Last year I was trying to grow mint; it was plagued by bugs and generally not great. I put the last bits out in a spot where possibly the prev owner had a veggie garden (now rubbish). I figured if it makes it, great. We now have a massive collection of mint growing out in the rubbish bed. 😂 😂 🍹🍹

Aw fooey. I figured out a plan to see my dad for Father's Day, but my brother and his family leave town the night before. (That's *one* way to avoid tedious family get-together planning, given all the people who can't be in the same room with each other these days. 😭)

Not sure what to say? Dr. Ginexi (@elizabethginexi.bsky.social) has it covered!

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

Jasmine Clark is part of a growing conversation in the Democratic Party about age, one that increased in urgency after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race amid widespread concerns about his age and mental acuity, and after several House Democrats died in office.

I posted how I left town for a week and came back to having two papers accepted for publication; and one of my friends said I should take more vacations, and then said #posthocfallacy. 😂 Which made me chuckle. It's when we stopped teaching formal logic that we started going downhill. I tell ya.

Jason Bateman is right, it’s time to hold them accountable. #Pinks #USDemocracy

More on Vought’s proposed rule to kill science. Includes a great sample comment. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

ahem. If you're free on Saturday June 27 in Columbus OH and want to support a good cause -- 🏳️‍🌈💕 runsignup.com/Race/OH/Colu...

What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ

y'all, this is how the exec branch completely wipes out NIH, NSF and other federal funding of scientific research, in the name of "transparency". It's open for public comment, so please do! Text exists. More info at the link below, or see @jeremymberg.bsky.social fight2win.standupforscience.net

Oh that would be fantastic news. 💜💔

Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran.

Was just on the #BlueOhio monthly call hearing from the state house candidates. It is *inspiring* to hear from so many scientists around the state who are saying, enough is enough, we need to run for office!! #science #uspol (Scientists are gamblers at heart, after all. 😁 ) #vote

Did a day in Sandusky Ohio this week just to check it out. Like much of OH, its points of pride are all in its history. It's pretty grim now. But props to it for its role in the Underground Railroad! Good stuff, back in the day! 👍 Apparently most of the town was moving folks along to Canada. ❤️

I do love this fella's videos. 😂 The character is reminiscent of Screwtape. 🤣 And the points he makes are v. Informative! youtu.be/be5ZnQiZslE

(Time) Excellent analysis of the effect of Trump's new approach to green cards for people to STAY legally in the US (having to apply from overseas, not in the US). The effect on US industry, technology, science, with the potential loss of 100K very bright people: HUGE. time.com/article/2026...

Commence Vacation, Now! 😁 Got a week off (use it or lose it), and am very chuffed that I can do this and expect everything at work to keep trundling along. 🤞

We can see it coming. And the various bulwarks that have held it back over the past decades? --now ignored, shuttered, laid off, de-funded, disintegrated, turned into political toys. apnews.com/article/cong...

I have not really been able to keep up working on learning Japanese since this president started in on things. I'm not exactly whoppingly active in the resistance or anything -- it just takes more mental energy to keep existing and moving forward, and I don't have the spoons left for much else. 😔

Fun and games, trying to take care of an aging dad from three states away... sigh. (he's ok; no crises. But he's easily tired and disoriented, so he is not interested in exercise or anything new. Which is a reminder he's not the dad he was, who could make things happen and arrange adventures. 💔 )

This is terrible. ICE separated a single mother from her son, and deported her without him, leaving him in the care of her sister’s abusive ex. Who murdered him.

"Peak Marie Antoinette" is the best description of this!

SIGN YOUR SUPPORT for the Reinstatement of the National Science Board at this link: zurl.co/UPf5g 1/3

Miracle Rankin says the issue of abortion motivated her to run for Georgia’s supreme court. She told Bolts, “My daughter is living in a world right now where she has less rights than what I was born into. I also have less rights.”

-Trump wants to gut WIC's fruit and vegetable benefit for new and expecting moms -His EPA has rolled back environmental protections that keep air and water clean -His big, ugly bill sparked the closure of over 40 maternity care providers Trump never actually cared about moms or maternal health.

Well huh: "...the MAGA movement remains popular with those voters traditionally associated with it: older, rural, conservative men without four year degrees who consider themselves Born Again..." I think our current OH Rs are pounding into the unions that Trumpism is good for OH workers. 😕

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

Commentary: Ohioans struggle as lawmakers give handouts to billionaires and Trump fixates on a golden ballroom ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/06/o...

I'd definitely vote for that!!

Are you feeling all doom and gloom? Hopeless for the midterms? No light at the end of the tunnel? Gerrymandered into a coma? Read this from @jesscraven101.bsky.social chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/chop-wood-...

The President of the United States is a criminal. He SHOULD have been convicted for the crimes he led on January 6th, 2021. He WAS convicted of 34 felonies for corruption and harassment. Yet somehow, instead of facing the consequences he deserves, he’s running the government like a mob operation.

Good god. Driving to work today I drove past two gas stations selling at $4.85 a gallon this morning! $5 a gallon for gas! That should have big capital R next to it everywhere with pictures of Trump and all of them, saying "I did this!" 😡 War and lies about war... Madmen.

Amazing how sweaty one can get with just half an hour of weight lifting. 😆 However, I was able to lift my loaded carry-on into the overhead bin all by myself without any trouble on last week's trip! So, we have measurable results! 😁

Break for dinner!! 😁

I do love me some surrealism. A reminder of the joy of the unexpected. 😁

Fearing repercussions from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, University of North Texas administrators shut down a school gallery art exhibition that criticized ICE. Now, UNT art students are choosing to show their work ... anywhere but on campus. And Dallas-area galleries are stepping up to help.

I went to MOMA yesterday afternoon for a bit -- they had a Marcel Duchamp exhibit that was fantastic. 😁

In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.

Aww--my undergrads hung my poster for me since I was in a breakfast mentorship panel!! They are so sweet! 😁

Lovely research presentations yesterday and this morning! In the afternoon I met up with a friend, but the evening poster session was lively; and the reception was a hoot. 😁 It's a balm, to find your people. 😀 And the decor at the Hard Rock Cafe was stunning. 😂

It's rough watching your world get dismantled and science as a way of collecting evidence being destroyed; but talking about scientific research and findings and implications is still a serious boost. 😁

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

In 2026, It is more important to use our tax $$ to build a frivolous ballroom than it is to preserve what used to be gold standard science for the purpose of saving the lives of US citizens. 1500 science staff have left. Only 124 remain. 🧪 archive.today/3bkSw

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

The Case study of Vanitas seems worth watching. I'm 12 episodes in to 24 episodes and it's a lot of fun world-building. 😁 #anime

Lab meeting today was rapid-fire practice presentations for the conference next week. It was a mini-poster session! 😀

If the "US-Israel war on Iran" is what gets the world off of fossil fuels-- "More than 50 governments,.. will meet next week ... for the world’s first ever international conference on the transition away from fossil fuels..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...