Looks like @moderation.bsky.app automatically mutes "rude" content? What an embarrassingly infantalizing thing for a social media platform to do

From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

If you're wondering how things have been going since the CDC shooting, someone bombed a friend's workplace at Harvard yesterday and, if you were going off the discourse on Bluesky, you would honestly never know it happened www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

The Python Software Foundation won a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation. Turned it down because required to affirm that we "will not... operate any programs that advance or promote DEI" simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...

every day a new rubicon is crossed

first time at MSP Film's Main Cinema on St. Anthony Main Street for FRANKENSTEIN (2025) and not only do they offer weed at the concession stand but the Minneapolis skyline view from across the street is dynamite

The people on this airplane have a sense of duty and self-sacrifice that Donald Trump will never understand. They are NOAA employees flying their plane through the middle of the category 4 Hurricane Melissa south of Jamaica. And they aren't getting paid. I wish them safe flying and a safe return

The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.

cc all the thin blue line "WhO aRe yoU gOinG To CaLL wHen ThErE'S a cRiMe" poeple. Seems like when a cop wants to murder people, the answer is nobody www.inquirer.com/crime/new-je...

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

Pre-print alert 🚨 We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria? The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

"We have spent a century repenting those mistakes, and now the Trump administration demands that we repeat them."

"What NPS anthropologists provide...is the ability to recognize the crossroads and overlaps between what the Park Service hopes to accomplish and the traditions and lifeways of communities who will be affected by their actions." Good piece @sapiens.org by Ellyn Demuynck #anthropology #nationalpark

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital. "We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU" www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

Some scientists aren’t waiting for journals to catch up. They’re showing us what’s next. The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared. More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin... Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond

"When exposed to 13 dietary ingredients and food additives prevalent in industrialized diets, the U.S. microbiome responded differently from its Thai counterpart... the U.S. microbiome showed a predisposition toward weight gain under industrialized dietary conditions."

I’m glad people are aware of this, but it isn’t new. People in immigration detention were consistently moved away from their attorneys in the Biden admin. We reported on it then, but very few people cared about migrants when they weren’t a partisan tool.

New BMJ Research finds the implementation of work requirements with Medicaid expansion in Georgia did not increase health insurance coverage or employment. These findings have important implications after recently enacted legislation www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵

This passage nearly broke me.

Be sure to sign up the right way or the feds will try to put you in prison for a few decades and then never explain why en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Having only seen Wisconsin from Brewers TV broadcasts, I was shocked at how many different ways Wisconsin finds to be beautiful. The Driftless Area is amazing.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

I can't stress enough that this is how is exactly how genocides are incited. They always use language to couch it in self defense to justify violence against their targets.

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

Trump talks about ending offshore wind farms cause he cares about the endangered whales there. He says the wind turbines drive the whales "crazy." But federal cuts just defunded the plane that counts the endangered right whales' numbers every year. So....yeah. 🐳

Assistant Professor position in the Microbiome Engineering group (Prof Sahar El Aidy) at University of Amsterdam Assistant Professor in Microbiome Imaging and Functional Analysis werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Springsteen sold his catalog and now we get singles from the mythical lost Nebraska tapes? I hate to say it but I award the points to capitalism

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Maybe this is a more common approach than I'm aware of, but this seems amazing

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

We published a new lane of research today on human gut fungi. Shout out to 1st author @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social sky.social & @erdavenport.bsky.social For 20 years, bacteria received the lion's share of interest in the human gut. Yet we know little about the gut mycobiome. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Growing thread of alternative neutral network illustrations. Reminds me of how much trouble I had with gradient descent until I found enough cartoons that looked like a tennis ball on a Pringle

Why are we doing this?

CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.

All three are here: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

We are incredibly grateful for the generous support we have received for @centermicrobialmed.bsky.social. Support from these donors is allowing us to improve pediatric health through the lens of the microbiome and bring precision pathogen surveillance to reduce infections in children.

you: it makes no sense that a Long Rest in D&D can fully restore a character. you can’t just go from the brink of death to full health after sleeping 8 hours!! me, who literally can’t remember the last time he slept a full 8 hours: but are you sure?