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IT IS TIME.

The whole administration in one quote

When one of your journalism crushes strays into your botanical world 🌱🩷

In case you were wondering the “I’ve read some obituaries with great satisfaction” quote was not Mark Twain. More fittingly - it was Clarence Darrow “ I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." Clarence Darrow 1932.

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

You know - it was good long run here after leaving Twitter before I saw these kind of completely idiot reply guys - guess they’ve finally realized their favorite demographic to “well actually” at is largely here now. Sigh. But also Lmao at reproductive justice “can only be realized” via communism.

Me clicking down far enough to learn that to my shock it’s not Chomsky being discussed here. But also I know an “anti-capitalist” who is the most capitalistic money obsessed person I know - so yeah tracks.

Now that the heat has finally broke able to have another outdoor range

Girl, same.

Hi, I'm a university administrator. I'm unwilling to pay teaching assistants a living wage so I tell profs to churn an acre of forest and a small pond's worth of water through the Labour Rights Subversion Machine every time they need to grade a paper

“Preservation is not just about buildings or places. It’s about stories—who gets remembered, who gets erased, and what future generations come to believe about who we are.”

What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

ICYMI: The mind-boggling list of hundreds of #bannedbooks in Tennessee now includes Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei.bsky.social, and The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam. More at: pen.org/magic-tree-h... #Caturday #Censorship

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Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/

BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Failed states disappear dissents (and those who fit the target for disappearance who happen to be nearby).

Wow. The EPA has placed 144 employees on administrative leave after the workers signed a public letter criticizing EPA leadership for disregarding scientific expertise and rolling back environmental and public health protections.

We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.

jfc

These bloom the week of my birthday every year They’ve lived with me for almost 29 yrs through 5 homes and 3 states and the past 2 years they’ve started producing seedlings - I love them deeply #bloomscrolling #OputiniaHumifusa

This is the AFWF version of AFYF guides for Asteraceae. And I love it.

I'm considering a little post series extolling the virtues of easy beginner #nativeplants 🌱 for the Mid-Atlantic because in March or April, a bunch of new folks will careen into this hobby (it's like clockwork) and it might be handy to have said posts for quoting. I'll thread them starting here.

not a data take but this is fucked up. cutting food benefits to poor moms, infants, and toddlers is pointlessly cruel. not a partisan issue, just straightforwardly fucked. the cruelty is the point. call your congressperson

Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Indeed most conferences are planned 2-3 yrs in advance. However, organizers in my profession just keep using the same F’ing playbook years and years after we’ve experienced significant events that should change how we conference. But instead we just keep doing the same way. 1/

Had a chance to take a mini vacation for my birthday- see gorgeous Lake Tahoe, do a little kayaking, see some fabulous baskets and give a conference paper (it’s been like 5? yrs since I last did that) and generally relax

I'm not a member but I did serve on a consensus committee, co-authored a report on sexual harassment, and served on an action collaborative. And given the longstanding problem of harassment in science, documented in our report, I do have a pretty big problem with this speaker!

🚨🚨 Alarming NSF policy update By accepting an NSF award, an institution now must say it's: 1. Not engaging in boycotts of Israel (yes really) 2. Not advancing or promoting DEI in violation of anti-discrimination laws Announced via a footnote today: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma...

🧪 Science benefits the public the most when it's free from political influence. This issue around "certifications" is actively being litigated in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals right now (pending): www.courtlistener.com/docket/69687... In the meantime: Stand up and take action to #SaveNSF

One of these federally funded breakthroughs that changed the world is GPS, which was invented at Hopkins.

A whole lot of institutions do not understand that anticipatory compliance is the opposite of a safe, reasonable, conservative strategy. It will accelerate the risks and harms they claim they want to avoid.

I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.

#NIH is still termination grants, zeroing out budgets, and issuing stop-work orders. But they are hiding more and more of it from the public. More than ever we need people to report so researchers can advocate and organize. Please report at grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

As an NEH (via AR humanities) (2015 - Plum Bayou Garden) and NSF (2010 - dissertation grant) recipient I can’t emphasize enough how destructive this all is. And not just to recipients or research broadly - but to all Americans - these grants can and do have a direct impact on the public good.

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The HPF prevents this being unfunded mandate for states. Reneging on commitment to states will result in the drastic reduction in force ALL states. The requirements still exist. Developers & regulatory officials (SHPO/THPO) been doing this process for decades (SHPOs >50 years; THPOs ~30 years). 4/9

Removing staff will cause delays in PRIVATE development. This will cost developers $ & time when planning projects. Emergency declarations to circumvent this will result in the loss of resources, infringement on local and Tribal Nation rights to preserve and document their histories. 5/9

Our NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the Northwest region was terminated this week. I'm so proud of the work we did to support the climate resilience efforts of frontline communities and Tribal Nations. And I'm deeply concerned for what the loss of this support means for NW communities.

Planned firings at USGS next week would also eliminate the Climate Adaptation Science Centers, which support natural & cultural resource management in a changing climate. The adaptation science and services we need are being cut even as the administration doubles down on fossil fuels.