Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District. And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:

I’m thrilled to contribute to this effort to think big and longterm about a path to substantial reductions in gun violence, suicides, and injuries in the US. Solutions depend not only on good data and science as a guide, but on political and social change for a whole govt and society approach.

Here’s my my pitch for why you care about your state attorney general. The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals. John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes. that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry. but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

No one "deserves it" but it bears repeating that almost 1/2 of adult SNAP recipients are white, and children make up 40% of the total recipients. 1.2 million veterans depend on SNAP. Able-bodied adults are less than 10% of SNAP recipients and can only claim it temporarily, under certain conditions.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Today marks the first day of early voting in Texas! For the November 4 election, the early voting window runs from October 20 to October 31. Make your voice heard, check your polling location, bring one of the approved photo IDs, and vote early.

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary. This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

I'm a bit late to the party, but I finally watched this lecture in anticipation of #DLDday. Thanks @hannahhobson.bsky.social for the amazing work you do and for making me think about why & when camouflaging occurs (And thanks to the @radld.bsky.social board for organizing) #DevLangDis

Spotted in a staff room of a school I was visiting today! My eyes nearly popped out of my head. Can you spot it? The #RADLD bubble out in the wild. #DLD awareness is spreading! #devlangdis #DLDday

We need every teacher to know about DLD, as there are on average 2 children with it in every class of 30. #DevLangDis #DLDday

You can't see DLD, and so many people's needs are missed. They go through life struggling, never knowing that there is a reason why things are so hard for them. Learn about it here: radld.org/about/dld/dl... #DLDday #DevLangDis

DLD is different in each child, but looking back many parents remember a time that their child's language stood out, like Nichole here who noticed her child struggling with literacy and spoken sentences. This example is of a child, but it affects adults too. #DLDday #DevLangDis radld.org

With help from @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social (Professor Cookie!) our lab spent today getting ready for #DLDday

Publisher embargoes + public access policy

We’ve now heard that most of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) at ED is being let go as well. The harm caused to students if these layoffs are allowed to proceed cannot be overstated. ED cannot carry out its statutorily required duties without these offices.

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

@ticld.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social @telllab.bsky.social @natmunro.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @karlamcgregor.bsky.social be grateful for shares!

TICLD are at #CLS2025 #ChildLanguageSymposium2025 over the next three days in Reading, UK. First up is @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social with "What outcomes are measured in intervention for children with DLD? A systematic review of intervention studies" (Carol-Anne Murphy, Tom Braddon..

Now that the US Administration has discovered no one will stop it from shattering each university by illegally impounding the public’s money, it can proceed to dictate whatever it likes, without limit, at every school. Indefinitely. Until our other coequal branches of government do their duty.

Word Aware (whole school vocabulary), Language for Thinking and Language for Behaviour and Emotions courses date for the year are available here. Our approaches are practical and effective and well suited to teachers and SaLT. thinkingtalking.co.uk/finding-a-wo... #vocabulary #SLCN #DevLangDis

🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed: Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs. Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

HONOLULU (AP) — Tsunami warning sirens blare in Honolulu and people are told to move to higher ground after earthquake off Russia.

OMG. They cannot have NOT known the literal most famous headline from The Onion.

0045Z, 7/30: A #TsunamiWarning is now in effect for #Hawaii. ETA 7:17 PM HST tonight. Urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property along coastlines! #Tsunami

Political Science at Western University, Canada is searching for three tenure track assistant professors. There are two ads, one in International Politics (IR or comparative) and one in Comparative or Canadian. Ads are here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

WIRED is hiring! We're looking for a senior writer to cover the frontiers of scientific advancement—breakthroughs in space tech, quantum science, nanotechnology, batteries, and more—and the people and companies behind them. This role is based in our London office. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Remote mixed methods educational researcher position focused on DOE data and affiliated with UD CRESP group careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Not good

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

The Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas has launched healing circles to help families and young people cope with trauma following the Hill Country floods.

The President’s budget proposes devastating cuts to NOAA, which helps everyone understand and prepare for extreme weather. NOAA was also in the middle of developing new flood maps for neighborhoods. bsky.app/profile/cost...

🔐💰 in @ashajournals.bsky.social O'Fallon, M. K., Jacobs, O., Rulewicz, E., Christopulos, T., Curtiss, S. L., & @telllab.bsky.social (2025). A Qualitative Exploration of Support Groups for Parents of Children with #devlangdis. LSHSS. 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps doi.org/10.1044/2025...

If you read one thing today, read this.

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

Devastating. The cowardice and the betrayal of an incomparable news brand.

Indirect funding is supplemental federal funding that supports complex research, and its importance isn't always obvious, even to those on campus. NIH has proposed a 15% cap on indirects, much lower than UW-Madison's negotiated 55.5% rate, a cut could be devastating to UW-Madison in the long-term.

Whelp. See you later 1.8 Million in NSF research funds -- all designed to better understand learning mechanisms in early childhood so we can develop effective early childhood educational interventions. Proud of Harvard for standing up to fascism, though. We will persist.

IL Gov. Pritzker blocking fed access to state autism data w/o consent. One way to help foster public trust in govt. for sound stewardship of important health and other data registries for conducting good science. Will other states follow? 🛟 lawsky health policy policysky sociology medsky polisky 🧭

“NSF grant terminations have disproportionately affected principal investigators (PIs) from groups traditionally underrepresented in science—notably women, racial and ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities” www.science.org/content/arti...

It’s me, hi, I’m the PI, it’s me 😭

Come and join us on this amazing new @ukri.org project (SoUnDs) helping to develop a screening tool for adults with #devlangdis #SLPeeps #BlueSkySpeechies Please share! #jobs #research #language

New post for an SLT/SLP Research Associate/Assistant to work on an @edldproject.bsky.social project to validate a screening tool to identify #DevLangDis in adults! Please RT widely! @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...