That's it. I'm unemployed and my wife is on sabbatical. Let our academic rumspringa begin!

I'm crumping. Finished lab stuff around 1030. Mostly done sorting the office. Now need to box things and wipe everything down. But soooooooo tired.

It would be very good if there was a law that would put law enforcement officials in prison for 10+ years when they lie under oath. Nothing is more corrosive to a society than police corruption.

The air conditioning at the Delaney Hall concentration camp failed today, so now people are roasting inside as temperatures rise above 100 degrees. It's so hot they can't breathe.

Last day at UConn. And i still have so much wrapping up to do.

Oh, and by the way, Trump is using $1.6 million from national park pass fees to pay for the fireworks. Because we can't afford to use that money to hire rangers or fix up the parks. We need it to pollute the air and water.

Happy Canada Day! My wife got her citizenship certificate today. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Why the kids' didn't is a puzzle. But at least the wife got hers!

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.

Maybe Congress needs a multitasking mom?! #experience #congressneedsasocialworker #mom #congress #democraticprimary

Guess what transphobes? In your rush to protect kids from imaginary harm, you are subjecting them to actual harm of unnecessary genital exams.

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

I’m just a shitlib, but until the dems are willing to take on the concentrated power of capital and the mechanisms that led to it they’re just painting the titanic a different color. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

To this day, one of the most unbelievable facts we’ve ever published in @boltsmag.org: Over a 40-year period, *80* percent of death row convictions in Louisiana have ended up getting reversed.

The idea that only 9 unelected individuals are the final say for anything is antidemocratic. I don't want to expand by a couple of people. I want a pool of 30 or 40, publicly pull lots for the 9 that will hear a small set of cases, pull again for the next set of cases.

Four years after the Dobbs decision, pregnant people in states with total abortion bans are now nearly twice as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period.

Last day of my last workshop at UConn. The rest of this week and next I'll be wrapping what was @uconnmars.bsky.social with a few more sequencing runs and some fast as possible data analysis. Then I'm off. First on a big family roadtrip. Then, who knows what is next?

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

100%. Anyone paying close attention knows it. The insurrection that began in secret meetings in Washington in December 2020, some of them at the White House, never ended—it merely amended its methods. For now. But not for much longer.

@jimshaw.bsky.social I'm testing out myloasm and think I like it. But i wish you had your scripts for analyzing the datasets in the paper as vignettes in the documentation.

We are tired of doing all the work and then being told that our vote is a lock, we have no choice, and so you have to go run around chasing MAGA votes. We aren't the ones that hate Democratic volunteers. YOU DO.

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

PAXIS.app: What are the most illegal tactics used by ICE? 1. Forced home entry with an administrative warrant 2. Entering private spaces without consent 3. Racial profiling 4. Detaining people without suspicion 5. Coercing sign away rights Fight back against ICE: gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

"In some cases, the very same companies selling detection tools are also making apps that allow students to cheat, including by writing papers for them or rephrasing text written by others." Sylvester McMonkey McBean approves.

Or we could limit corporations ability to buy lawmakers.

What's the total cost for this trump boondoggle including now natl guard actingas security?

In this sense, I've always sort of hated the "standing on the shoulders of giants" trope in science. We are standing on a mountain of sand. Every grain holds the whole thing up. Thousands upon thousands of experiments, discoveries, reports, case studies, theses, etc all go into every "discovery"

Seth Moulton invested $250K in Oura in 2021. Oura's largest customer is the DOD—an agency he oversees in Congress. His investment could now be worth more than $5 million and will only keep growing. Call on him to release his financial disclosure now at edmarkey.com/disclose.

If you had 2 weeks to drive from northern Michigan to Calgary (via Winnipeg). What would you do in western ON, MB, and SK? We will be spending a few days in and around Winnipeg. And we'll do all the AB things after these 2 weeks.

This photo is of Betty Simmons, who was more than 100 yrs old when she was interviewed in 1937 in Beaumont, TX. She was married during slave times, and widowed, but was very happy that freedom came when it did because her enslavers were preparing to put her 3-yr old child to work in the fields.

War on diversity = what they think affirmative action is but just for white men.

Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

This is key. The only way the bullshit machines can reduce wages is if there are enough people remaining to curating the ai output. On its own ai is nothing. Without *your* knowledge all the output is gobblygook.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You’re not going to believe this, but the thieving prejudice machines are also sexist.

Anger over the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley is mounting in the small town of Senatobia, Mississippi. Hundreds took to the streets in protest and police tear-gassed a crowd outside the Walmart where an officer shot the infant. Officials are not releasing bodycam or security footage.

A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too

A new bill set to be introduced by the Carney government removes a provision in a previous bill that would have recognized that First Nations have a human right to clean drinking water www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Has anyone managed to get a national parks pass that doesn't have the ugly picture? Let's start prosecuting hatch act violations so our parks pass isn't ugly.

Join the Plant Computational Genomics Lab and the Institute for Systems Genomics @uconnresearch.bsky.social ! Currently seeking 2 full-time onsite research assistants, one of whom will be our Molecular Lab Manager. Apply by June 26th. 🌲 🌳 🧬 @uconneeb.bsky.social jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

The days of health insurance companies eating before our families do have GOT to end. We need Medicare for All.

Just in time for our adventure. Got my pretty new passport! I've been Canadian so long i needed a new one.

llms don't and can't love, hate, feel, care, think, imagine, dream, hope, fear, believe, reflect, aspire, wonder, empathize,... fix your your anthropomorphising language

They want to make buying a phone more tightly regulated than buying a gun.

So kids, please don't rely on AI for your papers and projects. It makes stuff up. Its hallucinations are not even internally consistent. And by the time it's done, I'll have been "married" to more guys that Elizabeth Taylor!

this regime is resegregating the biomedical research enterprise 🧪

Looking at tablet options for photo storage while traveling. Lenovo has some interesting tablets but they also have an ai summary at the top of each product page. Cause marketing copy was too long but ran out of editing budget?

They’re right to worry. Hegseth is clearly resegregating the military by race and sex.

This story has been consistently reported, but seems not to have really broken though - it’s ASTONISHING. An asylum policy that caters specifically and essentially exclusively to white people from a country in which they’re safe.