You can still participate in the Zoom of UNESCO's celebration and discussion: unesco.org/en/articles/...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 The EMBO Women in Science Lectures address issues related to gender and diversity in science. Find out more and apply here: https://www.embo.org/funding/lecture-travel-and-childcare-grants/women-in-science-lectures/

One of the biggest contributors to scientific scepticism among laypeople, IME, is these idiotic nutritional epi studies that come out with conflicting results every year and are uncritically picked up by credulous journos looking for clickbait. Get in the 🗑️. #episky #statsky

Ralph Ellison writes that “The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism.”

We have updated DetentionReports.com with the most recently released data from ICE. Many people have asked that we add a map to the home page. We have added this feature. Click one of the blue icons to proceed to the report of the corresponding detention facility. detentionreports.com

As communication and information-sharing suites developed under idealism and local-network electronic paradigm have been snuffed-out, replaced with proprietary ideas that aren't yours and cycle with the year. SMTP is the final light of a dying dream. And that is why SMTP is the last protocol.

All sorts of horrid records in the #Epstein files. This one is about a complicated investigation of targeted harassment & much worse in South #Australia, mentioning many SA politicians but also a small hotel owner, the alleged victim (& ex-husband & others) by name. web.archive.org/web/20260131...

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle, and timeline cleanse. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Have a listen. interlude.hk/chamber-musi...

I missed this at the time as an ambitious young mother and scientist (life has sanded down sole of those sharp edges), but all that is described resonates...

My latest dispatch from Planet Ficus: A reader’s childhood memory led me to an unexpected link between folklore, Indigenous naming practices and a microscopic enigma.🧪🌏 planetficus.substack.com/p/mysterious...

“No one walks alone.” havenwatch.org/about

Short read about allowing children to fail small to learn how to psychologically survive larger setbacks in life later on. Good callout to Martens' book. As in games, losing does not make the child a Loser for good, though the temporary pain stems from that fear. www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

This is a tour de force. Conservative economist who sounds like Elizabeth Warren. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Turn out the yard lights. PLEASE. (gift article) wapo.st/4kily8K

Tonight a new bassoonist showed up at our wind orchestra rehearsal and it was deeply cringe for reasons I will only take the time to explain if you are curious and ask about it.

I keep seeing this without alt/text so here it is with alt-text

The text after that ... in the quoted post is: "Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post"

I don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"

🐛🐞🦋Small to 🦡🦌Large to 💦🦆 to Dry 🌵🏜️ 🐝 Inspired 🪻🪷 No Paywall 🎁 link We Asked for Environmental Fixes in Your State. You Sent In Thousands. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

> As she was on the ground, the agents dumped out her purse, found her U.S. passport and left the scene, according to SEIU. < It occurs to me that many of the DoJ prosecutors who’ve refused to work for Bondi’s mob would be more than happy to take on some of these cases *against* the same.

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

They have placed an emphasis on watchfulness, on care, on safety and calculated risk, all qualities that characterized dissidents in the Soviet Union & characterize them today in Tehran and Beijing. A step in the direction of *how* to live in a society with the Others who want YOU gone/neutered.

Imagine your tormentors cut off your access to heat of any kind in these dark days, as has been done in Palestine and Ukraine. Where drones and bombs haven't already destroyed, hunger, lack of shelter and cold are weakening civilian populations under siege for years. We mustn't normalize or ignore.

“You’ve got all the alarm bells going off that this is political as opposed to legitimate,” Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, told us.

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Yes, you can and should make some time in tribute. youtu.be/Rr0KSDzOR8Q?...

Paper in review and two in limbo on bioRxiv.

How to turn your most aggravating student emails into a chance to spread joy: Faced with a flurry of grade complaints at the end of each semester, Danny Oppenheimer found a way to respond that generated positivity for students and himself. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-t...

The difference with Renée Good's martyrdom is scale, not substance. A doctor recalled her colleague's experience. Doctors protested... but they were told to stop speaking or asking questions. “They were standing over their (ER workers) heads with a gun, telling them not to touch (the wounded).”

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I had this very thought today, that my definitions of science and scientist are slipping into minority usage. It is the consequence of not preserving the ivory tower. Universities have been incentivizing "intellectual property" in my field the last 40 years. Of course the paradigm shifts.

New paper from my lab and my first PhD student's first chapter on urban caracal and artificial light at night authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

"ICE ordered mobile license plate readers from Motorola Solutions in the fall & renewed a contract for Thomson Reuters’s database, which boasts more than 20 billion plate scans, including from private surveillance video feeds." [TR=Big Capital. Clarivate f'd up science. Now hunting your neighbors.]

Present for Mr. Walker’s posthu­mous exon­er­a­tion was his son Ted Smith. In emo­tion­al tes­ti­mo­ny he shared how his moth­er nev­er recov­ered from Mr. Walker’s exe­cu­tion & strug­gled with alco­holism. ​“I’m 72 years old & I still miss my dad­dy,” he said through tears. eji.org/news/texas-e...

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Then these help the Maine immigrant community plus others. @maineneeds.bsky.social Maineneeds.org Maine Health Food Pantry www.mainehealth.org/maine-medica... foodforallservices.org www.foundationforpps.org www.presentemaine.org Maine Solidarity Fund www.mainesolidarity.org

"No application of armed violence can make the men [and a few women, alas] with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors."

Gift article. Paywall free. Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: A Searing Scene Provokes Outrage www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

into 1967. The Grenada incident is a reminder that school integration wasn’t just a legal battle — it was a physical one. Black children risked their lives simply to claim the education they were promised. And like so many civil rights flashpoints, Grenada rarely appears (cont)

The song about "a little piece of Poland, a little piece of France," from the 1983 Mel Brooks movie remake of "To Be or Not To Be," a tribute to the also excellent Jack Benny 1942 movie of the same name. Satire is more important than ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VM6...

In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis

We can do more than witness from afar by sending aid to the front lines, even as they shift and move. I chose the WFMN today. www.wfmn.org/funds/immigr...

I don't know about you, but this is ... nourishing right about now, too.

The whole interview is worth it

There is a vigil in 45 minutes. I am still feeling sick from tear gas and not going. But at 7pm CST, whoever you are and where ever you are. Go to your street corner. Light a candle. If you are someone who prays, pray. Shine a light for Minnesota!🕯

Ooh. I like this one: "What resources would your improvement require, and would spending them that way be a good investment? (Those resources, of course, could also be devoted to other pieces of science.)" Good practice for writing and reviewing grants.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.