Please do not forget that some scientists were cozying up to Epstein long long long after his horrific behavior was known. Five of them are featured in the Birthday Book. Gerry Edelman. Murray Gellman. Steve Kosslyn. Martin Nowak. Lee Smolin. See docs: oversight.house.gov/release/over...

Got 2025-2026 vaccine boosters for flu and COVID this morning, fuck you RFK Jr

Capitulating in advance will not save your institution from further federal attack. Gender affirming care saves lives. #ProtectTransKids talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...

Per multiple sources, the EPA will cease recognizing employee unions tonight, removing their ability to collectively bargain.

‼️‼️‼️ basically they want sex hypersimplified to "Y chromosome: yes or no" because that is the only sex variable you can't change. Everything else is plastic my friends.

‼️ Trump's NSF is demanding UCLA violate CA law and ban trans women from college bathrooms, dorms, and sports, in order to restore illegally withheld NSF grants. After other universities capitulated to these ridiculous demands, UCLA students and staff must ensure UCLA doesn't follow. Link in🧵

Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

Wait until the cuff rips and gets stuck under your shoes like stirrup pants!

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

The UFW is aware of the ongoing immigration enforcement activities occurring near Oxnard/Camarillo area. If you have a loved one that has been arrested call the rapid response network (805)870-8855.

Animal research saves lives. This is so misguided. I would not take a drug only tested with AI or in silico models

Postdoctoral researchers at the University of Michigan have joined thousands of colleagues at other US institutions in seeking union recognition https://go.nature.com/4eHYSMr

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Harvard, aka Resistance U, is taking advantage of the Trumpist NLRB to crush its grad student union by stripping it of 800 members. Sounds about right. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Been taking micro retirement since my postdoc ended 🫠

United to WIN! 💪

First they came for abortion. 
Now it’s birth control, cancer screenings, prenatal care. The Supreme Court just ruled states can block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood. (1/2)

Protect transgender scientists | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use color-blindness-friendly color combinations and when possible (such as plotted data) use shape + color instead of color alone to convey information

You can also CHAT with them online at this address: www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/ The website features a QUICK EXIT function. Tap on the ESC (escape) button on your keyboard three times for the website to redirect you automatically to Google's home page.

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline included a service that provided specialized suicide prevention support by phone and text for LGBTQ+ kids. That's ending.

Another June of cruel SCOTUS decisions eroding bodily autonomy

Working people are sick and tired of a system where it takes FIVE career lifetimes to earn what CEOs make in just one year. Fight back against the billionaire and corporate greed. Join the movement, and organize your workplace! aflcio.org/formaunion

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

Several thousand people have gathered at Clark Park in Detroit for a #NoKings protest Pics from Erick Diaz Veliz

See you tomorrow #NoKings!

I just finished Blood in the Machine and it was eye opening. Highly recommend.

fuck waymo, break the machines

When ICE comes into our neighborhoods targeting our communities and hurting our leaders, we show up! United. Organized. Ready to protect families.

Join us—find a “No Kings” event near you: go.aft.org/nokings @indivisible.org

…. Idk how else to say this but it’s not about best. It’s about who has the flexibility and ability to leave. A lot of great scientists who cannot easily pack up or don’t want to leave family behind are not leaving the country. The idea that anyone who status behind is a sub par scientist is wild AF

Trump calls it “gold-standard science.” But what he’s proposing is fool’s gold - shiny rhetoric hiding the rot of political interference in scientific endeavors, in the pursuit of his ideological agenda. Read the WaPo article featuring our Open Letter here: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

One of many reasons why I'm still fit tested-N95 masking while traveling 🫠

The brain worms direct their host to water to complete their lifecycle

Thirteen different warbler species today, including lifer Kirtland's! 🪶 #GlobalBigDay #Birding

I'm often asked, "why should I join the union, I'm only here for 1-2 years?" There's only one timeframe in the last 25 years when already-insufficient postdoc wages* weren't allowed to stagnate for years nationwide: after the largest academic strike in US history.

Omg Sinners was so good!! Wish I lived closer to a 70mm IMAX, would absolutely see again!

the average American *billionaire* has fewer than three friends because they're huge losers

UC postdocs on terminated grants: Do not resign. If you are asked to resign, document it and contact our union on your campus immediately.

Announcing our FIRST conference: Unite & Win, June 27–29 in Detroit. Featuring: 🎓 Workplace organizing trainings 🌍 Panels on climate and racial justice organizing at work 🎉 Socials to meet your fellow organizers RSVP below 🔗👇

Getting wine drunk and making soup

This is a MESS -- Enbridge, the same company behind the Line 3 tar sands pipeline and its construction failures, wants to tunnel under the Great Lakes. No Straits tunnel, shut down Line 5! www.freep.com/story/opinio...

🚨HEY DORKS! PROTEST ALERT🚨 Kill The Cuts National Day of Action is Tomorrow, Tuesday April 8th! Find an action near you: www.killthecuts.org/action-near-... Stand Up for lifesaving research, healthcare, and education! @aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social #standupforscience #killthecuts

The Detroit Hands Off protest today stretched for miles, it was so powerful when we all realized that we were seeing the front of the protest looping back on the opposite side of the street when were 1.5 miles from the end. Glad a friend got video on her way to work, it really shows the scale.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

OK so if anyone has any leads on private postdoc fellowships or funding sources lmk!!! Hopeful about this ACLU lawsuit but need to still think practically to make sure I have a paycheck.

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