This morning at 11am, corner of Hathorn and Broadway in Somerville MA. 3 ICE vehicles idling on nearby corners. I was following two ICE cars that were cruising around the neighborhood. This person was just walking down the sidewalk when two ICE vehicles stopped and officers jumped out to stop him.

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Must read www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

currently reading this and stopping every few pages to go Oh No but i just wanted to emphasize the extent to which data, especially ill-gotten data or really dubious acts of quantification, get used to build up & justify dangerous rhetoric.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I wrote about the intentionally byzantine process of getting a COVID vaccine this fall defector.com/how-the-fuck...

With fall fast approaching, many students will start applying for graduate school. If you need tips and tricks when interviewing with the PI and deciding where to apply/accept - A thread 🧵 Feel free to add to this!

Learning how to linocut simply to illustrate my most banger bsky posts 😂

Okay, an ill-advised story time. I do not talk about my body unless it is entirely on my terms and it is unidirectional. BUT, this is so familiar to me. I am not athletic. (I’ve written about that.) But I also don’t have much somatic sense — don’t know where my body is in space.

The First Lego League is a competition that schools from all over the place compete in. As part of the competition they need to consult with an expert. A lot of clubs use our program to make that connection. This year's theme is archaeology. It's all-hands-on-deck for archaeologists.

I keep seeing this circulating, and I'm disappointed in my colleagues in the natural sciences who think if they can "shed" enough of their humanity they will some how be protected from fascism. Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions.

mood?

The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration echoes the same logic that led to the forced removal and incarceration of over 125,000 Japanese Americans—our parents, grandparents and extended families—under Executive Order 9066. #AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow

I have had death threats for my work on trans rights. I have been stalked. I have had people try and have me thrown out of my University. I am by no means alone, and lots of trans-inclusive academics have spoken publicly about the violence and harassment they face. But no mention of that here.

To restate; a woman from a movement known for threatening libel suits against their students to prevent criticism wrote an essay complaining about how her colleagues agreeing she sucks at her job is a threat to academic freedom. Anyway, evergreen: www.gracelavery.org/undermining-...

NEW: More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

them: AI is the future me, while trying desperately to turn off the AI "helpers" in powerpoint: this AI?

i think google sheets is a lesbian in that it will not dare to assume my clearly labeled & correctly formatted "date" column is in fact a date

I loved working with this team, and I hope you'll use our dataset!! Check out the talk that @diesagar.bsky.social will be giving at the Software and Data for Supporting Network Science Workshop @netscience.bsky.social. It's going to be lit!!!

also when you can link the same pseudonym's messages together and people are posting WITHOUT THE EXPECTATION THEIR CONTENT WILL BE SCRAPED it's not adequate anonymization it's a ✨ sparkling egregious violation of user privacy ✨

is this meme going to be evergreen now

we got so married (now with an actual photo of us)

We Got Married Today And All Poppy Got Was This Silly Bowtie (Alert The Media) (more pics to come)

i use vim as my primary text editor because i am built different specifically, i am built much, much worse (defective)

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

if you're going to #ICA25 and you're interested in ✨ computational methods ✨ ✨ collective behavior in networks ✨ ✨ power relations on social media ✨ ✨ powerlifting ✨ then we should meet up in Denver! reply here or send me an email/bat signal/pigeon 🐦

love living in a timeline where i'm not acknowledging some work publicly with any specifics bc it is just a Bad Idea is this low-key fascism or just ✨sparkling dystopia ✨ lmk, chat

hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it also strips care from DACA recipients. context & guidance in the thread. none of these people can afford to pay OOP for meds now. only 2 days left!

If you study networks, or have been stuck listening to people who study networks for long enough (sorry to my loved ones), you may have heard that open triads – V shapes – in social networks tend to turn into closed triangles. But why does this happen? In part, because people repost each other.

MIT offering travel advice (or rather do not travel advice) for international visitors and green card holders. If folks at other institutions are receiving similar guidance, please consider sharing here. Please be as safe as you can.

The idea that you shouldn't be expected to know what data you're using to train your systems and that doing so is "an impossible task" is so normalized that its hard to know that this was not always the case even in the field of AI.

my home state (RI): most neo-marxism per capita and also most dunkin’ donuts how to reconcile this?????

Breaking: In a ‘first round’ of cuts, every ‘probationary’ employee at NSF was just terminated. They received no severance. Insurance cuts off at 1 pm edt. Program Officers were given two hours to turn over their programs and clear the building. 1/2 #OpenAsResistance #StandUp4Science

the fb groups i’m in have recently been a fascinating reflection of where we’re at as a society we’ve got the quilters rehashing whether running a sale on white cotton fabric on juneteenth is racist and whether not buying from that company is persecuting christians

i literally need someone to bonk me over the head any time i even think about trying to make something better/less shitty at this institution of higher education taking applications now

Hi Bluesky! Are you a) transfeminine and b) someone who’s experienced an attack in an online community that isolated you from that community? If so, I would love to speak to you; @michaelann.bsky.social and I are working on a project to better understand these attacks.

playing where in the world is carmen sandiego except it’s where tf are my psych meds that needed to be shipped 2 miles within cambridge (new hampshire, currently)

i delved too deep on google scholar today 💩

new northeastern university seal brought to you by the very important form you have to fill out by tomorrow that is also extremely broken (bless the staff who are helping figure this out) god forbid they confirm our enrollment in a robust and functioning way the latin = we can but we don't want to

あけましておめでとうございます！

happy new year to everyone but especially to this very round seal

carnivorous squirrels seem to have overtaken the roman empire for a non-trivial fraction of the men i know

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?

i’m in Full Break From Work No Work For Real mode and this means i get to go be mediocre at my hobbies instead! these are the “hand - quilted because i ran out of fabric scraps and got sick of making log cabin blocks” portion of the quilt i’m making

i feel like to believe this you have to not actually know any smart people?? the smartest people i know are also dumb as rocks and will happily do evil in exchange for money and fun little puzzles

apparently my holiday stillness time now involves sitting on my parents’ sofa watching my quadriceps twitch in a horrible little poisson process (so it is less still than intended)

Trust AND safety? In this economy?

ACLU -- Main takeaways of possible acts by 2nd Trump admin: 1) End fed LGBTQ+ protections: jobs housing health care 2) Ban trans ppl from Armed Forces 3) End fed support for GAC (Medicare) 4) Use fed civil rights laws to override state protections for trans students [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]