The mother does all the work of raising the daughter. The father sometimes shows up. The thank-yous are, "I want to thank my mom for.... ALL THE THINGS. And I thank my dad for showing up today."

Taking a break from retrofitting grab bars in the bathroom for a family member to remind people: Most of us are only temporarily physically abled. If you can: Install a ramp + landing at your entrance. Install grab bars where needed. Install accessibility features in your kitchen.

There are thousands of problems with the US for-profit healthcare system, not least is healthcare should never be a for-profit business in the first place. (I’ll block you if you argue this point). A rant in several parts.+

What do people think of the #AAS #DPS bylaws amendments? I haven’t kept a close eye on these bylaws, so I’m uninformed.

This is why it is essential that we remain peaceful at all our protests, especially next week June 14 at our 1600 planned #NoKings rallies Do not give these motherfuckers a reason to use violence against us

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

I’ve been laughed at and yelled at multiple times because I’ve said we should never rely on companies that are so powerful that they don’t care if they lose their space exploration contracts. <points to all the things going on in real time>

I'm sitting, masked, in the airport. Almost nobody else is masked, of course. A lot of people are coughing, sneezing, etc. Why is it socially acceptable to publicly, loudly cough, sneeze, otherwise spread your germs, but not socially acceptable to fart or burp, neither of which spreads illnesses?

The main planetary science meetings institution for the past ~40 years has decided to unilaterally and without notice delete abstracts from its repositories. The abstracts of mine that seem to have been deleted are all Equity, Justice, Accessibility, and Inclusion related.

One reason fascists get footholds is understanding threats to fascism more than we appreciate them as the things that keep us free. They go after them because they know they’re more than places to borrow books. If you wanna nerd out on the history of libraries here’s my fave dude. #protectlibraries

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

Remember those piece of shit private security guards who violently dragged a woman out of a GOP town hall in Idaho back in February? They’ve finally been charged.

in a nutshell, AI has zero chance at eradicating disease, because we know what's involved in actually eradicating some of them, and the rate-limiting steps are not compute-bound disease eradication implies solution of the 'last mile' problem at a global scale

BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.

Note that the NIH Payment Management System doesn't mange only NIH-funded payments. I know from personal experience that some NASA centers use the system.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

VICTORY: A federal court just BLOCKED the Trump admin’s attempt to bring back the cruel Remain in Mexico policy. The Court agreed with @immdef.bsky.social: it endangers asylum seekers + violates their right to legal counsel. 📣 Full statement: tinyurl.com/apr17-2025

They don't care what they break as long as they break. The goal is to keep our responses divided. Those who care about democracy outnumber fascists, but it's impossible to be everywhere at once. We have to trust each other. Do the things you're good at and let others do the things they're good at.

US citizen detained and interrogated for three hours at the border mondoweiss.net/2025/04/my-e...

"Upon review of the government’s motion, the court denies...an emergency stay pending appeal... The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature...[W]e shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision."

Did you know... From 1977 to 2020 there were only 28 cases of laryngeal burn from ingestion of hot food or liquid reported in the medical literature? Of those 28, two were fatal. If I go to a doctor, I might be case number 29 (of course, there might have been more since, I didn't bother to check).

It's not just anti-globalism protectionism. US consumers don't want them either. Auto mfrs have manipulated the clean air standards so the largest autos are least regulated & most profitable. The growth in truck size is not (just) a market demand issue. It's also a market manipulation issue.

I missed recent lab work (I love astrochemistry) that finds ways other than life to produce DMS. HT @planetdr.bsky.social ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....

The best thread on this subject I've seen so far. Sigh. Why do we have to keep going through this? If I ever had scientific hints of life on another planet, the last thing I would do is publish before I had all my peers review it and tell me why I was silly for even thinking it was a hint of life.

What's your favorite (or least) example of "heat vision" or "IR vision" in popular media? I'm thinking of things like Predator, etc.

I just did the, "Where are my glasses...where the heck are they. dammit. Oh. They're on my face." Sigh. Just put me in the compost pile now.

I'm not a huge fan of space tourism. It doesn't bring any money to science, so I find it recreation for the rich and just don't care about it. But remember when Bill Shatner went on his little boondoggle? I don't remember people calling it a stunt then. What's the difference, I wonder. 🤔

So, now... If you buy a Chinese-built and Chinese-assembled MacBook, you won't pay the dumpster tax. But if you buy a US-built computer with non-US components (impossible not to), then you'll pay the dumpster fire tax. Great for bringing industry back to the US? What a joke.

NASA forced the firing of fantastic JPL employee, Neela Rajendra today. And JPL hardly waited more than a few minutes to erase her from their records. This timeline fucking sucks.

Because of rising costs and uncertainty regarding some of my contracts, I was unable to finish my office this past winter. So it’s currently in this state. Two weeks ago it was below 20 ºF in my office in the morning. Today the temperature reached 94 ºF. This summer is going to be fun.

Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving. Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.

You're playing a board+tiles word game with someone and have a bingo worth 84 points. But you're already ahead by 30-ish points. This player's no slouch, you've just been getting lucky. The question is: do you play the bingo or go for a more even game? Asking for a friend.

Here's the webpage put up by the office of Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for people to notify her office if they're havig problems dealing with Social Security. Every state AG's office could do this. Might help. www.azag.gov/socialsecurity

A Black man won the presidency and they decided to burn the entire country to the ground so it won’t be something worth winning anymore.

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

If you’re a scientist whose funding has recently been cut or impacted, I would love to interview you and amplify your work! Hoping to release our first two podcast episodes next week. Please share widely!

Many medical supplies are manufactured outside of the US. I would buy additional KN95, N95 and KF94 masks now, as well as any medical supplies you regularly rely on. Even basics like bandages, Aquaphor, medicated lotion and pimple patches. Order that stuff asap.

Back up your data and put that backup offline, somewhere safe. They're coming for all knowledge.

oh god we've been talking about 401ks but the college funds jfc

It's got to be wildly bad for the Chamber of Commerce to complain to a conservative government.

The death of due process is the most egregious assault on human rights protections in any democracy. Without it, democracy simply does not exist. Call your senators, call your reps. Call the governor, call your HOA for all I care, but please make noise for the people they're trying to disappear.

Partly because of climate change, home insurance rates are set to keep rising in the US. Tariffs stand to make that worse -- jacking up the cost of materials needed to repair a storm-damaged roof or fix a flooded basement. By @leslieatlarge.bsky.social [gift link]

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

I'm afraid your cost to get a new-to-you used vehicle is going back up after falling for most of the past two years. It's still low compared to the wildness of post-covid-shutdown, but it's going to start climbing again as these tariff-cum-taxes start hitting.

I think this Infinite Monkey Cage episode is relevant to the foolishness in the headlines today. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Sotomayor says the Trump DOJ's position is that it can ship off citizens and immigrants alike to El Salvador then detain them indefinitely without judicial review. "History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise."