ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

Simons Foundation has a new contest for Ecology and Evolution Graduate Fellowships! Due June 30th. Good luck everyone! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.

We are locked in an infinite loop where the administration distracts from outrage over Epstein files by creating outrage over ICE excesses, and distracts from outrage over ICE excesses by creating outrage over Epstein files. This is a unique way for a democracy to spiral towards oblivion.

🧵The Whipple Building in south Minneapolis is a torture facility. If this occupation is ever over and if we are restored to our rights, the state of Minnesota must reclaim the land, raze that building, and erect a monument and museum to memorialize this war against Minnesota and its people. 1/4

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Kristi Noem must be impeached. ICE must be abolished. Democrats in the Senate cannot fund DHS. Trump has created a militarized police force accountable only to him. These agents need to leave our cities NOW.

Either whip your caucus to block the DHS/ICE/CBP funding bill in the Senate or step the fuck down.

Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

Hollllly moly, when it turns the corner. That is a lot of people.

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Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

I have now seen multiple groups who have taken it upon themselves/their social groups to re-create the historical signs that the federal gov't took down in Philly yesterday. The best way to get people to spread a message (especially in this anti-authority, fuck-you town), is to try to censor it.

DHS spending bill passed 220-207 7 Democrats voted in favor: Henry Cuellar Don Davis Laura Gilles Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Jared Golden Vicente Gonzalez Tom Suozzi Massie voted No Andy Harris didn't vote Might not have passed if every Democrat voted No, but leadership wasn't whipping them to do so

Highlighting the places that are offering free meals or warm indoor space for community: -The Cargo Bike Shop (indoor space w/ free coffee) -Catzen Coffee (indoor space w/free coffee) -Farina Rosa (free meal noon-1:30) -Lotus Restaurant (free Pho noon-4) -Mayday Cafe (free meal 10am-1:30pm) 1/2

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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Again, this is what they're doing when they know they are being recorded. Imagine what they are doing when they know they aren't being recorded.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

There is an area in the ICE detention center in Minneapolis designated specifically for American citizens. Contemplate that for a minute.

“Parents are making impossible choices: declining surgery for their children, delaying emergency care, and refusing specialty referrals because they have calculated that the risks of deportation or family separation exceed the medical necessity." www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

It’s happening! @visitlakestreet.com is helping to organize a series of cash mob events to support small local businesses - first one is next week! Sign up for updates and to be notified of which Lake Street business we’ll be eating at! eventbrite.com/e/you-belong-here-cash-mob-tickets-1980574633043

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Are you a graduate student or postdoc who wants to apply your science to policy? The Gulf Research Program’s Science Policy Fellowship provides experience for one year on the staff of federal, state, local, NGO in the Gulf region and impt networking. www.nationalacademies.org/programs/GUL...

Minneapolis.

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

This is the moment we elected Mary Moriarty for. She has no fear. It certainly appears as if a murder was committed in her district and the DA has a responsibility to file charges when crimes are committed.

I keep thinking about the Buddhist monks walking for peace — step by step — from Texas toward Washington, DC. Everywhere they go, people gather. And many of them cry. Not because the monks are saying anything dramatic, but because they aren’t saying much at all. They’re just

It's good she's doing this, but what a gigantic farce and an embarrassment for our entire profession that we're forcing a graduate student to waste precious time away from her studies to battle the Republican grievance machine on her own.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

This is why actual knowledge - not just Jeopardy-style recitation of flashcard facts - is collaborative. If I need to understand something so far outside of my realm of expertise that I can’t get far enough reading solo, I figure out who’d know more, and have *gasp* a conversation…with a human being

The Dept of Biology & Marine Biology at UNCW is offering 4 positions!!! A Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, an Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology, and two Lecturers of Biology. Plus, the UNCW Center for Marine Science is seeking a second Distinguished Professor of Marine Science!

We are so excited to celebrate Colleen Brown, our first ACOS Ph.D.! With a lifelong curiosity for the ocean, environmental scientist Colleen Brown ’25 becomes UNC Wilmington's FIRST student to earn a doctorate in Applied Coastal and Ocean Science. uncw.edu/news/seahawk...

It's utterly insane, but statistically probably unsurprising, that there was more than one Brown student who had previously experienced a mass school shooting, including one who was actually shot, @miatretta.bsky.social. It doesn't have to be this way.

We are hiring! UNCW College of Science and Engineering & the Center for Marine Science invite applications for the position of William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professorship of Marine Science. Priority Deadline: January 22, 2026. jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37951

If you want to mentor undergrad researchers, UNCW is the place to be. We (chancellor, provost, me) are throwing money at #undergraduateresearch. We have the students and the desire but our bio and chem faculty are full. Plus 2x a year the highest admin scoop us ice cream. And the beach is great

Go to BaM! then PaBST then drive east for 4 hours and hang out with me at the ocean. I wrote about scaffolding recently so I've still got it sometimes.

“How science is changing” Exciting event available to view via livestream on Thursday 20 November from the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science. Alan Love, director of the MCPS, is a panellist! @ucpews.bsky.social #philsci buff.ly/uMkmXd8

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

The Department of Biology at @eastcarolinauniv.bsky.social seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty at the Assistant Professor level with expertise in evolutionary Biology! Come join us! ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/89839

New internship opportunity! The American Philosophical Society and CSHL invite applications for a joint summer internship program for undergraduates working on junior or senior research projects related to the history of the life sciences. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/174285