BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland over the governor's objections. This decision reinforces one of our country's core principles: The military has no place policing our communities.

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

📣The next virtual data mobilization workshop for Asia has been announced for December 2025! 🌏Join the GBIF Asia Support Team for a workshop based on the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum. Applications are limited to 30 spaces and close 1 Nov 🔗 gbif.link/Asia-workshop

#AIBS joined a coalition of more than 50 scientific societies in urging Congress to provide necessary oversight at federal science agencies to prevent potentially significant damage to US science leadership. #polnews #scipol www.aibs.org/news/2025/25...

David Zinn. #Autumn Street Art. 🍂

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“.. The U.S. soybean harvest began in September without any orders from the world’s largest buyer: China .. “.. In a typical year, China buys more than half of all U.S. soybean exports.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.agriculture.com/partners-u-s...

Just came across this collection of essays from earlier this year making "The Scientific Case for DEI" "In light of attacks on DEI, we gathered articles that lay out the evidence in favor of fostering racially diverse and equitable schools, workplaces, cities, and societies."

Come one come all! Our new #BINHM exhibit is up at the #AMNH! @blackinnhms.bsky.social www.amnh.org/exhibitions/...

Is #icanhazpdf a thing here? I'm looking for "La base de données GICIM: Gestion informatisée des collections ichthyologiques du Muséum". FishBase cites the book's 3-page appendix II for size data, but there's no data at all in there. I suspect they're throughout the whole book...?

We need to sell about 500 of these to fully fund the native plant project for 2026. We're at about 90 so far so we're getting there! Tell your animal loving friends about this calendar 😘

Workshop "CARE-ing about Indigenous Data in a Wide World" by @fairagro.bsky.social, #NFDI4Biodiversity, @nfdi4earth.bsky.social - 07.10.2025, 14:30-16:00 - #IndigenousData Sovereignty, Governance, and Ethics, Application of #CARE Principles, Practical case studies. fairagro.net/en/event/car...

Just another reminder that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% which is FAR lower than private sector retirement programs.

Americans like the U.N. a lot more than they like their president: 57% (Pew poll) vs. 39% (YouGov poll)

👂We hear that recognising & opening up #research outputs beyond #research articles has come up multiple times at #OASPA2025. 🫣We suspect there are those not yet aware of our #openscience #journal: optimising #scholarly #communication for research ideas, grant proposals, guidelines etc. 👇See more:

Since being released on bail, Mahmoud Khalil has been enjoying everyday activities like cooking homemade meals and spending time with family. No matter how hard the Trump administration tries to punish him for his speech, we'll always fight to keep Mahmoud together with his family.

Trump and Republicans would rather shut down the government than work with Democrats to lower costs and protect health care for working families and cancer patients. More chaos and more pain for the American people.

Cheap supplies of HIV-prevention jab for poorer countries hailed as ‘genuine chance to end’ global epidemic

Researching a newsletter item about Tom Homan and it's remarkable how this story from just last year was tossed down the memory hole www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

The Carpentries is again in the news, this time in @science.org. Our decision to withdraw from the National Science Foundation's POSE grant funding is discussed in this article criticising how Trump directives are undermining the NSF's 75-year history of independence: www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women. Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

🦀 Don't forget to join the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY! 📍 23 September 2025 15:00 - 16:30 CEST Join Matt Blissett and John Waller from the Secretariat for our next Data Use Club practical session: Making occurrence maps. 🗺️ 🔗 gbif.link/DUC_mapping#DataUseClub

hi @evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy great to see you @nfdi4earth.bsky.social and @nfdi4biodiversity Joint meeting. Please check out www.lifes.institute

Another example of the power of environmental DNA (eDNA): a positive eDNA detection led to the rediscovery of a freshwater mussel not found live in Illinois for over a century. New student-led, open access paper in Ecology with @markdavis79.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.

Breaking news: Pentagon officials last week informed European diplomats that the US would no longer fund programmes that train and equip militaries in eastern European countries that would be on the frontline of any conflict with Russia. on.ft.com/4mNocUo

Secretary Kennedy has wrongly accused my fellow Democrats of being shills for Big Pharma. After his hearing today, I went down to the Senate Floor to offer a bill that would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices on prescription drugs. Republicans blocked it. Talk is cheap.

Absolute bullshit. This stat comes from a study that was retracted because it was crap. Real studies show ZERO relationship between vaccination and autism. Again, RFK cherry picks data, even data that has been retracted and found to be in error. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25285211/

A very — disturbing day.

Extremely proud to say my talented daughter Catherine Bullock has just released a single. It is written, performed and produced by her and can be found on Spotify open.spotify.com/track/118QRV... Please share!

For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.

Happy to Announce, we have a date now: On September 6, We Take Back DC. "This is our city.
We live here.
We work here.
We raise our families here." Saturday, September 6 at 11 AM. We march at 12 PM. Allies join us! Malcolm X Park, 16th St NW &, W St NW, Washington, DC 20009 www.wearealldc.com

Let’s be clear: military troops have no place policing civilians in the United States. Now, the people of D.C. face a dangerous escalation with armed National Guard troops patrolling our streets.

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the oligarchy and return power to the people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP0pRIBRcDk

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

"ordinary people simply do not believe that adding more housing to the regional stock would reduce housing prices" Glad to see this article on folk economics of housing prices. There's surprisingly little research on folk economic beliefs despite their importance! www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

… and we need #software and #UIUX work to help humans use #AI and critique the interactions and outputs.

President Trump said the police can do “whatever the hell they want” to our DC communities. Let us be clear: Local and federal law enforcement are not above the law, no matter what Trump says.

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The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.

At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed.

Trump is upset about an abysmal jobs report, yet he cheers on DOGE as it slashes jobs and makes the lives of civil servants a living hell.  Do I have this right?

Are you really allergic to penicillin? A pharmacist explains why there’s a good chance you’re not − and how you can find out for sure

Time nerds! This is def. one for you! Today was/is one of the shortest days of the year. @interplanetary.bsky.social has got you covered as to many of the reasons why this is likely happening. Bonus - how quasars, and #RadioAstronomy lead to precision timing, orientation, etc. that gives us GPS!

I enjoyed chatting with Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show." My thoughts on how we save our democracy are the same today as when we last spoke on "The Colbert Report" in 2010. We must get big money out of politics.