“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.” Photo by Sandy Huffaker

Science is cool! Let’s do more of it!

1000 people started spontaneously chanting U-S-A in the San Diego air and space museum at splashdown And you know what? FUND AMERICAN SCIENCE. Imagine who we could be.

we’re back up and running! we’re doing a two-stage approach with a screener and then i will send a one-time link to participants. if you have had a miscarriage since march 2024 and otherwise meet requirements as listed on the flyer, please consider participating in my survey (go.uic.edu/leavestudy)

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

This is so, so well-articulated.

Not sure people understand the degree to which foreign-born doctors make rural healthcare possible

It is beautiful to see people care deeply and unreservedly. You *should* try to say beautiful, meaningful things when you do something beautiful and meaningful. You *should* use big words and evoke big ideas. I am so tired of living in a world where people are afraid to imagine something beautiful.

This is how you empathize and stay compassionate when your toddler is melting down after a long day at the zoo or your reactive dog is freaking out. Or, more accurately, how someone might rationalize that its their own fault, really, they drove their abuser to that behavior.

"everyone is in that picture" is giving me some unexpectedly big feelings.

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

If you want more innovators, reduce class sizes, fully fund higher-ed, eliminate contingency, and stop trying to treat a public good as if it were a goddamned business.

the process is part of the work. it’s not supposed to be easy. the effort creates good work. i can’t believe this needs to be explained to people who call themselves journalists.

Hello from the first day of spring quarter and let me tell you about my newest favorite thing: the DIY syllabus test! Imagine this: It's the first day of the quarter and students are poring over the syllabus, asking thoughtful questions, and having fun. All at once!

#GenderEquity & #Academia: Women in academia have almost five times the amount of childcare-related responsibilities that men have. #SocialEpi #EpiSky Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Explaining to people why it's very good and logical for them to Do A Thing is pretty much never going to be the best way to get them to Do That Thing

I don't love 9% for health and human services, but those military numbers seem like a *real* bad sign 😬

burn it all straight down to the ground cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/downloa...

Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school

this is going to be more embarrassing than any of us can possibly imagine and I cannot wait

I’m tickled by the senior White House official going: ‘no, totally, the President is very racist and sexist what gave you the idea that he wasnt’

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

The details here are pretty bad. Hegesth personally intervened after the military officers in charge refused to block the promotion. The officer was told "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" by Hegseth's Chief of Staff.

I use cursive every single day. (Also a fountain pen and a notebook.) Closing your eyes, writing by hand, and seeing what comes out is just a different experience. Give it a try.

This will never not make me laugh

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

For additional context: I fly out of SAN quite a lot, and I'd say my average time from curb to gate is ~20-25 minutes, inclusive of checking bags.

"eugenics and scientific or medical racism etc wasn't real science™" Be for real, come on. Science has always been part of heinous things, was implicated in and facilitated colonization, slavery, the Holocaust more. All of this IS part of the story of science. WHY are you sanitizing this?

Straight to jail

Do it. It would be great for Americans waiting 3 hours to get through TSA to spend that time looking at ICE agents wasting space.

The NIH's 2026 budget is $49 billion. WIC is $7 billion. PEPFAR was $7 billion. Budgets are statements of values.

19% more deaths from Covid in the US than counted thru 2021 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When a really wonderful undergrad tells you they want to go to grad school to study health disparities. (yes, we need you, that's rad! oh god, please don't do this to yourself, its awful right now)

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

"Gender is a fixed biological reality, like gravity" ok but you're not passing 50 laws making it a crime to defy gravity, why do you suppose that is

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

The dinos are out for science!! Are you??? Join us in Washington D.C. on the National Mall!!! Info here! : fight2win.standupforscience.net/DC-March/

These are very cool people doing very important work. Apply!!

Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats

This is brutal. Why even submit? So much science - and so many careers- lost.

I am rereading Anne of Avonlea for the first time in many years and I am having some feelings that sweet, elderly, white haired old maid Miss Lavendar is...45.

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

Ohhhh, yessssssssss

a cool thing about the US healthcare system is how you're expected to play elaborate games of telephone with insurance, providers, and pharmacies, and none of them ever tell you if they've done [thing you asked for] but then get annoyed when you call to see if [thing you asked for] has been done yet

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Did none of you people go to college?

Definitely questionable why an ID that has a picture of your face on it also needs a marker for Probable Underwear Contents.

Doctors say that vaccines are the best way to protect children against measles. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they should just swim in untreated sewage water instead. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

dinosaur chicken nuggets 🦖 (there's even a vegetarian version!! 🦕)