for Renee Nicole Good, a poet and a mother

"waaaaait a minute, this is only TEN pieces of silver!"

We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ICE just point blank murdered a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis. Update call script here 👉 5calls.org/issue/ice-ra... 🔥📞🔥

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

I’m cold stratifying the milkweed seeds, I’m caterpillarcore, we’re butterflymaxxing, in my Lepidopt-era

Starting the new year with cat cuddles 😸

just want to remind folks that pushback and public outrage stopped them from closing the CDC library. i bet pushback will stop them here, too

Here's the process of creating this portrait painting of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. If you like portrait paintings with a feminist lean, and you want to see more, subscribe and share. #artprocess #portraitart #womeninstem #cosmonaut

"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

Both Covid & Influenza raise your risk of heart attack & stroke post infection. PSA: Don't shovel snow if you've recently had either (Sad this article doesn't mention respirators) globalnews.ca/news/1158922...

btw we see you coughing and sniffling with a fever but thinking "I could probably still go." the answer is no. please stay home. ❤️

When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.

Going to spite-read every line of this research article now 😒

Deadline Extended - This is your sign to submit your application for the 6th Annual Future Faculty Poster Session which will take place at #ORS2026. This is a great opportunity for those preparing for their first faculty positions. Apply by Jan 16: https://ors.org/2026futurepostersessions/

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves. capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

Finished up my running mileage for the week with 3.5 fun miles of ankle-deep powder 😄❄️❄️❄️❄️

Submit by Dec 31 for the @jorthopres.bsky.social Special Issue on Tendon Research! Build on insights from the ORS Tendon Conference 2024 and advance #tendonresearch & collaborations. Submit: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1554527x/call-for-papers/si-2025-000114

Minnesotans face off against ICE as they target Somalis.

Fired CDC director Susan Monarez is one of Nature's 10 people who shaped science in 2025. “I always challenge the status quo because that’s what you do in science,” Monarez told me. “You challenge it to try to do better, but you don’t compromise your moral and scientific integrity for expediency.”

This was a fun team effort with @grithhojfeldt.bsky.social Christian Hoegsbjerg, Arvind von Keudell👏 covering the full spectrum of human skeletal muscle regenerative capacity 💪 from sports🏃‍♀️to trauma 🏥 settings. Lots more work to do in this field! @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social

There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

Got an interesting early Christmas present from my cat 😐

Our #ORS2026 abstract on some early results of knee #MRI in hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos patients & healthy controls got accepted; excited to get to share our results in the poster session in a few months🎉 Good motivation to get back to recruitment and data collection!

Book 87 for 2025: The Magic of Pockets: A Feminist's Guide to Adding Pockets to Clothing That Really Should Have Pockets to Begin With by Jess Driscoll. This is a delightful little book with some fashion history & some down to earth techniques on making pockets. 1/2

Anna M. Horner and coauthors used ultrashort echo time #MRI and shear wave elastography #ultrasound to characterize microstructural and mechanical properties of Achilles tendon in non-dancers and professional dancers. Learn about their findings in JOR: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

One week left to apply for the 3rd Annual Postdoctoral Fellow Match Poster Session at #ORS2026. ORS Trainee Members (senior graduate/medical students, and residents) are invited to present posters showcasing their research goals. Apply by Dec 5: https://www.ors.org/2026futurepostersessions/

Stay engaged in science policy! FASEB hosts bi-weekly virtual Advocacy Town Halls with updates from Capitol Hill, action items for researchers, and ways to make an impact through outreach and advocacy. Learn more & register: https://www.faseb.org/meetings-and-events/events/advocacy-town-halls

Wildlife tracking! I'm reposting things I made this past year. If you look closely at the deer tracks you'll see I added the hint that they're double registering (hind foot is stepping into the same spot as front foot).

I have a very serious question for everyone- Where are all the squirrels pooping? There are a bajillion of them everywhere...but no poop to be found. I'm perplexed.

Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine. Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.

Cats are standing by, ready to help you wrap presents this holiday season. Photo from my collection, 1964.

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

Me: *asks MATLAB to find the 9 clearly-visible circles in the image* MATLAB:

Hard at work getting in her first nap of the day 😸

Good story on the records of those taken during the Chicago raids. Contrary to the administration's claims, few had records or reasons to be arrested. I know it's not surprising to many of us, but it's important that this type of in depth reporting is done so it's on the record.

#Caturday cuddles

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

“I’m Hispanic and I’m dark (skinned), so that’s why they picked me up,” Diaz, a U.S. citizen, said. “It feels scary because I’m wearing a target — you know, pick me up because I’m this color. It shouldn’t be like that.”

✈️ Heading to #ORS2026? Apply for the ORS Implant Research Section Travel Scholarship by Nov 19 for up to $2,000 in travel support for students presenting #implant-related research at the #ORS2026 Annual Meeting! Apply Now: https://bit.ly/4h51GVh

👋 Meet Lidan You, PhD, Professor of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at Queen’s University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology. Her work explores how cells sense and respond to mechanical environments. Full spotlight: https://bit.ly/488M1kH