Also: parenting in another country brings home to a shocking degree just how much Americans hate kids.

Best parenting advice I ever got was: There is no universal good parenting. There's just building a good relationship with your unique kid(s).

I don’t know if you saw this article by @ravmike.bsky.social which ran in today’s San Diego Union Tribune. It is excellent, and much needed! This is a gift link. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/24/o...

Andes hantavirus NEJM paper. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

For those following the murders at our Islamic Center of San Diego, please read a statement from community organization PANA. The news coverage is unrelenting and because Muslim families are mourning, the police and politician narrative fills the space www.panasd.org/statement-fr...

Our hearts break with each new emerging detail from the deadly, hate-fueled shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

Coalitions are not just an ideal; they are a necessity for all our safety. Hateful ideologies have deadly ends. We must work together to stamp them out, lest they fester and metastasize into devastating attacks like this.

This is the verified fund to help the family is murdered today at the Islamic Center of San Diego. You can verify it at their website. Just contributed. There will need to be a lot of healing for the survivors too. goodbricks.org/campaign/ics...

Who is Imam Taha Hassane, whose SD mosque was attacked today? He has been a ally in protecting immigrants. He & several rabbis joined priests & ministers in January marching for the dignity of immigrants. You can hear him here at the beginning & thru-out this video: www.10news.com/news/local-n...

My heart aches for our beloved community.

Uh...I Iiterally ding my *undergrads* when they cite something because they read it in a paper's introduction rather than tracking down the primary source. Of course you're responsible for everything you put your name on. Have a little pride in your work.

When the Great Defunding started in 2025, the European Union introduced a "bold" program to attract top scientists from the US, funded at the tune of about ~$500 million spread over 3-5 years. In 2024, the NIH allocated almost twice as that per week.

Every time I consider voting for Tom Steyer for governor a tiny voice in my head says “but why hasn’t he served in any local political offices” and I am again filled with white-hot rage at how every white guy wants to Do Politics but only if he likes the job title.

"information transfer". 🙄 It's like they are reverse plagiarizing Freire in order to make the worst possible argument.

A book review that not only makes you want to pick up the book, but reconsider your relationship with birth trauma, your mother, her mother, and mozzarella cheese sticks all at once. (complimentary)

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only.

A new study suggests that the Trump administration’s wave of NIH grant terminations in 2025 disproportionately affected Black, Indigenous, and other minority researchers, as well as scientists from sexual and gender minority communities. Read more: ow.ly/8Ku150YWGxv

Luddite were awesome. All yall reading this as a pejorative need to read some books. I think @bcmerchant.bsky.social does a great job.

school administrators implementing canvas for every use case

Listen to @mattseybold.bsky.social about Canvas theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...

Feeling pretty good about my choice to use a physical course reader with printed syllabus, readings, and assignments right now

If you are one of the nearly 1000 scientists who took our survey: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I hope we did you justice.

Oh and anybody who's mad about this article maybe next time the government should not come for a group of equity researchers whose core skillset is quantifying and shining a light on disparities because we WILL drag you in a Lancet journal💅 WITH DATA ✨ (after suing you to get our grants restored).

Grateful to every PI of a terminated grant (over half of all targeted PIs!) who trusted us and shared their identities and how these terminations impacted them, their work, and their communities. It is only because you came together as a field to participate that we have hard data on the impacts.

I'm so proud of this paper, which Sarah breaks down beautifully 👇

Survey of nearly 1,000 researchers whose grants were cut shows BIPOC, LGBTQ+ & women investigators faced higher odds of targeted equity-related terminations, raising concerns about long-term impacts on the U.S. scientific workforce @ucsandiego.bsky.social @rebeccafieldingmiller.com buff.ly/oYbM1sp

Today inside NIH I heard senior leaders endorse an idea that banning the term "social determinants of health" improves science by making us more precise. The same people who championed SDOH research just over a year ago are now toeing the party line. Taking a moment to unpack this. 🧵1/?

The idea that banning words somehow makes science better is patently absurd and intellectually dishonest. The argument goes like this: instead of using the "ill-defined" term social determinants of health, scientists must now use more precise language by naming a specific SDOH.

A student in class today asked "Why do scientific authors write like this? Like they don't want anyone to know what the fuck they're saying?!" and it turns out that that is the question designed in a lab to get me to end class with a 15-minute tangent/diatribe on all my favorite topics

if you learn the shape of this black deposit of soil (it cuts through Mississippi & Georgia too) you will begin to see it on literally any map that tracks disparate outcomes.

"Clean" books. "Clean" ideas. Words are important. These ones do not lead us down a path we want to travel.

I am learning that I may have had one of the world's best high school English teachers, and I am very sad for all of you that never had the experience of your 12th grade teacher rhapsodizing over John Donne's "slow hands"

Ignoring the more horrifying current discourse(s) to share my hot take that a lot of these books are great and some of you just needed better English teachers.

public health policy right now

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

The underlying memo is one of the most jaw-dropping things I've ever read re: higher ed. Some actual sentences: "Upon the conclusive termination of all designated teach-out programs, no degree culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics."

alexander cockburn used to ask young writers "is your hate pure?" and you know what? I feel like I know the answer for this writer: yes www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

Jay Bhattacharya, who is best known for ranting about COVID conspiracies and “coverups” for the past 5 years, is now literally suppressing the data on COVID vaccines…because he is an antivaccine hack not a scientist

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Eugenics all the way down

yes, it’s really that bad.

*clears throat* LET WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

“Vashti was right.” -Esther 1:12.5

I want tribunals. They should have their faces on shame-billboards in front of their houses and their parents houses. They should personally pay reparations to every family who lost someone they loved when usaid and pepfar were dismantled. Their names should be a curse.

In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered a bad move Adams 2:1

Applications closing soon for our Caregiver Travel Grant 2026! Apply now for a chance to receive flexible funding to cover caregiving expenses while attending an in-person scientific conference! Apply: https://www.mothersinscience.com/caregiver-travel-grant 📅 Deadline: April 26, 2026 #WomenInSTEM

1) Influential right-wing figures say "they're the enemy, hate them" using lies, cherry-picks, and exaggerations 2) Followers believe them, get increasingly riled up 3) "The people don't trust the institutions, it's the institutions' fault" 4) Repeat 1 Worked on elections, higher ed, and more.

Went to check because I was sure this was satire and...what are we even doing here team?