At least one journal has received a letter from the U.S. attorney for D.C. about alleged bias “The only plausible goal is to intimidate academic journals." - @sbagen.bsky.social If your journal is affected by this, i'd like to hear from you (signal = aniloza.16) 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/t...

Our government feels like when Scar took over after Mufasa died. Just a bunch of ecological damage and hyenas running around this mf.

“If we just sit back and allow ourselves to shrink back in the face of darkness and denialism, then we don’t deserve the jobs that we have." @jondoesscience.bsky.social on the need for researchers to speaking out. w/ @hollylynchez.bsky.social + Melissa Simon. Story: www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...

That’s the job.

“If large numbers of academics working in the U.S. do decide to leave, Gold doubts other countries will be able to absorb them all. The end result, he warns, could be an exodus of talent from global science. “My biggest fear,” he says, is that “we’re going to lose a cohort of researchers.”” 🧪

“Instead of doing the science, we’re in meetings about ‘Can I say diversity here, can I say trans-disciplinary, or is it going to be caught up in a word search?,’” she said. “We’re living in the Twilight Zone.” www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...

Hopping back into the saddle after a long time away from social media. I suppose if now isn't the perfect time to impotently shout into the void, when is?