If you haven't come across this one yet: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Walters: “Charlie Kirk inspired a generation to love America, to speak boldly, & to never shy away from debate. Our kids must get involved & active. We will fight back against the liberal propaganda, pushed by the radical left, & the teachers union. Our fight starts now." koco.com/article/char...

How Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist reshaped free speech on campus - NBC News apple.news/A7headZsPS_W...

“Mitra’s case, which multiple faculty said they believed was among the most egregious tenure denials they had ever seen, has already added to growing concerns about the fairness and accuracy of Harvard’s tenure system.”

Delighted to have just received my contributor copy of the Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century. I wrote the chapter on C19 feminism and women's rights

Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one. trib.al/84JYI0J

Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out! www.momentslab.org

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Q: Are there any other advantages to using ChatPerson over chatbots? A: Each of our server centers (human beings) only consumes enough water and electricity to sustain a human body in a modest studio apartment.

Are you considering moderating what you say in public (incl here) bc of potential for backlash, being doxxed/your family threatened wo legal recourse, being targeted by our own government, losing your job? Do you know people who are? Did you have this concern a year ago? That's what we've lost.

Enough about Oklahoma state education. How about a story from class today? Students were tickled pink when I used the word “hoodwinked” in class. (And they’d probably be tickled pink at my use of “tickled pink!”)

“The party's state committee passed a resolution calling on state lawmakers to make a state holiday for Kirk. The committee said he should have a holiday, like Martin Luther King Jr.” koco.com/article/okla...

Friends with ME/CFS! The incomparable Lenny Jason is working to develop consensus on a research definition and severity scales to use in studying ME. He needs your opinion! Takes ~15 mins but you can save and come back if you need a break. If you could also share this, that would be a huge help!

"This moment is about coming together to honor a man who believed in empowering the next generation with courage and conviction," Walters wrote. koco.com/article/char...

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

The huge numbers of spotted lanternflies that are showing up in DC, along side everything else, is kind of giving off biblical vibes…

The Groyper Wars

Welp, it’s time to publish this: Bluesky Moderation has affirmatively dropped the ball with respect to allowing the transgender community on this site to protect itself. I have a blocklist, titled “Transphobic”. You can’t see it. Bluesky Community hid it.

America, online: www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-wa...

I appreciate the threads and articles that collect Charlie Kirk quotes. apple.news/AfpxXyFhmQwi...

A pilot program would track people on parole and probation using AI to find patterns in where they go and how often they charge their devices.

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

New today in The Important Work: high school teacher Clayton Kistner draws inspiration from @bcmerchant.bsky.social's Blood in the Machine and argues that in the classroom, there is no middle ground when it comes to AI. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/i-am-a-pro...

Having a German dark lager and it is just what I needed after this day/week (yes, I know it’s just Monday)/semester/year. 🍺

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

lil squiddy sketch I did while sitting at the Grindhouse craft market last week

We’re excited to launch the official BlueSky profile of ISHPSSB! Founded in 1998, we connect researchers in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine worldwide. Follow us for updates and events! #PhilosophyOfBiology, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Biology, #Medicine

“The Philosophy department is now hiring an assistant professor who can tolerate the toxic environment of our department. Special consideration given to candidates who will take Dr. Warren’s side in her 30-year-old dispute with Dr. Wyatt, that Foucauldian asshole.”

I'm thinking about starting a little in-house library for my Feminism and STEM lab (we're re-launching TODAY!!!) Any book recs to add to my list? A mix of undergrad, master's, and PhD students involved

I’ve partnered with the Center for Wildlife Studies to make an online take-at-your-own-pace version of my “public science engagement using social media” professional development workshop. You can take it for graduate course credit, CPE credit, or just to learn a useful new skill.

There's still time to submit to HOPOS 2026 - The Sixteenth Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History and Philosophy of Science. June 22-26, 2026 at The Ohio State University. Deadline: 11:59 PM (PDT), September 30, 2025. hopos2026.dryfta.com/index.php

Paw Patrol is a biting critique of America’s public disinvestment in basic social services, and their outsourcing to eccentric man-child billionaires who worship technology

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

I think it's important to note that Venezuela is saying this didn't happen. They've recovered no debris, and they contend the video appears to be a deep fake. Yet crucially, the US media is mostly avoiding reporting this, or examining the video. www.cbsnews.com/video/venezu...

www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD... The ACIP public comment link only seems to be functioning through a direct search in the federal regulations page. Comment for universal Covid vaccine access and to give the admin a piece of your mind. Docket is CDC-2025-0454

Call for abstracts for a very nice and feminist-friendly social philosophy conference in Canada next summer! The theme is "Joy, Care, and Resistance" Good lookin out @nassp.bsky.social 💜

"It took her nearly two decades to find a permanent academic position. She found occasional work as a visiting professor, filling in for someone on leave for a year or two. She earned grants to fund her research... but she was often living on unemployment benefits" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...

Yep!

FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go… For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep! QUACK-O-GRAMS! act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Being unemployed sucks. My little Etsy business making lotions and beard oil has some leftovers from a craft show at the local coffee shop. Buy selected pre-made items at 25% off: etsy.me/41UPYG5 Or buy other things. If you want. I'm not the boss of you. I also now have pop-up paw & snout balm!

"Animal Farm" and "1984" grew out of author George Orwell's concerns about freedom being threatened not just by totalitarianism, but also by poverty and oppressive working conditions. A professor of philosophy and law explains: buff.ly/6oS3Viv #LaborDay

J.B. Pritzker smashing through the fascism wall like he's the Kool Aid Man

The book is published in open access format. You can find the free version via this link: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255293...