“Yes it’s possible even likely that men I work with raped and trafficked children. And I’ve ignored this evidence twice in my career. But why can’t you focus for a minute on the fact that rich people have gotten even richer?! You’re such a glass half-empty person”

Famous last words in biology

More about the NSF GRFP nonsense www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Well that definitely went a direction I didn’t expect

Thank goddess for other mothers. Took Ellie to dance class and brought Jo with us. Jo takes opportunity to drop a truly massive poop. I found four packs of wipes in the car, three rolls of toilet paper… and no clean diapers. She’s currently wearing a donated 4-year-old sized pull up.

Study escaped my radar, but I am so glad to see it! 🩸🌿 Regarding menstruation & fieldwork in the natural sciences: • 48% report significant menstrual pain in the field • 85% say first aid kits lack menstrual products • Only 30.5% feel comfortable discussing issues with male supervisors

Do you ever just wake up feeling cheated because Michael Biehn’s scene in Terminator 2 was cut from the theatrical release? I bet @rufflejax.bsky.social does

This is in fact the proper use of the bagpipes

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

this is partly how we can achieve substantial rewilding, to support sustainable ecosystems and reduce climate change largely the same with land used to grow food, which has been hijacked to grow subsidies and move up the value chain with excessive, inhumane meat production

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Group photo of my last four boyfriends

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Post a banger that isn't in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9WO...

It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries. It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.

It's hilarious that Fox News treats these things as deeply scandalous, in between segments where a bunch of adults are sitting around saying stuff like, well, you know, fourteen-year-olds *are* pretty sexy these days ...

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :) here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~

“A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.” -Richard Adams

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

I mean really, how could any human writer compete with that kind of literary powerhouse

america really is the main character of the world, but in the twitter way

My theory that AI maximalists don’t know how to use a computer remains undefeated so far

Read this lataco.com/captive-loti...

We get all the noblesse and none of the oblige

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Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.

Venture with us into the swamp, won’t you? But don’t follow the lights (or do, we’re not your real dad) open.spotify.com/episode/60EQ...

A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY cannot say Black.

This whole thread is gold

can't stop thinking about this local street art i stumbled across today

Jo is wearing pink pants with ghosts on them today so I’ve been calling her Spooky Britches

Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...

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Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.

Mourn the species declared extinct in 2025 -- then fight like hell to prevent other plants and animals from the same fate. https://therevelator.org/extinct-2025/

I've been singing this to myself all day

Sometimes it feels like I’m watching the decay of my chosen field in real time and all I can do is wait for the ax to fall on my own neck

Get em Bill

This library sounds amazing - I didn't even know we had such a gem right here in Cambridge. Cooperation Jackson is absolutely the right home for it. Help them relocate the books if you can!

We’ve been freaking out about this over here. Not least because HOW they figured it out is so cool.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Ordered? What a bunch of wusses. I watched Manos: The Hands Of Fate out of my own free will.

Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer

Seems bad that we have a system where one guy gets to add enough money to allow a family to live in luxury for generations to his Scrooge McDuck money vault every day

Do you have undergrads interested in collections-based research? Have them apply to go work with @jmheberling.bsky.social at CMNH! I cannot imagine a better place to work over the summer

Well? You gonna prove 'em wrong?