New paper! We tested #eDNA primers for detecting #fishes in Hawai‘i. 12S (MiFish, Riaz) performed best w/r/t fish sequence proportion. However, our major conclusion is that mock communities can lead you astray, since they don't accurately predict how primers will perform in a natural environment.

And we wouldn’t have known, except for the work of hackers and journalists.

Watson Coleman: "If they can do this to three federally elected officials with the authority to come and do their job, and they can then also lock up the mayor of the largest city in New Jersey who was on public property ... people just are afraid of this weaponization of law enforcement."

Great news: NY State will provide free meals to ALL public school students. www.nycfoodpolicy.org/governor-hoc...

In Worcester, Massachusetts, the Trump regime's ICE troops violently attacked a mother and her two children – including a newborn baby. Brave neighbours attempted to intervene to protect the family from being kidnapped by the regime troops and collaborator police forces. #3E #endimpunity

Regime troops and collaborator police forces slammed one of the victims to the ground and attacked US citizens attempting to intervene or who asked them to identify themselves. The family was eventually disappeared. #3E #endimpunity

This phrasing of the ICE action in Worcester, MA as a kidnapping is horrifically accurate You cannot deprive a person of their liberty without either probable cause that the person committed a crime or a warrant to arrest that person That’s directly stated in the 4th Amendment of the Constitution

WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

Well this is getting interesting. The big question is at what point will the judges begin ordering the arrest of the politicians behind the illegal deportations? www.yahoo.com/news/judge-h...

Maybe federal judges will realize it's time to stop dicking around and time to start throwing people in jail themselves.

"I only use AI to brainstorm ideas" Oh, so you're only using it for the part where you have to use your brain. Lobotomy would be faster

Breaking News: Senator Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador.

so by this logic, if someone stole all of mark zuckerberg's 180.6 billion US dollars and used it to make their own company, it ought to be fine, because each stolen dollar, when tallied individually, is only a tiny fraction of the whole and therefore basically worthless

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

"Prison abolition does not mean (as it has been intentionally mischaracterised) that all crime suddenly becomes legal and permitted, that police and prisons disappear overnight, or that we abandon any kind of response or consequence for people who cause harm." www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

"Israeli media have reported a marked increase in the number of reservists refusing to show up for army duty, pointing to rapidly declining support for a war that critics – including within the military – say is no longer motivated by Israel’s security interests..." www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

So essentially the president can do anything he wants, regardless of whether or not that’s his constitutional power, say no when told otherwise, and there’s really no mechanisms in this country to stop him? The branches of government and checks and balances were all just suggestions?

Senator Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) is requesting a meeting with Bukele to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,” I'd like to see a full delegation of US senators.

Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.

This is exactly what Democrats should be doing!! You’ve got power and status so leverage it. More of this!!!!

If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury. This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

Your rights are not protected by the paper they are written on, they are protected by the strength of your resistance. Join a protest near you. #3E #fiftyfiftyone

If this outrages you and you want to know what you can do right now to mitigate the harm that ICE is attempting to inflict on communities, here is one starting place: crimethinc.com/StopICE

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

Hey TEXANS, Get LOUD, get OUT, and demand change…👇 Like NOW!! ✨

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

List of countries not subjected to tariffs: Russia Belarus North Korea Cuba They apparently took the time to impose tariffs on several uninhabited islands, so the omissions are extra noteworthy. If you spot others please flag!

Elections I’m 👀 TOMORROW: —WI’s Supreme Court —FL’s specials —Mayoral race in Omaha —Mayoral race in Aurora, a Trumpian mayor in an IL city —County executives in Dane and Winnebago, WI —WI’s school superintendent —school boards all around, including far-right candidates —WI’s voter ID referendum

🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.

There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.

Elon Musk said on Friday that he had sold X, his social media company, to xAI, the artificial intelligence start-up he founded in 2023, in an unusual arrangement that may raise conflict-of-interest questions.

‘&’ is called an ‘ampersand’ and means “and.” In the Middle Ages, when single letters were used as words, the phrase ‘per se’ would be included to indicate they were being used as a word and not just a letter. “I per se, I” = ‘I’ is being used as the word ⬇️