• Submit a comment opposing the destruction of 🇺🇸 science; • Pressure every org, professional body, association, uni, etc. you are affiliated with to submit the strongest possible comment opposing this calamity (highest ROI move for most of us) • Make sure your electeds see those comments 🧪

"NJ Governor Sherrill says she’s been denied entry into Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark... Roughly 300 detainees had gone on a hunger strike to protest conditions they describe as inhumane." DHS denies the strike is happening. 🎥 from @nj.com: www.instagram.com/reel/DYxIJaO...

During the immigration raids in Minneapolis, Robert Rice (White Earth Ojibwe), the owner of Pow Wow Grounds, gave away thousands of pieces of hot fry bread to protestors and activists, keeping demonstrators warm and fed at a time of upheaval.

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

Scientific research is the most international endeavor in human history. These escalating restrictions on who U.S. scientists can collaborate with are just xenophobia (plus nationalism, plus fascism, plus hatred of knowledge and people who know things).

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Six environmental activists from around the world have been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. For the first time, all six winners are women. One of them is Yuvelis Morales Blanco, who helped stop fracking along Colombia’s Magdalena river. Inside Climate News buff.ly/i87iLhC #ShareGoodNewsToo

NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"From ICE detention to center stage: The Texas mariachi brothers opening for Kacey Musgraves"

Last year I looked at NIH grants for which the the titles had changed in the course of administrative renewal. These title changes were part of the negotiations required between program officers and applicants (a process referred to as "remediation" by Deputy Director Jon Lorsch). 1/5

“I don’t want to be one of those people that sat,” said Libby Blyth, an accountant who drives people to work who are afraid of being spotted by ICE and delivers food to families in hiding. “I don’t want to be somebody’s history lesson.”

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

If you've seen this piece before, "The New American Gothic" by Criselda Vasquez, Then heartbreakingly, I have to inform you that—according to Vasquez's Instagram as of 4/03/26—Vasquez's father has been taken by ICE. GoFundMe below to help financially support their family.

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

At #ORS2026? Don't miss "Advocating for Impact: Shaping Public Policy and Funding the Future of Orthopaedic Research". This advocacy workshop features AIMBE Executive Director Dawn Beraud and Former NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Michael Lauer at 2:30 - 3:30 PM on Sunday 3/29

Grateful for this accessible rally as I don’t feel comfortable attending in person with my recently dislocated shoulder at risk of re-injury, but I want to at least be counted. #NoKings #NK3AR

Once governing bodies claim the authority to decide who qualifies as a woman & require medical proof to back it up, that authority doesn’t stop with transgender athletes. It extends to any woman whose body falls outside expectations. You're about to see it in action.

Cats are such graceful, majestic creatures

1/2 Among other things... The government is still silently withholding appropriated money for science. There is real damage being done to our current and future health because of actions that are extremely unpopular AS SOON AS PEOPLE HEAR ABOUT THEM. You can help by raising your voice this weekend

Won't you be mine? 😆😍 (h/t @sarahmackattack.bsky.social ) 🌊 🦑 @deepstewardship.bsky.social @deepoceanobs.bsky.social

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

Choose your fighter: badass women edition

Happy Valentines day! 🩷🎀✨️ Aside from the people in my life, my biggest love has always been the creatures on our planet

I would ask people to call or message their senators about this and specifically that Vinay Prasad needs to be out at FDA. Even the Wall Street Journal has said as much. There is push back. Companies won’t fund clinical trials if they can’t trust the FDA.

Want to send filament to 3D printers making community safety whistles, don't want to support Amazon? @protopasta.bsky.social has committed to helping out: proto-pasta.com/products/the...

NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that ICE has or plans to open more than 150 facilities around the US, in nearly every state, many near major metro areas. @leahfeiger.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

Early morning data analysis is greatly improved by the addition of a lap-cat 💛😸

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story

This guy got beaten by a bunch of masked thugs whose salaries are paid by our taxes simply for being Mexican. Help him out.

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

In about a week, the Senate is expected to vote on giving ICE and Border Patrol BILLIONS MORE in funding. Together WE can stop that. Call your senator TODAY and urge them to vote NO! #ICEout #WeFeedYou

Dinosaurs Survived! All 15 designs so far. www.emmalerae.com/store.html

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

When skiers can say what democratic leaders should be screaming youtu.be/1JvQ_IxWVbM?...

What the literal fuck is a flag, my guys? I wish the IOC a very get run over by a bobsled.

A friend in Idaho just shared that earlier today ICE showed up & surrounded her kid’s preschool with guns drawn, and took away one of the preschooler’s dads 😞 Absolutely horrifying.

Indigenous fire stewardship brings rare Ontario prairie back. After nearly disappearing, the Black Oak Savanna at Alderville First Nation is thriving again thanks to 25 years of Indigenous-led restoration. tinyurl.com/25xfwttl #ShareGoodNewsToo

There's been lots of attention on 1 particular inexperienced & untrained govt lawyer But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley, climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira..., who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released

Oh joy, the new MATLAB release has added Copilot 😐

"They and other Somali-Americans say their children are doubly vulnerable by virtue of their race and disability: While the first is obvious, making them a potential mark for ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the second is not." 19thnews.org/2026/01/chil...

I can't be the only one who hasn't done any art in years but is especially motivated to do my own art *because* we're so inundated with genAI slop. In the past I may've looked for public domain or creative commons options but I trust nothing now, gonna have to do it by hand I guess.

When ICE finally releases someone who's been unlawfully detained after flying them halfway across the country, they just dump them outside of the detention centers here in Texas. help pool frequent flyer miles to get these folks back to their homes, pets, families.

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”

Do you hate AI? Hey, me too. Support my hand-painted artwork ko-fi.com/s/1e0dea7302

It does seem like this is one of the only times when it's not inappropriate to share the Anne Frank quote, “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

This whole statement from Portland Mayor Wilson is excellent. This is the sort of language I expect from leaders at this time.

I've seen a lot of people worried about using AI logos for ICE OUT protests. While I can't personally verify which logos are AI and which are not I did make a human-made version of the Minnesota Rebel Alliance Logo. The logo is under Creative Common License CC0. Source files🔗⬇️

😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Guzman et al. show the potential of MRI-based methods to obtain 3D estimates of whole-muscle architecture and strain during contraction, providing data that allows for new avenues of skeletal muscle biomechanical research. 👀https://buff.ly/6MDy58y