Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit

Frank Gehry’s buildings have surprised and delighted me everywhere I’ve found them. A few memorable ones for me are the Experience Music Project in Seattle, the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis and his temporary Serpentine Gallery in London (2008). Gift link: wapo.st/48pn2K8

If you want to find more suggestions for making your classroom spaces more inclusive, the field of biology and STEM education broadly have been publishing excellent, peer-reviewed formal works on inclusivity and the experiences of disabled students in classroom spaces. Ex: doi.org/10.1187/cbe....

Disabled students belong in biological sciences spaces! Here is a thread of some tips and suggestions to make your spaces more inclusive.

Since this post, nearly 300 of you donated about $11k and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. The union shared photos with me today of food being distributed. Remaining money will be evenly distributed among the 160 union members in the form of gift cards. Thank you. ❤️

These are so nerdy but I love them.

This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality

Charles Shay, Penobscot tribal elder who fought on D-Day, dies at 101. www.pressherald.com/2025/12/03/c...

This thread is very worth reading. I would add - the OP's argument that eugenics to produce "desired genetic characteristics" is broadly fine really relies on nobody pausing to ask what a 'desired genetic characteristic' is and why we desire them

Updated FDA org chart from BioSpace: nearly 90% of sr leaders who were at FDA a yr ago are gone. Most FDA employees are usually "career staff" who worked 4 multiple FDA commissioners & yrs of training 2b knowledgeable incl cell & gene therapies. Pazdur had worked 4 Bush, Obama,Trump & Biden #medsky

Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:

Nerd fight! Well, not really, but do click through for extremely nerdy dialogue about classification systems.

USTA over here obeying in advance. 😒 (I mean, probably because they wanted to. 😒😒)

1/4 🧵 We’ve posted a lot lately about CDC denying reasonable accommodations to disabled employees -- e.g., telling a paraplegic person who normally teleworks to report to the office immediately or use leave. Yes, that’s really happening. Let’s talk a bit about why everyone should care.

The 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree, growing on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. After the tree was criminally felled in 2023, the National Trust grew 49 saplings from its seeds, one for each foot of the tree’s original height.https://tinyurl.com/28da35cg #ShareGoodNewsToo

I find requests for accommodations a really useful prod to check whether I’m making other students jump through hoops for the sake of jumping through hoops.

Yep. "I need you to do X by Y date so I can do Z on time" is a really useful thing to make explicit. As is "I need you to do X by Y date because if you do it later, we'll have finished with Z, which X intended to precede in the order of what we're doing."

Lol, minty legs. Good one, @i-find-planets.bsky.social.

Oh man. I guess it’s story time. 1/ www.seattletimes.com/life/food-dr...

I also wrote a book about survivors’ experiences in the Title IX system. The last substantive chapter is about the impact of sexual violence on their educations. bookshop.org/p/books/on-t...

I am so glad to hear this story. I remember seeing their ad in the Stranger the week of 9/11 and wondering how they would survive as a business. I didn't know there was such an immediate outpouring of support.

Oh man. I guess it’s story time. 1/ www.seattletimes.com/life/food-dr...

Long Pond in Acadia NP about an hour after sunset tonight, on the eve of a snowstorm. The light reflecting off of the waves in the foreground is actually moonlight, not the remnants of twilight in the distance. Look at that textbook, U-shaped glacial trough. *chef kiss*

A slime mold, earlier today.

Media consolidation is bad, pass it on.

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

Even if Explore trends were significantly improved, science would still be rare there; you have to look at your own feed/pinned feeds for that. But I'm sure you know that already!

I feel like we might get more international engagement on here if half the world wasn't waking up to last night's US sports trends.

Notre Dame has three *open-rank* faculty positions in the Institute for Educational Initiatives. These positions are part of a strategic initiative to build on our excellence in educational research and action--both within education and across associated disciplines. Details in thread.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

I had so much fun writing this piece on culture as a Frankenstein creature itself. Thank you to @erinbartram.bsky.social for encouraging a more creative approach and structure for this film analysis of many iterations of Frankenstein culminating in @realgdt.bsky.social's brilliant 2025 creation.

First winter storm watch of the season! Bring ittee!!!

The one and only original

I’m gonna go ahead and file this under “even a broken clock is right twice a day”

Hey, I’ve spent the past 5 years leading BHL’s #RetroPIDs project, which is all about making journal content more discoverable, regardless of how pretty it is. It just makes this critical work more enjoyable (for me) when it contains spectacular #SciArt.

Wake up babe, a new way to be horrified by AI just dropped. Talking to a librarian friend back home, she mentions a patron looking for help finding a book she liked as a kid. Super common request. Lady is adamant the title is “something like XYZ and there’s a picture of a rabbit on it.”

Leonard Peltier’s National Day of Mourning address: youtu.be/Ul9U3ppkN3s

I’m noticing this with DIY content, too. Similarly dangerous. 😬

I’ll have what she’s having

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

If I never hear the phrase “disgraced financier” again it will be too soon.

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

A great intro to academic conferencing. Not sure how I missed this one. scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...

Every time a pop science article is like "50 million year old [creature] still [doing thing that creature does]", I like to imagine it's talking about the same individual creature for that entire span. Like one specific clam with a VERY well established daily routine.

If you want to help a family who has raised very little ❤️

A compelling call for “early blogger energy” with bonus deconversion story by @elizabethspiers.bsky.social. h/t @docfreeride.bsky.social, fellow early blogger :)

There are several remarkable things about this interview, but the one that jumped out at me, as a space geek, was “built by the lowest bidder.” Hoo-boy, this man is not afraid to speak truth to power. It’s inspiring.

Even the usually apolitical National Academy of Sciences has stepped up to call out the dangerous distortion of reality by RFK Jr.'s CDC on vaccines and autism. www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...