One time @themountaingoats.bsky.social John Darnielle was in front of me at the Target self-checkout in NW DC and I tried to be cool and say nothing, and failed, but he was so incredibly nice despite just trying to take his kid to the zoo that weekend, apparently, and to buy cold medicine

I ran into Brian Wilson enjoying a cozy chair in the lobby of my hotel in Salt Lake City, and I managed a very restrained (imho) thank-you for the music. Enjoying that one especially this week.

Dear business genius, I’m a [WORKING-CLASS PERSON / MIDDLE-CLASS PERSON / SUPER-RICH PERSON]. Thank you for making me poorer. Staying brief to save ink money, [YOUR NAME. LITERALLY ANYONE]

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Panch is a coward and traitor of the highest order

Lots of people and amazing signs in DC today #handsoff

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

>1900 members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine issued a statement supporting science for the benefit of all citizens, and ... 1/2 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

arXiv used to be funded by Los Alamos for many years, so its a good job its not there now. It's a nice profile that captures Ginsparg pretty well (and there's still a question of its long term viability as funding is still dependent on grants). #scholarlypublishing #physics

This also goes for removing “censor-worthy” words from websites, like diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, etc. Don’t do them a favor by doing their work for them!

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social is doing amazing work these days — a great example for Dem leaders AHEM

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

Yay. According to this LibGen trained it's LLM on BOTH of my books, one of my features, and... ...my 2019 scientific article on the deletion of the VMAT1 transporter? Love to see literal years of my work stolen so people don't have to work to write an email. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Looks like everything I ever wrote, original research or reviews or published recaps of other works, it’s all in there

Is everyone seeing this??

I know such events are happening at numerous ports of entry, but I wonder if it gives #LPSC organizers yet more pause about hosting the conference in Texas when it is hostile in so many ways to scientists.

I don’t know the answer, but I’ve been trying to figure out how to make this question into a holiday card for a lot of our extended family

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Tell your family, tell your neighbors, let’s break the ability to look away or not know

Here’s the list with their states

You would never see defections like this from the GOP for such a critical vote. Traitors. Haven’t heard the term DINO a lot lately but seems we could usefully bring it back!

Everyone sees what you are doing, @schumer.senate.gov, and we are not stupid. My 4yo can do better smoke and mirrors. You’re torpedoing DC and the Democrats and we will not forget. #FreeDC

Call these traitors now!

CURRENT STATE OF PLAY: @schumer.senate.gov still has the votes to pass the DOGE CR. Here are the top Ds planning to sell out America and kill the filibuster of the Musk coup: Schumer, Durbin, Gillibrand, Hassan, Peters, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto, and Whitehouse

No Dem Senator has to follow Schumer here. This is a weak stategic move driven by fear and learned helplessness. Don't follow him. He's leading the party into irrelevance and helping Trump and Musk in the process. Call your Dem Senators and ask them not to join Schumer's surrender tomorrow.

Today we came out again to advocate for DC’s congressionally approved budget— happy to learn many Dem senators said publicly they plan to vote NO ON CLOTURE for the CR … and incredibly disappointed and furious at @schumer.senate.gov that he plans to bow to the administration and not fight. #FreeDC

If we can talk to Senate staff, so can you! Just pick up the phone—details on who best to call in post below! Lots of senators had no idea DC is slated to get screwed over like this, and not even for anyone else’s gain. #FreeDC

Want a rundown on the DC budget that the District and Congress already approved (for use of OUR OWN money) but now threatens to axe mid-year? You got it:

A woman studies embryos for decades, struggles for funding and respect. She publishes under her husband’s name, until they divorce. A single mother, she moves across an ocean to continue her studies. It all sounds quite modern, until you learn that she also worried she’d be burned as a witch. 🧵 1/15

These are the Dem senators likely to cave and support the GOP spending spree plans— call them if you can! And note that Klobuchar (MN) was recommended as an addition.

NY friends, you know what to do!

This is one of the greatest shocks and disappointments of this mess, the cowardice and preemptive compliance

breaking via inbox: “On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent grad student at Columbia, at his place of residence, an apartment building owned by the university. The DHS agents said that the State Dept revoked Khalil’s green card.”

"Why has the public gutting of science not caused an immediate political backlash? The authors of the culling have correctly recognized that the public has no idea how science works and has no connection to scientists who aren’t on television" 🧪⚒️

Standing up for science in DC today! #standupforscience2025

Help our friends at the NSF: Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings. If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments. (comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

Pretty sure any followers I have will have seen this umpteen times by now, but a friendly reminder that tomorrow is the big day to come out for science! See you at the Lincoln Memorial if you’re in DC!

If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.

I am absolutely disappointed in @agu.org - despite many calls from members…still statement urging federal government to support #inclusion and #justice in #science. You just released such a statement for climate science so we know you can do it. You just don’t want to. news.agu.org/press-releas...

The people in power intend to completely annihilate scientific infrastructure, capacity, & research in the US. No institution will be spared if its mission is to advance science. Everyone is already a target, whether you speak up or not. So, institutions, consider speaking up.

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

This is a great thread

We literally worked through this exact problem in my "solar system for non-majors" course, and the students proved for themselves how impossible this is. Water is not stable! It cannot be stable! It is very easy to demonstrate this!

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.