No new pictures. Where are you mentally?

*need*

say it louder for the people in the back

the girls are okay they’re playing Beyoncé’s Video Phone on speakers while they do 100 PCR reactions it’s me I’m the girls !!!

Does anyone have a good resource for understanding birthright citizenship in the context of non-incorporated territories? I’m wondering where citizens of Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, etc. stand in all the discourse. I’m sure it bodes not great for us but I must know.

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

It's actually very feasible to defund and dismantle ICE within a few months. Just do what they did to every federal science agency last year. #ScienceSky #MedSky 🩺🧪 It's very easy to tear something down, just defund and start ripping out wires. #AbolishICE

I didn't know that people had stopped understanding that actually asshole physicists do solid scientific work all the time and have for centuries Newton was a complete shithead Anyway I wrote a book about how physicists have often displayed very bad values and it doesn't need to be that way

"So much is happening (loss of crossover, preferential transmission, elimination of homozygous embryos) to ensure nothing happened (clonality)"

Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish. . 🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...

Abolish ICE.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

On Tuesday I made a video explaining to people why it's important that they read this book, which is a Black-ass love note to trees and the power of reckoning with history. #BookSky Earrings by Crystal Galindo Pillows by Shanequa Gay

Excruciating headaches and sits baths twice a day… can I catch a BREAK

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Our 2025 here at SciCommBites was an amazing year of new #scicomm posts, so @nikkliapets.bsky.social took the time to look at the data! Read our 2025 wrapped here, and stay on the lookout for more in 2026 ⭐️ scicommbites.org/scicommbites...

Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026

📰 Have you heard of science news being reported through poetry, satire & art? The NYT did it in 1969 to cover the Apollo 11 moonwalk. As we prepare to return to the Moon, at @scicommbites.bsky.social we analyzed the relevance of this science news innovation for the Space Race 2.0 👇 shorturl.at/kk501

Did you know that when @nytimes.com covered the moon landing in 1969, they chose to report on the story using poetry and cultural criticism? Read @nikkliapets.bsky.social's latest Beyond to dive into the topic of science communication beyond mere factual reporting. scicommbites.org/talking-to-t...

Fjord is back home, eating and sitting in laps. Will have to dome drip subcutaneous fluids every so often moví forward. Very sad and scary to know his kidneys are doing him wrong. Will do what I can to make sure he’s comfy and cared for, until he says so.

That poor baby…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In the trenches

Also Fjord the light behind my eyes is not feeling super hot right now. Vet is sure his kidneys are going through it. He’s doing his best to eat but I can tell it’s a struggle. Lots of hiding. I’m holding out for hope, and also being very cautious about it all. My heart is hurting already.

Sinking feeling in the stomach. To see Puerto Rico there. For hundreds of years, extorted. Till this day, used. It’s people considered dispensable. El lelolai a susurros. Like all empires, this one too shall fall.

Cat needing an emergency vet visit was not the Monday I hoped for. Keep Fjord in your thoughts.

The creators of these apps make choices. Grok was created with the production of deep-fake abuse imagery as an option and that was a choice. The fact that the app is still producing these images, for free, with no restrictions, for anyone who wants them, is also an ongoing choice by its creators.

A tamagotchi paradise spotted, my heart rejoiced

Kristi Noem, herself, supplied the method used to ID the agent. She said he "been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident. @startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

"Nuance" meaning "cops encountered a situation regular Americans deal with every single day and responded with murderous gunfire"

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

FINALLY

So abolish ICE. Want to make that abundantly clear.

I have three departments seminars booked so far for Spring 2026, and one public talk. I’d love to get more seminars, public talks, and professional development training workshops booked. Interested? Let’s chat. 🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm

I need a mood booster, let's talk about capybaras. Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom. They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water. (📷: Fernando Maidana)

Post a famous bathroom scene? The real ones know.

This is the kind of scholarship that is being attacked by cuts at universities

Instagram as it stands right now is a horrible app overrun with mindless generative AI content, engagement farming, and sponsored content. Redownloaded after a 6-month hiatus. Big Miss Steak. 🥩 Anyways, stay boycotting Meta and X.

Reminding people who are talking about Mayor Adam's IHRA definition for antisemitism being reversed -- its own author agrees with Mamdani on this. And that is because it's not about fighting antisemitism, but protecting Israel by USING antisemitism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

For 50+ years, the NPR Network has offered America trusted information, free of charge. As public media faces a future without federal funding, we're relying on you to sustain this work in 2026 and beyond. Donate now to power Tiny Desk concerts, local reporting and more: n.pr/4pCcFIx

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

Community Engagement is Vital When Combating Scientific Misinformation ... a TL;DR version via @scicommbites.bsky.social scicommbites.org/community-en...

Thanks to @scicommbites.bsky.social for covering my work on how the public understands the *many* different sources of uncertainty in science! Check out the piece by @alexmusicwrites.bsky.social below. The original article can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #scicomm

It was really important for me when I joined SCB a few years ago to engage Spanish-speaking audiences in some way, shape, or form. I’m really happy to have worked with Diego on this translation. :)

issue 49 will be delivered in about 2 WEEKS!!! here's issue 48 of @berkeleyscirev.bsky.social 🧪 to build some anticipation... the writers, designers, editors, and exec team have been working so hard :')