This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Remember when we told you it was never about “come here legally”? The Trump regime is expanding efforts to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans — folks like me. It was always about developing a white ethnostate ruled by fascists.

civil society and right groups orgs that often keep a tab on and organise campaigns against these evil corporations are overstretched and underfunded. this internal memo from Meta is insidious and sickening

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

The damage its already done to education alone will take a generation to recover from.

This is really, really dark. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Lol, 😂finding out my health insurance as a post-doc was better than as faculty!

today, nearly 21 years after I got my PhD, 15 years after tenure, and four years after promotion to full professor, my student loans are paid off support graduate unions

I'm kind of depressed to see countries like Canada frame this as an opportunity. No one benefits from the collapse of US science. And you certainly don't benefit anyone by poaching a few big names while doing no other meaningful increased investment in your own research ecosystem.

“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Stop Meeting Students Where They Are What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... | @theatlantic.com

It's long past time to stop indulging people who think you can meaningfully defend science without also defending democracy and academic freedom and opposing authoritarianism. It's the same fight, otherwise all you're defending is your own status.

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

This is another one of the reasons I’m so deeply troubled by the fabulous new plan to just pivot to private philanthropy. Billionaires will not save science

New #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

I think everyone should question the sources that they are getting funding from. Really.

Le Monde has revealed that in the summer of 2025 a French criminal court issued indictments against two French-Israeli Jewish citizens for complicity and incitement of genocide due to their repeated attempts to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. It seems to be the first case in Europe.

The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports. Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...

Adding that another journalist who covered the same protest is being arrested. She went live from Facebook. Extremely concerning. And heartbreaking because at one point you hear her child sob in the background. www.facebook.com/share/v/1JbD...

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🕸️ The #silk of this gorgeous little cribellator is not your standard silk - read @evoimec.bsky.social new study here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🕸️

Here’s the thing about the human rights underpinning democracy: they are universal. As soon as a group of human beings can be slaughtered with impunity because a more powerful group wants them gone, then all is already lost. It’s just a matter of time until the jackboot comes for your face.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Told ya. One of the worst moves possible given what's happening in the US. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

Alarming news for Canadians: www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

It is negative 16 degrees in Minneapolis!

I'm not a young man. I've been watching the weather for 50+ years. This may be the most significant winter storm I've seen.

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

Israeli occupation authorities have started demolishing UNRWA’s main headquarters in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem.

“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”

Seriously guys, crickets make tools, even optimal tools. Doesn't mean they're smart. You don't need to be smart to make tools. If we know that this particular cow is smart, as the article suggests, then that's why we know its smart. And it can use its smarts to make tools. Don't get it twisted.

Journalists report tool use in a non-human and say that it overturns everything. It doesn't, because scientists already know that tool use is widespread. Aaaaaand repeat...

It's still the case that if your MS Office subscription comes up for renewal, you can start the cancellation process and you will get the offer to switch to a cheaper version **without Co-Pilot**.

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

CLOSING SOON: Join us as Technical Facility Manager of our new digitisation centre @manmetuni.bsky.social. Run our new Neoscan microCT with loading rigs and autochanger. Plus LEICA BLK360 laser scanner, Creaform HandyScan, Olympus DSX microscope, Resonon Hyperspectral camera: tinyurl.com/y8x596hd

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

A new academic term is ramping up. Have you considered putting our episodes on your syllabi? Conversations offer an accessible and engaging format—your students will thank you! We have 100+ episodes to choose from, covering many forms of mind from all disciplinary angles. disi.org/manyminds/

UNICEF: a child has been killed every day in Gaza by Israel since the start of the 'ceasefire.' “These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”

The quality and length of life for a Type 1 diabetic is so hugely based on access to the exceptionally costly supplies needed that anyone opposing universal coverage is opposing the ability for thousands of children to live, my daughter included. Diabetic coverage needs to be universal for all.

How does a country function without standards? Electrical safety, food safety, medical standards, all sorts of stuff? We're about to find out apparently? Wtf?

www.canada.ca/en/public-se... The Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) is shutting down entirely as of April. Carney is quietly running a Canadian DOGE with help from the fascist tech-bros at Build Canada.