During my visit to the Whipple Detention Center today, armed agents confronted us, ICE sprayed peaceful protesters and press with pepper spray and I was denied my legal right to conduct official oversight. This is Donald Trump’s America. And I’m not done fighting.

NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

There has been a helicopter circling low over my house for the last four hours. It is maybe four houses' worth of height above me. Here is the flight path. globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a997ac (I live about two blocks from where Renee Good was murdered in Powderhorn.) Why might it be doing that?

This is Christian Miranda Romano. He is a teenager and an American citizen. Last year he said his goal was, “In five to ten years, I want to be taking care of my mom and siblings”. Yesterday, he was working at a Target in Richfield, MN when ICE kidnapped him (link to video below).

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

my man, you’re talking about the people who killed George Floyd

If you need inspiration to keep going right now, may I recommend the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a confederate steamboat and piloted his family and almost 20 others to freedom and went on to become one of the first Black people elected to Congress ✊🏽 www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...

Renee Good, by all accounts, was a radiantly compassionate person who believed deeply in cultivating care for ourselves and others. Honor her memory by reading her wife’s remembrance of her life, and by not letting jackboots menace or terrorize you with footage of her death.

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

this is very strongly how my spouse and I feel, having moved here from Texas only four years ago.

To be clear this is a heartbreaking and beautiful statement from a wife in mourning, that's most important. But also the fact that I've seen a dozen articles with comments from a grandpa across the country and about Renee's deceased husband and this is the only one about her wife I've seen is vile.

Home from SICB. spouse took me by the autonomous zone to see on our way from the airport. It's so surreal: this all happened about two blocks from my house. It's all so personal. Her car hit a car in front of one of the yards with the dinosaur.

"Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins. Vance knows. He doesn't care."

NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:

One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.

This is confirmation that the Trump administration knows ICE agents can be prosecuted. Minnesota should set up a national tipline.

i am absolutely empathetic to a man whose lost his daughter. however, there is at least one other person who is an obvious participant in this child's life. and as a lesbian it is difficult not to consider the underscoring that is suggested here

btw, this is why marriage equality is meaningful. this is why i balk at people saying it's nothing but privileged cis gays assimilating. trans couples, immigrant couples, couples with kids, couples with assets where one is sick or unwell or dies, couples where somebody needs hospital visiting rights

This is heartbreaking, and also upsetting to see it amplified instantaneously when video shows her wife crying and talking about their kid at school. We have no idea what kind of family dynamics are at play and a same-sex partner is vulnerable to being muscled out of the story, so we should use care

You can’t train an evil organization to not behave evilly. You have to destroy the evil organization.

What a #SICB2026 conference! If you’d like to talk science and monsters with me on YouTube (Monster vs Data!) let me know below! Tell your colleagues too! gformsapp.com/f/1uLFcN-EsG...

"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Dozens of feds, large MPD response, an observer saying he's a physician and had a gun pointed at him for checking the victim's pulse

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

For reference, the ICE shooting was about two or three blocks from my house. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck is wrong with this fucking country and why am I in fucking Portland right now

What in the actual fuck

Next in #sicb2026, @noahwithfish.bsky.social talks about a study of neurodivergent faculty with various dxes. Higher workload correlated with more distress, collegial support negatively correlated with burnout while higher masking positively correlated with burnout.

At #sicb2026, Susanna Acheampomaah gives us strategies for teaching students with visual impairment of all kinds—from "total blindness" to more common "functional blindness". Good to remember that students come with very different visual challenges & that you can't assume student ability w/o asking.

Pleasantly surreal, after 23 years of quiet masking and code switching, to be sitting in #sicb2026 's Disability and Neurodivergence in the Biosciences Symposium today. I cannot underscore enough how weird and nice—and slightly scary—the feeling is.

Really neat #sicb2026 work from @helen-stec.bsky.social showing different chromatin modeling in guppies depending on reproductive state. Esp cool: virgin and post-partitution females have more open chromatin than gravid females, including at least one immune gene that is inaccessible while gravid.

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!

I am recruiting postbacs for my parakeet sociality and cognition project, ideally to start in Feb/Mar this year. Help spreading the word would be appreciated! More information and application link available here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...

#sicb2026: @oceanfilly.bsky.social kicks off by asking the hard questions: Males! What exactly is the point of them?

Next at #sicb2026, @emilbsmith.bsky.social walks us through reasons that outcrossing is expensive. Why do we see it so much? Parasites and the red queen... Criticisms of red queen: only seems to work with really virulent parasites and only tested in host/parasite dyads, not larger groups.

Augh! @martinebotany.bsky.social starting off his #sicb2026 talk by earworming us all! Functional dioecy in Solanum plants despite flowers LOOKING cosexual... which means that you get occasionally leaky cosexuality. One of those places where plants are wonderfully weird in terms of sexuality.

#sicb2026: @jacanamama.bsky.social points out that females also display plenty of elaborated traits. Both females and males socially compete for nonsexual resources as well as sexual resources--insight from West-Eberhardt that could use more empirical testing.

Strong start from @e-v-griffith.bsky.social 's #SICB2026 talk on hormonal changes in birds and plumage changes: why does Lily (15yo mallard hen) look so patchy? Because her ovary shut down, she produces less estrogen—meaning that she's no longer actively suppressing bright colors. But is that all?

Neat #sicb2026 talk on monk parakeets by @yuchenchen0531.bsky.social finding that most aggression is sex agnostic, although males tend to initiate slightly more. Love the point that it's important to look at intersexual aggression, especially in highly social species like monk parakeets.

Really enjoyed @the-bug-hut.bsky.social 's #sicb2026 talk on sexual selection as a driver of new traits that can drive new opportunities for natural selection. Absolute flurry of interesting examples across time, space, and phyla. Great job!

Is live skeeting conferences still a thing, or is it something that scientists have largely abandoned? I was doing some of that yesterday for #sicb2026 in the same way I would have in 2020, but shut up because I didn't see anyone else doing the same thing and got shy. How are we using Bsky today?

Made it to Portland for #SICB2026 and I respect their crustacean overlords

Super excited for the endocrine flexibility workshop coming up at #SICB2026!

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Who’s going to #SICB2026? Hope to see many of you there!

Found I lost my passport en route to Portland via the nice man at the ticket counter calling for an "Erin Gaugno?" (The question mark was very much audible.) That's a new one on me, but I'm very glad to have the passport back.