PENN IS OUT! That means both institutions that signed prior agreements with the administration have said no. We're at 3 rejections. I told y'all once the second one hit yesterday, the clock started for the rest. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

CASSOWARY NEWS!! CASSOWARY NEWS!! @harpyeagle2021.bsky.social #2026MMM I feel like you need to see this. I showed Ongka's Big Moka in my economic anthro class last fall--where cassowaries are one of the prestations in the moka feast--and I wish I could capture my students' faces when they saw them.

my whole family (3 citizens, two of whom were children; one ~resident alien~) was detained by cbp (while visiting a park in arizona, not crossing a border) for a few hours in like 2003 with presumably little record of it, i’d guess these numbers are very, very low

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

A Solution to the CIA’s Kryptos Code Is Found after 35 Years www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-so...

Big baby Patch #cats

Look hard at the map and remember it. 🖤

The military show of force coincides with No Kings rallies and marches across the state on Saturday More on that from LA Times www.latimes.com/california/s...

if you feel a little alone in the face of all of this, attending a protest can be a great way to remember that you are not

Oh oh (redux) ... ‘This is bad news’: Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source. Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global #climate implications. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in Brazil.

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

AUROCHS!! #Zooarchaeology #HalafTwitter

Today JPL lost so many incredible people. My heart hurts for every single one of them. This administration is gutting American science institutions and throwing away hyper specific experts who cannot be replaced. This is an extremely detrimental loss.

Layoff notices at JPL are going out today. About 11% of the Lab, or 550 people, are being let go. I'm thinking of my friends and colleagues there, some of whom will still be employed after today and some of whom won't. I'm sorry you're having to deal with this.

Calling all #AfricanAmericanStudies scholars, please share this #RiceUniversity postdoc opportunity with your grad students. #Rice is a great place and committed to the work: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

More bleak Alaska typhoon news.

Hummingbird science!! Do it for my little hummingbird friend Tiktok, who just started her migration!!

This is unbelievably grim, especially when you account for all that coral reefs actually do, & the other species they house. Fight power-sucking data centers. Fight tooth and nail to get this administration out of power. Fight corporations that care about short-term profits more than the planet.

We’re BACK BABY. At Bad Art for Good, we’re gonna get together and make some art to make things better. How can art make things better? Creating makes us feel good! Art moves people! And we need a LOT of people to move right now! RSVP luma.com/w8v2xk5i

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

🚨 New paper out today in PNAS! We report the discovery of prehistoric hunting megastructures on the Karst Plateau (Slovenia/Italy) – several-kilometre-long dry-stone systems used to trap wild herds doi.org/10.1073/pnas....

Israel killed five today in Gaza. Hamas executing presumed collaborators. A cease fire, maybe, but no sign that either leopard is interested in changing its spots.

My power was turned off yesterday. Still waiting to hear from LiHEAP for assistance. I have about $200 left to cover to have my power turned back on. Thanks for any help! Venmo/Cash app: AmandaKFinley Zelle PayPal: [email protected]

The home of World Central Kitchen essentially getting aid.

This is the point of the National Guard. May everyone be safe as they help rescue folks in need.

"In Aotearoa New Zealand, hapori Māori (tribal groups) are the kaitiaki (guardians) of many threatened taonga (treasured) species. There is growing international interest in the resurrection of some of New Zealand’s extinct birds...despite Māori concerns." theconversation.com/return-of-th...

More torrential flooding

JPL is one of the biggest employers in Altadena, so a bunch of people who lost their homes and neighborhoods are now about to lose their jobs. That's, of course, not counting the 900 people who got sacked in 2024.

BREAKING #2026MMM NEWS!!!

Holy crap. This is terrible. The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

this is ESPECIALLY awful because quite a number of JPL employees were affected by the Eaton fire. Lose your house, lose your community, 10 months later, lose your job.

JPL is run by Caltech, one of the most prestigious research universities in the country, so this should probably be interpreted as part of the broader fascist war on higher education.

Nothing the current government does seems to have any reasoning beyond punishing high skill workers in Democratic parts of the country

Whether the Library of Alexandria was burned by design or was collateral damage, burn it did nevertheless.

fascists literally killing all the good parts of America (I think it was @timothysnyder.bsky.social that called it a "decapitation strike" early on, Nov 2024) snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

The Martian is a science fiction story, not because it takes place on Mars, but because it imagines a futuristic world where NASA still exists.

My dad is the former deputy director & what many people don’t realize is how much climate science JPL does & how badly that’s being decimated

Oooh I cannot believe how bad, bad, bad this is. So many projects that require years to develop that are half-finished, almost done, or in the planning stages are going to get axed, and for what?! DT's revenge tour is going to destroy *all* of the remaining good things in this country.

Absolutely heartbroken for my NASA-JPL colleagues. Tomorrow is going to be a challenging day 💔 [JPL Peeps- y’all know how to directly reach me. PLEASE reach out if you need anything. Love you Guys!!!]

Had not come across this paper before. Such a cool use of precisely known shipwreck dates to track the introduction of rats to North America. 🐀🚢

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

🧬 Microscopy Monday Challenge! Our mixed zooplankton sample is full of tiny swimmers — can you spot and guess any of the species in this clip? 🔍 Hint: Look at the antennae, spinning cilia, or little claws — that can give you clues. Drop your guesses below ⬇️

This is so sad. St Fagan's is one of my favorite museums ever. Just a phenomenal visit if you're ever in Cardiff www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

There have been some amazing new Ea-Nasir jokes recently.