The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

I spent an absolutely egregious amount of time today on the phone, text and email with customer service folks of various flavors (and a bunch of AI chatbots 🤮) “I sure hope you can help me because no one else has been able to” never misses with an actual human on an actual telephone.

No child should have to grow up in fear of the President’s hatred and power to do them harm.

Breaking: Tracy Beth Hoeg, the Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, said she was fired from the agency Friday after she declined to resign. W/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

Little animals in indoor mini gardens, for @planetdr.bsky.social:

It was worse than that. The previous loophole was you didn’t have to have car insurance to register your car, you could just pay a smaller extra fee. So all those bad drivers are also uninsured!

12 years here and I think I’m finally a true Baltimorean. Someone did something incredibly stupid driving and I reflexively yelled “of course you have Virginia plates” This is a niche post. But if you know, you know.

when they tell the stories of what it was like to live in this time, it should just be this video

Mars is getting larger in the FOV of Psyche's cameras ahead of today's flyby. 🔭🧪 #Psyche This is the first image with low enough exposure to show the surface colors of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß flic.kr/p/2sd7f8N

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Well, would ya look at that! NSF is going to send >10% of its current budget to industry (read: tech start ups) instead of universities…it’s as if the admin is trying to dismantle our basic science mechanism and use it as a start up fund for private companies 💁🏻‍♀️ www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/...

I met my husband swiping on Bumble. This shit makes me want to smash every smart phone into a billion pieces

Someone just told a pro AI bro in my comments: I’m not using it because it’s not smarter than me, I can see why you like it though.

VERY FEW NEWS ORGANIZATIONS ARE REPORTING THIS OUT CORRECTLY: "The House bill, though, does not restore funding levels to 2026 for all of its major programs. Exploration gets a $1.1 billion increase compared with 2026, but science funding would be cut by $1.25 billion." 🧪🔭⚛️

It's VERY important to understand what's happening with the NASA 🔭 budget. White House proposed cuts to everything *but* Artemis. The GOP-led House proposal restores the size of the budget BUT shifts spending, which is to say *House committee and White House agree on cutting NASA astrophysics* 🧪⚛️

i don’t take myself seriously, so my first urge is to make fun of the fact that i made the Time100 Philanthropy list. but i really am honored. not just to be on a fancy list (w/my buds Messi and Shakira) and have my work seen, but to have gotten to help people in the place i love so much

What’s the absolute tiniest user interface thing that makes you so annoyed you want to personally track down the developer and yell at them? I’ll start. When you type your name to join a Teams meeting it automatically switches to caps after each space. Which means my name is always Sarah horst

this is exaggerating a bit because a lot of state universities are undergraduate serving-institutions but it is definitely true of many *flagship* state university campuses

Yesterday, 56 of our fab colleagues at the Physics & Astronomy dept in Nottingham, received “at risk of redundancy” letters. The Uni is planning to reduce the size of the Physics dept by almost a third.🧪⚛️🔭 Sign this petition to show them your support ✍️: nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/

From NASA This is not an eclipse, but an even more rare sight: a crescent Mars as seen by NASA’s #MissionToPsyche spacecraft. The unprocessed image — taken by Psyche today — shows the night side of Mars as the spacecraft approaches the Red Planet for a flyby on May 15. 1/2

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

Hi Blue Friends- what books have you read (audio/paper/electronic) recently that you loved and would recommend? (DO NOT TELL MY TBR STACKS I ASKED THIS)

My group has been busy. PHAZER 2.0 (or whatever clever name they come up with) incoming!

Has anyone seen good media coverage of this? One of the survivors testified that she was abused during Epstein’s year under house arrest. That deserves full airing.

The 2003 masterpiece The Core, as always, innovates over its peers by having Stanley Tucci be an evil geologist

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Ok fine you can have phosphine. Just don’t die. She says to her group before leaving for vacation.

It appears that Instructure (makers of Canvas) just straight up paid off the criminal gang www.instructure.com/incident_upd...

You know AI is evil when it has me rooting for elsevier

I’m not saying I sprinted across the room to the dance floor the last time I heard Get Low. But I’m also not, not saying that…

One of my sister’s goats just delivered her first of two babies! This guy is Han Solo and he’s the cutest thing I have ever seen. Lookit those ears!

Hi friends- it’s been brought to my attention that folks who helped a local B’more family last Xmas have been receiving Venmo requests recently from that person and they are using my name. This family is in need. However, I don’t appreciate this behavior and I apologize if it is happening to you

From NASA: NASA’s #MissionToPsyche – on its way to explore a metal-rich asteroid – is about to get a speed boost from Mars. 🚀🏁 On May 15, the spacecraft will harness the Red Planet’s gravitational pull as a slingshot to increase its speed and adjust its trajectory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5k8...

So this week was a catastrophic disaster boggle BUT A win is a win And we did some great winning this week. A thread.

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

Things that should not be run like businesses: universities, hospitals, and government. Things that should be run like businesses: businesses. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Not The Onion. I actually asked when my middleSon read the headline to me www.kbb.com/car-news/tes...

And don't get cocky because your school uses Blackboard or some other corporate-owned LMS. THE PROBLEM IS ED TECH BEING OWNED BY FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. Such orgs focus on their profit-margins more than education and learning. They will always be a target because they will always seek to be big.

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

Friends if you do this please change your password afterwards since no one seems to know wtf is going on

Ok ours is back up. Got my grade book. Currently attempting to export the course

In the comments: ”I'll just note that Canvas is no longer a pedagogical tool; in its current iteration and ownership structure, faculty and students are trapped in a digital learning environment that mines our labor without consent or privacy and intellectual property protections.”

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

Apparently *they've* known all week... bsky.app/profile/sml4...

Yeah, first forwarded via admins: log off of Canvas asap. Then an official one saying it was down and why. Then another official one saying that if anyone had logged in via an unusual looking page, they should immediately reset their university password

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

The Democrats had a 50 state strategy under Howard Dean until 2009 when new leadership came in. I think about this a lot. State houses are where voting rights are made or broken.