welcome home to your parents’ house, the channels are Yellowstone, masterpiece mystery, and Jimmy fallon, btw someone from your high school died in a real weird way

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

Cosmopolitan, egalitarian values are better than authoritarian values and it would be cool if one of our two political parties argued as much instead of spending decades trying to avoid cultural arguments by clinging to "it's the economy stupid" or "kitchen table issues" or "affordability."

Good! This is a genuinely embarrassing effort, especially at the time when the Europe has real problems to address. www.politico.eu/article/eu-v...

Yeeess. My mom is one of these women and they need help!

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

I still can't believe I went from Raskin to Hinson. 😢

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

I had to look this up since I was too little to remember it and…I’m sorry, I’m crying I’m laughing so hard

Text needed a little fixing but still great to see so many patriotic people with so much enthusiasm for saving our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

it is so important for the public to know about this terrible waste of talent, curiosity, wonder, and progress too much of science -- how it's made, who makes it, and how and why -- is hidden from public view these stories need to be told

I've heard colleagues say that the solution to what's happening to American science is for scientists to communicate the value of science better. That's false. Trump is doing a lot of unpopular things, including destroying the science enterprise. What's happening is not our fault. 1/2

My account is officially a "Jon Green stan acccount" (@modestholdings.com). Jon Green, an Iowa county supervisor who refuses to lower the flag for Charlie Kirk, is the tip of the "no, I won't do what you tell me" spear. Hell.effing.YESSSSSSSS. Let's be more like Jon Green. 👍😁

Just disgusting disinformation.

Our political media is simply not equipped to handle a situation where the voters were unambiguously wrong in a way which morally implicates the electorate.

Hey Iowans in IA-2, she's either lying to you or she's too uninformed to be voting on this. Maybe give her a call and let her know what you think. 202-225-2911 (DC) 319-266-6925 (Waterloo) 563-557-7789 (Dubuque) The IA Hospital Assoc predicts $10B cut over 10 years, which affects ALL IOWANS

rep. @leighfinke.bsky.social posted this speech and i am glad it is the last thing i saw before going to bed tonight. to give so much this week of all weeks, it is pretty amazing. 💜 “love each other til you cannot stand it.” -from the caption

What a beautifully written and powerful essay from @dannagal.bsky.social about magical thinking and science. Really excellent. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

Imagine if the government expended even half of this effort actually protecting the welfare of ag animals. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wm...

Kudos to WaPo--more coverage like this please! Efficiency isn't the outcome and wasn't intended to be. Everyone should know how they are intentionally breaking your government to prove a point and making you less safe and less healthy in the process. It should be easy for ATC to have clean windows!

So we're crashing the global economy to stop China from "eating our lunch" and then handing them *decades* of scientific and technological supremacy. Is this the 4D chess?

I can't believe I traded Jamie Raskin for Ashley Hinson. 😢

Great thread on govt funding --> tech advances.

Every other country would have to almost double its current investment in research for this pipe dream to happen. Far more likely is that global scientific research decreases by about half. That is bad for every hope people might have for cures, energy technologies, etc.

I asked all the lizards and they said "look at the diversity of our sex determination mechanisms. Do you really think we would buy Trumps simplistic interpretation of sex and its conflation with gender?" They are also in favor of eating the rich, but I think they thought I meant literal cannibalism

one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now

❤️ Give 'em hell

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

A point that hasn’t received nearly as much attention as it should in the deextinctiom discourse: the lives of the animals involved.

For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research. en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...

The NIH budget for FY2024 was about $47 billion. It will be interesting to compare the ROI for this amount of money--I bet we don't get any new drugs or lifesaving treatments from this

These are important images to be passed around. These faces should be associated with these headlines. In addition to their covid misinformation, they now have this on their resume. Make sure everyone knows that.

Iowans! Grassley finally remembered he's a senator and capable of exercising political power. So, he's decided to go after the courts for obstructing Trump's agenda. I guess if you can't win, change the rules 🤷 Consider letting him know what you think of the Judicial Relief Clarification Act!

Thinking of my friends and former colleagues who have spent their careers advancing science and health in service of the American public. They deserve better than this.

Oh, ok. I mean, I guess why pretend?

Jesus christ, this is wild. All around!!

JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

Disappointing to learn that Mayo Clinic is shilling for the dairy industry, esp since it's for a pittance wrt their bottom line. Kudos to @statnews.com for this; the check-off programs are terrible policy that doesn't serve the public interest, and they don't get enough attention.

Seems like a good time to remind ourselves that in 1931, when Mussolini forced academics to sign an oath of allegiance to the fascist regime, only twelve refused.

It's good that Italy puts these warning signs at the airport, so visitors know what to expect during their visit.

Just called my reps (Grassley, Ernst, Hinson) to ask what they're doing to protect their constituents from the President's utter disregard for the rule of law--and asked for a written response. Cannot wait. 🫤

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

A great deal of trouble we face now is that those in power assume everyone working for the public good has to be part of a grift because *they literally cannot conceive of a public good*. They are broken, deranged people, almost to a one. I'm struggling with the response to this.

+1 on this: The US stands out relative to other country because of decades of big-time investment in scientific infrastructure. That is why the US won on science and attracting talent. Trump is dismantling that infrastructure now, but it has never existed in other countries to the same degree.

Guess he wants to free up his schedule for next week? In case you want to let him know what you think...(Note the P&P event is actually at Sixth&I)