New: Trump’s ICE Has A Troubling Target: At-Risk Teenagers In recent months, federal agents have arrested dozens of teenagers who at one point were in government custody as unaccompanied children. Some were arrested on their 18th birthdays– at government shelters. www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...

this was a really powerful approach to questioning noem—bringing the actual people impacted by her reign of terror. from her perch it's easy to see these cases as abstractions but she needs to be confronted with them at every turn.

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

#EcologyLetters doesn't publish facilitation papers. On average, Ecology Letters publishes FOUR (4) papers that include the word facilitation in any indexed field in the paper per year. This is a helpful tip for anyone in the field, it's not usually worth sending work there, they won't review it.

Sorry, a chatbot decides if you’re being human and then a human reviews it?

The ASN (American Society of Naturalists) is seeking Diversity Committee members! Are you an ASN member? Want to make the EEB community a better place? Like being in Zoom meetings with people who have cute dogs? Consider applying! www.amnat.org/announcement...

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

Okay #NJ Our task this week is to figure out how we feed our communities. If a local religious group, community group, etc. has a plan in place please add it to this and repost. We'll gather the information. And add suggestions please. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

stanford is pushing for felony charges against 11 protestors for Palestine, and demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution. you can sign this open letter petitioning them to drop the charges (thanks @timnitgebru.bsky.social for putting this on my radar)

reminder that this directive functionally massively discriminates against Black men and should be understood as part of an ongoing campaign to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Notably, all of this was done without sufficient notice, i.e., there is less than a 90 day gap between the release and the deadline for applications, despite NSF policy.

There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition. Feel free to sign and share this open petition: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

As others have pointed out, the fellowship is now available only to 1st year grad students. (Left is last year, right is this year)

The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.

I had the opportunity to sit down with Eric Roper to share why I think Minneapolis has everything we need to tackle our biggest problems. I hope you'll take the time to read about what I know we can do together with compassionate, principled leadership. www.startribune.com/dewayne-davi...

You guys, I’m not an economist I didn’t even graduate from college, though I do have an advanced degree (but not a fancy one) and even I know this is not a good sign

#OnThisDay in 1992, Mae Jemison became the first black woman to travel into space, when she served as mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour for the STS-47 mission. #WomenInSTEM

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

📢Speaker Announcement: Chloe Lewis 🧾Workshop: Culturally Sensitive Mentoring Chloe Lewis is the founder and Programme Director of The Catalyst Collective, an organisation that pairs Black teenage girls with Black women mentors for high impact mentoring experiences. Learn more: buff.ly/huckAbw

Every time I pop my head up from coding there's some fresh new horror. Basically cutting funding for all enrollment-based MSIs (so that leaves HBCUs and TCUs alone, for now). They say $350 mil was allocated for this and they'll be reallocated to other programs. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026 This is a fantastic way to educate children It’s a form of resistance. Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more. These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

This is a sobering--and depressing statistic. Sizable layoffs in the federal government are likely contributing to the increase in unemployment among Black college graduates. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Graham Greene was one of those actors whose presence was absolutely, 100% guaranteed to make whatever movie or TV show he was in better. He added instant gravitas and authority, reliable stealthy humor and depth beyond whatever was on the page. Should've been Emmy nominated for "Reservation Dogs."

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

Who’s at Minnesota State fair today? We have the best plant for you right here. IYKYK.

1/4 Please see our new paper just published in Global Change Biology: “Intensifying fire season aridity portends ongoing expansion of severe wildfire in western US forests”. 🧪🌍🔥

BREAKING: Watchdog government agency finds the NIH and the Trump administration have illegally withheld funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, and rips into HHS for failing to justify its slow-walking of funds. www.gao.gov/products/b-3...

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.

Note that UCLA is a Big 10 school. Academic Senates or Faculty Councils are 14 of the 18 Big 10 schools have endorsed the creation of a mutual academic defense compact (MADC), which, if enacted, would certainly be a great way to fight this sort of this together. ✊✏️✊

The Biogeochemistry Lab at SERC is searching for a post-doc with expertise in plant ecology, plant ecophysiology, or related vegetation sciences. Join a friendly, collaborative team doing world class coastal science! serc.si.edu/get-involved... #postdocjobs

Even still, we will not be challenging the results. While it’s true there were clear problems with the balloting process, it’s also true that delegates were informed about the problems during the convention and decided through democratic processes to proceed with a second ballot.

The truth is the Frey campaign felt bad about their numbers, pulled their people off the floor. Voting with credentials held in the air is absolutely an allowed way to vote at a convention. Makes it much easier to count when one side pulls all their people out.

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle. https://trib.al/W6lqYEu

When Hakeem Jeffries became the leader in House, I told the @financialtimes.com, “It really remains to be seen whether Jeffries is capable of leading a coalition that includes a rising progressive wing of the party." He has had two years to prove that he wants the left in the party. He's failed.

I'm sure this has been talked to death already, but when you pull your supporters off the convention floor, you know the risk is it will flop hard. The Frey campaign isn't stupid. They decided it was worth the risk. A 2017 example: www.startribune.com/article/4208...

Wait, sorry, the centrist middle of the road dems ran the convention. I get that the digital vote was rolled out horribly (by them), but then it was also on them to reel it in or use their own rules to fix it?

reaction to fateh winning endorsement

So disrespectful to all the parks board candidates and all of us who spent 12+ hours here.

Fateh over 60%!

Mayor Jacob Frey isn’t getting the outcome he wants at the city convention so he is trying to undermine confidence in the process. Remind you of anyone?

This text from Frey campaign. Meanwhile, Fateh campaign is passing out pens. I am pro getting another data point. Let’s see what the delegates want. After all, that is why we are here right?