I’m at the mid-career slump. I’m at the national research funding & infrastructure crisis. I’m at the university budget cuts. I’m at the nonsensical war. I’m at the demolition of our democracy. I’m at the combination mid-career-slump-national-research-funding-&-infrastructure-crisis-university-budge

Okay name one thing cuter than Yard Nessie You cannot

Today out in the pine barrens I saw a bunch of cellophane bees! I'm not sure if they were emerging for the first time today or just hanging in holes, I honestly don't know a ton about these bees. I saw around 20 of them sprinkled throughout the trails in little clusters of 5-10 burrows.

A six-year-old student at the California School for the Deaf-Fremont has been reunited with his communication devices after being deported to Columbia last week.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

Like fundamentally Hasbro is making a business decision that Harry Potter fans will love the IP and not be bothered by the anti-trans stuff. I get it. I don't love it but I get it. American businesses in 2026 are often immoral. But to make them stop you have to stop consuming her shit.

Looks like I’ll be in Anchorage for a couple of days this July (for a friend’s wedding)! Any suggestions for what-not-to-miss? I’ll have with me: A 6 month old baby A rental car probably A keen interest in local culture, especially craft, and local ecology

Looks like I’ll be in Anchorage for a couple of days this July (for a friend’s wedding)! Any suggestions for what-not-to-miss? I’ll have with me: A 6 month old baby A rental car probably A keen interest in local culture, especially craft, and local ecology

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found. After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis. (Published Dec. 2025)

Good morning! 🪶

Today’s mantra: MAXIMUM ADHESION. IMPOSSIBLE TO CRUSH. BECOME THE MOST EFFICIENT SHAPE

Today’s mantra: MAXIMUM ADHESION. IMPOSSIBLE TO CRUSH. BECOME THE MOST EFFICIENT SHAPE

Spilling out some limpet facts until people know about limpetization, ep. 01 : Limpet teeth are the strongest biological material ever tested. Nanofibers embedded in a protein matrix, they outperform Kevlar, spider silk, and even rivaling the best synthetic carbon fibers.

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

This article details places that are letting ICE use them to help do their operations.

Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:

🎶 These are a few of my favorite things! 🎶 (Just got a lil brown paper package tied up with string from @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social full of *gorgeous* bird art, congratulations to me and anyone getting mail from me I the next several months that will include the prettiest card!!)

Really glad my baby doesn’t develop language *before* learning to burp on her own, because I might have to restrain my fits of giggles and chants of “Hell yeah! Hell yeah!” when we get a particularly tuneful belch out of her tiny little body

The firste parte of *Beowulf* ys prettye grippinge but the secounde parte doth dragon a bit

Erin thank you for asking lmao, I am launching a pint-glass-mediated native plant education project. I just got the glasses yesterday and delivered the first 17 cases today 😅 they’re going to bars all over the city to try to reach people who would not seek at this kind of information online

A Cambodian man -- old enough to have survived Pol Pot genocide but too young to die -- is the 7th person to die in ICE custody this year. A Cuban man died of asphyxia in Jan, with witnesses saying guards killed him. A Palestinian woman was shackled after a seizure. www.reuters.com/world/us/cam...

guys read this whole thread, I'm crying

Please come on this journey with me, the journey of the 290-million-year-old barf, I promise we'll have fun: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

My very kind drivers ed instructor spent the first two lessons hyping up his son to me and then sent his son to teach my third and final lesson. I was 16. He was probably 25 and VERY embarrassed that his dad was trying to set us up via driving lesson meet-cute I liked them both but not Like That

Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative health impacts.

very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy. better not to use image generators at all.

Alright bsky science + art community, I need your help. I was p confident we could get a grant to fund our upcoming biodiversity mural in Kensington. Last night, they called to say our partner school is 2 blocks outside of their service area. But ya know what? We're gonna do it anyway.

Anyone know what dolphin species these are meant to be? I’m assuming they’re lags of some sort but am not super familiar with Arctic species! #marinebio #cetaceans

Anyone know what dolphin species these are meant to be? I’m assuming they’re lags of some sort but am not super familiar with Arctic species! #marinebio #cetaceans

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

I just published: The Taken Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas Documented through court records. Including worms in food, sewage water flooding into eating areas, returned to Minnesota in chains and shackles after courts order release, more.

"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

This is the thing. Freelancing happens to work very well for some people as individuals (me, for instance) but society needs real newsrooms and real teams. We gig writers are just part of the ecosystem.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Gonna leave this open for another couple of weeks. Get in while you can!

But you can still keep going! 🐟 #illustration #sunfish #animalart #artsky

Farewell to Catherine O'Hara, a legend for so many reasons but not least of all for her sweet autoharp chops on this gem, performed with Eugene Levy in A Mighty Wind

My daughter *cannot* get this vaccine until she’s a year old and I am FURIOUS that she has purposely been made vulnerable to this absolute bullshit. This disease did not need to be a threat to her. She could have been safe from measles and anti-vaxxers decided to make her unsafe.

My daughter is two months old today and (obviously) we spend a whole lot of time thinking about the world she will grow into. Want to play the “will Bea ever need a driver’s license?” game? @xavd.id xavdid.fillout.com/predictions

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

I was a little bummed to give up my shovel to my neighbors (I assumed they were just doing their sidewalks, I also would like to get ahead as there’s already a foot down and more coming). But they joined the brigade and now the brigade has shoveled my sidewalks for me while I record a lecture 🥹

My daughter is two months old today and (obviously) we spend a whole lot of time thinking about the world she will grow into. Want to play the “will Bea ever need a driver’s license?” game? @xavd.id xavdid.fillout.com/predictions

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA