When you ask voters to choose between corporate profits and protecting our neighbors – it’s not even close. This year, Seattle voters chose the tax corporations to fund social housing (63%) and to pass the Seattle Shield Initiative to protect our neighbors (71%). Let’s keep it going!

With nearly all votes counted, progressive challenger Katie Wilson has won the election to be Seattle's next mayor. She is ahead of incumbent Bruce Harrell by a margin of 1,976 votes or 0.7%. There will be no automatic recount.

Katie Wilson won 61.2% of today's ballot drop to take a commanding 1,346 vote lead over incumbent Bruce Harrell in Seattle's mayor's race. This is over.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

When Bruce Harrell pulled a gun on a pregnant woman over a parking spot he was 37 years old, which is about the same age Katie Wilson was when she helped write and pass Seattle's Jumpstart tax, which brings in $300-400 million a year

My guy Girmay doesn’t only take the bus, he wants to work with me to make them faster and more reliable! Grateful for his partnership on this to deliver on better transit service!

And now there are SEVEN. UofA president Suresh Garimella announced today that the school will reject Trump’s loyalty compact. “Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding & institutional independence…must be preserved." Vanderbilt, TX: all eyes on you. 👀 #DefendHigherEd

The snake is growing. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼 Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time. The world is watching. The resistance is here. #NoLoyaltyOaths #NoKings #DefendHigherEd

And now UVA!! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025... MIT, Brown, Penn, USC and now UVA have all rejected the loyalty oath “compact” for “excellence” in higher ed. Five of nine! (I wonder if this decision was final before today’s planned meeting www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...)

With no takers yet, White House sets meeting with colleges still weighing an agreement with Trump apnews.com/article/trum...

Four down. Five to go. Let’s go. Join our National Teach-In on Trump’s Loyalty Oaths. Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DefendHigherEd

The first No Kings protests were massive — will Saturday’s No Kings II reach the same scale? June protests mobilized the most demonstrations in any single day in ACLED's US dataset, with over 1,600 recorded across all 50 states. 🔎 Explore: acleddata.com/expert-comme...

NHANES identified pediatric lead exposure in the ‘70s, considered one of the most significant health interventions ever. NHANES also gave us pediatric growth charts and nutritional fortification to prevent harmful deficiencies like iodine & folate, to name a few. h/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more. The entire operation has been eliminated.

If you're on IG, plz share this deck that me and a few other creators made last night breaking the story www.instagram.com/p/DPxRPGADP3...

NHANES has been facing funding challenges and needs an infusion of cash to be modernized, not cut. These samples are a key dataset for the field of medicine, nutrition, metabolism, endocrinology, aging, etc. So much innovation that could be brought to Nhanes! ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...

Everyone across biomedicine should be very loud about this so this team's RIF status gets reversed. Nhanes has been key for tracking obesity & diabetes rates, identifying high blood lead levels in kids in the 70s, tracking progress on cholesterol lowering, guiding nutrient fortification programs etc

MMWR stole the show in the first round of headlines about CDC cuts but in the chaos, many missed that the NHANES mobile team remains RIF'd. This is the backbone of this key survey that contains some of the only representative anthropometric, biochemical, clinical and dietary data on the country.

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social! “When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.” stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

A unique database complied by @acleddata.bsky.social allowed them to put together this deep dive into the extent of war-related violence acleddata.com/report/two-y...

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact “And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education." @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

"We can make a difference if we unite together, organize, and fight together." — Sang Hea Kil Dr. Kil is a tenured professor in the Justice Department at San Jose State University. She explains that she was suspended for her support of students organizing encampments and exercising free speech.

You are also basically guaranteed to never be heard because that rhetoric is Charlie Brown adults. Sounds like everything else. Instead, you must frame flip to centering evils of regime: No dollars for dictatorship No funding for fascism No payout for pedophile protectors (to go ALL the way there)

No matter our background, origin, or party, most of us believe violence has no place in our politics. Yet, the MAGA regime fans flames of violence, trying to turn government into a weapon against us. We must make this a country where no one fears for our lives or our loved ones.

Campus Reform tried to get me fired from being a *postdoc in physics* in 2015 because I said Thomas Jefferson was a rapist

West Coast Health Alliance expands to include Hawaii. Who else is in?

New @ihmeuw.bsky.social paper today --- "HIV-related mortality time trends among children and young adolescents on antiretroviral therapy by age, treatment duration, and region: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today, WA joins CA and OR in forming the West Coast Health Alliance to ensure our residents continue receiving science-based #PublicHealth recommendations. This partnership ensures our states will continue working with trusted medical orgs to protect our communities' health and safety.

There was a baby boom of elephants in 2020 and now they are turning 5 www.elephanttrust.org/wp-content/u...

Cost of medical care in USA: the percent increase last month is the third highest in the last 30 years. Will next month break this record?

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. … Kennedy’s words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus. Americans deserve better.” That’s former CDC director Bill Foege. 🧪

Rethink your mayoral endorsement

🔹️>10,000 cases across 10 countries 🔹️18 reported fatalities "The pace of infections [is] 34 times higher than a year ago, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said today, urging countries to step up their vaccination, surveillance, and outbreak responses." www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...

"Telehealth for patients experiencing homelessness has been surprisingly successful in improving access and extending care beyond traditional clinic settings." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

NSF says to @carpentries.carpentries.org “Your project contains activities for the retention of underrepresented students” --- activities like this are no longer allowed by our government! www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Still explaining: How do tariffs work, and who pays?

3/4 of my age group does not mail in their poop jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Help, I've fallen in a rabbit hole about needle phobia journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

If you teach or conduct research at a college or university join and get active in the AAUP!

Just from a logistical standpoint it is not feasible to conduct a "new" mid-decade census with accuracy. To give a sense of the scale of what is required, preparations are already underway for the *2030* census. This will add chaos to the Census Bureau and degrade the accuracy of the 2030 census

BREAKING: With #2030Census prep already underway, President Trump says he's instructed Commerce Dept to "immediately begin work" on a "new" census that excludes people living in the states without legal status from a count the 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state”

I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.

Bullshit Machines for Bullshit Work is my favorite chapter so far thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-13-bu...

Yes, there are new studies suggesting this. And I believe there are plenty of others indicating real gains. I should caveat this though. I’m reminded of when GUIs we’re introduced. People thought they boosted productivity, but they actually slowed experienced users down.