The best part is that umm, this was an open. That means it’s literally not a gendered competition and there’s no separation for men and women. She did this over something where she would very likely also go up against cis men.

while everyone is distracted

Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.

"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4

no shit www.science.org/content/arti...

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

I know this isn't nearly everything, but I'm trying to keep my seminar class updated on what's happening. Is there anything else I should add/correct?

LOL wow a dude just argued in the EU courts that misgendering is a GDPR violation and he *won*. www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refu...

The extent of sea ice around the world continues to remain the smallest in our satellite observation history for this time of year... More graphs at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social.

Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘

Do not miss this despite everything else happening

People will make it sound like Palestinians are soooo different than people in the West- but Mohammed was an accountant at a dentist’s office, he had a cat. We are so much closer to Palestinians than anyone in power in the West.

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Holy smokes; this is a tough read, and AGU don’t come out of it well. @holdingupthesky.bsky.social fills in some of the details and makes a call-to-action, although I personally understand if folks decide to dedicate their efforts to other organisations…

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

The main DEI page from @agu.org has been modified to take diversity out of the title. Glad to see it's not deleted entirely, but hey AGU, we're watching what you do and remembering the big game you once talked about supporting your diverse membership. Today vs. January

This is a rather telling statement. Nearly a third of women in Louisiana are Black. www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...

Shooting the gap here but please Internet is there someone out there I can talk to about #Severance using Oseh Shalom this week

⚒️🧪🍎👩🏿‍🔬In recognition of Black History Month, I'll be posting episodes of "Every Rock Has A Story" that feature Black scientists who share their own stories. First up, PhD candidate Imani Guest who talks about "fishing" for volcanic rock near Hawaii! Share it with your kids! youtu.be/4yqeE9FGJd4

Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING. I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

today i found a special book i thought i had lost - "jews make jokes," by l.n. stolovich, published in tartu in 1996, it is a collection of jewish jokes from russia that is the darkest shit you've ever heard

figures for my "introductory entomology for design majors" lecture, in which we learn that Bug is a Series of Tubes

I'm looking for musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. who are passionate about translating science to a broader audience. The field is at the intersection of geoscience, paleo, climate, biology, and conservation. This is a funded opportunity. Tag your favorite STEAM folks, please!

I'm hiring, two fully funded PhD positions! Come work in Umeå in Arctic Sweden, a leading place for high-latitude ecosystem ecology and carbon biogeochemistry

Trump's Greenland obsession is a very concrete example of why the Mercator projection is bad.

A federal court has ruled that Florida can detransition inmates. Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy. This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Genuinely stoked

Luigi Mangione Judge Married to Former Healthcare Executive

Did you know that you should end your alt text with a period? "End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text." This was a new tip for me. Glad to learn something new! www.nngroup.com/articles/wri...

Americans would rather put "1k grams of fentanyl" in the newspaper than learn the metric system www.wane.com/news/crime/m...

Oh my god it's literally a lens cap.

as a Big Nerd I have to tell you I went to Mendel’s abbey to look at his peas but the most notable part is actually the little hats he made for his microscopes

💧If you use a MIMS with a furnace, and you’re sad you lost your oxygen data, you may be in luck! We found that even with a furnace scrubbing >99% of the O2 from a sample, it was still sensitive enough to measure O2!💧 In L&O Methods (and OA!): doi.org/10.1002/lom3...

Shepping too much nachas for one skeet but, this is an incredible paper I was grateful to get to contribute to. Thanks to @jamesaorr.bsky.social

It is really striking to me how some university leaders have managed to keep their cool and ended the Gaza encampments peacefully through dialogue and others have just needlessly escalated. dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/29/c...

We're hiring! Work with @jbaron4.bsky.social @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social, and I to synthesize 40+ years of biogeochemical data from lakes across the southern Rocky Mtns. Pay range $65-75k, negotiable start date jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

What’s Germany up to today I wonder… oh just making Palestinians stateless

“No shit”, said every woman who’s done any part of a PhD.

Tell me something I don’t already cry about to my therapist.

NEW: I've republished the Kansas Reflector column still being blocked on all Meta properties. It's a piece critical of Facebook's ad policy on climate change content that triggered a site-wide ban yesterday. Read/share widely: www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-ref...

Just to recap: -The Kansas Reflector posted a column critical of FB on Thursday -Meta blocked/deleted all their links across platforms -Meta restored all Reflector links except the critical column -I reposted the column on The Handbasket Friday -Meta blocked/deleted all my links across platforms

It IS possible for a society to radically change direction: look at the legalisation of divorce, gay marriage, etc in Ireland Similarly, we CAN reverse the ongoing destruction of nature My talk with Michael Healion in Trinity College Dublin's enviro magazine evergreen-trinity.com/2024/03/19/a...

Freshwater Science is recruiting a new Editor-in-Chief! If you want a chance to influence how publishing works, while supporting @freshwater-science.bsky.social and the non-profit U ChicagoPress, please reach out to me. Please share widely and send me nominations. Applications due 25 March 2024

This is a heartbreakingly short sighted move that will cripple future scientific research.