I don’t want this to get lost in the conversation - the light blue Puerto Rican flag is our original flag. It was designed to match the light blue in Cuba’s flag. This is the flag that was banned. Yes, it has been adopted as a symbol of independence, but that’s not its only history.

So many errors and misconceptions are running around as facts on this site. I’m begging people to talk to an actual Puerto Rican

No Kings includes Draft Kings

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

We don't have to live like this.

WE WON!!!! The Penn State Graduate Student Union is now the second largest public sector union in Pennsylvania!!!!

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Windows 98 Plus! - Underwater

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Trans people are worth protecting. Not because we are amazing people (although we are) or because we offer a great deal to society (although we do) or because we are fine as hell (we are). We are worth protecting because we are HUMAN BEINGS, and it’s amazing how often that simple fact is forgotten.

Those of us in STEM must vocally affirm that the humanities are our allies, and no department is expendable. Arguing we can survive by cutting whole disciplines isn’t just inhumane, it’s nonsensical. The humanities tell us why we’re here in the first place, and what to do about it! This isn’t hard!

Managed to lasso this stunning Puerto Rican blue-tailed ameiva (Pholidoscelis wetmorei) yesterday! 🦎💙

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”

I've been thinking something like this for a few months now. We will fight, we will resist, etc. But we will also not live the lives we picked out and planned on. They're not available anymore.

6 high priests in robes cant authorize black bagging people off the street. this is illegal i do not care what they say.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

I am at the war on California. I’m at the war on Iran. I’m at the combo war on California and Iran.

[Exit King.]

Let your empathy radicalize you

For non-scientists: the funding rate is somewhere between 7% to ~25% (rare) for NIH or NSF grants, depending on where you are applying. Grants are reviewed by a panel of peers who read the grants, score them, then debate the ratings for 1-2 days to rank them. It is INCREDIBLY competitive already.

I saw the queen!!!

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

They should let me into the conclave.

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

SEEMS BAD!!!

This got me to dig up a clip from 2017, one of the last live shows they ever did. Still can’t believe I really got to see them. It was electric.

So many people got news their grants were revoked yesterday (another round of revocations). The people we pay to represent us are just fleecing us more than ever, disappearing our tax dollars while destroying the institutions we pay for.

13. Full citation for the paper: Poulton Kamakura, Renata, Jin Bai, Vallari Sheel, and Madhusudan Katti. 2024. “ Biodiversity is Not a Luxury: Unpacking Wealth and Power to Accommodate the Complexity of Urban Biodiversity.” Ecosphere 15(11): e70049. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

NEW: In a major move, the Trump administration is aiming to redefine what it means to "harm" an endangered species The regulatory rollback opens the door to more logging, mining, oil & gas drilling, home construction and other ecologically damaging ventures www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

It's worth watching Sen. Van Hollen's video. The VP of El Salvador wouldn't even give him proof of life or a timeframe when he could return and visit with Abrego Garcia.

ZOOM DOWN!! ZOOM DOWN!!

ZOOM IS DOWN WE ARE FREE

The comment underlined the irony of Silicon Valley’s increasingly cozy relationship with the Trump administration, which has cut federal science funding and defied scientific consensus. “It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast,” Rogen continued.

At least VISAS REVOKED is the top headline, on top of “known racist brings racism tour to Penn State”

De-extinction is Mars colonization for biology nerds. Sorry but it is.

Trump continues disappearing grad students too

Flanked by cuatros and congas, Bad Bunny wields the power of Puerto Rico in a joyous and defiant Tiny Desk.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Just published! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 Graduate student perspectives in transdisciplinary research and education link.springer.com/article/10.1... From the Landscape U program at PSU - we reflect on our experiences developing transdisciplinary research and critical methodologies we’d like to integrate in the future.

Every country should structure its legal and regulatory systems as a series of traps that guarantee someone like Elon Musk would end up in prison before he ever got rich

The appeasing behavior of elite Democrats like Schumer, universities like Columbia and Yale, and many people with influence is a catastrophic error. We have a small window to prevent the worst from happening through unrelenting refusal in every corner of society to accept this.

Trump, Musk, Vance, Vought, etc are systematically destroying: 1. Scientific research in the United States. 2. The talent pipeline for this research. 3. The university system itself. 4. The careers of thousands of people like Dr. Minor For what? Politics? Resentment? Thiel? Putin? Thread:

just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not