Soon all our trees are going to be doing so much photosynthesis!

Again, this story isn’t going away!!!

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Do I know anyone here running the Boston Marathon on Monday? 💙💛🦄

A man who was deported after being released from a Massachusetts state prison wonders how the state can justify working in partnership with ICE. “The governor has the power to hold back. But they played a role to allow this to happen to me.”

The destruction of Gaza is so total that it changed the nature of echo in the ruinscape, and gunshot sounds are now easy to trace because nothing ricochets off walls www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I can’t believe I’m writing this, but today is one of the greatest moments in baseball history history. It’s the 19th anniversary of the Fenway Pizza Throw featuring Don Orsillo and the late Jerry Remy with a guy who wasted a piece of cheese pizza.

This is a horrific story.

"There is a paradox that catches in your throat. A growing freshwater lake—you would think that’s a good thing, a sign of ecological health, and a rebuke to drought. But here, it acts as a destroyer." - @africasacountry.bsky.social on Lake Naivasha's expansion to levels not seen since the 1930s.

"Including last week’s dismissals, 113 immigration judges out of more than 700 have been fired since January 2025."

Women messing with men’s heads du jour (or de la nuit): Judith beheads Holofernes in army encampment by moonlight. By Gillis Coignet of Antwerp, whose day was today.

If you're not getting teary at the beginning of the sold out Fleet game at the Boston Garden when 17,000 people here for the Fleet get things going, I don't believe you.

I wonder how many times we'll get to find out whether #MeToo really went too far.

Our geese are considerate pedestrians.

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I just woke up from a really immersive fieldwork dream where I was on the trail system at Taï National Park and then remembered that the NSF is no longer going to fund biological anthropology.

The Donald J. Trump administration appears to be abandoning its legal battle to limit how much the US National Institutes of Health can reimburse research institutions for the indirect costs of research, such as facility maintenance and laboratory utilities. #chemsky 🧪

it's a weird time to be from the US.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Science is good. We should fund it.

This reporting is extremely thorough and the allegations are horrific. Swalwell’s attorney is trying to undermine this woman’s credibility by saying she kept working for him afterward. It’s tired victim-blaming rhetoric. She was 21 when it started. I believe her and I hope she is okay.

There is now apparently a $5,000-15,000 bond for all Algerians, Ivorians, Senegalese, Tunisians, and Cape Verdeans traveling to the US (including, as far as they can tell, players, teams, officials).

Getting excited for the (sold out!) Fleet game at the TD Garden this weekend!!

What comes after the Garden? defector.com/what-comes-a...

I don't want to count chickens before they hatch but I think we might get leaves on our trees someday soon!

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Did Democrats do anything substantive today to keep a day like yesterday from happening again? I haven't been able to find any evidence but maybe I'm not looking in the right places?

For some reason, the article that is always selected in my zotero is "An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write" and I don't even remember saving this to my library and goodness it's aggressive.

"You rarely see things like this in immigration data, but it could not be more predictable right now: one immigrant dies in custody every six days."

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There are universities in Iran being bombed, the Weizmann Institute in Israel was bombed, Gaza universities destroyed, and US science and universities under authoritarian attack. I have friends and colleagues doing neuroscience in or from those places. Across countries, we have much in common.

To quote, well, @warren.senate.gov, "I do know that Congress has the power and the responsibility to end Trump's war. Enough. Call your representatives. And tell these Republicans to grow a backbone and do their damn jobs." I hope she's also taking her own advice as far as doing her damn job.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

Oh no it's actually snowing again

The Iran war is changing how millions of people cook — and what they eat

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

They couldn't connect with a serious border to bring a greater than 400mm zoom lenses in space?

So what if I'm crying about the moon

Yesterday was very auspicious, as we saw both Keytar Bear in Central Square, and also a gnome riding a frog in Davis Square.

On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵

At Dr. King's funeral, Harry Belafonte lost his cool with a NYT reporter: “this grievous moment was in part the result of a climate of hate & distortion that the New York Times & other papers had helped create.”It wasn’t just Southerners who laid the ground for King’s death—Northern papers had too.

Les frères Belinow, rabbins de #SaintDenis, ont apporté leur soutien au rassemblement de solidarité avec ⁦Bally Bagayoko, contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme. ― Shabbat shalom à eux et à tous les juifs de bonne volonté.

I ... am often confused about what Boston Public Schools are prioritizing.

Someone got a nice shot of the capo stand set up yesterday for @bostonisa.bsky.social. Trans people belong in sports and transphobes should kick rocks!

I was just accosted by a golden retriever with a stick who is dragging their person across the road so each new person walking can admire them, but the stick also has many small branches that are making the golden retriever snorfle and gag while they prance enthusiastically. Absurd animals.

used purple carrots in my matzo ball soup and now it looks like I made matzo ball soup in a wine broth.

when the Legacy finally win it is going to be so so good