How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry

"Lia Smith was a student-athlete, but she wasn’t allowed to participate this year because of a hostile government and the cowardice of the NCAA. Two years ago, Lia was a talented young swimmer at Middlebury; now, her name is almost entirely absent from the college’s athletics website..."

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

📢 New paper out! 🌊 We discuss how well mechanisms of variability in the subpolar gyre are represented in climate models, finding that models that do this best are also the models in which abrupt shifts are found 😬. It's a technical story, so here's a simple overview 🧵 doi.org/10.5194/esd-...

Such low hanging fruit for democratic leaders & billionaire donors to organize to feed neighbors during SNAP cut off. But of course, as always, it’s community orgs doing that work. Then we wonder why people don’t vote.

The second Trump administration has been characterized by ignoring the Constitution and illegally withholding funding it doesn't like. Refusing to fund November SNAP benefits is “the most extreme impoundment we’ve seen yet,” a Georgetown law professor told me. prospect.org/2025/10/29/t...

Soyinka's response is almost worthy of a second Nobel all by itself. (below)

Between @python.org and @carpentries.carpentries.org, the open-source ecosystem is rejecting the administration's inquisition against DEI. If you can support them with a donation please do. I just did! Does anyone know about others who have declined NIH or NSF grant funding over over these terms?

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

Georgia children and disabled veterans will go hungry. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Just finished my volunteer shift at our local food pantry. Served 300 families and had to close early and turn families away.

We have to absolutely hammer this home: Science suffers without the values embedded in DEI 🧪

I really think we should do a whole series about facts like this: Have you noticed that poison ivy seems worse and itchier? It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change. grist.org/climate/clim...

George Will has many sins upon his head, but anti-immigrant bigotry is not one of them. Even before I saw this, I had thought of him this morning watching Reagan’s stirring advocacy of immigration in his last speech in office (h/t @emptywheel.bsky.social)…\1 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Saw this on threads and oh my fucking god gdrive is fast again Fuck the forced AI integration

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

FYI: it’s, uh, *not nothing* that the head of an entire Christian denomination — here Rev. Karen Georgia A. Thompson of the United Church of Christ — issued a statement decrying DHS agents for shooting one of her pastors in the face with a pepper round, adding, “No one is safe from tyranny."

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

👇 Share with anyone you know in Georgia. There’s a special election on Nov. 4 that will directly affect them and how much they pay for electricity. Republicans are banking on low turnout on Nov. 4 to maintain to their dominance of the commission & ensure rates on consumers and businesses stay high

MT peeps- while 77000 Montana families are about to go hungry for the holidays and ranchers and farmers are about to go broke because their markets were given away and USAID isn’t buying their crops- Daines is posting photos w/the Argentine president and buying up farmland all around Bozeman. #MTPol

MIT Technology Review article about our research on human embryo models in this day & age. I didn't agree to interview because what i find as over-sensational writing style & i disagree with several things.. BUT Antonio managed to put together an interesting mix of events and ideas worth reading.

If you can donate to food banks, they really need it right now. And please consider making it a monthly donation -- it helps them plan for the future.

Looks like Mike Johnson wants Americans to starve so the house will not be back in session next week. Find a food bank in your area below:

The billionaire who gave the military money was Timothy Mellon and if you're an obsessive tracker of the eugenicist Tanton network that's invaded our government like I am you will have immediately recognized that name, that's Mellon as in Mellon Scaife www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sc...

NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is. Very proud of my pal’s public work. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

The underlying article from LBNL here does something quite deliberately. Most of the anger about rising electricity prices comes from PEOPLE, residential customers. This paper looks at average prices for all industrial, commercial, AND residential customers. Immediately moving away from the issue.

Republicans got madder about Robert E Lee statues coming down than Trump desecrating the White House.

Congress isn’t adrift. The Republican majorities in both Houses of Congress have abdicated their constitutional authority.

Fuck, man… 😐😐 For comparison, looks like it looked this way before. The whole right side building and the passage between it and the main one is gone… you couldn't ask for a better symbol of what he's doing :|

With major tech corps from Apple to Comcast to Google and Microsoft donating to Trump's ballroom, I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to boycott them all, without taking myself off the internet entirely.

Why don't journalists ever ask the anti-abortion/forced birth/fetal personhood advocates for comment about stories like this?

not great! wapo.st/4qtNb1u

I had a secondary duty in the USAF as a security policeman (MP) Even removing your weapon from its mount or holster required paperwork an inch thick afterwards to justify the action. The fact that these goons are being allowed to point a loaded weapon in someone’s face is unfathomable.

Stewart Detention Facility here in Georgia among the top 3 with most deaths: www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

If you’re in the DMV area and want to help out and donate some non-perishables, we’re collecting food donations at this Saturday’s NIH Vigil - 10-11:30 am at the Medical Center Metro in front of the NIH.

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

Facts to ponder #USDemocracy

Sadly, I came to believe AAAS serves primarily AAAS rather than science and scientists and ended my membership decades ago.

Can you predict when Lou Bega's greatest hit, Mambo No. 5, was released based on the names of all the women mentioned in the song? Weirdly yes. yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-... #databs #rstats

Restoring Oral tolerance in 🐭 Continuous oral antigen exposure + CD28 blockade (CTLA4-Ig) = generation of CD101⁺ Tregs that enforce antigen-specific tolerance. Even in primed hosts. So pTregs can be reprogrammed into durable peacekeepers! #immunology #Tregs #immunosky

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

❌ "Sea Ice Today services reduced" ❌ "Ice Sheets Today services reduced" "If you rely on these services, we would like to hear from you." via @nsidc.bsky.social (nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda... and nsidc.org/ice-sheets-t...)

It sounds like you are talking about undergraduate education. But he is talking about PhD programs. The UCSD BioSci program has shrunk by ~30% this year, and that without the massive grant cuts (so far). I don't think PhD programs will disappear, but I expect there will be much fewer PhDs in 5 years

Amidst many moving parts, a Compact summary: 7 No-s 1 - MIT 2 - Brown 3 - Penn 4 - U. of Southern California 5 - UVA 6 - Dartmouth 7 - Arizona & 1 kind of no: Vanderbilt & 1 left standing: UT Austin (🤷) & a good story via @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm running to replace #MGPisGOP. If you want to help me do it. Please go to www.BH4C.win NOW and DONATE. I need your help to get my message out to this 7,000 sq mi district! bsky.app/profile/bhen...

Multiple studies showed that the Medicaid expansion saved lives and improved life expectancy. From a public health standpoint, this was the most impactful part of the ACA.

Here's a little history of notable general strikes: 1/x 🧵 Why is May 1 Workers' Day? On 1 May 1886, nationwide general strike for 8-hour day, w/hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the US. In Chicago, protests against police escalated into the Haymarket riot, w/hanging of 8 organizers.

Thank you, @hankgreen.bsky.social for this video! Sending out the link to folks now! Vote in 2 Dems - Alicia and Peter www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvE...