raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

This is outstanding and well worth the read.

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

In case you missed it: “social justice” and “equity” now interpreted as illegal in education under this far-right U.S. administration. We are experiencing the rollback of civil rights protection that only lasted two generations in American history. www.ed.gov/media/docume...

Cuts to the NIH are a strategy to strangle research universities not “reduce waste”

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

This is effectively a snitch on women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks policy. White men can just baselessly accuse any minority of being DEI and get them fired. They created a permission structure to bring back segregation as a matter of policy by calling it anti DEI.

If you all only knew how often* I have to prove my child is disabled** to various agencies and companies over and over again, how much time and effort it takes, how often his services get interrupted until we can prove it. *multiple times a year ** who has multiple congenital intensive disabilities

Meta is fundamentally evil company that deserves to be wiped off the face of the planet.

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

Meta ending its U.S. fact-checking and relaxing rules on sexual/gender identity is deeply concerning. As an LGBTQ+ person and researcher, I see how this fuels hate and misinformation. This isn’t about ‘free speech’; it’s about safety. Social media must protect, not amplify harm. We deserve better.

As someone with a three year old who has amassed over 3 million dollars in health care costs, I have spent countless hours on the phone with insurance companies fighting over denied claims for lifesaving services. The healthcare system in the US is broken.

For all of my new friends here, you can learn about my transition from academia to much more fun industry roles in a recent interview with Science: www.science.org/content/arti...

Hello Bluesky! I’m a Senior Researcher at foundry10 exploring how tech shapes the ways we learn and grow. I’m driven to make research accessible and tech more inclusive. I’m also a mom, vintage clothing collector, and lifelong learner. Drop by and say hi. ✨