I’ll tell you this. A favorite campus dining spot closed last semester, with almost no notice. It’s been replaced by a fully automated kiosk. The kids are pissed. Asking all the right questions about labor and human contact and sociality. Some of the kids are alright.

New study finds that a short game teaching players how to spot manipulation techniques common in vaccine misinformation made them better at recognizing false claims and more cautious about what they shared online. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 🚀 the Voyager Declaration has LAUNCHED. NASA employees join a growing rebellion against Trump’s anti-science, anti-American agenda. 🧵(1/4)

Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled. Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.

Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.

This is not the act of a legitimate government.

One of the most beautiful pictures of Jupiter ever taken. Credits: NASA

Climate policy that ignores mental health is incomplete. Extreme heat drives anxiety, worsens depression, and puts the most vulnerable at risk—yet barely gets a mention in preparedness plans. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

Finished my last ever exam of undergrad and then heard that our lab just lost a major EPA grant…too many emotions today.

Are you interested in writing for the McClintock Letters, but aren't sure where to start? Join us for an Op-Ed workshop led by author and NYT reporter and editor Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social this Wednesday, May 7th at 4pm ET. Register here to attend on Zoom: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

this is the bad place 😭

Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday? We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.

Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists https://go.nature.com/4koFGpq

FOUR DAYS until we STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! ⬇️☀️📣 WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7th?

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

Huge kudos to @standupforscience.bsky.social for many reasons, including that the DC event will have "accessible restroom facilities, seating areas, and ASL interpretation throughout the event." Thank you to all the amazing organizers and all putting in time to fight for science!

Just saying.

A google sheet that is keeping track of graduate admissions freezes and reductions. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this information, but this is bad. This will do significant damage to the STEM training and future workforce. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

An unverified list of REU & similar summer research cancellations. About a week ago, I posted on Bluesky about 1 program w/o identifying (it's on this list). Not as long as I thought it would be and I have a few students who have offers for this summer so far. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

He nails it.

So incredibly heartened by my colleagues who are fighting like hell for a world where people have access to the arts and humanities, not because it serves STEM, but because this is about nourishing our humanity

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

khan academy has a helpful video on sig figs!

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

manifesting this… #standupforscience2025

[Billy Bob Thornton voice] it’s not that no one wants to read anymore, it’s that no one wants to read anything written by a robot with a giant stick up its ass. No one e’er wanted ‘at. You wanna hire,, WALL-EE to write your fuckin posts about both sides a climut change, be mah fuckin’ guest

If you care about science & higher ed in America right now, your world has changed. We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose. Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

If my cat gets avian flu I will John Wick.

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

3 cheers for advocates! As we realize that scientists need to do more to unpack the value of science, we need to ... ... stop side-eying scientists who write in lay terms ... stop wishing that scientists would "just science" ... stop belittling scientists who meet the public where they are

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

i'm glad my free will woke up and i realized I can just teach myself how to advocate for science in face of everything coming down the pike rn www.agu.org/share-and-ad... www.ucsusa.org/science-netw... #SciPol #SciComm #AGU #NSF #NIH

not surprised. can someone’s mom volunteer to throw a slipper (or two) at these idiots?

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

i’d like to personally thank all 17 seasons of drag race for keeping me sane in these trying times

While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.

welp

i went on instagram for TWO seconds and was bombarded by the most horrendous reels...tf is wrong with that app

Shoutout @dereklowe.bsky.social for keeping me informed and sane!! #NSF #NIH #ScienceCommunication www.science.org/content/blog...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I've assembled a team of the most horrible perverts and criminals you've ever seen and we're going to fix this country

“the vibes have shifted” is passive voice. “tech oligarchs made deliberate changes to social media algorithms which altered the way most people perceive reality in a successful attempt to engineer business-favorable outcomes” is more EW WOKE CRINGE but it’s also direct, accurate, and meaningful