Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Our NEW PAPER is out: "Traffic Reduction during COVID-19 Lockdowns Benefited Species Already Tolerant of Noise Pollution: An Acoustic Analysis." Hot off the press in American Naturalist: doi.org/10.1086/740812 We found something surprising about traffic and birdsong... 🧵1

There are only about 30 women's colleges left in the U.S.. Just like other anti-trans laws, this will hurt all women.

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The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.

Brilliant idea!

A reminder to SciArt Feed 🐡 contributors: I encourage you to share your online store, commission pricing, and gallery shows. Journalists, editors, and curators: I hope you regularly browse and think about collaborations with these non-AI artists. It's tough out there, go get that cheddar. 🧀

there is absolutely 100% a "Catholicism is the religion for smart people" thing on the far right. an evangelical is just going to be misogynist at you. a tradcath is going to do it in Latin while sneering at your lack of intellect

When I teach print history, I have a repository of little facts I share to help both demystify very old objects and ask students to resituate the codex as technology. It's ✨️ cute little fact time ✨️ The space between lines is called "leading" in Adobe because metal pieces physically separated text.

Tim Walz explains the perfect social media relationship: - person I’ve never met - calls himself ‘norm’ but I don’t know if that’s his real name - follow him because he’s usually talking about sports

I have an iPhone 12mini and love it. Thing is that I guess Apple thinks I need a new phone & I can not update it and can only take 2.5 min of video/always at the tip of use of memory when all apps parked and all cashe cleared. Is there such a thing as a phone that does not have AI shoved in my face?

Octopuses and squid have elaborate brains. How did their intelligence evolve? go.nature.com/4tIg5Mw

The infiltration continues: “USDA and Palantir sign $300 million software purchase agreement” 4/22/26 www.reuters.com/business/usd...

Friends, my cousin Jim, a physician and storyteller, wrote a movie! It’s a psychological thriller. My dad is (briefly) in it! You can rent it now! It’s called Basic Psych. www.instagram.com/reel/DXZxO85...

“we are deliberately killing the immunocompromised, disabled, and chronically ill”

Protesters at anti-war protest in Boston, May 1971 These photos along with others (and paintings going back to colonial times) that document protest for all kinds of rights over 250 yrs are on display at the Copley Branch of BPL for exhibit called REVOLUTION! 250 YEARS OF ART + ACTIVISM IN BOSTON

I have been helping my mom clean up the basement/house. She ran across a box of undeveloped film. One of them is that Kodacolor disc film. I had a camera that used this in the '80's. Anyone have a favorite on-line film developing place that may develop these? Local shops don't.

I am volunteering to help out at one of those repair collective like things this weekend. The concept is to help teach people to repair or just repair an item to prevent it from going into the landfill. They hold them twice a year.

"When an app combines these four features — solitude, bottomlessness, speed and teasing — it creates a kind of recipe for overuse for nearly everyone, Schüll says."

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

'She also documented how few women were in federally sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs... That was significant, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, because “the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment.”' Long helped save so many lives.

Former Commissioner Riley selling out on vouchers, too. Figures. Heads way up, #MAEdu

People who burn plastic in their woodstove need to be slapped. I was worried it was a house fire and drove until I found out what the smell was coming from. Had windows open in the office. I am pissed. I did not want to human today and now need to go somewhere to work.

Nikyle Begay is rekindling Diné weaving techniques that have been suppressed by colonial market preferences. Begay tells us the history of twill weaving and their involvement in each aspect of their creative process, from breeding and shearing sheep to weaving long-undervalued twill patterns.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE. www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

Apparently it’s International Haiku Day. I shall ignore it.

Becoming a member of the Cliterati costs you just £6 a month - the price of a pint in London. In joining our fanny family, you are helping cover our running costs and in return, we invite you deep inside with discounts, exclusive events, and a *hole* lot of love. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/support

I admit that this was my assumption, yes.

We did it!! Our first IHC in Bath!!! Cora captured this gorgeous image of Alcian blue+ goblet cells, as well as PCNA+ epithelial cells in an adult gut. We still have fine-tuning to do, but these beautiful/simple views of such a complex structure will always make me smile.

attention: students of the history of 'Insolence' and other #maritimehistory #earlymodern activities @prizepapers.bsky.social 😁

So, friend at a huge merger arbitrage HF in NYC tells me how everyone in the business knows this one person in DC, whose only job is to take 15M dollar bribes (his words) for the president to make sure that a merger gets approved.

‘It’s difficult to overstate the significance of this right-to-repair fight. While it has obvious implications for the ag industry, others like the automotive and even home appliance sectors are looking on.‘

#TheOutpost 🌿🌱👨‍🌾🍴🌻 Violets - Wildfoods 4 Wildlife wildfoods4wildlife.com/monographs/v...

Don’t make me tap the sign. Its support trans people or Harry Potter can’t have both

Even though I know the route, I use maps apps to see what traffic is happening. My heart sinks when the time of arrival marches rapidly towards a longer drive. It isn't the drive, I drive too much not to know alternative routes. It is because it generally means there is a bad accident ahead.

This NYT article about the removal of pride flags at Boston University ends with the Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program vowing to replace them every time. “We have a nice stockpile,” she said. (Gift link)

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

From Tracy K. Smith's book, Life on Mars: bookshop.org/a/862/9781555975845 #poem #booksky #writing

O M G 🦐 Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty. myvancity.ca/2026/02/27/m...

Facing US oil blockade, Cuban man powers car with charcoal reut.rs/4lMmX8w

People should design and order them en masse from Sticker Mule...

Have the “I did that” stickers for the gas pumps with Trump’s face on them been printed already, or does it take a few more days?

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Happy Sheelah's Day. This feast, largely no longer celebrated in Ireland, commemorates either St Patrick's wife or mother, who probably didn't exist. So let's celebrate a similarly-named mysterious figure today instead: the sheela na gig!

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

I have a joke about fermentation, but it is kind of cheesy.

Can you help fill out this quick anonymous survey about how humans perceive forests? It would be great. Thanks!