All over the Epstein files fawning and “plotting”. Perhaps it’s time for @harvardoeb.bsky.social to update their already quite long report on Martin Nowak and Epstein? Has the Epstein money for Nowak’s institute even run dry?

Martin Nowak, mathematician. 5/ bsky.app/profile/alex... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_...

A quick collage of some snow flakes 🙂. Forsyth County, North Carolina, today

Concept: an actual public square not controlled by billionaires.

Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out

"Take away college football tomorrow & watch college towns descend into chaos. But when they came for our pipettes & microscopes, almost nothing happened. " New thoughts on the War on Science, 1 yr later, for @undark.org: 'How MAHA Exploits the Flaws of Modern Science ' undark.org/2026/01/28/o...

Sounds like a nice idea, but, FWIW, I will *never* work for the federal government again after how we were treated.

Until every taqueria is open and partying without fear of ICE, I'm not letting off the gas

Good job now do RFK Jr. 👏

AFGE represents >800,000 federal workers. www.afge.org/publication/...

"The constitution protects EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US, documented or not." -- Maribel Hernandez Rivera, ACLU #EyesOnICE

THIS IS THE WAY.

When I worked at the USDA, there was a secret list of anti-DEI banned words circulating in email including the word “female”. I confronted our Area Director with this during an all hands, and he denied this was happening. It was happening, and it violates the law. I’m gone, but he’s still there. 🤗

It's incredibly cold, and everything is a lot. Turn up the sound and enjoy this grasshopper trying to convince you it is just a leaf wiggling in the wind. #NatureZen www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWGd...

I have judged AI and found it wanting.

ChatGPT is literally coaching folks through suicide, and this company is worried about the childhood trauma of their *checks notes* computer program.

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer

If you are a scientist funded by NIH and agree that if the HHS/NIH bill is held hostage by linkage for funding to DHS/ICE, we need to shutdown both and save lives, its time to speak up. Right now, with a few exceptions, the silence is deafening

17 years ago today, I wrote my first blog post for Southern Fried Science! Since then, I’ve written hundreds of posts that have reached hundreds of thousands of readers! My time on the blog has made me a better writer, teacher, and listener, and a more informed scientist and conservationist.

Found the radicalizing clip from the Atlantic article. 🤬

ChatGPT is literally coaching folks through suicide, and this company is worried about the childhood trauma of their *checks notes* computer program.

I have judged AI and found it wanting.

Bulbils these days. Dark and shiny like a berry, round like a berry, AND birds disperse seeds in their poop like a berry. 😮

Deleted TikTok. Another favorite app destroyed by extremely wealthy assholes.

Cassidy chose to empower RFK Jr and the deadly MAHA movement.

If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE. 518-474-8390. This is important.

I would strongly encourage those who value the scientific & societal legacies of NCAR to offer feedback by March 13. I would expect, under present circumstances, perspectives from industry partners will be especially critical, though everyone's voice is of course important.

feels like it’s been one bloody january man

The United States is engaged in a state-sponsored inter-group conflict with public executions and endless disruptions to healthcare and human rights, and no one in my field sees it as under our mandate because we’ve all been standing so close to the screen for so long

At some point, local and state authorities in MN must, at the very least, detain these agents, otherwise they will keep murdering people with impunity. Speeches aren't going to protect the citizens they swore to serve.

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

Trials for every ICE member.

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

When postdocs and grad students move on, I don’t worry about “losing” projects. If a postdoc wants to extend their work beyond my lab, my answer is yes. They should take their momentum with them. I have plenty of ideas, and there will always be more questions to ask.

“The idea behind DEI was very simple, that the composition of institutions should reflect the public they serve...But I think the left took it too far." I'd note how status threat and reaction often drives this feeling: "the left took it too far," and it serves to justify wrecking.

Here’s the deal with the FY26 NIH funding bill: One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science. The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%. THIS IS BAD.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

$2 billion in grants to help stem opioid addiction and address mental health issues cancelled, then swiftly reinstated. Why the flip flop? Because of public outcry. Keep speaking out. Your voice matters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

A very tiny white bean with whiskers.

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

Consulted with our entomologist at SUFS on what kind of invertebrate Thom Tillis is:

They should make a “my job” that doesn’t make me take these “days off for my mental health”. Just… just let me go back to the lab. Let me in there, please please please please please-

The “war on protein” spent barely a moment on a beef executive’s whiteboard before the White House tweeted it.

Entomophthora is the puppeteer behind the insects you sometimes find that have seemingly died for no reason in the middle of pollinating flowers. A fungus hijacked them and drove them up there not to pollinate, but to spread its spores. #FungiFriends

When I was at the USDA, I asked our center director who was our voice in the room speaking up for us? He said Brooke Rollins. 🫠

Reputation laundering for money from the Royal Society?! 😱