They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Shawn and Destiny Jackson's 6 children were endangered when ICE threw flash bangs and tear gas at their car. 911 instructed Destiny on how to do CPR. "When we did finally get out the car, of course, my baby was lifeless. So, I did the CPR and mouth to mouth." An extraordinarily composed couple.

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

Thank you, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, for this public service; we have all wanted to see the protocol of this deeply unethical trial being funded by RFK Jr in Guinea-Bissau, I’m grateful you obtained it and have published it insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

At a time when multiple federal departments run by Donald Trump have posted Nazi slogans or imagery or songs in the last week—with the total number of incidents being impossible to count just on one hand—Trump is now demanding lists of Jews from U.S. institutions. Time to wake the fuck up, all.

looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”

Shouldn't it be a bigger story that the immigration cops are seizing and imprisoning people who CANNOT POSSIBLY BE IMMIGRANTS

New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from the upper Burgi Member, Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

this would be a strong demand for the funding fight as well bsky.app/profile/stev...

lots of political space to convert those “not sures” into somewhat supports and those “somewhat supports” into strongly supports on eliminating ICE. also, with a funding battle coming up, plenty of political space to say “no government funding unless we claw back last year’s new ICE funding”

Kyle Rittenhouse thinks the murder of an American citizen in Minnapolis by an ICE Nazi is hilarious. 😳👇

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...

It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.

All of that pain and suffering was for… nothing. People have a right to their pain; they don’t have a right to inflict it onto others. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Paul Singer, whose firm owns the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, spent millions in 2024 to re-elect Trump. Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment. A government of, by, and for the billionaires.

"If we hadn’t already, we’ve unquestionably joined the league of ordinary nations—a league in which we’re acting as little more than a bully, and in circumstances in which no obvious principle of self-defense, human rights, or even humantarianism writ large justifies our bellicosity." Me on Maduro:

The GOP is dominated by gutter trash bigots.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

Human Evolution in Backwaters, Satellites, and Republics: How Political Change Impacts Paleoanthropology in a Shifting Landscape of Winners and Losers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy to highlight an essay I wrote together with @marcdemanuel.bsky.social, @natanaels.bsky.social and Anastasia Stolyarova, trying to think through what sets the mutation rate of a cell type in an animal species: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)

We are excited to announce a new collection - Powell-Cotton Museum! Did you ever need more Chimpanzee or Colobus hand bones for your project, or perhaps some Gorilla tibiae and femora (and more)? Visit the collection and explore! human-fossil-record.org/index.php?/c...

This picture was taken in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Malcolm brought Muhammad Ali to Townsend Drug Store—one of his old haunts where he also worked as a soda jerk. Bill Russell brought him & his people to Slade’s in South End/Lower Roxbury. THESE are Boston images Black America should know.

The Workday Paradox: In order to submit a vacation request in Workday, I need to take vacation time (about four days) so that I can learn how to submit a vacation request in Workday.

Longitudinal assessment of total daily energy expenditure in professional cyclists supports a maximal sustainable metabolic ceiling www.cell.com/current-biol...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

AI boosters: this technology will create a utopia where everyone has the time and resources to do as they please! AI in reality:

Updated FDA org chart from BioSpace: nearly 90% of sr leaders who were at FDA a yr ago are gone. Most FDA employees are usually "career staff" who worked 4 multiple FDA commissioners & yrs of training 2b knowledgeable incl cell & gene therapies. Pazdur had worked 4 Bush, Obama,Trump & Biden #medsky

@anthrofuentes.bsky.social and I are working on a letter regarding the archiving of #NSF #DDRIGs in the #SBE Directorate and impacts on our fields. What did you/your students discover as a result of a DDRIG award? What other impacts resulted from the award? Post here or DM. Please repost for viz.

On Dec. 7, we’re taking you to Albany, Georgia, and telling a story as we never have before. In a new 5-part series, ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social pursues one question: “Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?”

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

How did I completely miss TV on the Radio in grad school/early career? (Note: the question contains the answer)

Gender-affirming care saves lives

Had a really great experience at #aaa2025. Had been pretty pessimistic going into it, but was part of a wonderful panel, many productive meetings, and new connections. Now to get to the end of the semester so I can pick up those new threads…

Fell down a literature rabbit hole all day about the debate over protein degree/connectivity and evolutionary rate. Then, for fun, asked an LLM about it to see its answer. Wow, things predictably don't bode well for grad students who rely on those tools to do the reading and thinking for them

I would support a system in which reviewers get credits to offset/waive APCs so as to align an interest in valuing the labor and valuing access

Morphological variation in the manual distal phalanges of chimpanzees (<em>Pan troglodytes</em>) in relation to tool-use behavior www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

During #AAA2025 seems like a good time to re-up this. LMK if you have any questions about UGA or life in Athens!