One of antifa's first girlfriends.

Finally got this up! Thanks @annijyn.com!

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social I'm sorry to bother you. How can people outside Chicago/Illinois support protesting Chicagoans apart from raising awareness, etc?

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

I'm finally a cool kid! Thanks, @fenrisgames.com!

Boom

Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once

Apparently at CU Boulder it's perfectly OK to physically assault students who disrupt a class. Students for justice in Palestine disrupted a Designing for Defense class and were assaulted by a guest lecturer (a non-active duty Marine) and the instructor. www.instagram.com/reel/DICMOJR...

🧵 As I know too many who might be able to use the info.

I can hear my research office now: "Keep writing proposals."🤯

Perhaps newly relevant today… back in the 1930s, a West Point professor/librarian fought back against efforts to ban books on the New Deal. warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/the... Same prof would later be forced to explain to McCarthy’s staff about why the library there had books on Marxism.

A profile in courage: the Chancellor of an R1 showing more signs of life and support for the contract extension of the uni's football coach in a paragraph than for their researchers, staff, and students over two months. I guess football will play better for another feature in "CEO Magazine".

Don't accept anything but Daddie's Favourite Sauce. Hmmm...

ahem, or you can share because I need to go to bed but I really want to see it get to 1000 before I go to sleep for the night. We're at 900+ and it's averaging a signature every ~50 seconds but I'd like to go to bed sooner than 90*50 seconds from now.

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Told my boss I don't trust team members who I know are cheering on what's going on with NIH (I know they are vaccine denialists). My boss said that these people think they're doing the right thing and we should respect different views & work together. I'm in an R1 office of research & cover NIH.😡

Absolute madness

There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n

Boulder faculty, staff, and students standing up while CU administration chooses silence and collaboration.

My handiwork, but someone smarter came up with the slogan.

Bluetorial: The announcement to move scientific review out of the institutes and centers into the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) and its potential consequences

Ready for tomorrow. (Can't take credit for the slogan. Totally responsible for the horrible printing.😊)

Truly this should be satire: Email from my university telling us to keep them informed if our federal grants are terminated but also *keep applying for federal grants*

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. Read more: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer are urging congressional democrats to behave and show decorum at tonight's speech out of respect for the other Nuremberg Rally attendees.

Needs must when one cannot taste @tammi.bsky.social 's cookies.😝

Colorado— Looking for a @standupforscience.bsky.social sign/poster making event? Look no further! Golden—3/3 @6 Boulder—3/5 @5 Aurora/Denver—3/6 @6

Any editors who see this interested in an editorial from two NIH-funded physician researchers on the dismantling of science and public health in the US? It’s clear and compelling, if I do say so myself.

#Denver #Colorado #StandUpForScience Capitol Building Friday, March 7th 1pm-4pm

🚨 Are you a researcher who's been asked by your institution not to talk to the public/media about certain topics - esp after Jan 20? Are you a PIO who's had to tell scientists not to talk to the media? Reach out on Signal at mkozlov.01 for a @nature.com story. Your identity will be kept private.

Look at this leader. Lift her up.

Hey, it's the same tactic employed by universities!

Very much this.

Agreed. And...I think there's a great chance of me winning the lottery than a sizable number of R1 university presidents speak out. Lawwyers, federal relations teams, and regents have presidents under their thumbs.

Unfortunately, I'm not surprised.

For faculty who are wondering about the steps of putting together a teach-in on what is currently happening, I threw together a quick guide based on some of what we did at Michigan - Feel free to pass it around and open to any suggestions - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In a special edition of her “How to teach this paper” column, Ashley Juavinett @analog-ashley.bsky.social explains how to best educate students about how the business of scientific research actually works. www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach... #neuroskyence

Dear University of Colorado: When the president of the University of Tennessee - Knoxville is publicly arguing against NIH cuts while you remain silent (to the best of my knowledge), you are *really* fucking up.

Whoa! Calm down! Dial back that sense of urgency and maybe reconsider the radical defense of research that is signing a letter! I guess the lawyers gave permission to performatively speak on the subject when there's a good chance it's too little, too late.

Movies you've watched more than six times, using only gifs.

Kid (and continuing) crush, go

I've actually done research on this! People who can't access SNAP typically turn to expensive methods of borrowing that they cannot pay off quickly. This means they rack up late fees, face high interest rates, have lower credit scores, etc. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

I had a part in helping a researcher secure ARPA-H funding. 🤷‍♂️

Among the things I'm hearing that don't inspire confidence: Be careful about what you say and how you say it: you want to have a job, don't you? Why, yes, I will totally want to live and work under an authoritarian regime that is racist, albeist, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ, Xian Nationalist, etc.🤯

Pretty much this.

Nearly 400 faculty signed an open letter to University President Maurie McInnis on Wednesday, calling for her to stand up in “word and deed” against federal policies threatening the University’s research and values. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/02...