We might also remind journalists on how to effectively report on these groups - crucially not doing the neo-Nazis' promotional work for them. write.as/thewhiterose...

National Socialist Network rallied with police permission at NSW Parliament. The state remains ineffective in responding to the advancement of neo-Nazi groups. Here are their faces sent to us by community members - help us ID them! write.as/thewhiterose...

Organic Kale sales vs Autism diagnosis rates. www.wmbriggs.com/post/58413/

Exactly. Why didn’t the government stop this in 1996 when the Farmer sisters bravely reported Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell??? That was 29 years ago. Inexcusable. #BelieveWomen #believeGirls www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/u...

Harvard secures a win in the fight with Trump over federal research funding. A federal judge said the Trump admin "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

The @eurekaprizes.bsky.social Eureka Prizes are always amazing. So many great people doing great work - and I love the Glam Sydney Town Hall venue! #EurekaPrizes

🏆 Octopus and Ice Sheet Team @marine-omics.bsky.social is awarded the Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Learn more: youtu.be/8H3bCE6wfjM #EurekaPrizes @janstrugnell.bsky.social @lausally.bsky.social @nick-golledge.bsky.social

🏆 Passport2Recovery @flindersuniversity.bsky.social is awarded the Department of Industry, Science and Resources Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science. #EurekaPrizes Learn more: youtu.be/nBNEAv0fDIU #EurekaPrizes

🏆 Dr Kamal Kant Gupta and Dr Jafar Shojaii are awarded the Department of Defence Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia. #EurekaPrizes Learn more: youtu.be/vuiDwHJ2AB4

To read the 337-page transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, is to be horrified, even enraged, by Maxwell’s brazen airbrushing of her conduct, and by Blanche’s placid acceptance of her rendition of events.

The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

The National Socialist Network / White Australia neo-Nazis are expected to gather in Bacchus Marsh this morning ahead of their national conference and weightlifting competition this weekend, following last night's stunt in Melbourne.

ARC say they’ll announce Linkage Projects & Laureate Fellowship by end of the month. Next Linkage Projects deadline (2025 round 2) has been pushed back accordingly. Better later than never, I guess 🙄. And the sort-of reason given sounds … weird, given that the new legislation started last July.

Trump’s Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Focused on Minority Groups Are Illegal, Judge Rules www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Fear and confusion mounted quickly on Thursday as international students, who make up more than a quarter of Harvard's enrollment, sought clarity or reassurance.

Breaking News: A federal judge blocked President Trump’s attempt to dismantle the Education Department and ordered officials to reinstate thousands of fired employees.

Breaking news: The US has been stripped of its top-notch triple-a credit rating by Moody’s on concerns about rising levels of government debt www.ft.com/content/e456...

No notes. h/t @ianbremmer.com

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Thank you, Australia.

Many major institutions - 100s of academic leaders - are organizing against trumps government overreach. Harvard is one such institution 👇🏽

The Australian people speak, delivering Anthony Albanese "a win for the ages".

The comprehensive nature of this win gives Anthony Albanese the chance to change the narrative of our politics.

The US president draws widespread criticism over an image posted to his Truth Social platform that shows him depicted as the pope seated in an ornate chair, dressed in formal papal clothing.

The Coalition is set for its worst result at a federal election after a crushing loss. Anthony Albanese last night claimed victory after swings across the country.

What’s really happening on college campuses — according to a former college board chair 👇

Students protested President Trump’s attacks on Harvard on Thursday, but at town hall meetings, defiance mixed with uncertainty as faculty members examined the toll of the White House’s actions.

The Trump administration said it would take $2.2 billion in research funds from Harvard. Some small donors are doing their best to make up for the shortfall.

The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV

Not sure I have this most recent numbers, but CalState students are about 15% percent of the total revoked visas.

Columbia is proof that appeasement doesn’t work. Harvard is doing the right thing.

Trump threatens to block all 10,000 international students from attending Harvard unless the school turns over student info they’ll use for new visa revocations and deportations. Every day feels like a fresh round of this country stabbing itself in the face. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Harvard rejected the Trump administration's demands to change its policies to keep billions in federal grants. Its president said the demands are unnecessary and infringe on free speech rights.

Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

Breaking News: Columbia University’s interim president resigned, one week after the school accepted demands from the Trump administration.

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

Countdown is on for the return of moundbuilder myth-esque "who actually built the mounds/made these belongings" questions to make their return to museum exhibits, since saying they are the cultural heritage of Indigenous people is also no longer allowed.

The onslaught of US spending cuts is prompting drastic action by universities across the United States, from hiring freezes to travel restrictions to moratoria on pay raises. https://go.nature.com/4bN2gnZ

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were confiscated & searched... his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump which “could be classified as terrorism” www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

“It was also unclear if Starlink communications were encrypted. At a minimum, the system allows for a network separate from existing White House servers that people on the grounds are able to use, keeping that data separate…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...