The rulebook doesn’t say an opossum CAN’T play football.

April 25, 1925, birthday of Polish paleontologist Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska. She led fossil expeditions into the Mongolian desert revolutionizing our knowledge of Mesozoic mammals 🐭 www.nature.com/articles/520...

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

And it's not just that a line disappears. Often a single professor is the anchor for an entire program. A person retires and it may be the end of a minor or a major, a study abroad program, a set of research opportunities, and more.

Yup, this is Jay Bhattacharya, censoring science that doesn’t fit his agenda. NASEM platformed him—he was going to lecture us on “scientific integrity” (lol). When scientists told the organizers we were offended at their decision, they yelled at us to attend!!!

"You control it with an app on your phone" Then I am no longer interested

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [Texas cont] In an additional attempt to suppress LGBTQ+ speech, the policy includes STUDENTS: "no degree-culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics,” thus extending "Don't Say Gay" to dissertations and theses. 2/2

My husband used to work in grocery store deli. On request, he’d “accidentally“ label hot rotisserie or fried chicken as cold so people could use EBT. They‘re the same price, but required different labels because of SNAP rules. That was always ridiculous so it would be great to finally fix it.

We need to start adopting the mindset that wholesale AI-generated content like this is information pollution. It contaminates the reliability and validity of our information spaces and the knowledge that we seek to derive from it.

People, about a dozen dead or missing scientists vaguely attached to government UFO research: This is a scandal, an outrage, a conspiracy even! People, about 10,000 scientists missing from the government due to a scandalous fascist conspiracy: Idk has Joe Rogan said anything about it? No, he hasn't

The #fossil of Irritator challengeri is finally going back to Brazil after 35 years in Germany. This is a major event for #DecolonizeScience and the #restitution of natural history specimens. Let's talk about #IrritatorBelongstoBR. [1/17]

More people need to learn about Lysenkoism and the effectively permanent downfall of Russian genetics research (and also their food supply) due to ideological capture of science Because history might not repeat but it rhymes.

I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages! If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is

I'm helping to lead a group of Senate Democrats who are planning to force a vote - every single week the Senate is in session - to end the war in Iran. We have that right under the Senate rules, and we are going to keep putting Republicans on record supporting this insane war.

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Power to the people. (Not to the data centers.) www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

The undisputed #1 greatest photo of a person with a fossil: Paleontologist Altangerel Perle, with the Museum of Natural History in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, stands between the forearms of Deinocheirus

Piling in to the quote posts to say: We know from the old Creationist vs Evolution “debates” that no one really wins or changes their mind. But holding an event with both scientists and science deniers on the same stage makes it SEEM like there is equivalent evidence for both sides.

Reform and destruction are two different things @katymilkman.bsky.social. NASEM bringing a wolf in sheep’s clothing into the pasture to lecture scientists about all our fraud while he is THE KEY PERSON SYSTEMATICALLY DISMANTLING THE NIH signals to me that NASEM is compromised.

the nasa flickr account has tons of amazing images and people still need to post slop to the TL. doesnt make any sense. www.flickr.com/photos/nasah...

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

This is why you should never, ever stan a politician. Also: there are a lot of disturbing replies challenging the integrity of the woman who has come forward, and I really want to urge all of you to remember: People you love, who have been in similar situations, can see your replies.

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

By the way, the woman with the ectopic pregnancy told me that during this saga, couple spent about $1200 on gas, food, and one night in a hotel. Plus her husband missed five days’ pay. And that’s not including any of the medical bills

Yes. Give people grace, everyone. There is a light on the horizon. But things are bad right now, and people are not doing well. Hold fast, take care of yourself, be kind, and if you can, keep doing something to bend the arc of history.

This #FossilFriday it only seems appropriate to spotlight the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences, oldest natural history museum in the Americas and currently in budgetary peril. 🧵 Thread to follow, with links to support the museum. First: Thomas Jefferson's fossil collection...

The people of Iran deserve so much better than the relentless atrocities and violence the governments of Iran, America, and Israel have waged upon them. So, so much better.

Go science! Go art! #steam #stem

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

All countries between the US and Iran should shut down their airspace- deny landing rights, overflights, refueling or any other support for these explicit genocidal operations. Ideally, US military would refuse illegal orders and Congress would intervene- but that’s not happening. So, world must act

This is a clear statement of intent to commit genocide. Trump doesn’t just need to be impeached; he needs to stand trial at The Hague.

if anything humans do has a true trickle-down effect, I hope we hear the astronauts who have these revelatory experiences and translate that into unfucking our own planet and in what we do in space in the future. We can do big weird good shit if we listen to each other.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Four people are now farther from Earth than anyone has ever been, with no ability to talk to anyone back home, for around 40 minutes.

War crimes on top of war crimes

We have enough money to fund All The Science. All The Good and Useful Things. We just don't use it that way. Instead, we use it to fund Death and Destruction and Deportation. So get riled up over that, how about.

it also has this one

Psst…foreign students typically pay full tuition. They’re subsidizing other students. And one reason universities are struggling financially right now is due to the catastrophic drop in international student enrollment.

The Academy of Natural Sciences ( @acadnatsci), the oldest & 1st nat. hist. museum in North America, is under threat! Sign petition at bit.ly/save-academy to tell president of @drexeluniv to fund one of the most important educational & research institutions in the world! @geosociety.bsky.social

Agreed NSF (especially NSF-SBE) needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your school is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Especially for Republican seats, direct constituent communication matters. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

Quick reminder that the US Congress can stop this anytime it wants to, and that it is the appropriate remedy for executive lawlessness. Yeah, yeah. I know.

Any—and every—Member of the House can make a direct proposition impeaching the president every day, at any time, and get an hour’s debate on it within a few days. It’ll be tabled or referred to committee, but it’s not like they were using the floor time. Yes, they’ll do it to the next Dem.

Cherry blossoms in Japan.

The other side of the Moon.

NASA employee: oh hey you guys are back early. Astronaut: *grabs plunger, gets back on rocketship*

I should be used to it by now, but it's still a gut punch to go to the website of the funding agency that helped launch your career and read that they're "eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects" Fuck that 🤬 www.nsf.gov/about/budget...

These cuts would be devastating. I say “would“ because it’s Trump‘s proposal. But Congress sets the budget. So light up the phone lines and tell your Reps and Senators that you want them to fund science!