I know times are tight, but @psabortionfund.bsky.social does fantastic work. If you can give or just spread the word, please do

My niece asked for a pink play tool set for Christmas, and as her Gay Auntie, I felt morally obligated to buy it for her. She’s been wandering around in her sparkly pink princess dress “fixing“ things all afternoon.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

We did choose to keep Froggie home this week after hearing that five (5!!) kids from his nursery were sent home yesterday with fevers. He’s too young for the vaccine. But we can do this because we both have flexible working arrangements. Systemic measures matter.

My dad occasionally jokes that my brother failed to become a National Merit Scholar because I hit him over the head with a (very heavy) toy rotary phone when I was a toddler. (Specifically the wooden Fischer Price one.)

I have officially survived my first semester as an Assistant Professor.

1) I doubt that Altman usesChatGPT in raising his baby, if for no other reason than that this billionaire man likely leaves child-rearing to staff. 2) He’s telling new parents the same thing he tells students: Don’t trust yourself. Place authority in our word generator, not in your own judgment.

new piece: "I Was Visited By Silvia's Ghosts" Papier-mâché with acrylic and screen print. This is a piece about how feminism's necessity is also deeply exhausting.

In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile. It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵

Decades after her act of defiance, Rosa Parks galvanized a cadre of activists to protest their own conditions and, though the scope of her legacy for them is still coming into focus, it remains just as powerful.

Them: You know the Olympic torch relay just began. Me: Yeah, the flame is ancient but the relay itself was invented by Hitler to connect Ancient Greece to Germany for the Berlin Olympics Them: Always a ray of sunshine <laughs> Me: <sends link to my article> www.forbes.com/sites/drsara...

We have to talk about how this glorification of overwork is driving care downstream. To compete, men are incentivized to dump care onto women in their families. And women in privileged positions are then incentivized to push care onto others more vulnerable than them. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/b...

"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by three factors: (1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment...The three factors...are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes..."

1 like equals one clove of garlic going into my dish

I am sitting on the couch in my pjs, alternately knitting, answering questions on r/abortion, and woodshopping some of my Irish folk repertoire on my flute while my friends - also still in pjs - make an absurdly large amount of food. Best possible way to spend a holiday.

This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.

If you wake up tomorrow and need to travel I hope that you will take care and travel safely. And if you wake up tomorrow and feel unwell I hope that you will take care and not travel at all.

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

If I can finish rewriting this paper tonight, do the dishes, finish the laundry, and pack in the morning, then I can grade on the plane/in the airport and NOT HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WORK FOR FOUR AND A HALF DAYS.

This is caused by adults not maintaining their pertussis (whooping cough) vaccines. You should be getting a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine every 10 years. We have a baby coming in the family (my first grand nephew!), so my husband and I both got vaccinated this week.

it's almost like we can't afford to do performative Keeping Up With the Joneses shit

Advocates in South Carolina defeated a bill that threatened abortion patients with the death penalty, banned certain forms of birth control, and even criminalized speech like abortion referrals.

Writing "careful diet" about a guy who literally eats roadkill is proof positive that so long as you look thin, your diet will be praised as sensible and healthy. It's all about portion control with rotting meat from the side of the road, I guess. 🫠

The police shot and killed a man in my city this weekend within seconds of entering his home. Please consider donating to help Mr. Nunn's family deal with funeral costs and get through the holidays: www.gofundme.com/f/assist-eve...

Abedini posted on LinkedIn: “I’m relieved to share that I was released from custody tonight. It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had. My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, the Middle East Studies Association”

This is my alma mater.

Why I don't trust philo-Semitic conservatives, in one subtitle

hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires

These are the people that study mad cow disease (BSE) which leads to Creuztfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans (don't google if you don't want to freak yourself out), or the Chronic Wasting Disease deer have in the US. It's insane to stop research on these conditions.

The combination of diminished staff capacity and immense pressure to use new, but unvalidated, AI tools to replace it “could jeopardize FDA’s gold standard review process, leaving ... further uncertainty about whether FDA-approved drugs work and are effective." - @reshmagar.bsky.social

Five people have now died in the Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Ethiopia near the border with South Sudan. A total of 53 suspected cases have been tested so far. MVD is a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, with a case fatality rate that has been reported to range from 25% to 90%.

I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely! universityvacancies.com/university-c...

The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids… …is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys. At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org

“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Oh sure, I tell the kids the same thing every day but this guy is some kind of saint for saying it

a) these changes illustrate how the “smartness” in what’s framed as an individual smart or dumb choice (your major/grad degree) is determined by structural factors in how they’re rewarded, not their intrinsic value b) the illustration’s especially stark when those structural factors change overnight

When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:

Shout out to whichever of my very kind colleagues put my printing on my desk. I got up to go get it off the printer twice and managed to get distracted both times.

Leslie makes an incredibly important point. The systems that we currently rely on for abortion access are incredibly fragile and largely rely on a weird mix of legal gray area and massive volunteer efforts. We should pay attention to what is happening in the Philippines. We could easily be next.

I'm really sad to hear that the international abortion pill providers have had to stop sending to the Philippines due to an apparent customs crackdown.

If I had a dollar for every time a major news event has happened while I was giving a relevant lecture in my intro class, I could almost buy a soda from our hilariously overpriced vending machines.

Alice Wong helped me accept my disabilities. She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice. She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor. She won’t be forgotten. Don’t let the bastards grind you down: www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...

It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans. aspph.org/department-o...

The edge we had relative to China on research was free and open inquiry—fewer resources and a surveillance state will be toxic for US science.

Just buried in a paragraph and not highlight with a visual or anything: total global energy emissions WOULD BE 7% HIGHER if we had chosen to sit around and do nothing about this shit OUR ACTIONS MAY BE INSUFFICIENT BUT THEY ARE NOT FRUITLESS THERE ARE 2600000000000000 GRAMS OF FRUIT EVERY YEAR

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

So Dems demanded an extension on subsidies or else. Then they caved. The GOP being smart is now adding abortion restrictions to a subsidies extension forcing Dems to either sell out on abortion or vote no on the subsidies they demanded in the first place. They just keep getting clowned.