NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

How did I miss this? It's insane!

Many have heard of the “Trimates:” Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas. But before any of them was Rosalie Osborn. But sadly, she, and her colleague Jill Donisthorpe, have been written out of the narrative. (1/16) 🧪#Primates

Tri-Councils had our backs: "...at no time did CIHR consider disclosing individual EDI and/or self-identification data, information about individual unsuccessful applications or peer reviewers’ review notes and scores" in response to demands of the Parliamentary Committee on Science and Research.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

A group of researchers dug into more than 30 studies on the autism-microbiome connection—including observational studies, preclinical experiments and human clinical trials—and found no evidence for a true link. By Lauren Schenkman www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I had no idea that reading was taught this way now in the US. Appalling. www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

I AM WATCHING YHE NORTHERN LIGHTS WITH THE NAKED EYE THIS IS THR BEST DAYNOF MY LIFE

#aurora from my deck. So cool!

Holy crap go look at the sky right now

Hair-raising story by @attackerman.bsky.social with new documents showing that a detained journalist is being held by ICE for his Instagram likes.

Authoritarianism scholar & journalist Sarah Kendzior has been banned here for no apparent reason and the head of the "Trust and Safety Team" is currently sephirothposting about it in case you all are wondering about the state of this platform

I love how AI's bubble is about to burst and Canada is like, "Let's pour all our money into AI and also make Evan Solomon in charge."

Excited to have the opportunity to share my perspective on comparative biomechanics in a plenary at this year's SICB meeting. Grateful to my mentors/collabs/students for their support along the way, and very honored to receive the Gans Young Investigator Award!

I WISH my health insurance premium was doubling. This is a four-fold increase.

Just realized that Colab Pro is free for students/teachers! Just sharing this in case I wasn't the only one... colab.research.google.com/signup

If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize

Former Northern Ireland lord chief justice says UK wrong to strip Shamima Begum of citizenship - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-northern-irish-lord-chief-justice-says-uk-wrong-strip-shamima-begum-citizenship

In the U.S. and UK, university administrators are trying to crush those who speak for truth and kindness in a world of lies and cruelty. Battles like this get little attention, but they affect what every teacher feels free to say in every moment. Profoundly shapes our world.

New opportunity at Queen's University: Tenured Tier 1 Canada Research Chair / Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty Position supported by the Bruce Mitchell gift (Mitchell Chair). can-acn.org/tenured-tier... #neurojobs

Very interesting perspective! I often have the opposite thought: "Experimenting like a modeller" Perhaps the two could co-exist for better workflows. Extensive exploration on simulated data should be the norm before running experiments to make sure the design is capable of the intended inference.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

Over on LinkedIn I was just reflecting on one of my favorite social media, which @bnallamo.bsky.social called "On Exactitude in Science, in reverse"

If you know an anti-vaxxer, you can congratulate them on this hard-earned "win". Honourable mentions to the universities & political leaders who have been so instrumental in making it easier for them to succeed. This was truly a team effort. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase? 2256.42%???? TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩

BBC bosses Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit. Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide. No, because they crossed Donald Trump. Their successors will be even more craven to the right.

I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA! In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.

#jobalert Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

You can’t really blame arXiv for the decision to stop publishing computer science stuff (given the flood of slop) but this is also a textbook example of a global public good being gratuitously degraded www.nature.com/articles/d41...

After one particularly egregious set of comments by Watson about blacks and Jews, I and the other authors got legal advice on how to add wording to our contract that would make sure Watson would not be able to insert any deranged ideas into our book

Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions

This: "Now if you are a novice in cognitive science, you may be puzzled and not know what is so wrong about that ‘definition’ in the screenshot above. This is the crux. For experts it is obvious!" Unless you're already competent in a topic, you cannot assess LLM-generated text.

A father suffered a seizure as ICE agents tried to tear a baby from its mother’s arms while attempting to detain the mother in Massachusetts.

In this open access peer-reviewed article, I and 21 of my sports studies colleagues argue that Israel is committing athleticide in Gaza. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

Given how Twitter filters worked, I also unchecked "misleading" content or "conspiracies" because again, these are flags conservatives use to spam legitimate news reporting, thus keeping you from seeing it if you have these filters on.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

I think it's important to point out that a major contributing factor to Canada's awesome parental leave was Canada Post workers striking in 1981 for mat leave. Their victory set the standard & led to extended parental leave for all Canadians shortly after. 1/

Another example of "more than exemplary" use of force by a CBP agent in Chicago: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

interested in mechanobiology and physics of living systems? this is the conference for you! Join us 9-12 June in Heidelberg! with @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @xaviertrepat.bsky.social Enrique Rojas & Alba Diz-Munoz Registration OPEN www.embl.org/about/info/c...

It’s hard not to feel insulted by the Canadian federal budget’s implication that researchers currently working in Canada aren’t good enough, so they’ll spend a bunch of taxpayer money to bring in “top talent” from elsewhere.

In Chicago, DHS refused to pause the raids and arrests so kids could go trick-or-treating without the risk of getting tear-gassed or subjected to violence. Meanwhile, DHS agents in Los Angeles celebrated the holiday by conducting raids while wearing horror movie masks. Sadism as public policy.

OMFG www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

🚨Job alert🚨 The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909

Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam). ...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...

Leaf? 🍃 Or katydid? 🦗 Our new @plosbiology.org paper sheds light on how these incredible mimics evolved their disguises, and what this reveals about how complex adaptations arise. We find that coordinated evolution between traits might be the answer… plos.io/4oUE741 1/n