Washington state friends! Of all the grim things happening, one of the very grimmest is going into winter with SNAP benefits about to disappear. I'm trying to raise $10,000 between now and the week before Thanksgiving for Northwest Harvest. Please donate if you can!

Our institutions were never going to save us; they’ve just expanded the demographics of who they’re failing. I’m seeing a lot of people radicalized for the first time as the scales fall from their eyes. The key is not to become cynical, but to use that energy to liberate one another.

AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

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“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

This study was: -done by immigrant scientists, who are now being turned away from the United States by the Trump regime, -funded by the U.S. Dept of Energy, which is being defunded and purged by the Trump regime -hosted at a public university experiencing vast Trump regime funding freezes

Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

busy busy busy at work hard to manage one's natural resources if you've fired all the resource managers

Eugenicists are so stupid.

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Sorry to be a buzz kill but "Deport Elon" & "Send Trump to El Salvador" are not slogans that move us forward. They center individuals & not the system they're wielding for new cruelties. They accept the use of torture as punishment & they minimize violence people are enduring now. 1/

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

Columbia University agreed to a mask ban to appease Trump. The school is no longer safe for disabled individuals, not to mention anyone who protests or speaks out on civil rights or Palestine. Whatever your politics, mask bans should enrage you. They violate our freedom to avoid infection.

This is the gold standard measure of atmospheric carbon, the one you see in almost every chart that tracks emissions.

And so it begins — NIH is planning to terminate active grants that no longer meet the agency's "priorities". Grants that were already approved for funding through peer review. The pursuit of knowledge should be apolitical, inclusive, and forward-thinking. 🧪 #PeerReview #DefendResearch

"You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that." BRAVO to this student. While I am so disappointed we are still navigating misoogyny in our educational and professional spaces, I am so grateful we have a generation who name it so clearly and capably.

For something completely different from my normal fare, a piece of glaciological art I recently completed. 'Fox Glacier, not looking up' Draws from a 19th C watercolour, glacier length time-series, and reference to a painter who drew inspiration from a geologist.

DOGE is gutting the federal agency that leads climate research and oversees the weather service, laying off 10% of staff (with the ultimate goal of eliminating 50%) and cancelling office leases, @justcalma.bsky.social scoops www.theverge.com/news/622990/...

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

The US prison system is intentionally cruel and evil, but this is especially cruel and evil, even by their standards:

Just saw an email sent to a student of mine from a REU canceling their program due to staffing & federal research funding uncertainties. A REU was when I internalized my science ID & applying to grad school. If this continues, it will devastate my students #1 pathway to STEM careers.

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ ✅ two-years full-time PAID research ✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Funny how the Trump administration takes deadnaming REALLY seriously all of a sudden if you do it to a body of water instead of a living, breathing trans person

Gift link. You should read this. It is wrong on so, SO many different levels. It violates basic principles of research ethics in so many different ways. Leaving devices IN PEOPLE'S BODIES. Stopping treatments halfway through, with no one to contact if they get sick. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

R package horoscopes are the timeline cleanse we need right now

Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14! These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hard to focus on work when your identities are heinf scrubbed and erased right in front of your eyes. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

It is officially February! Let's celebrate Black History Month: Honoring the past, uplifting the present, and inspiring the future through the legacy of Black excellence, resilience, and culture. ✊🏾✨ #BlackHistoryMonth

1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

right now really feels like starting a lot of sentences and not knowing how to finish them

The 2025 NATURE Program (paid summer internship for Indigenous undergraduates who are psyched about natural resources) is open for applicants! Pass it on! You can also learn more here - youtube.com/watch?v=g_IA... Thank you!

Finished my little Defend Trans Lives embroidery piece.

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT CRASH OUT. Folks are relying on you to be overstimulated, overwhelmed, & overcome so you won't resist. Take breaks, Take a breath, Be intentional with how you spend your time. Be effective with how you spend your energy. Support each other Rest, live, & fight another day.

I finished knitting my first sweater a few days into 2025!! It’s as soft as a cloud and I wish I could wear it 24/7 🧶 Yarn: SW merino and suri, from Witchfire Fibers Pattern: the Semper Sweater by the Knit Purl Girl

🚨 Call for people in eco/evo who identified as disabled, have chronic conditions and/or are neurodiverse. TEE is starting a series of TrendsTalk articles hearing from people about their experiences being disabled in eco/evo. #EcoECRcareer #evobio 🌍 #DisabledInSTEM @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...

This is officially my horizontally longest image to date, depicting some of the earliest complex animals on the planet from 565 to 505 million years ago and how they changed over time. Thank you to @egmitchell.bsky.social and Steve Pates for trusting me with this gargantuan task! #Art #SciArt

We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)! These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs. If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025 #DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata

There's going to be some tough times ahead for a lot of trans folks. Please share this far and wide. Let trans people know they're not alone.

Everything is dumb and terrible, and it's gonna be dumb and terrible for a while. It’s important to do what you can to make it less dumb and terrible, and it's important to find a way make some contentment for yourself in spite of everything being dumb and terrible.

I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It’s Trans and nonbinary Girl Scout cookie list time!! I look forward to this all year.

“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪 #AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬