OK guys, today stories are circulating (via professional societies) that the administration has leaked that they will retaliate against scientists who public comment. a) you can comment anonymously b) comments are protected speech c) die on your feet or live on your knees

what if snakes actually have legs but they just hide them when you look

This, like, belongs to the American people.

Did you guys think the war was over? I did. They got me twelve times.

DO IT

Trump loved the 80s so much he wants to bring back the ozone hole...

On hold with KLM, trying to get one leg of a flight rebooked, multitasking by contacting my senators and representative to get their hair properly on fire about OMB-2026-0034. Have you contacted YOUR senators and representative?

It kills me how we see story after story about this happening in other professional settings AND YET we are being encouraged to use AI and teach with AI in the universities.

Hey wealthy Democratic donors, fund my campaign I'll do vengeance (within the bounds of the law, but without foot dragging)

I have one colleague who is deeply enmeshed with Claude and jokes/not jokes about inviting it to group meetings I'm using the damn thing as tech support for some course material development that the university would never pay a person to help me with and AM I IN DANGER?

We gotta at least try to do something about Russell Vought's Project 2025 OMB ruling:

This is a bit older but every scientist should read it. Inside universities, we are also struggling with "the cognitive load of performing normalcy while privately managing fear" and "the ability of systems to continue operating just well enough that deeper erosion remains publicly invisible".

What comes out when Stephen Miller goes for a blood test?

The UNC BoT is up to some shenanigans. If you're within our system, stand up for transparent personnel processes here:

🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x

Talking to my students about AI today and they're like "yep, the hype cycle has to break, the bubble has to burst, there has to be a backlash and reputational damage, and THEN we can start to think about how to use it, and the future (for research) is everyone has a private open src LLM sandbox. 👀

What's happening to the skilled people who had dedicated their careers to public service, who were working in NC when the deliberate destruction of state capacity began? @indyweek.bsky.social investigates:

This morning’s haul from the hydroponic garden. Consumed as a breakfast salad with some Trader Joe’s smoked trout, white balsamic, and sumac lemon pepper seasoning.

Of course he did

You should absolutely be mad that RFK Jr and Trump’s weird little vendetta against Fauci have stopped mRNA vaccine development in the US dead in its tracks. They want us weak and unready.

I’ve never really been an Our Tax Dollars guy but all the blatant corruption, ballroom, slush fund for rioting pedophiles etc is really throwing me into a permanent state of rage and bloodlust. Something’s gotta give

And yet, they are worried about obesity and sperm counts

NEW: The FBI wants to buy access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs) nationwide, which would likely allow the agency to track the movements of vehicles—and by extension people—across the country without a warrant, according to FBI procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

He does have a point

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

100% of Kid Rocks approve

My comment may have involved the words “get your minds out of people’s pants and focus on real problems.”

And just imagine, this is the state that once produced Lister Hill, who voted against every Civil Rights act but at least did it while sponsoring smart legislation to provide rural hospitals, electrification, and libraries. OH AND THE NIH.

Totally need to read this

This is important! Charlotte only had a short period of focused ICE brutality but things still do not feel the same.

daaaamn london

Justin Smith Morrill’s biographer makes a big deal about how the general stores in Vermont were the center of intellectual life in frontier towns but guys that was in 1810 and there were no interstates, TV or radio and I guarantee you guys a Love’s Truck Stop on the interstate is not the same.

@bencollins.bsky.social I think there’s a wide open niche for reporting on the half-formed opinions of random sidewalk/coffee shop guys in major urban areas If you ever want to interview me I have lots of opinions and I hang out at Manolo’s Bakery on Central Ave

This is super cool

Rogen’s such a generally good egg

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

We are quite literally not ready for this

Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver) The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson) What’s Bred in the Bone (Robertson Davies) Honorable mention: Sharp Teeth (Toby Barlow)

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

State Health Plan be like “assume we’re going to cannibalize you, would you like to be prepared by boiling or frying”

A very small percentage of Americans today know that Republicans sold out the U.S. hostages in Iran – and actually worked to make their captivity longer. The lack of awareness of Republican treason like this is the reason their treason keeps happening. And it didn't start with Trump.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

I can’t help it, I like this guy, he seems eminently sensible when he talks now, and like he was a total shitshow when he was younger. People are complicated, let’s talk about racist AF progressive Alabama Democrat, one of the bedrock guys of American medicine and libraries, Lister Hill sometime.

Gemini says abolish (I asked it what could actually be cut from the federal government with the least economic damage) (I’m at the car dealership getting annual service on my car, I’m bored)

Frankly given Musk’s history and political posture I would be more worried about Tesla having my data. Which is why I sold my Tesla and will never buy a Powerwall since apparently they just brick them remotely.

I hope Roberts sees this. We all ought to mail him framed copies

US drug regulation has essentially been decapitated

The kids are all right

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

They are going after the National Academy of Sciences in a political witch hunt.