Some phone numbers no longer worked. Others had escaped Gaza. Some, we learned, had been killed... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So the American taxpayer eats it twice, once on tariffs and again on a second farm bailout. I’m glad farmers are getting help, no one should lose their farm, but it’s remarkable how fast “socialism” stops being a dirty word when the checks clear in red counties.

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

READ ⬇️ Stand Up For Science Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education.

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Three teens were critically wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in the foothills of suburban Denver, including the suspected shooter, authorities said.

One was an 8-year-old boy who loved “his family, friends, fishing, cooking and any sport that he was allowed to play.” The other, a 10-year-old girl “whose laughter, kindness and spirit touched everyone who knew her.”

Not only are we stifling current research, we're preventing the next generation from receiving training they need to jumpstart their scientific and health careers. Faculty like my grad advisor who pour their valuable time and energy into securing these opportunities are left picking up the pieces.

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BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

The cruelty is beyond comprehension. They were carrying baby formula, medicine, and stuffed animals.

I really hope complex life has formed elsewhere in the universe and that it worked out better than it has on earth

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

@repgwenmoore.bsky.social @baldwin.senate.gov There are 7 Americans aboard, you have a duty to protect your citizens!

#AllEyesOnDeck: ALL communications with #Handala's crew have been JAMMED. We lost all contact with our crew, and there are multiple drones near the vessel. Keep your eyes on the #FreedomFlotilla tracker. Tag & message your governments & elected officials! freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

We’re already seeing the real-world impact. In South Memphis, particularly in Boxtown, a neighborhood long burdened by industrial pollution, residents are now facing a new threat: up to 35 unpermitted methane gas turbines powering xAI’s “Colossus” supercomputer.

These data centers are notoriously energy and water intensive using millions of gallons of water daily and consuming electricity at rates that rival entire cities. And under this new policy, they can now be built without the oversight meant to protect air quality, local ecosystems and public health.

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

Parents reduced their work hours and used the money to invest in their children’s lives — moving to better housing, enrolling them in extracurricular activities, switching schools or ensuring their kids got additional support. www.instagram.com/p/DMYa-YbsGo7/

Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”

ICE now has a larger budget than most of the world’s militaries. A reminder that police have only ever *responded* to alleged crime, but a living wage, food & water security, & accessible healthcare have always *prevented* crime. So if you want safer communities, invest in people—not punishments.

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

"The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated."

Check out our new review to learn about the history of menopausal hormone therapy and how me and my team at Estrigenix Therapeutics are trying to provide new treatment options for women! @neuroendoawf.bsky.social @m1rsch.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The bipartisan framing of Chinese people as dangerous to the United States has been building up for years and has created this deeply racist and xenophobic opening for the Trump administration. I stand with my Chinese colleagues and all of our Chinese students. 🧪

The Ivy League should be preparing mutual defense agreements that would allow students to transfer, even just nominally, to any other Ivy. Then the Big10 should do the same. We succeed together, we fail apart.

an overwhelming percentage of cuts at the NSF are to STEM education. experts see it as part of a broader attack on DEI, as well as on education as a whole. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/s...

To everyone who is saying “oh we can get funding somewhere else…” you are missing the entire point. The funding cuts to academia are a symptom of the cancer of fascism. Hope that helps.

Some protests happening this weekend so time to re-up this banger

Two 70 million dollar fighter jets fell off a Navy ship and into the ocean in the past couple weeks. But sure, cancer research, SIDS prevention, and milk safety testing are ~wasteful~ 💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️

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"The findings suggest that if scientists want to increase public urgency around climate change, they should highlight clear, concrete shifts instead of slow-moving trends. That could include the loss of white Christmases or outdoor summer activities..." grist.org/science/brea...

**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !

Malnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s total blockade enters its third month.

Developing now: Judge Dugan has since been released. We are calling for a rapid community response: Join Voces de La Frontera at 3 pm at the Federal Building (517 E Wisconsin) to say NO to the charges against Judge Dugan.

At least three people who are obsessed with criticizing me are being published in this book and I just want to point out that I travel and write regularly making the case for science funding and why cosmology is imporrant and these guys have had fuck all to say about science funding

Pouring out a little liquor today for the handful of women astronauts who survived years of onerous training, men, and men only to have the press make Katy Perry their equal.

This is not a drill. Three Florida public colleges (UF, UCF, USF) are deputizing campus police into immigration agents. This is no way to treat our students, and will erode public education as a whole. It’s a fast track to losing our world-class tech strength and the fabric of our communities. 🚨🚨🚨 🧪

Several current and former Northwestern students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, a University spokesperson told The Daily.

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

#UF: Immigration authorities said they couldn’t find any proof he was a student. It took me two seconds to find him in the UF directory.

We are not just dealing with capitalism, we are dealing with a very specific form of prosperity gospel capitalism

Finally got the notice. Very sad day for the MOSAIC program that supported some of the most amazing scientists I know, as well as some of the awesome people on my lab.

It really is critical that people accept this. You don’t have to understand it, just accept it. The point is literally for kids and people to die. Now, is it foolish that they think THEY are the genetically superior? Sure. But eugenics is definitionally narcissistic and dumb.