From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : The IceCube collaboration presents the strongest limit yet on the proton fraction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/05/31/t...

These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years. It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.

From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Five years after this supermassive black hole started shining, its X-ray behavior is anything but ordinary. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/04/16/x-treme-x-rays-in-an-x-tra-young-system/

From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Today’s authors come up with a new way to account for foreground and background galaxies in galaxy cluster measurements.🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/03/29/c...

From Margaret Verrico @meverri.bsky.social : Six galaxies show signs of a brand new active black hole in today’s bite. ✨🔭 astrobites.org/2025/02/25/c...

6 weeks ago today, planes flew a few hundred people to El Salvador, where they’re being held at CECOT — a place from which Salvadoran officials brag no one is ever released — at US expense. Their continued detention there is our continued shame.

Pope Francis’s Easter message, read in St. Peter's Square a day before his death:

in less than eight years the NCAA went from banning North Carolina from hosting championships due to its bathroom bill to... this.

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

Folks have been writing about how the rollback of DEI is segregationist which is absolutely true, but to add, so too are the deportations. Immigration policy in the US has a long history of servicing white supremacy — and it literally denies the co presence of people of color.

This list is mostly Black women. It's clear that the entire anti-DEI project is just neo-segregation. It's the same reason they only targeted Black women at Harvard. They don't believe people of color or women should have any positions of power. www.aol.com/federal-heal...

Bouie lays out the stakes plainly and clearly. It’s the first such frank appraisal in legacy media. I’m very glad he wrote it. It’s shareable and accessible and will provide framing Dems who haven’t been able to figure it out can use.There’s also a nudge toward 2nd reconstruction at the end. Bravo.

Gift link to Washington Post article on NSF hunting through grant content wapo.st/4aMAdEz

To be clear, Palestinians have resisted American funded & Israeli operated ethnic cleansing since 1948. Trump is just the latest of a long line of monsters, he’s just the dumbest & says the quiet part out loud. But make no mistake: Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.

Horrendous & painful come to mind. The disaster this would cause is hard to fathom, & yet, that’s the point of such threats & possible actions. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Folks, we CANNOT memory hole the Hitler salute When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech We are talking about an actual Nazi

"Since 1980, Congress has mandated that the agency seek to broaden participation of underrepresented groups, including women and other minorities, within [STEM]. 'The orders are illegal,' says an NSF employee. 'The statutory framework of NSF is being violated.'”

Today is the founding date of a concentration camp

Snap out of it, America. The warning lights are flashing red. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...

Fifth largest economy in the world. "California’s power plants burned 40% less fossil fuel for electricity last year compared to 2023"

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

It's WAY overused these days, but Tolkien nailed it. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

I wrote about Trump’s inauguration. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x

Please stop marketing me products for “women on the go” — I’m ready for things for women on the stay. Women on the sit down. Women on the cozy bed with three beverages and strong wifi