literally anyone who has done abortion rights work in the last 30+ years could tell you that "destroy science by any means necessary" was the only thing on the bingo card

One day left in academia!

Executive Orders by The President of the United States are not law.

Okay this one is actually good.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

"In my experience, business women have too much masculine energy" just sounds like "I don't have enough money or charisma to make a woman with a career and accomplishments of her own pay attention to me, so I already know I can't land you, but I'm gonna project this as YOUR flaw for my ego."

I think the Trump administration can be thought of as a sort of nation-scale elder abuse exploitation architecture, given his particular psychology and obvious neurodegeneration The people he thinks are his allies are not his allies. He is being used and his info environment is manipulated.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Get in the car, we’re taking a look in a book

Because they are exploiting it.

Hear, hear! x.com/chrismurphyc...

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list - Politico politi.co/4mIbi9F

Part of why a bunch of Democrats and liberals more broadly are tripping up in the current moment is that they read coercion and shunning - “meanness” - as moral (“bad behavior”) and not also functional (a mechanism of power maintenance). Shunning is not automatically immoral. It’s quite useful.

y’all, after my contract ends this week I’ll finally have the time to make that post series about Shin Godzilla and policy and I am so excited

Think of this as equivalent to removing the merit system from government employment. Your tax dollars deployed to serve the goals of a personalist authoritarian system. All the talk about banning DEI because of merit shown to be nonsense when they also remove merit-based processes.

Trump’s political prosecutions require members of the public—specifically jurors—to go along with him. Every time Trump wants to prosecute one of his political enemies, the people should say: no. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As a woman, I laughed.

Absolutely. And in the case of our campus, there is also a huge push to replace unionized graduate worker labor with AI so we can continue increasing enrollments without spending more on grad workers and faculty, which is itself driven by the big cuts to federal grants that R1s depend on.

I have just learned what a medbed is and I want to lock everyone who believes in it in a room and not let them out until they’ve been forced to sit through at least an undergrad biology degree

We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us

My first adventure in donabe cooking

They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

Just Security is a reputable and measured source of natsec legal analysis if this FAQ weren't written by a military lawyer who teaches at Yale Law and published on JS I would write it off as the most paranoid possible take on next week's meeting but here we are www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...

Yes! Yes yes yes. Half the conversations I had at Climate Week were about how shitty & stupid climate funders are, and the central complaint is just this: they don't fund movement infrastructure. It's all one-off, campaign-based. Leaves nothing behind, builds nothing.

scenes from war-torn Portland

This is a very American approach to genocide.

State Dept's revoking visa of Colombia's president because he said in Spanish "That's why from here, from New York I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The US has gone from "walk softly and carry a big stick" to "react to every perceived slight like the most insecure guy in the room"

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Yes, this is important but I hope you all have also read what Timothy Snyder is saying this morning: snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...

This is peak “could have been an email”

This is an awesome initiative for increasing diversity and representation in STEM in a time when all three of these are taking significant blows from the administration. 2030stem.org

Hey! If we applied the same can do attitude to UNIVERSITIES as we do to late night, we could get them back to their mission of serving the public good too!

On Trump demands to UCLA, Chancellor Julio Frenk: -- Said he will not allow government "interference" in hires, admissions and what UCLA teaches or researches. -- Implied that UCLA Health could end gender-affirming hormonal medical care for minors. www.latimes.com/california/s... (1/3)

I have reported her to the Dental Board. Here is her public license information if you want to report her, too. She may think it's funny to cause deliberate harm to liberal patients, but I do not.

I am only just now catching up to the K-Pop Demon Hunters hype and “heels, nails, blade, mascara / fit check for my napalm era” is one of the hardest lyrics I’ve heard in a while

Wow, there’s a lot of scientific freelance work that’s basically “I’m a terrible student, write my paper for me” As if that wasn’t bad enough, on some of these websites, there are actual PhDs who will submit bids for these projects in such a way that they’re not even obscuring their identity.

I very strongly believe that one of the most dangerous things about our society is that most people neither understand what an actual expert is nor know how to identify a genuine expert

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The First Amendment is currently being treated like toilet paper

Morning walk

Apropos of nothing, inability to take criticism is a blaring red flag

Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

Trump just signed a terrifying order classifying anyone challenging his regime or espousing anti-MAGA worldviews as “domestic terrorists.” It directs National Joint Terrorism Task Force, DOJ & Treasury to investigate & prosecute individuals/nonprofits/funders & freeze assets.🧵

What about the victims whose lives were destroyed by Epstein and those he trafficked them to? No concern for their rights from Rep. Higgins?

Too close to home perhaps?

one of the funniest things to me is that despite the fact I have 15.3k followers on Bluesky I worry I’m actually quite bad at professional visibility

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

The law library coffee stand is open again and that’s how I know summer is, thankfully, over.