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?

Some papers are really efficient at reminding me how bonkers it is that anything multicellular works at all

Things are getting pretty dark

they're literally taking science out of your kid's classroom

NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

This is what it's like to watch a Snakemake pipeline queue up 1000+ jobs and start revving up however many cores it can find

These @septaphilly.bsky.social‬ cuts look worse every time I see them. What does the Main Line look like after this?

Such a cool program

This is my approach to dealing with ADHD

'Morning conversation', linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt

New from 404 Media: a DEA agent used a local cop's Flock password without their knowledge, used it to look for someone suspected of an "immigration violation." Shows even without direct access, feds are tapping into Flock cameras without permission or authorization www.404media.co/feds-used-lo...

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Spotting pre-clinical atherosclerosis with gut metabolites! "...we found that ImP caused atherosclerosis through the imidazoline-1 receptor in myeloid cells. Blocking this ImP–I1R axis inhibited the development of atherosclerosis induced by ImP or high-cholesterol diet in mice."

Reposting @floralashes.bsky.social's excellent question for the historians of science & sts folks... #histsci #philsci #sts #anthro what do you think?

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

New report reveals human rights abuses in US detention camps, including: -a 10-year-old US citizen child recovering from brain surgery denied follow-up medical care -a 4-year-old child suffering from metastatic cancer deported w/o ability to consult a doctor www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Maybe "shocking" isn't the word, but: "Around 40% of people who filled out a survey about working at US Antarctic research bases in the past two years reported experiencing sexual harassment or assault during their time on the ice. Almost half of those were people working there for the first time."

Sharing this Pitt article about my helping to lead ASM because it shares my hopes for the scientific and societal good we can do. We are all population biologists, whether or not we know it, and this can enrich us. www.medschool.pitt.edu/news/pitt-s-...

Scientific fraud through paper mills and targeted journals is already occurring at scale. It is organized, orchestrated, and rapidly growing, far outpacing legitimate science www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

I remember we examined lists of users that were curated by data brokers earlier this year. They were packed for use across Google’s ad network. Millions of devices were targeted because they belonged to military members suspected of frequently gambling.

It's not for me to tell a parent how to grieve, but "reviving" murdered children on tv for political advocacy is anti-human

Featured in the final edition of the Bulletin on Retirement and Disability: Evolving Disability Reporting Patterns and Employment Dynamics During COVID-19 https://www.nber.org/brd/20251/evolving-disability-reporting-patterns-and-employment-dynamics-during-covid-19

If you, regular person, did anything like this after a fatal car accident, you would be prosecuted for a variety of crimes, including insurance fraud. If you then repeatedly lied to the courts about it, like Tesla did, you'd get prosecuted for that too, plus stiff monetary sanctions.

A wasting disease has killed billions of sea stars, "functionally extinct throughout much of its southern range," with broad knock-on effects. After 10 years, they found the problem. The data was collected at a USGS field station the Trump admin wants to close www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"This is the first documentation of a Burmese python vomiting a meal in the wild..." (CW: graphic photos of an entire barfed-up deer) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...