Today I’m remembering an #Iwantitforfree from the archives (eg my 🧠): folks who complain about the free newsletter I send. Someone complained about the ads, someone complained about the content and said they’d “take their business elsewhere” … um, ok it’s free…

Today’s #iwantitforfree is the person who has posted their new company on our LinkedIn group 5 times thinking that one day I’ll just approve it. Instead of contacting me to ask, they know full well I run it.

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days. They have worked 12 days in 3 months. Epstein Shutdown.

The embodiment of unadultrated hate

Today’s “I want it for free” is a long email talking about an NSF funded project where they want me to connect them with my network (for free because… it’s NSF funded!). I look up the email domain and it’s a financial services co… Time for me to write my “what I don’t do for free” post!

#Lifescience professionals, can you be a #mentor at @biotechnetworks.bsky.social Oct 21 event? It's easy, answer questions about your #CareerPath & be supportive to #jobseekers & those looking to transition. Also hear an inspiring 🦈 talk by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social ! biotechnetworks.org/bnoct21

Good morning, Pam Bondi ☕️💅🏽

The only answer is universal basic income folks

In memoriam...

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This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

THIS IS THE WAY. Everyone gets their knickers in a twist when I say we can’t sci-comm our way out of this mess…but maybe you’ll listen to the more eloquent and measured @edyong209.bsky.social! This isn’t happening because people don’t appreciate the brilliance of the double helix structure.

You cannot keep your head down and expect to sneak through the next three years unaffected. We MUST come together and say “NO!” Suppression of freedoms *always* starts at universities and in the press. You’ve got like 5 seconds to wake up.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

Thank goodness the dogs were good this week because nothing else is

Minorities are afraid the right wing will kill them. The right wing are afraid you'll laugh at them.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Had to take mine back, it was too dim.

I’m here for a Kimmel/Colbert podcast.

The far right claimed the left ran pedophile rings and blamed us for cancel culture. Projection much? 📽️

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

What an amazing day. (Watch this closely for a very very brief cameo by me)

They are literally canceling culture

Today’s 2nd “I want it for free”: “thanks for sharing our nonprofit’s event, here’s another one, can you share?” Reader, not only was the 2nd event not for a nonprofit, it was for a company that asked for a freebie AT THE END OF A MEETING WHERE I WARNED THEM BEFOREHAND THAT I DON’T DO FREEBIES!

Today’s “I want it for free” is someone who sponsored an event last month for the lowest price and they want to know if they can have an email blast for free, does that come with it (a $1K value)

Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.

It’s never been more important for scientists to break out of the ivory tower and engage with the public! Social media tools make it easier than ever before in human history to do that, but far too many people misuse these tools, leading to wasted effort. I can help! Class info below.

Glad to see it! The blue states are stepping up where the federal government has failed us.

RFK RFK how many kids did you kill today???? #ImpeachTheQuack #standupforscience www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.

Today’s two “I want it for free” situations are complicated, so I’ll just tell you that people often want stuff for free, especially if they see you serving the community, and it’s exhausting.

The pandemic changed us: “…care for close others (benevolence) decreased throughout the pandemic and never recovered, even 4 y after its start.”

If cities feel dangerous it’s because society has forgotten about the most vulnerable who have become unhoused there out of desperation.

My comments and interview with BioXconomy www.bioxconomy.com/modalities/e...

Grad students: Don't let ANYONE tell you that it's not funny for you to post a "First Day of School" photo holding up one of those kiddie chalkboards that say it's your first day of 23rd grade or something That shit is funny Keep doing it

Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files

Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's OBSESSION with him

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Eight House Democratic members will be forced back onto the floor tonight after publicly tearing up the Republican-mandated “permission slips” required to leave the chamber. They will remain there, held against their will.

Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Wholesale inflation up .9%. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Strikes out with make-believe peace meeting. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein $60 million taxpayer money on golf outings. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein

I could write a few books about how narcissists disrupt families and workplaces.

Pro tip for the life sciences: if you ask someone you don't know to talk to you on the phone twice, and they keep pushing back, be happy with an email exchange. Many of us are introverts. And, yes, the call I just begrudgingly took was a waste of my time as I predicted. 🤷‍♀️

‘Help me, please!’ Plainclothes “ICE” agents snatch a man outside Los Angeles’ largest courthouse on Wednesday. A tactic that has been repeatedly condemned by the legal community. Painful to watch. Even more painful knowing there are people who not only accept this, are happy about it.

A late night message from Gavin Newsom

The Trump administration released a long-delayed, drastically scaled-back version of the State Department’s annual human rights report. Shrinking it to just one-tenth the length of last year’s. Entire sections on abuses against women and LGBTQ people are gone, replaced by a narrower focus on