Pam Bondi brought a document to the Judiciary Committee today that had my search history of the Epstein files on it. The DOJ is spying on members of Congress. It’s a disgrace and I won’t stand for it.

"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."

A poem about spring. 'Cause maybe I can manifest it into being.

What the hell is happening. No criminal record. Valid work permit. Married to an American. Locked in a cold, dank El Paso detention center for 5 mos. while the U.S. tries to deport him. Why? #Ireland #ICE #immigration

🧬🌍 Abstract submissions for #ISMB2026 are open! Share new, in-progress, or recently published work with a global audience at the largest international meeting in #bioinformatics and #computationalbiology! 📅 Deadline: April 9 📥 Details: https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/call-for-submissions/abstracts

This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop. Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government. This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

🦠🧪🧬👇

Playing with sandbox.bio. This was remarkably cathartic.

Portland City Council member

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Me looking at any analysis I've ever run my life

“Bark in a typhoon” is a fitting instruction for these days

To those American academics out there who have chosen to remain silent/mostly silent about the horror going on in the USA these days at every corner of the federal government, please start speaking out and fighting back.

they are killing the helpers. the american government is killing the helpers, the people Mr. fucking Rogers talked about.

genuinely stunning image

We’ve had Snowmaggedon and Snowpocalypse. This one is ❄️ DYSNOWPIA ❄️ What do you say @capitalweather.bsky.social????

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

democrats are scared people will think theyre against this

AI is part of what’s killing adobe but not in this sense. You can’t open Acrobat without it bugging you to use its AI. You can’t toggle it off. Everybody hates that shit. Nobody wants it. This will be the fate of every company trying to force AI

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

Horrible violence against a protester in California: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Heartbreaking 💔

WHAT???

I'm gonna try it!

ALERT: Congress may flat-fund science, but Vought, Bhattacharya, Memoli & RFK still have a bag of dirty tricks: impoundment, multi-year funding, termination of programs, appointment of cronies to leadership, changes in scientific review to ratfuck research in America. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

"They carried her out like a sack of fucking potatoes." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The Stowers Computational Biology Scholars program is open and accepting applications until February 9th. This is an excellent way for early career bioinformaticians to gain experience and mentorship. www.stowers.org/gradschool/c...

Pretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump invaded a foreign country and kidnapped their leader, bombed their capitol, and is holding a press conference about it - not at the White House - but at his resort.

It’s not even “are these people racist?” It’s “do these people have any beliefs at all besides white supremacy?”

My twelve-year-old daughter's Christmas haul included a cassette Walkman and a Discman, and music to play on both. Yes, part of it is STRANGER THINGS. But part of it is the seemingly inevitable swing towards throwback tech, coupled with the current longing to be LEFT ALONE TO LISTEN TO SHIT

"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation." --Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Here’s to 2026

Good! An early insight of human centered design is that it was possible to reduce airplane crashes by introducing tactile switches and toggle that did not create confusion or require people to take their eyes away from their core tasks donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-origin...

This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

Little drummer boy: *drum solo* Mary, having just given birth: great

Original opinion piece in PNAS: The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

legitimately love this guy.

I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...

This entire weekend

The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.

🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" has received £500k over 2 years. - mentoring expert contributors - modernising infrastructure - improving governance - strengthen communication and outreach www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...

⏳ One week left to submit your #ISMB2026 tutorial proposal! Share hands-on training that builds skills across #bioinformatics and #computationalbiology. 🗓️ Deadline: Thursday, December 18, 2025 🔗 https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/call-for-submissions/tutorials