Wally has been nominated for an Eisner Award!!! 🥹 So proud of my little guy 💕

THE FARAWAY FOREST: WALLY’S ROUTE by @debbiefong.com ; color by Kayla Catanzaro ( @chroniclekidsbooks.bsky.social ) www.hbook.com/story/2026-s... #HBSummerReading #SummerReading #HBFamilyReading #FamilyReading #kidlit #BeginningReaders #Primary

For people outside the science bubble: over the last 3 years, NIH researchers like me were informally encouraged to avoid working with mRNA technology in grant proposals. Pharmaceutical companies rely heavily on discoveries made with public funding first. This is the result:

Honestly this. I don’t want MORE papers, I don’t want MORE conferences to attend, and I don’t want MORE meetings scheduled. I want a quality papers. I want a few good conferences that are representative of the field and an EMAIL summary not a zoom 🙂‍↔️

National Academy of Sciences experts denounce Trump’s NSF board purge

And some of you who are here from my #FWA #furryweekendatlanta thread might be like “what do you know!” I mean great question. So anyways I have a Masters in Communication and Public Engagement, a second Masters in Science and Society; and am finishing a Doctorate in Science Communication rn.

It’s time, Keir

The follow up this morning from the director of @furryweekend.com was about as bad of a non-apology as anyone could ask for. They stated that there were 15 staff on the con and despite having a full time dedicated office and being a for-profit con 🧵

I'm surprised there's no louder outcry regarding the fact that England came out as disproportionately fascist in the last local elections. I mean, you probably knew it if you were an immigrant. But dude.

I would also argue a large reason people aren’t applying to academic vacancies is because jobs in Higher Education mean …. Working in Higher Education. The systems which have failed them for anywhere from 4 to 10 years depending on the length of their program.

Capping this off to say, it’s a real eye opener when events fail. Vendors are in many ways your staff. They’re collaborating to make your event better and are a selling point to your event. People come to an event for good vendors. As an event - failing your vendors is a HUGE deal @furryweekend.com

Shutting down communication because it becomes critical isn’t helpful and shows no intent to resolve the issues. If FWA isn’t going to assist vendor staff and are actively making the shopping experience impossible for con-goers then I would consider boycotting. @furryweekend.com

There’s a fire and accessibility risk being created for no reason which seem bizarre. Only one door open for the AmericasMart room which is bottlenecking traffic and making it difficult for people to egress (for any person with a disability this HAS to be a nightmare) @furryweekend.com

Critical information only being relayed in a closed telegram chat is also a shock. No one can be added and screenshots recently were turned off. If you were a late addition to someone’s table as an assistant you are completely withheld from information @furryweekend.com

Staff have been disrespectful, patronising, rude, rejected assistance from more competent sources and they have cost vendors thousands of dollars for it. @furryweekend.com some examples. These are also interesting in that many things weren’t communicated to attendees OR vendors about the set up

There’s something to be said for organisations that have overlapping community that refuse to serve them in an equitable way. And as event organisers and planners it says a LOT about the directors and staff that drop the ball @furryweekend.com - people NOTICE.

And you would think that with how big @furryweekend.com has gotten they would want to learn from other large fan run cons in the Atlanta scene on how to be successful but instead it’s like they have doubled down on being absolutely terrible.

A bunch of friends and artists I know are at #fwa2026 #furryweekemdatlanta and it’s actually shocking how badly run this con is especially considering @furryweekend.com is utilising many of the same venues as @dragoncon.org - yet absolutely ZERO learned experience there

In a complete coincidence, this group matches the same 6 justices who just weakened the Voting Rights Act

What's great about this whole NSF dismissal is that so far the @democrats.org have only managed to "blast the decision" - exactly what else have they done other than whine about things? Can they actually get off their seats and action anything???

Waking up and looking across the pond to all my #NSF funded colleagues like 😬https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2026/4/28/trump-administration-fires-all-members-of-us-national-science-board

Can confirm. It's brutally obvious when students are using AI in their work but as a tutor we can do precious little about it other than flag to the professor we're grading for that we *think* AI has been used and hope they do something 🧵 thetab.com/2026/03/30/h...

Can it run Doom? go.nature.com/4luDk9F

Introductions to women. Free flights. Business deals. Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Harvard run deeper than previously known.

Eagerly waiting for @mit.edu to start cleaning house. I want to see people FIRED with NO severance pay. Computers and research seized. I want their names to be synonymous with pedophile. I’m EXHAUSTED with so many mediocre men still being lauded as geniuses when they are PERVERTS.

Yep

Off duty v On duty - also his new treat addiction is cat churu so Santa brought some! His vet in Paris put him onto it and he’s been obsessed ever since 😮‍💨 a sure fire way to get him to take ANY medication!

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

I guess @bobbyberk.bsky.social gave all his #QueerEye costars tips on illegally transporting dogs because will you look at that! That’s #AntoniP with his pet dog in a #servicedog vest to travel! Which is strange! I don’t remember either of them requiring use of a service dog in their work!

Over on Instagram @bobbyberk.bsky.social posted a whole set of photos of himself and his partner flying in cabin internationally with their dog. The comments are now full of people asking how they can do the same. Bobby is influencing in a way that harms disabled people - let’s talk 🧵

What’s funny is how the metro in France is hilariously and inhumanly disabled unfriendly and yet around the city I had the most access with my assistance dog ever. 🫠 it was embarrassing to the UK honestly.

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve been denied access in the UK with an assistance dog I would be insanely wealthy actually it’s becoming sort of a sick joke how often it happens @scottishgov.bsky.social

As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.

Dog and I half asleep in the business class lounge 😴 do not disturb

If Israel doesn’t want to be called a terrorist state then they can stop being terrorists committing a genocide on the Palestinian people. Until then call it exactly what it is. Words have meaning 🇵🇸

I can't emphasise this enough: WHEN YOU DELAY ACCESS TO CORE SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES BECAUSE YOU AS A SERVICE PROVIDER DO NOT UNDERSTAND ACCESS LAW YOU ARE DISCRIMINATING AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. #accessibility #disability #discrimination

Actually when I go to rent my favourite thing that I see is “you must have a registered assistance dog” that is just… so strange since, hold on let me check the law…. ah yes here it is:

You may be saying, well it's 2025 and the #UKEqualityAct2010 has protections against people with disabilities being discriminated against when it comes to housing - so Julie, when you go to find a place it must be really easy to just show them a task-trained assistance dog and gain access!

BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot and wounded an Al Jazeera journalist in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/z68e2t

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Anyone here into #marinescience and looking for work including #engagement and #outreach? incredible one of a kind job opening by Disney Careers right now in the Bahamas www.disneycareers.com/en/job/new-p...

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

Who thinks it’s time to write up a public exposé on my University with all the evidence of them protecting predatory staff, breaking the law, and committing criminal acts all in order to directly harm #disabledstudents #disabledinHEI #disabledinSTEM #disabledinacademics

Who thinks it’s time to write up a public exposé on my University with all the evidence of them protecting predatory staff, breaking the law, and committing criminal acts all in order to directly harm #disabledstudents #disabledinHEI #disabledinSTEM #disabledinacademics

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

It’s fall and he still won’t accept that coffee is not for dog