🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

Seen on the Hill last week, no notes

The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger. People know this, right? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🧪🦑🌎

Just casually reminding everyone that my book comes out in a few weeks, it REALLY helps if you preorder, and if you want a signed copy, you can get one shipped to you from Loyalty Books in DC 🖖🏽

A drawing in a very soft style of tall trees in an evening frosty landscape. This original artwork is available in my Folksy shop... folksy.com/find/item/85... #Landscape #Trees #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm

Because running a beloved local ski resort isn’t hard enough, climate-induced weather whiplash is wreaking havoc on Mt. Baldy: www.latimes.com/california/s... via @jackdolan.bsky.social

Also: Shit like this is why you need journalists in courtrooms. You wouldn't even know that this man exists from the court record or even the remote-access phone line. Subscribe to Law Dork — www.lawdork.com/subscribe — and support the local journalists in courtrooms across the country.

I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote the food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide COLOR TASTE TEXTURE. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience required. My goal is to help kids avoid food related trauma and offer a balm of kindness for anyone who couldn’t escape it.

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

I'm still accepting applications! Very exciting opportunity to work on cognitive computational neuroscience of vision in NYC! #PsychJobs #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Breaking: Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and professor, just announced that he was resigning as a co-director of a flagship neuroscience institute at Columbia University because of his friendship with Jeffery Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job

We're at 55% of our $25,000 goal to help me launch @lataco.bsky.social investigative news desk. Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed or shared our fundraiser! We're already putting the money we've raised to use 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Donate here - givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...

also noise pollution in the U.S. is almost entirely from cars and it’s literally giving people heart attacks I wrote an article about it because it’s so absurd

This week @jamellebouie.net had some questions for me about where the US is at now and why the term "concentration camp" might be a useful way to think about the crisis. (He interviewed me eight years ago for Slate on a similar topic. Let's hope we don't end up having the same discussion in 2034.)

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 20 Baffler Jules Gill-Peterson breaks down the history of trans people engaging in DIY medication and GAC as resistance to a hostile medico-psychiatric complex and now perhaps to hostile fed and state governments.

Drinking water around the District of Columbia hasn't been contaminated. But scientists say the environmental damage could be severe. n.pr/4kOnfLF

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

bit.ly/Justice4Julian is the fundraiser for Julian Bailey, the DC man who was killed by U.S. Marshals last week. They’re trying to raise $15,000 to cover funeral expenses and support his children

The world has never needed climate journalism more than it does right now. Yet last year climate got less coverage than at any point since the pandemic www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Ant-mimicking crab spiders may exploit social ant behaviour to safely prey on them. The paper suggess that the Neotropical crab spider A. rogersi mimics nestmate transport. 🐜🕷️ 🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety. This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends. 🧪🦑🌍🐟 go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

My art shop has a collection of my original landscape and nature art available. Good news for buyers in the USA, your art will be sent duty paid, and art is exempt from the tariffs! folksy.com/find/shop/th... #Birds #Insects #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #bsnm

Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk in the UK. buff.ly/1miYEUJ #ShareGoodNewsToo

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What a useful resource for organizing.

US NSF/GEO folks: if you/your students had GRFP applications that were returned without review, please send a note to [email protected] - they are logging and handling inquiries.

🚨Faculty position just dropped. We are seeking a Psychology Clinic Director at the @unm.edu Dept of Psychology psychclinic.unm.edu, this position is focused on clinical training of PhD students in sunny, affordable, and progressive New Mexico. Come join us! unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

If you're afraid to ask someone for a recommendation, please don't be. It's part of the job of being a mentor, editor, teacher, advisor, former boss, etc. to write recommendations or politely decline. (I wish I could go back in time and tell my former self this.)

with apologies to Douglas Adams "[a billion dollars] is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to [a billion dollars]."

For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at [email protected]

I said we were done asking for rent money. But today I heard the horrifying fact that there are zero family shelter beds in the entire state of Minnesota. So we are going to try something new. We are going to do peer to peer funding. You take on urgent‼️ funding for one family. You send to them.

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position at Western Washington University. This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology. Short 🧵 about this position. 1/? Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: 📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp

I truly believe discourse about voters (especially those who may have voted for Trump) would go better on this app if everyone was using the spectrum of allies as a framework commonslibrary.org/spectrum-of-...