregnant in 1960 but only put on 15-20lbs

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists." The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

My corniest take is that it genuinely helps me to remember this is the country that invented soul and blues, so there must be something worth saving about it, and 2025 is as good a time as any to become invested in this topic if you’re not already

Until people in the climate movement very publicly stop eating meat and flying, we're not going to seem trustworthy. I will die on this hill.

Lately I've been doing sequence edits of pelicans diving, but for the marine life feed hitting 2k likes, how about a NEARLY FULL BODY HUMPBACK BREACH sequence? 🦑

If we’re gonna end the American experiment in the next few years, we should play the hits. Let’s start naming guys Fats again

I’m listening to the Lucy Dacus hand curated blues playlist but I’m also playing Dark Souls 2. So it’s impossible to say whether I’m straight or not

If science is so good, why haven’t they invented a trivalent Covid-19 vaccine / seasonal flu vaccine / Tums

I don't think they should stop here but I think electeds getting in the way and getting arrested like this is one of the better things they can do about ICE right now and any who aren't doing so are worth less than the ones who are doing so.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books" Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

oh my fucking god

Pete Hegseth is bragging about bombing civilians to death in international waters, as a DOJ lawyer is in federal court arguing that Hegseth can call up the National Guard — as he did over the weekend in Portland — to send troops into U.S. cities for virtually any reason.

Occurs to me the problem with BlueSky is also the problem with Substack and the problem with Facebook and maybe even the problem with Twitter: everyone wants to build (and own!) email, and everyone keeps building (and getting stuck with owning) chatrooms

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

refuse to hear this slander against ib's, which was a trustworthy source of queasiness-inducing meat and bread during my phd

I had missed this well written rebuttal on the purported Ivory-billed Woodpecker rediscoveries; these passages in particular are gold:🪶 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... #Ornithology

Join us Kristi Noem! 9AM Press Conference at 1930 Beach St

man i thought we all agreed to stop doing dapper nazi shit after spencer

my fucking wallet!!!!!!!!!!!!

We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in. If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.

Huge congrats to @charleswhittaker.bsky.social and team on one of the most important modeling papers of the year - the investment case for a universal vaccine against SARS-like viruses (and an important blueprint for other similar studies!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And yet, 12 paragraphs down: "There’s little indication, so far, that rogue actors are trying to acquire illicit synthetic DNA." I'm not opposed to foresight or red-teaming, but constantly amplifying the message "it's easy to do terrorism" (and the how-to!) is not a virtuous cycle.

now that's a data visualization baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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If eight of my artist/games/writer friends could make $100,000 a year it would be completely life changing for every single one of them. It's hard to overstate how infuriating and inhumane this feels "lol"

• Children of PhD-educated parents are 28 times more likely to become professors than those whose parents only completed compulsory school. • Children of professors are 11 times more likely to join the faculty than everyone else.

New preprint alert! We DNA barcoded 95 thousand Ghanaian arthropods, more than doubling the number of BINs (a species proxy) available online from West Africa. In doing so we’ve released a huge amount of new data to scientists studying the region 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Black-throated blue warbler from a quick morning bird today 🌿🪶📷

sometimes, games with name generators decide to just destroy a fictional person's entire self-confidence. meet your 2036 first-team all-big 12 running back

‼️Our new Nature Sust paper from @futureecoafrica.bsky.social @sallyarchibald.bsky.social @odirilwes.bsky.social 🦥Just ahead of #SBSTTA-27 & #COP30 🐘6 Principles for getting Natural Climate Solution right in #Africa 🎣 Link👇🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

teaching about AR6 today

the entire field of climate epidemiology and, for some reason, me

I wrote about The Hunting Wives, Erotic MAGA, and the literally libidinal appeal of fascism for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World

How these ethnically/racially targeted human rights abuses were described by @nytimes.com today

A classic Kavanaugh Stop chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Apropos of nothing, I think you could make the case climate politics is probably the most important recent precedent for how we have to meet this moment, in that it’s arguably the main area of American politics with a recent internal conversation about “what if we played to win, and what if we do?”

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

This is illegal

Do you ever think about how this guy has allegedly kicked NSF out of their building so he can live in it