"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

Everything else but also this. They’re comics. RIP Marjane Satrapi

Artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.

Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author of graphic novel 'Persepolis', dies aged 56 reut.rs/4vmUjOG

really want to be a professor of Some Bullshit at the university of heidelberg in the 19th century and just take 2 1/2 years off work because the doctor told me i need to rest my nerves and breathe mediterranean air

Yes, it is possible. And it's clearly desirable to many. But is it achievable? What would it take to bring it about? - Why have we failed in the past? - What new strategies do we we have to get us there? - & Are we willing to do the work? Most importantly; what will we each do *today*?

People say that modern social media is addictive, but they have no idea what fireworks and dancing went on in my brain when I clicked on this. Transported 25 years effortlessly.

Hey writers, editors, & anyone who uses Google workspace because there’s no other viable alternative - in addition to turning off Smart features, make sure you toggle off this new mess of nonsense hidden in the Admin settings.

PSA Also, JFC

I have often been critical of the leadership @aaas.org but they just took action on the new OMB rules that will politicize science, speaking out and notifying members. I hope all take the time to follow their advice, contact Congress, and most important, post a comment www.aaas.org/news/aaas-st...

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@raulpachecovega.bsky.social death is under investigation as there were reported signs of violence. Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega deserved so much better. I hope justice is served. Original spanish article: www.am.com.mx/leon/2026/06... English translation: www-am-com-mx.translate.goog/leon/2026/06...

CA you've got 3 hours to get that ballot to a dropbox or go to a polling station. If you haven't, it's now or never. We gotta get Nithya and Steyer into the runoffs!

LA voters: if you are dropping off your ballot today take it to a designated ballot box. Don’t drop in the mail. Your vote won’t be postmarked until tomorrow and won’t count, unless you walk it into a post office and ask a worker to stamp it today.

Look, I know I sound crazy, but WHY WOULD RUSSELL VOUGHT, mastermind behind Project 2025, WRITE THAT OMB CAN CANCEL ANY GRANT FOR ANY REASON IF THEY WEREN'T GOING TO DO EXACTLY THAT?! Mark my words: Agencies will send out blanket grant cancellation emails that will make 2025 look like child's play.

“Any person who keeps working is not a failure. They may not be great writers, but if they apply the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labour, they’ll eventually make some kind of career for themselves as writers.” — Ray Bradbury #WritingSky #AcademicSky

On one side is California’s richest town. On the other, a Bay Area community is struggling to be heard.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

Completely shocked and devastated. I've been following Dr. Pacheco-Vega since before I started graduate school. His posts on writing, productivity, and working to enjoy what we do as academics have kept me afloat. My thoughts are with his family and friends.

I never met Prof. Pacheco-Vega IRL & only knew him from social media. Over and over again, mostly junior scholars & people doing non-mainstream research said how kind he was. The outpouring of grief & love for him is striking tonight. In a biz full of smart people, his kindness distinguished him.

For non- Spanish speakers, this is announcement of the passing of Raúl Pacheco Vega. It doesn’t say when or what happened, but comments on his work and how generous he has been to colleagues not just at his home institution but around the world.

So shocked and sad to hear about Dr. Pacheco-Vega’s passing. As a biomed trainee who followed him on Twitter >a decade ago, his meticulously curated blog posts & threads helped me learn key fundamentals of rigorous cross-disciplinary scholarship & how to approach lit review as a research process.

If you haven't voted yet in CA and are planning to send in your ballot rather than vote in person, USE A DROP BOX - if you send via mail now there's a risk it doesn't get counted. Drop boxes are truly everywhere.

This administration is trying to destroy any remaining #science. These new OMB rules let politicians screen research for alignment with presidential policy & allow them to cancel hard-earned grants at anytime. This killing of scientific freedom is so reminiscent of Nazi Germany, it's terrifying.

Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪 What's the problem? arstechnica.com/science/2026... elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Excellent, concise summary of the threats of recent OMB proposal and suggested action items. DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENTS IS JULY 13, 2026 AT 11:59 PM EASTERN TIME elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Unless you're Bob Langer, probably the highest ROI thing you can do is pressure politically powerful players — e.g. universities, professional associations, organizations, institutions — to get involved by 1. submitting their own comment and 2. getting their gov affairs to lobby against this change

Just going to join with the many others saying: this is simple courage & humanity & whatever else you think about the race, Steyer deserves enormous credit for it.

Vought is trying to destroy American science as we know it. Here's what you can do to stop him: 👉 Visit our action center: zurl.co/NXVak 👉 Donate to Fuel the Fight for Science: zurl.co/PHtGH

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.

‘A lot of inflated promises’: Becerra won’t commit to California’s 2035 gas car sales ban

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

I was on the fence about Steyer (never for Becerra, just the billionaire thing) but today’s CARB‘s horrible Big Oil give away pushed me over the edge. Steyer may be a billionaire but at least he fucking cares about climate and we need someone who will reverse shit like this (Gov appoints CARB board)

While regulations.gov incorrectly lists this action as "closed for comments", you can submit your comments directly here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... My response is below, but don't feel that you need to draft anything nearly so long-winded. A short statement will also be very helpful.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

📚 Librarians (especially those involved in professional orgs): this also covers IMLS, and includes an explicit ban on using federal grants to attend conferences except where specifically approved.

Because much of what the OMB is proposing is illegal, Congress needs to know about it. Yes, even the conservative ones you think don't care-- they know how much their states benefit from federal science funding, and I promise you, they do in fact care. Contact them!

If you are a member of a scientific or educational society, please contact them and ask them what they are doing to fight this. They should be releasing statements, calls to action, explainers, talking points, or drafting letters for their members to sign.

Now, for the "good" news: these are still proposed changes! They have not yet gone into effect. The public comment period is now open, and will run through July 13. You can file a comment about this proposed rule changes here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Our federal science funding agencies were designed to support science that is vetted and driven by scientists with a Congressional mandate to be for the public good. The OMB's proposed changes would replace that system with one driven by partisan cronies and special interests. 15/n

Imagine moving across the country to do a PhD, only to lose funding. Imagine making a commitment to a tribal nation, nonprofit, or business, and being unable to deliver. Meanwhile, the already spent funds would basically be flushed down the toilet. That's what this would mean. 8/n

This rule also requires that grants must “...demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities.” All of this effectively puts politics over expertise, giving political appointees veto power over research that challenges, conflicts with, or doesn't follow the administration’s ideologies. 5/n

The biggest and most disruptive change proposed by the OMB would be to require senior political appointees to review every grant before it is awarded, blocking awards that “promote anti-American values," challenge binary views of sex, or otherwise don't align with the administration's values. 4/n

This is coming from the Office of Management and Budget, which "serves the President of the United States in overseeing the implementation of his vision across the Executive Branch." Their proposal would give political appointees a formal role in reviewing and approving research grants. 2/n

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

Doesn't fit into 240 characters, but since you asked: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/hey-californ...

Which is a follow-up to