Reminder about signal, devices with touch/face id etc. Passcode/password everything

Planning to film ICE? Wired has a guide for that: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

New MIRI Excesses Around Degenerates (MEAD) survey result! @sabrinapoulsen.bsky.social leads a paper announcing an IR excess around the (newly) discovered 0.95 Msun metal line white dwarf WD 0644+025! ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026arXi... 🔭 #astrosci #exoplanets

The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

Everything old being new again all at once is not a coincidence

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

The volume of data in Earth Science is wild!

One of the astounding aspects of Christian nationalism is how deeply embedded race is to the concept. I always come back to this finding: When asked if racial or religious diversity is more likely to hinder national unity, folks who embrace CN are more likely to pick racial diversity.

🔴⚫ i am so ready for Maul: Shadow Lord! 🔴⚫

Since 2020, electricity prices have increased by an average of 40 percent across the country. But the rise in costs hasn’t affected each type of user equally. An unusual disconnect is emerging between what regular people pay — and what data centers pay. https://wapo.st/49A1v25

Brown dwarfs are "failed stars" - they never got enough mass to burn hydrogen in their cores, or at least not enough to supply the energy they radiate away at their surface. But what happens if you add enough mass to a brown dwarf to push it over that threshold in mass? Does it become a star? 🔭 🧪 🧵

In a text message, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace” and that the world would not be secure until the U.S. controlled Greenland. Follow live updates: nyti.ms/45lkuLf

Someone should write something about clean energy installations and size because it’s a thing www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

You can't nest interactive controls on the web, but you can fake it 'till you make it. @piccalil.li let me ramble on about how to do exactly just that, because they're champs. #a11y piccalil.li/blog/accessi...

haven't lost my religion but Hildegard von Blingin' 😎 is always great 🎵🏰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oh6...

Greenlanders are used to bracing for whatever storms may come. Trump's threats are the latest blizzard. https://cnn.it/45DR76U

Here’s Bandcamp doing the right thing, if you need an example! consequence.net/2026/01/band...

Heising-Simons Foundation: New Fellowship Supports Scientists Accelerating Progress in Astronomical Instrumentation www.hsfoundation.org/news-stories...

The College Board is a fucking scam.

the headline is crazy but my favorite part of this story is even the police looking at Flock's claims and saying "uhhhh you guys are nuts and need to calm down" www.404media.co/police-unmas...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Telescope, a radio telescope is back online. The signal is back. 😀 #AreciboWow phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach #RadioAstronomy #Outreach

It's a good question I don't immediately have any answers for - #astrosky folks - any ideas? 🔭

If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

“Constelaciones y Supernovas" includes pieces from 22 women artists in the Arte Guenda Collective in Oaxaca, Mexico, presenting art and science made in collaboration with the UNAM Institute of Astronomy. Each piece is based on records of astronomical research from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey […].”

Thought it would be a good time to check in on this case: Marco Rubio buddy David Rivera, who was indicted 3 years ago for attempting to broker a deal for Maduro. www.politico.com/news/2022/12...

This year, for my mental health, I'm going to practice just letting people be wrong on the internet.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. is "going to run" Venezuela until a safe transition of power can take place and the U.S. will have a "partnership" with Venezuela's oil industry. https://to.pbs.org/4qAGkCs

what!?

From LSE… Who shapes instructional change in STEM departments? This study finds that tenure-track, teaching-focused faculty are influential across instructional domains—and especially within DEI networks—positioning them as key departmental change agents. www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

Trump is trying to steal the money importers have paid in illegal tariffs before SCOTUS rules the tariffs were illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

Newest memo demonstrating the claims of financial exigency can‘t be taken seriously drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1...

Speed Kills: Restricting low-speed e-bikes will lead to more dangerous streets The New Jersey Legislature is currently considering the most restrictive low-speed e-bike laws in the… https://betterblocksnj.org/2025/12/14/speed-kills-restricting-low-speed-e-bikes-will-lead-to-more-dangerous-streets/

Reporting on vaccine side effects is challenging, but important. A new study offers clues to how mRNA COVID vaccines can, in rare cases, cause a form of heart inflammation called myocarditis (a condition COVID itself can cause). By @laurenjyoung.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

He will make it up, just like he made up the lie that my team censored 22 million tweets. Except this time, he’ll be making up lies about people living outside of the US, pretending they are “linked to the CIA” —his usual bullshit trope, which has real consequences in some countries. He won’t care.

I have a joke about caesar but it's brutal

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. ...specifically this version #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice

#astroedu #citsci

On Linux, you have #! (hash-bang)🖥️ On Windows, you get flash bang💥 #dev #tech

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This year, the NSF funded 35% fewer grants in geoscience, with 25% less money. Meanwhile, the Office of the Director spent almost three times as much money as in a regular year. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...