Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

I'm becoming too acquainted with the feeling of dread, coupled with anger that the people best positioned to stop all this choose not to on a daily basis

went hiking in Palisades-Kepler State park yesterday and came across this combo of signs (unfortunately a little too early for wildflowers, but good birdwatching otherwise)

#PedSky #MedSky #Pulmsky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky #PainResearch🛟 🫁💊🧪 🌍⚖️

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

If you watched the live NASA channel and all the NASA programming you’ve gotta give it up to some of the best science commentators in the business. NASA is absolutely masterful at this and it’s important to note this is a priority for them. Not many other govt orgs do this level of public education.

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

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the "fun" part of being trans in the u.s. is learning what fresh hell awaits you every day. doing this on TDoV of all days just to really drive in the transphobia.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

as long as the water rights exist as they do now, there is an incredibly strong incentive to grow water-intensive crops. california's the worst about it, but arizona does this too.

one of the strongest patterns of u.s. history is white people choosing to protect their whiteness over anything else, even when it's a "cut off your nose to spite your face" situation. MAGA has always been violent towards women; these women thought their whiteness would protect them.

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

They have money for war, but won’t feed the poor x 11000000000.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

please help trans kansans and their families, if you’re able. everything helps.

the trans agenda is for me and my friends to fucking survive.

landing only one clean quad toe is a sign to me that perhaps she does not have this jump at all. that many falls just has to hurt something fierce.

this is unsurprising to me. i have turned down anything, and i do mean anything, that would risk my health insurance. i can't afford that precarity in my healthcare, even if it means that my career gets held back.

a two-for-one because i have two cats and they are the most recent photos on my phone. my little tuxedo kitty is a flannel thief and steals them off the coat hook so she can snuggle on them

This leaves Josh Turek and Zach Wahls in the D primary Don’t sleep on Iowa. It’s a longshot but no more than Texas Recent Change Research poll has Turek/Wahls trailing likely R nom Ashley Hinson by 3 More in my @washingtonmonthly.com Senate preview washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/13/d...

🇰🇿 Mikhail Shaidorov has just earned the first figure skating gold for Kazakhstan at the Olympics! #MilanoCortina2026

Adding onto this... eat veggies even when you're eating "junk food" My pizzeria does a really good garlic broccoli dish so I always order it when I order pizza. Get a vegetable dish when you order American Chinese food

even before i came out, i had never, not once in my life, gone by my legal name or anything close to it. there are so many people in my life who just use a name they like!

#PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁💊 The continuous use of #TearGas in recent months is leading to contamination of nearby buildings and businesses, chronically exposing people inside. Thanks to @ashliblow.bsky.social for the interview.

I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote the food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide COLOR TASTE TEXTURE. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience required. My goal is to help kids avoid food related trauma and offer a balm of kindness for anyone who couldn’t escape it.

Journalist Sarah Jeong recently convince her editors at tech news site @theverge.com to let her review the best gas masks for 2026. Sadly that's the tech we need in the USA now. www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

this article is from June 2020, but i would suggest to my fellow pain researchers that this is something we can meaningfully affect: both tear gas and pepper spray are designed, fundamentally, to inflict pain, and we can speak against their use

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

Well, for starters: ✔️ Publicly funded/universal healthcare (including dental care) ✔️ Investment in air-cleaning technology for indoor spaces ✔️ Required masking in medical/hospice settings ✔️Tuition-free higher education ✔️ Universal childcare ✔️ Universal senior citizen care ✔️ Guaranteed basic income

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.

nine years old

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

To add to this, almost all of the U.S.’s problems are linked to its hatred of Black people and that it hates Black people more than it loves anyone else. Our laws and policies are largely based on making sure Black people (and sometimes other groups) don’t benefit even at the expense of others.

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

Excited to share @rbrianroome.bsky.social ‘s beautiful paper on development of the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord @science.org This is how the anatomical organization and cell types that process pain, touch, body position and more are laid down. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally ... by armed forces of the United States of America against targets in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in clear violation of Article 2 of the [UN] Charter" www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...

what the fuck did I just wake up to

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

made a phenomenal giant cinnamon roll using a cardamom brioche base

A new story at The Transmitter about the PRECISION Human Pain Network's new DRG cell atlas: www.thetransmitter.org/peripheral-n... So rewarding to hear about colleagues who are already using our datasets in their own work.

As winter solstice approaches, resharing a small poem of longing from a poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent the latter half of his life in Taiwan. He died there in December seven years ago, in 2017. Yu Guangzhong, "Nostalgia" - in his handwriting, alongside my translation #everynightapoem #余光中

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. - Raymond Carver, "Late Fragment"

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

how is this not just outright data fabrication? genuinely if you came up to me and said "well i couldn't get any human participants so i had ai guess the human response and now i want to generalize my data to humans", i would call that data fabrication with extra steps.