In our new poll with the Boston Globe of NIH funded scientists in Mass ... - 72% say they have delayed or cancelled projects - 66% reduced research scope - 56% paused experiments or students. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

Fresh enough snow on the Charles that it's not covered in goose, eagle, or coyote tracks yet!

Sebastian Junger (who wrote The Perfect Storm) on the sinking of the Lily Jean.

DinoCon with a more prompt response to academics complicit in sexual abuse than uh, the entirety of academia.

just when you think you've got a grasp on the horrors humans have made to use against other humans, you learn about a whole new class of horrors somehow even worse

Two good ones today at HW. First @andrewqmr.bsky.social writes on the discrepancy between the words and deeds of governor Maura Healey when it comes to partnering with ICE. Massachusetts remains the only Democrat-controlled state still contracting with these motherfuckers.

Could be awkward for Erik. Story from Sat: "The well-known US businessman Erik Prince (founder of the private military company "Blackwater") helped the Congolese army recapture Uvira, the 2nd most important city in the South Kivu province, from the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels (see Fides, 6/2/2026)."

Kids like 7-year-old Mia write about missing their friends and family, wanting to go back to school, and not sleeping or eating well at the Dilley detention center in Texas. These stories expose the inhumanity of this administration's immigration policies. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

For the Interept, I reported from Uganda about the effects of USAID cuts on LGBTQ people, HIV prevention activists and sex workers—and tried to tell the story from the POV of these important but criminalized communities. Please read and share. theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

There are so many reasons to hate the Patriots. But for me, it starts and ends with the ICE collaborators they're enriching. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/the-truth-ab...

please, let nobody think that John Kasich must be a nice moderate being picked on by mean conservatives when he inevitably tries to position himself as an alternative candidate in the next Republican primary.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Was t hat Priscilla Lopez!??!

Thank goodness for Jenny Slate.

Tomorrow in Boston: A phone-bank to support extending TPS for Haitians.

I have rarely seen a man look as out of place as Tom Brady on stage with Green Day.

The pangolin is famous for being the world's most trafficked animal, hunted for its unique scales, but did you know it also has a pretty unique nose? Differing between species, they could have evolved in two different ways! Who nose what we'll discover next? 🌍🧪

I put "Do the thing currently giving you a stomachache" as a recurring task on my to-do list and yes it can make the first ~15 minutes of my day kind of suck but everything after that feels so much better!

That's on the list! (Which I forgot to post when this started yesterday) A guide to translating what commentators say when talking about associate members at the World Cup (none of this applies to Andrew Leonard or Ian Bishop) docs.google.com/document/d/0...

Official ICC announcement! ICC.tv will be broadcasting three matches in Bahasa Indonesia, where the commentator is me! The matches are India vs Pakistan (if it happens) on 15 Feb, Australia vs Sri Lanka on 16 Feb, and India vs Netherlands on 18 Feb* *Half past midnight the next day AEDT time

I'm sure this is a funnier @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon for people who are not former primatologists who spent the morning looking at birds in the snow just to get the "I am watching an animal in a tree through binoculars" rush again.

My dog truly enjoyed the weather this morning.

I wasn't expecting the US to need 64 from 30 with 6 wickets in hand at this point. Honestly, it could be worse...

It's almost like maybe the US cricket team should have played more than 5 T20 international matches in 2025.

If anyone's interested, the US is playing India in the opening game of the cricket world cup and it's streaming for free! Jomboy is doing commentary with Liam Plunkett, who's a former English cricketer, and Adam Bannon, who's a US-based cricket fan. And the US has India 118-7 in the 17th over! 🏏🦅

I admit I have never seen guys ice fishing on the Charles

BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings It's a 2-1 ruling Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump) Minority: Douglas (Obama) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

City wouldn't clear a Comm Ave. bike lane, so some bicyclists showed up today with shovels www.universalhub.com/2026/city-wo... #Boston #snow

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

Erin I think your young eagle is young *eagles* - from this morning:

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

"Crisis patriotism mutes dissent and critique. The overwhelming imperative to save a nation demands that those who critique the nation stay silent until the nation is saved. Freedom work is dismissed as unimportant, deferred until “things are stable.”

I'm finally watching Twelfth Night from Shakespeare in the Park starring Lupita Nyong'o and I admit I wasn't expecting to be practicing Swahili listening comprehension!

ICE abducted someone in Roslindale today. Just yanked from their car and disappeared because that's what the Gestapo does. Thankfully people were there and hopefully this person will be identified and located.

Bhattacharya testified that he's taking this issue seriously, but I just spoke with a researcher who had completed all the screening and was disinvited from NIAID's council *today*. NIAID's council is set to run out of voting members in October. No grants can be funded without Council.

My newest research project has me reading articles in philosophy of science journals such as "Deviant interdisciplinarity as philosophical practice: prolegomena to deep intellectual history."

Today, an Avelo Airlines plane departed Mesa Gateway Airport in AZ, stopped in Harlingen, TX, and landed in Guatemala. This is the 4th deportation flight conducted by Avelo since the airline’s contract with ICE was scheduled to end on Jan. 27.

WOW: State leaders say NH Governor Kelly Ayotte lied about her knowledge of ICE's plan to build a giant human warehouse in the state. Documents obtained by @aclu-nh.bsky.social show the state government has known for weeks about the Merrimack facility bc ICE is actively pursuing legal approval.

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I got my other favorite Boston skyline view this morning. And hey - separated bike lanes on the Longfellow.

Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf

I'm very relieved!

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

ICE just released new detention statistics. As of January 25, 2026, ICE is detaining 70,766 people across the United States. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

And I got excited about the eagle...

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