VIDEO: Listen to Ph.D. candidate Caitlin Brabble Rose explain why government programs like a grant she got from the National Science Foundation are essential for the next generation of scientists and innovators. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social

So cool! Sourcing electricity from water! Source: ZME Science search.app/twJxW

NEW: A federal court began a hearing in a case here Wednesday to decide whether Texas can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wonderful thread about global poverty, soft power, and the difference our vote makes around the world.

UK: The new XFG.3 COVID variant is spreading and these are the 7 symptoms to be aware of. England has seen a 14.3% rise in COVID cases. Symptoms overlap other viruses, so testing is key. XFG.3 symptoms: cough, runny nose, fever, loss of taste/smell, raspy voice or a "razor blade" sore throat.

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

This is illegal

"there is no evidence that reductions at the agency delivered any savings. It’s created costly confusion while undermining the very services taxpayers depend on,” Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE | CNN Politics share.google/4pS24WXwNjwf...

China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035. https://to.pbs.org/46mN7sq

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.

Great commentary on the Kirk memorial

Hidden Heart Damage: How COVID Continues Haunting Millions "5 million people worldwide may be walking around with cardiac long COVID, their hearts silently struggling months or years after their initial infection cleared" Report: academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan...

"Antifa is a label for a political subculture or protest style. The phenomenon does not have a leader, an initiation process, membership rolls, a headquarters, a bank account or a centralized structure." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Thread (with context regarding the kinds of questions ACIP members were asking, for further support for Jason's conclusion).

Is anyone out there working on a Project 2029?

Great thread about changing vaccine recommendations

Tim Kaine apologizes to Susan Monarez over confirmation questions share.google/ONpkyZaQhRTN...

“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.” www.adl.org/resources/re...

Thank you, Ezra Klein, for this lovely article. "We are all safe, or none of us are." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

All mayors and governors should turn the tables on the feds and take this suggestion...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov Can Illinois joined some of these state coalitions promising to follow the science on vaccine recommendations? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

This isn't abstract. Ending vaccine mandates will kill children. Any one who is trying to do this should be removed from office immediately.

They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal

Policysky www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...

PSA: Anyone entering the U.S. can potentially have their phones or electronics searched — U.S. citizen or not. And it's happening more than ever before. This isn't "security — it's surveillance.

Supreme Court Urged to Allow AR-15s, Assault Weapons in Chicago - Newsweek share.google/YNoM3drSNoQS...

Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.

Donna Hughes-Brown, a green card holder, was detained at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago for five days.

USA: Map Shows Rising COVID Cases as Stratus Variant Spreads. "The national test positivity rate hit 9.9% in the past week, up 1.4% from last week" "CDC data show the sharpest increases are in the U.S. South, where test positivity rates in some states have hit 15%" Source: archive.md/rDonC

When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted...

It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...

So tragic. This is what happens when we disinvest in health care in general and women's health specifically. TIME share.google/eeGZr9W2Kg8n...

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

Our relationships with other countries are crumbling

Our constitutional republic does not have any provision which allows a president to enact a criminal statute by executive order that would put people in prison. bsky.app/profile/atru...

"Critics have noted that the troops and agents have been concentrated in low-crime tourist areas, mostly ignoring high-crime neighborhoods where they could actually help...ignoring that the agents sent into the streets are mostly harassing ordinary people, while ignoring actual crime."

Judge halts Alligator Alcatraz expansion over environmental risks - Axios Miami share.google/68l7rVf6pxGy...

Love this article! I've studied hundreds of highly successful kids—the No. 1 thing their parents teach early share.google/JyPYgbXJO3y5...

I love that the mission statement for 'All Things Considered' on NPR includes this: "we ‘will encourage a sense of active constructive participation rather than apathetic helplessness.’” CNN Business share.google/R1dyuyH8dIdZ...

Great column yesterday digging into the roots of attacks on the Smithsonian & discussions of slavery. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

1/ I'm posting this again with some additional information. In states that offer abortion services, maternal mortality fell by 21% since Dobbs. Maternal mortality rose among states that banned abortion. The difference couldn't be more stark. More links to follow.

WOW

US revokes 6,000 student visas, State Department says - BBC News share.google/m7qENo7zL8JQ...

What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]

Who will pick up this life saving research? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...