Now reading "On Taking Sides: Clinical Encounters With Non-Binary Genders" by Avgi Saketopoulou (2024) Strap in

2025 recapped

From Margaret Weis: Jean Rabe, who wrote RPG books for Spelljammer and Dragonlance and novels for Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms, has passed. We're losing our TTRPG elders as well as our video game elders.

Woo! Please Join @kaseysnow.bsky.social in studying #Penguins live this morning on #Twitch! She always does an amazing job teaching and learning about study subjects! Today its Penguins! Great opportunity to co-study along, draw, paint and expand the knowlage bank! 🧠 #PenquinAwarnessDay

Have you visited our science policy tracker lately? One recent update: The EPA will no longer include consider the monetary value of health benefits when creating air pollution rules—only the cost to industry. eos.org/research-and...

Today marks one year since Trump began his second term. In this report, look back at how the climate and environment, the federal workforce, and higher ed have fared so far. eos.org/state-of-the...

BOTH of my grandfathers independently told me this joke and thought they were being very funny

Well, THAT turned out better than expected. Hot damn

the fact that the exasperated priest, desperate for information, immediately drops that line of inquiry upon learning that one of his parishioners is struggling yeah. that's the movie!

Counterpoint,

Because I've been in a Star Trek mood lately, here's an older sketch I still enjoy. #startrek #Trek #meme #Kirk #McCoy #Spock

I have started meditating and literally every time I am like: I am suddenly aware of and observing how stressed I am! I don’t feel better but I sure am observing it

yeahhhhh i probably will be more willing to fork over the extra money for amtrak next time

As a guy in the replies says at some point, this starts out funny but becomes at least temporarily a kidnapping? Anyway I’m sharing because I absolutely need to find out if all these people are okay tomorrow

There’s bsky.app/profile/jenn... , and of course @mostlybree.kitrocha.com has been on a whistle-printing spree

Please read this thread about a community in which Dr. King did *not* achieve what he'd intended, & about which he later said "what we learned from our mistakes in Albany [GA] helped our later campaigns in other cities to be more effective".

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Doesn’t anybody on this app know what a rhetorical question is

There are lots of great things to say about Dolly Parton – I love pointing to her scientific philanthropy during the pandemic – but my favorite is that she has probably done more for childhood literacy than anyone alive. Happy 80th birthday, Dolly.

The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a severe (level 4 of 5) geomagnetic storm watch for Monday night after a coronal mass ejection erupted from the sun Sunday. Similar levels of geomagnetic storming (such as Nov 2025) have produced aurora displays visible from Northern California.

Are you an undergraduate student interested in gaining research experience this summer? If so, please consider applying to the Research Experiences and Mentorship in Urban Systems (REMUS) program at UNC Charlotte! We are a multidisciplinary REU program that explores many facets of urban science!

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

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How will I cope with AO3 being down for fifteen hours beginning midnight Tuesday night

you will have to pry the millennial “lol” from my cold dead hands. i don’t know how else to express minor despair. if i didn’t say “lol” after admitting i’m a husk inside, i’d have to develop emotional resilience, and i simply don’t have time for that

"Figure out pithy and original ways to write the comment, 'you need to support your claims, ' in the margins of 72 term papers."

I have never been more simultaneously upset I didn't get to write a comic and absolutely thrilled it exists

Some golden hour low tide Outside for your viewing pleasure.

“What if we made Snarf and Orko kiss?” AGAIN. What if you made them kiss AGAIN, you mean.

not legal advice but if you're going to hack the Supreme Court e-filing system, maybe don't post about it on an Instagram called @ihackedthegovernment bsky.app/profile/anna...

Some fun facts: only half of US citizens have passports. Almost 10% either don’t have, or can’t access, their birth certificates. We don’t carry our passports to prove ID or age; most people carry driver’s licenses for that. In several states you don’t need to prove legal residency to get those.

Cat considering whether to use up one of her nine lives:

Inko bean #parrotSky 🪶

@meansgirl.bsky.social I’ve been working my way through your Mystrade archive and am enjoying immensely 💕

also reading m/m is like freeing your mind from the panopticon prison of heterosexuality no matter how you present or get your freak on tbh

Quite the cover design! And somehow very current. George Orwell 1984 in the latest Penguin edition

It's sad that I'm pleasantly surprised that NASA was able to issue this press release, but here we are. "NASA Releases Global Temperature Data" - 2024 remains the hottest year on record; 2025 tied with 2023. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Plese repost & share: "The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education." www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Useful replies! #audiobooks

ok who gave The Onion my phd thesis

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Happy "Not Submitting an LPSC Abstract Today" to those who celebrate.

One fun thing we've noticed - so many towns have built dinosaurs. We've got dinosaurs everywhere.

Rapid dinosaur evolution

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#LEAG - Mars Missions updates did find a strong candidate for a bio signature on the Perseverance Rover, MAVEN - Did experience an LOS unplanned on 4 Dec. spacecraft is rotating and not in nominal orbit. have not been able to locate the spacecraft. Less likely it will be found.