Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

Read the report here!

🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category. That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement. A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠 aspph.org/department-o...

I find age reveals of various media figures hilarious, mostly because it confirms to me that people will be guessing my age incorrectly until I die, like an Aes Sedai No, I will not be telling any of you how old I am

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

that rumen could fit a human

UC Davis continues to be the home of the superior Aggies www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

This is exhausting. But telling. Whenever you hear someone attacking feminists, you should know they’re attacking women and they’re too chickenshit to admit they’re attacking women.

Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases | Science

Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity. Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

Holding powerful men who have done evil accountable under the law is the way powerful men who have done evil should WANT us to treat them. Historically, enraged and wronged women have found ways to do worse.

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

CAN LLMs write about science? @science.org decided to find out, and they did it the curious, scientific way. They did an experiment. Love this thoughtful convo. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...

Honest to God, the horrors of the stuff aside, the absolute, intellectual bankruptcy of the supposed elites writing these emails is among the best boosts to self esteem I’ve ever had

the opposite of misogyny is the capacity to tolerate being influenced and changed by women, and to accept the conditions of interdependence and complexity and emotional reality

Mears’ book is great and I think we need to talk more about how entry into intellectually focused work is a durable escape route from gendered and sexualized exploitation through its provision of capital via symbolic, cognitive, and moral authority.

Excellent segment on US farming with @nickofferman.bsky.social on @thedailyshow.com . www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQRF...

I genuinely don't know if they're playing dumb, i think it's real for a lot of them. I've worked in male-dominated industries long enough to know that a lot of men hide their real reactionary colors until they think they can trust you

A person I'm on a discord on found this in the emails and I hasn't seen anyone else post it yet so I thought I'd share.

misogynist males are cognitively unsuited to lead

I was in medical school then, having already earned a 3.97 GPA in biomedical engineering. And the president of freaking Harvard said people like me were not suited for science. He still had a high-powered, prestigious career after that but tell me again about how cancel culture ruins men’s lives.

I predict there's going to be bloodshed over the Epstein files.

What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks. People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?

cluster headaches for the rest of his days

confirmed, it is a popcorn day

The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"

maybe she should have gone to college and law school with all that money

People are rightly saying that this is going to stigmatize neurodivergent folks unfairly, and this is true. However, to flip this on its head, being neurodivergent and a eugenicist should give you cause to sit down and look in a mirror and take stock of yourself. I'm looking at you, Elon Musk.

Here’s what is interesting about this answer: It is not a “no.” bsky.app/profile/just...

Even if he dies right now and his entire cabinet goes with him, to be replaced by a more sane and 'normal' choice, the damage is done. We've all seen what so many people either actively support or are comfortable enough with. The toothpaste doesn't go back in the tube.

Today sounds like one of those days where I should pop some popcorn before reading my timeline.

it's widely known that transphobic parents publicly brag about cutting their trans children off from friends and support systems especially by taking away their phones and isolating them from contact with outsiders, this anti-phone push is an attempt to make that the default condition of queer youth

people also still, for some reason, give this man legitimacy

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canadahealthwatch.ca... This article is a must read. “…analysis underweighted population growth and the rise of longer lifespans and chronic illness, but its conclusions froze the expansion of medical training for a generation” 1/6

A new California law will allow ranchers to compost dead livestock. Laura Snell @ucanr.edu and Kasey DeAtley @chicostate.bsky.social discuss their research to dispose of carcasses without attracting wolves, bears and coyotes www.buzzsprout.com/1837249/epis...

ahhhhh, edits

Those who believe "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" usually overestimate both what people will put up with, and their skill at math.

132 imaginary spiders valiantly died trying

Why is no one talking about the GOP effort to sneak a nationwide abortion ban into the CR?

I have noticed that an awful lot of people on Bluesky, including many women and many ostensibly liberal men, have been trained to think that "woman" is on the bottom of some kind of "marginalized identities pile" under most of, or in some cases all of, the other ones.

I might actually finish my to-be-submitted policy brief draft today! With that, I'd like to put a call out to policy professionals: who would like to read and offer commentary on a brief about a federal enteric methane mitigation strategy? My DMs are open. #scipol