You dare to approach the oracle without treats?

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

if you want 100% nonfictional stories from measles patients and their families, follow voices for vaccines! more: voicesforvaccines.org/resources/blog/

Until AI can walk into an archive and sift through thousands of delicate pages, photos, diaries, and folios to identify the dozen interesting and relevant tidbits of information that will help complete the picture of someone's life, I'd like to think my job is safe.

The road to this hell was paved by people telling us we were over-reacting.

Millennial fantasy protagonist who refuses the call to adventure because it’s from an unknown number.

it's all a reduction of systemic and systematic problems (that we poors have no control over) to individual choices, to make some people feel bad and others feel smug

We're supposed to be on the same side! Now is not the time for snide, sexist policing or belittling of one of the myriad ways we can fight back and show solidarity!

what a shot

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

Every Thursday night I live stream nail art. For my first stream of Black History Month I asked chat to choose between 4 Black scientists I’d pre-selected. Chat, in their usual fashion, said “all 4, please”. Hence: Margaret Collins, Kathrine Johnson, Sophie Lutterlough, and Charles Henry Turner.

Almost a year ago @joshtpm.bsky.social posted: “The situation at NIH and for biomedical research in the US is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.” I can confirm that this remains true. It is today MUCH MUCH WORSE than the way everyone is acting in public.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

This is a big question with many facets; I don't have all the answers, but I have a few ideas after researching women scientists working in 1930s Germany for my book, SISTERS IN SCIENCE. My newsletter is free open.substack.com/pub/oliviaca...

I had to stop watching a show because they randomly stopped subtitle translation for the Dutch parts in the second season

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

*whispers* AI doesn't need you to defend it

It’s so CRAZY to me that the UK is mobilizing criminal charges against everybody they can within the law for the Epstein files. And over here in the US? Nothing. It is FULL mask-off white supremacy driven authoritarianism. Laws are for the poor.

A journalist asks about justice for Epstein survivors. He responds by attacking her; her face, her demeanor, her smile. When the question is dangerous, he goes after the woman asking it. Not her facts. Not her reporting. Her existence. And survivors are watching. So are our daughters.

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

Ask them how much they're being paid

!!!! A balm for the soul

Every time I see images of tear gas filling the streets, I think about how it has been linked to spontaneous abortion. Fascists will prevent people from getting abortions while endangering wanted pregnancies. It’s reproductive control and coercion. www.scientificamerican.com/article/poli...

it's times like these i remember anne frank and her sister margot died of typhus in bergen-belsen

When Trees Testify by @berondam.bsky.social is on backorder at @bookshop.org, and I panicked and almost bought it on Am*zon. 😫 Luckily I found a Black-woman-owned bookstore online that carries it! www.braveandkindbooks.com/products/whe... #booksky #BlackHistoryMonth

Not now, Gavin Newsom!

Hat tip to @geraldcoleman.bsky.social for doing The Work.

What a guest combo 🔥

Nature and Science journalists denied entry to event featuring NIH Director

Tom Morello live in Minneapolis

Since people are asking if they can do something for me, here is a short thread. I'm clearly going to be laid up for a lot longer. Here are a few simple links. Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland. In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

Buh-bye, Temu Himmler.

I once did a phone interview with a researcher in Australia about mapping biodiversity loss using sound recordings. The bird noises in the background of our call were like nothing I'd ever heard before. It was incredible. Being a science journo is truly sick.

The people who are going to demand that we give them a round of applause for figuring it out 10-15 years too late is already annoying and it’s about to escalate from a trickle to a torrent. Glad you made it; you could apologize to everyone you scolded or just take a seat instead of writing this.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Blizzard ready, so of course it will be nothing. Homemade veggie chowder and oat rolls. Plus a pot of Nepal Tea Collective Rose Label Gold.

Time to repost this 10 year old article about lying as a form of control. "Contemporary Russian propaganda makes little or no commitment to the truth." "If one falsehood or misrepresentation is exposed or is not well received, the propagandists will discard it and move on to a new... explanation."

More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion. These are just a few of the ways Donald Trump has downsized and disrupted US science go.nature.com/4sTPWdp

This is truly holy action. May they be blessed forever.

“If one is honest about the history of the United States, it prominently features white violence, terrorism and revanchism, particularly toward Black people, Indigenous people and women.” — @sorayanadiamcdonald.com andscape.com/features/cap...

Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.

I have been in a book rut for MONTHS, given *gesticulates wildly*. I have DNFed So. Many. Books. the last few months. Snake-Eater broke the spell. Turns out all I needed was my absolute fave: @tkingfisher.com horror. I'm back to finishing-a-book-in-a-few-days reading. Just a gosh-darn delight!

Can an archive make a monster of a historian? But of course! I wrote about this for @contingent-mag.bsky.social, and the essay is now both free to read online and available as an audio read by me! The audio version: 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #maps #cartography 1/2

This is what they said about him then. This is what they say about us now. This is who they always have been.