We need a total and complete shutdown of ICE in the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering.

this country truly is allergic to helping people

🤠 Hey, Texas faculty! As you prep for the spring semester check out our blog for tips + advice. 👇 1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression. 3) Organize your department. We are stronger together! aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Andromeda and Sprites over Australia apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25121... What’s happening over that tree? Two very different things. On the left is the Andromeda galaxy, an object that is older than humanity and will last billions of years into the future.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

People talk about mental illness in terms of depression or psychosis or violence but please don’t forget the “high functioning” mentally ills who are hyperproductive because their brain tells them if they don’t adhere to a rigid and punishing schedule they will literally die

Health supremacy is a form of fascism. Places outside Sweden that tried that model could not implement it in part or whole and faced spectacular death rates.

EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

Don't start with 'sorry' - or anything that sounds like one “Time for the dull bit” “I won’t go on too long” "I haven't really prepared anything" . Instead, try these opening techniques. 1/5

These public health researchers did not choose to be political activists; they were forced to be by a president and administration that despises expertise.

Don’t look away. Look. Get mad. Take action.

A passionate plea that completely resonates with me. "...Don’t you dare call me unpatriotic for refusing to worship corruption. Don’t you dare tell me that loving this country enough to fight for it makes me the enemy. That isn’t patriotism. That’s rot. That’s decay..."

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Amelia Knopf, @karmacap.bsky.social and @knelphd.bsky.social write in Pediatrics about how the terminations of clinical trials of children and adolescents represent cracks in the foundation of ethical research, and the moral responsibility to repair them: doi.org/10.1542/peds...

mass grant terminations might be over for now, but their impact still harms people who were in the studies, including kids & teens. @knelphd.bsky.social @amyknopf.bsky.social and I wrote about ethical implications of abruptly ending studies for political reasons publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

Five-alarm fire inside the DOJ - Lawyer Oyer

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

ALRIGHT IF YOU HAVE JANE FONDA CONNECTIONS, YOU BETTER START YELLING IN MY DIRECTION. (I've asked this before, but I had 10k fewer followers. Surely, someone knows someone who knows someone) www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Feds, get your eOPF stuff ready. Like now. Please respost. #fedstrong

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The end of FY 2025 is coming, and #OMB appears perfectly content to use us as targets. We are not their chess pieces. We serve our PIs. We are here in our personal capacities. Follow the #NIH.

United States academic landscape got you down? Apply to join my lab at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada! I’m planning to accept a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Additional information: https://www.uregina.ca/academics/programs/arts/master-phd-clinical-psychology.html

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

I looked a grants where the title was different between the original award and the noncompetitive renewal and limited the analysis to grants with no subawards so there was no ambiguity about what to compare. There were 777 such grant pairs. 2/4

We have our line-up for our 24-hour AIDS research livestream on September 16/17th: saveaidsresearch.org Allison Agwu, MD, SCM • Ali Ahmed, PhD • Frederick Altice, MD • Annukka Antar, MD, PhD • Shashika Bandara, MSc • Katie Bar, MD • Joshua Barocas, MD • Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD, MPH 1/

Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)? If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants. Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

this longtime Mac user just now changed her default PDF app from preview to reader after spending uhh unnamed double digit amount of years getting unnecessarily upset with preview, trying to make it work like reader, and thinking "WHY ISN'T READER THE DEFAULT DAMMIT"

some of those who work forces

When left-wing American Jews comment on a rise in antisemitism in the US - without ever mentioning Israel or attempting to scapegoat Palestinian solidarity activism - here are some trends over the course of the decade since Trump first ran for President that they are likely referring to:

Scientists, I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature: Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk. It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.

One superintendent said the Senate education bill was like “your house being on fire and the fire department showing up with a 12 ounce cup of water, throwing it at your house and saying, ‘See, look how much good we’ve done.’”

The right message.❤️ womensagenda.com.au/latest/empat...

LOOK AT TODAY’S BEAUTIFUL NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD!!! 🌌

Data request: any APHA or UAW members impacted by NIH grant terminations are encouraged to visit the link below by MONDAY 5/19. The goal is to provide the court with info about which grants have been affected and the number of people impacted if the judge issues relief in the matter of APHA v NIH.

Happy 19th Birthday to the Bean

Today is a writing day for me, but instead of writing all morning I have had to sort through the data I collected via Prolific to exclude AI-based responses 👎-- a thread 1/n

"are you enjoying Duo Mobile?" no, I hate having 2FA for every single website I log into, what kind of question is this

Tuesdays are for Tulips. Michigan Avenue's display of spring colors this past weekend in Chicago.

It is hard to make babies if you’re working multiple shifts to pay the student loan that didn’t result in a stable income plus the rent that keeps rising because we build absolutely no housing anywhere to preserve the character of the neighborhood

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵