Titanic Completes Mostly Successful Maiden Voyage

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

Good reporting from @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social on the reopening on the Indiana University labs.

NEW-(ish) BOOK KLAXON. On its ten year anniversary, a major new updated anniversary edition, with 35k new words and shiny shiny gold on the cover. open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...

Can you spot the point where he learned a Black woman was going to be in a movie

Will you survive? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/w...

Make it happen Bsky! Also, by chance are there any scientists named Riff on here?

Let's see how this works on Bsky: I am looking for a scientist by the name of Spice to write a Shugar & Spice paper. 🧪⚒️

I went to go look, and this time last year, NSF SBE had funded 216 awards. This year, they have funded 2.

Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

I'm absolutely furious at my alma mater. Such cowardice.

Bruce Davidson, Time of Change, 1962

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

11. They retire!

🚨Fully funded PhD-position🚨 in our Genotype-Phenotype Evolution in Space (GPS) Lab. Interested in the question on how climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations? Come work with us in Tübingen! uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Oh my god. I know Roger and he is an excellent scientist. This is outrageous!

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To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian dog figurine, a very good boy for some 3,400 years! 🐾🐕❤️ This lovely leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

Happy John Brown’s Birthday to all who celebrate.

Having fun at the KU center for genomics annual conference!

Morning Kitten

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

Now that's the good shit

THIS IS EVERYTHING

Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle www.newscientist.com/article/2525...

Nice recent article in Nature about sediment DNA and its impacts on human evolution and archaeology, featuring two of our great colleagues here in Vienna, Pere Gelabert and Ben Vernot @heasvienna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The reason why you can't post your way out of being harassed is because posting explanations assumes that the people who are harassing you are acting in good faith and are genuinely interested in understanding your perspective and here's the thing: that's basically never the case.

Oh jeez I guess I should back up my grades while Canvas is still working for me!

To sum up: the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed to remedy a century of attempts to disenfranchise and unperson African-Americans by any possible, often through voting-related tricks and tests and barriers. They worked -- for a while. But then..../1

I deeply appreciated this perspective on what activism looks like when you have a chronic illness that can be debilitating. There are many ways to participate. Rest is important. Resistance is a group activity; it's so important for people who can show up to show up when they have the capacity.

Creationism is coming back, y’all. This was handed to my student by people canvassing outside the university library.

It is SO good you guys!

Happy publication day to my friend @patrickwyman.bsky.social ! You should buy his book! And check out his live, details below.

There's been a lot going on with AABA! Here are some highlights for you if you want to keep up (thread):

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

I already dealt with this.

When you get up at 5am to roll with gigantic white belts half your age. 😵

Some days in Kansas are just magical.

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Goodbye, get lost, and we'll see you soon.

I love that bats are 30% puppy faces, 30% weird little goblins, 30% eldritch horrors, and 10% all three at once. (📷: Merlin Tuttle, arranged by Bryan Bongey)