I assumed that since Schumer asked for such a pathetically low number on the ACA extension (1 year) it would get whittled down to maybe four months and pinky promises. But if this reporting is accurate, they're not even going to try for four months. They're just going to take the pinky promises.

My people!

How about...no

Excuse me wtf?

With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

Fall colours that are not angiosperm leaves 🤓🌲🌿 #botany

New research out of Death Valley from @rheelab.bsky.social! 🏜️ Learn how one desert plant beats the heat through photosynthetic acclimation in their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #PlantResilience

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it. But most people won't believe that for several good reasons. /1

The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds. apnews.com/article/snap...

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

I had student meetings yesterday for my class. It was a writing class so most meetings started with my comments on their papers, but I told them they could ask about anything. Some asked for advice for gap years, how to choose the next career step, even audio books :) my favorite question was...🧵

I hate it here

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation. The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come: www.lawdork.com

don't threaten me with a good time

Stay warm everyone! As temperature drops down, our Opuntia humifusa plants are all laid down to get ready for the winter! 🍂

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

bro are you fucking kidding me

I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

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The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

Can we set aside that crisis of young men being driven to the Right? From NBC’s exit polling for young men 18-29: VA: Spanberger +14 NJ: Sherrill: +10 NYC: Mamdani +40

Students in my class, unprompted, are badmouthing chatGPT, including the environmental impacts. Love this for them.

Protecting people's health care is worth fighting for. Stopping our health care system from going into a death spiral is worth fighting for. People want Democrats to stand for something.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states. Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

CNN calls it for Mamdani!!

Here is a great way to teach your kids more about Native Americans this month. Molly of Denali–the only kids TV show to feature an Alaska Native character–is on the road for Native American Heritage Month. Molly, the show’s main character, visits 5 reservations.

Exit polls say Abigail Spanberger won young men 56–42 today. Talk about a narrative buster.

Breaking: Democrats flip two Public Service Commission seats in Georgia, the first victories in 25 years.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Abigail Spanberger will be the first woman to serve as governor of Virginia.

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

So UW Madison posted this today. "A dissertation shy of finishing his doctorate." ...that's ..the whole doctorate?!

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

Across New Jersey, bomb threats at multiple polling locations have prompted closures and relocations today

Monocots are the best, but I'll give you that proper secondary growth is pretty rad(ial).

The House hasn't been in session for 45 days.

I am happy to share my first publication is out in the scientific world. Based on my undergraduate honours biology thesis research at Queen’s University (2024), we explore how urbanization and host-plant gardens impact the occupation of its specialist herbivores. You can check it out here! 🌿🐛

Grad student in the lab (Dom Pham), in her first semester, already out here writing those op-eds: www.ctpost.com/opinion/arti... 💪✨

My university sent out an email at 8 AM this morning asking that we pause all spending of federal grant funds except for payroll due to the government shutdown (with some exceptions). Is this happening elsewhere?

College: Good news we have some money to support new innovative programs in STEM education! Me: Cool! What are some examples of things you would support? College: AI! Me: 💀

The time between now and Dec 21 is the worst. Dark all the time. Each day darker. This is not deep I am literally just talking about sunlight (or lack thereof).

My response to the UConn response to my op-ed about Paid Leave: share.google/s2knvzJs8q3I... (Published on UConn AAUP’s webpage because CT Mirror doesn’t publish second responses, which……..fine, ok, I totally get.)