"Removing voices from public memory is not democracy." 📚 thehill.com/opinion/educ...

#Astronomy Job Alert! 🤓 Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, has commenced the search for the next Bolton Research Scientist. Open to Aussie / NZ residents + overseas folks who can get the visa. Applications close 22 March. Job description here: jobs.csiro.au/job/Sydney%2... 🔭

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

Pirate kitty comm for @nightshade.bsky.social 🏴‍☠️

We’re suing Wayne County after a resident was blocked from the Commissioners’ official Facebook page. Public officials don’t get to silence constituents or filter public discussion. Read more: https://bit.ly/4kK0msC

NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it." www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...

But like I'm going to keep doing it because there are people there who I want to reach, who are not on here and are not on instagram, and I have been a woman on social media for a LONG TIME and people insinuating I'm an idiot does not bother me like it used to.

dumplings are a side effect of Mongols

A global community of editors, publishers, and writers have come together to offer a 1-month only bundle of books in digital format to raise awareness and money for the translation of storytelling. The bundle will be sold through @storybundle.bsky.social

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

I work the polls we give these out when ever someone asks. I work the Canvassing Board where we get these requests and validate (or not) ballots cast this way. The system works well, if you let it.

Happy Valentines Day! ❤️‍🔥⚔️

Daily Reminders

They were omnivores that probably ate a lot of bugs, were high-speed runners (cursorial). Kind of a Triassic version of a squirrel? Now I'm trying to picture a Louisiana alligator the rough shape & height of a horse emerging from the swamp at night, eyes glowing. Sweet dreams, y'all.

Perhaps people should read the Constitution before violating it?

Of course it must be a coincidence.......

Eugene Public Library (OR) has a levy measure on the May ballot. The library's struggled with funding and has made some recent cuts to staff and services. This levy is crucial for sustaining the library–and rebuilding it. www.klcc.org/politics-gov...

HF 2309 is a regulation in search of a problem. Illegal content is already illegal. Libraries do not provide unlawful materials, and existing state and federal laws prohibit the distribution of obscene or illegal content. www.thegazette.com/state-govern...

I only saw this article about an hour ago, and it has felt very relevant for at least 2 conversations. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

every single librarian on this site whether they work primarily with academics or the public or practitioners has had to patiently explain — while their expertise is questioned — that hardly anything is digitized, actually.

Carpathian Bisons are saving my mood today. 💕

It's important to point out in the sea of horrible news we see all the time: They keep losing! And seemingly at greater frequency every week.

People! Always making little guys :)

"This process is also open to those outside the United States who may be impacted by a proposed system." Thank you @aas.org! It's *important* that global communities are able to have a say in a global commons - the sky we all share. USA FCC granting spectrum allowance for 1M impacts us all. 🔭

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The translation is "he/she/they is/are chopping it off with an axe/sharp instrument

House Republicans rushed to approve legislation on Wednesday that would impose new proof-of-citizenship requirements ahead of the midterm elections, a Trump administration priority that faces blowback in the Senate. n.pr/4kvNXbz

My 70 year old dad, whose favorite band is The Righteous Brothers, just informed me that he enjoyed the Bad Bunny show bc even though he didn’t understand the words, “it seemed like everyone on stage was having a good time!” So there ya go lol.

Just now catching up to this episode. Really excellent interview between @anneapplebaum.bsky.social and @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social. As a scientist who knew someone purged during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the parallels in intent if not (yet) in scope here/now are deeply unsettling.

This eras Fort Sumter We are in the #Interregnum

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Maybe #bbcnews might like to look into this

Did not watch just *knows* something was not what he would like

Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin Shower Bad Bunny With Love For Including Them In Super Bowl Halftime Show: “My Absolute Honor” deadline.com/2026/02/lady...

What Vi says...if you're in the UK please consider signing.

This one has lit a fire under the "I don't wanna do politics" people on my FB feed. In a decade these people have never so much as complained about Trump but yesterday they got real mad. Good. Stay mad. Channel it.

Screen capture of Bad Bunny holding up a football after his halftime show. On the football are the words: Together We Are America Clearly noting correctly that America is bigger than just the United States.

Does talking about a problem make it easier to justify you are not doing anything about the problem?

I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM THIS THREAD IT WAS WONDERFUL

In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...

The Princess Bride

Pretty sure one was consulted, definitely was for the album news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

I do love public libraries.

Puerto Ricans dancing on electrical poles is about as big a political statement you could make at a Super Bowl halftime show. The only way that could have been more explicit is if Bad Bunny started tossing rolls of paper towels to the dancers

please if anyone sees anything in depth about the logistics of the halftime show i am dying to read or listen to them

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show