This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Love Randall but a cassowary TOTALLY seems like a dinosaur

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

My quote of the day Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio

Dammit I’m in

STEM Black History Fact 7/28 Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman physician in the U.S., providing medical care to newly freed enslaved people after the Civil War.

BANANA POEM Bananas are yellow A tasty tube fruit Yummy and boneless In a tight yellow suit Bananas with ice cream Make my heart flutter Elvis put them in sammies With smooth peanut butter They're healthy and filling And favoured by monkeys But eat em right quick Or they get brown and funky

Wow. Like many folks, I like Hank Green’s YouTube channel. Instead of making a buck by selling it to private equity, he moved the whole thing to a nonprofit so they could focus on their MISSION and ACCURACY, not clicks and revenue. Very cool! www.threads.com/@hankgreen/p...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

The Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished

Hey you! Yes, you! Do you like Weird Ducks™️ but don’t want to freeze your ass off standing next to a lake in winter? Well now you can bird the Oswego Harbor from the comfort of your living room! How many species can you pick out? #binoblast

I brought you something good from reddit for once, as a treat

Your Iranian colleagues are cut off from family back home & are in a state of collective grief, which has many faces. We may appear more aloof or be more impatient, may self-isolate, have more typos, may freeze or overwork to numb the pain, or find fear, memory, or hope in unexpected moments.

Another way to speak up - call your senators: www.callyoursenate.com

You know the Richardson diagram is so fundamental that until now I didn’t really think of it as having been invented.

My sister-in-law's dad died last week, in hospice in the VA hospital in Minneapolis. I just learned Alex Pretti was part of his care team. They shot Alex less than 1/2 mile from my niece's house while doing the same observation work that my niece is doing. These are real people. Step up folks!

We will live to see justice.

My son is this age and I just keep looking at this photograph, unable to form a sentence that's not just a howl of rage

CLOWN DUCKS ON TIMELINE

Everyone keeps saying "No one is coming to save us!" but I think it's a distinct possibility that whoever did this is coming to save us.

Hey Minnesota photographers, I would buy a large canvas print of an ICE agent slipping and eating pavement under the aurora borealis. Conditions are perfect.

The lack of distinction between Denmark and Norway really jumps out at me.

A buddy of mine and I decided it is time for Old Man Hobbies. I’ve taken up birding, he’s now a rockhound. Highly endorse this sort of thing in these trying times.

People on here will skeet anything. "A salary cap will lower ticket prices." No it won't. That isn't true.

I mean also because transphobic rhetoric sucks on its own terms, but also because it is definitely a leading indicator.

a non-zero number of pasty-faced ICE goons who are fully ancestry dot com-pilled about being like .0002% Irish will have their day sincerely, authentically ruined by this knowledge, and that makes it so beautiful to me

I really can't explain it much better, it just seems like a concrete truth that trans people are just trying to live their best life and a bunch of goddamn assholes hate them for it. I just know what side I am on in that discussion, every time, for eternity. I hope that makes sense? end/

you are probably thinking, "hey man, what's up with the timeline today, why are there no #owls?" and "has Matt ever seen a long-eared owl?" and the answers are I got you and yes 🪶🪶🪶

honestly, joking aside: the "man cereal" goes along with the murder of Renee Good as a sign that there are men who really really really really really really hate women, and anything "womanly" or "girly" is to be shunned if not destroyed.

This is a guy who has his dream job. And there’s only one of those positions in the world. Yet he’s still speaking out and risking reprisal. Where are 90% of the others in entertainment, music, movies etc?

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

The party that waves the Gadsden Flag and yells about freedom is cheering the murder of a woman who did more to uphold and defend those values than they ever have.

My most boring culture opinion: the Breaking Bad finale was really good

If you are submitting an NIH grant in February, you will be required to use SciENcv to prepare you biosketch. IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE. Set aside *at least* 4 hours just to transfer an existing an biosketch into SciENcv.

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

And we may never. I've been workshopping the term Eldritch Biodiversity to describe organisms and ecologic processes that, due to our limited ability to explore the deep seafloor, are not just unknown, but possibly unknowable.

I cannot emphasize this enough, if you're cold-emailing me applying to my lab I would so much rather get the bulleted broken list of genuine interests than whatever letter ChatGPT spits out in its stead If you're training with me, I'm working with you not an LLM. I want to see who you are!

Take-home lesson we ALL need to learn: Resistance works and capitulation doesn't!

Not the point here but I thought this was about a scientist who was, like, eight feet tall

This year I read Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, all 20 books full of British naval intrigue and adventure and odd foods. (Spotted dog, anyone?) I finished yesterday. Retreating into the early 19th century helped me avoid doomscrolling my way through 2026. Strongly recommend. #aubreymaturin

Every time I submit a scientific manuscript, I am confronted with the counter-intuitive fact of PAYING to publish work that I created.

67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.

Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

There’s a lesson to be learned by all U.S. research institutions: Even if you keep your head down and “align with the president’s priorities,” it affords you no protection. This administration will still smash your institution into atoms on the flimsiest pretense. *Do not pre-comply.* #SaveNCAR

Reject any motherfucker who tells you we need to abandon a vulnerable population or person. They’re either a fascist or a fascist-in-waiting.

Seriously, spend 45 seconds watching this, it’s hilarious. Even if you’re not a football fan.