This will be a huge blow to equity and opportunities in research ecosystems. Given public access requirements for many funded researchers, where does the money come from? It doesn't just limit scientists' ability to communicate; it puts insurmountable burdens on ppl (esp at smaller/poorer instits).

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

All I can say is that DC gets some darned dangerous thunderstorms in the summer and good luck to everyone sitting underneath what appears to be a giant freaking lightning rod.

We want to bring attention to something that happened last month that hasn’t gotten nearly enough coverage. On April 23, a DHS contractor building Trump’s border wall bulldozed 60 feet of the Las Playas Intaglio a 1,000-year-old fish-shaped geoglyph etched into

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Sustainable landscaping + more useable school play areas + engaged and curious schoolchildren = big win. [more, please!] www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Shout-out to US community colleges: chief engineer of the Mars Perseverance Rover was a punk rock burnout who went to the local CC where I grew up, discovered his love of physics and eventually got his PhD at UW. It has its flaws and obstacles, but the US system does make this kind of thing possible

What I love about this thread is the sheer volume of commenters delightedly enumerating the virtues of their home institutions (or similar). This actually makes for nice end-of-term reading, as the world is burning down, etc.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

What I love about this thread is the sheer volume of commenters delightedly enumerating the virtues of their home institutions (or similar). This actually makes for nice end-of-term reading, as the world is burning down, etc.

Nearly 50,000 people on the California side of Lake Tahoe are about to lose the bulk of their electricity supply,not because of infrastructure failure or mismanagement, but because Big Tech wants the grid. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades,

As multiple commenters on Rupar's skeet have pointed out, THERE ARE NO FOUNTAINS. IT IS A REFLECTING POOL.

*laughs in archivist* It always amuses me at how little historical material is actually not only digitized but also made available online compared to what lay people think.

They hacked Canvas during finals week. This is why the faculty need a secure ballroom.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

250 years ago TODAY was the last meeting of the VA House of Burgesses. Est. in 1619, the House was the first representative body in colonial North America, and is the forerunner of the current Virginia General Assembly. The 5th Virgina Convention - which declared independence, began the same day.

If I had to say what I think is the most important thing happening in British politics right now, I’d say it’s the following phenomenon, explained here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvhI... With huge thanks to @yougov.co.uk @martamiori.bsky.social and @itvnews.bsky.social Please share! Thank you!

This is horrible. I can't find words adequately to express how sorry I feel for friends and colleagues (everywhere in the UK) who are affected by university cuts, and for students who will be deprived of these opportunities.

Are we witnessing the end of two-party politics in Britain? @profjanegreen.bsky.social and @martamiori.bsky.social explore what this week’s elections could reveal about the future of UK politics using YouGov data for ITV News. Find out more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/42ioslS

Bethlehem / Allentown / Easton

Bethlehem / Allentown / Easton

NAACP President Derrick Johnson responds to the Supreme Court's decision to gut the Voting Rights Act:

🇧🇷Garça-real 🌎Pilherodius pileatus Conservação: Pouco Preocupante A garça-real é uma ave pelecaniforme da família Ardeidae. 📷 Aisse Gaertner

RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. Paper shows that 2025-2026 Covid-19 vaccines were effective. They censored it. That’s exactly why we need to read it. So, we published it in Inside Medicine! Take a look... open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

I started following this account a little while ago and it is probably the best thing I have done for my mental health in months. Being able to listen to the birds is wonderful, too!

🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

New from at Can We Still Govern? Prior authorization is a big barrier to accessing care. Drawing from her new book, @mirandayaver.bsky.social breaks down how it serves as a time tax on physicians and patients, often resulting in forgone care. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-prior-...

If you're wondering how the blockade is landing, this has been making its way around the naval nerds today

In contrast, hello Canada, my consumption of Crown Royal has soared in the past fifteen months, no idea how to account for this.

*hurriedly looking for my planet of the apes mask*

This might be one of my favorites from Artemis II. A cinematic alignment of the Moon and Earth, each cradled within the warmth of sunbeams. Taken from behind the Moon on April 6th. flic.kr/p/2s6BABn

OMFG people look at the Moon. I mean seriously, go to the live link and LOOK AT THE MOON! [thinking of Rose F; I'm thankful for all she does and hoping she is doing well, despite everything last year. . .]

Did my annual simulation of forming a coalition govt in a parliamentary system in my intro class (UK Parliament as the basis). I let students choose parties but had to make a lot of the final choices myself, because almost EVERYONE wanted to be a LibDem and NO ONE wanted to be in Reform. 1/

A great piece. For those who'd turn their noses up at the Cato Institute, this article shows exactly how/why libertarianism clashes w/MAGA-driven adoration for Orbán. My class today discussed the relationship of the EU to corruption and authoritarianism in Hungary - would have loved to assign this.

not now but someday, MLB stadium food is how I want to die

I am super-excited to read this book. And the look on your face as you are taking your books out of the box is so delightful. Congratulations!

ok so this is my invitation to you to come to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where you can get a decent 3-bedroom house for 300K, live in a walkable neighborhood, be relat close to NYC + Philly, live in a multicultural community, have access to excellent hospitals/health care, universities, colleges, etc.

It's notionally spring break, so for today's progress on my book: I have. . . OPENED THE DOCUMENT. Wish me luck.

NEW: 5 Black family homes worth $2.1M burned to the ground The insurance check? $297,000 One sister dead Investors circling the ashes This is what “disaster capitalism” looks like Read what they did to Altadena’s Black families & what that signals for all of us: capitalbnews.org/housing-insu...

This looks like the mirror image of Liz Truss’s approval rating.

CBP puts the blame on legacy IT systems. To be blunt, while these problems may be completely valid, this is entirely the fault of the government.

“We’re not going to be complicit in something that’s bad for the world nor contrary to our ⁠values and interests simply to avoid reprisals. . .” 1 - The leadership Europe - and the world - needs. 2 - The Trump admin simply has no clue how the EU works. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

#maritimehistory #esrlymodern @csschmitt.bsky.social (8 am EDT, have a word w/your people please! 🤣)

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Lovely that TWO articles in the Global Discourse #rhetoric special edition are on the 'most-read' list! The first is by Pete Dorey on the discourses of the populist right, and the second is by Steven Kettell & Peter Kerr on Boris Johnson's evidence to the COVID inquiry! Great to see! Links below.

Workers have begun restoring the slavery exhibit in Philadelphia that was removed by the Trump administration