I OFFICIALLY CALL BLUESKY USERS TO DO A MUTUAL AID POSTER'S STRIKE. No content except mutual aid. Flood the site with the people Jay would love to forget she is personally killing. And nothing else. #StrikeForMutualAid

Hi chemistry/biology friends, does anyone have a link to resources for writing effective alt text for organic mechanisms and/or biomolecular structures? 🧪

Say it with me The 👏 dems 👏 are 👏 part 👏 of 👏 the 👏 problem

Do you believe they're Nazis trying to genocide trans people yet? Because they're Nazis trying to genocide trans people

If y'all don't see me at some conferences this year... it's because this has been YEARS in the making. Trans people aren't safe here. PLEASE stand up--personally and professionally (lookin' at you, academics)--for the trans people in your life.

If y'all don't see me at some conferences this year... it's because this has been YEARS in the making. Trans people aren't safe here. PLEASE stand up--personally and professionally (lookin' at you, academics)--for the trans people in your life.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

NMRSky! Is there any way to indicate multiple peak assignments for a single spin system (I.e., exchange where two peaks for one amide are visible) in a BMRB deposition? @nmr900.bsky.social Thanks!

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

hey I think this is when trans roundups start like pretty damn soon 🧵 www.stlpr.org/government-p...

Flipping rapidly back and forth between heartbreak and fury

Hi Bluesky peeps. Shortly after moving cross-country and starting my new job, our eBikes (how I commute to work) were stolen. If you're able, please consider helping me and my husband @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social recover financially, or share this post. Thank you 🫂 gofund.me/69aee7e9

Hey friends. I hate that I have to ask but please consider helping my husband @idpemery.bsky.social and I recover financially from bike theft, medical costs, + becoming internal refugees. Thank you so much in advance to everyone who is able to support us or share. <3 gofund.me/26feb2bd

Hi Bluesky peeps. Shortly after moving cross-country and starting my new job, our eBikes (how I commute to work) were stolen. If you're able, please consider helping me and my husband @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social recover financially, or share this post. Thank you 🫂 gofund.me/69aee7e9

last person out the door at the Department of Education needs to rm -rf * the student loan database, please

Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment

violent misogyny is a prerequisite belief for fascism and I just am begging anyone who doesn't study feminism, gender, child and domestic abuse, etc, to please just believe us when we say domestic and sexual violence is how they learn to dodge accountability to enact institutional violence later

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell, 1984

hey my husband and I are both internal trans refugees and I was threatened/harrassed by one of my neighbors again we have decided we urgently need to up our security but are really struggling to afford it my venmo is @AlexPetrovnia and we need $125 for security upgrades to our home #MutualAid

we're doing explicit morality policy again www.newsweek.com/city-shuts-d...

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

I wrote some spice for this "holiday" and it would mean a lot if you'd read it. :) This link is unpaywalled. aninjusticemag.com/the-devils-b...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

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Until now, NIH Loan Repayment Program awards have seemed to escape scrutiny, possibly because they're small and relatively obscure, even if they make a huge positive impact on PIs. But then I got this just now. I have 9 days to re-write my application. I'm out on holiday for 7 of them cool cool

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Sen. Alex Padilla, the first Latino to represent California in the Senate, was assaulted and dragged out of Kristi Noem's press conference before being forced to the ground, cuffed and briefly detained. All completely illegal, all completely racist, all very much happening.

AP footage of Senator Alex Padilla being physically removed from Kristi Noem's press conference about the LA @schiff.senate.gov @congresstran.bsky.social Thank you, Senator @padilla.senate.gov

Quick vibe check at the NIH, per a staffer there: "We have lost so many people: we have no comms, no HR, no acquisitions, no one to do travel or purchasing. So many people have left that there are chains of email bounces..."

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

The brain drain will be when scientists are forced into other careers/jobs so that they can keep paying the bills. They will never return. There aren't enough science jobs in other countries to absorb even a fraction of those laid off.

Superstars/Nobel winners will get job offers from everywhere. They do anyway. We should be focused on the average student, postdoc and lab tech whose life is going to be turned upside down by all of this. They have nowhere to go. Let's write stories about that.

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

👇This database got me through my PhD. It is THE critical resource for fly researchers everywhere.

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

nah bc actually, as a literal trans biologist, medical transition changes trans people's sex and not recognizing this harms us medically also the "binary gender model" is, quite literally, white supremacist propaganda from "social darwinists" "sex" is not binary in humans

🚨 (Easy) action alert! Please read and SHARE this open letter to say: "This new EO weaponizes language about science reform, and we do not stand for it." Especially important for #metascience folks to do so. I'm grateful for @briannosek.bsky.social's and others' leadership as early signatories.

Now published! Big congrats to first author @gginell.bsky.social We are actively working improving/updating various aspects of FINCHES; don't hesitate to reach out if you run into issues, have questions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

antifascism is hands down the worst group project i've ever been assigned

Probably long past time to do a proper introduction post! So much to say, but I am a queer writer, scientist, singer, cat herder, gardener, organizer, poet, politics yapper, data analyst, and almost certainly a bunch more I'm forgetting! I contain multitudes. I am definitionally indefineable. 🧵

The Williams Institute of UCLA just released a report (linked below) about trans refugees in the US. Sit with these numbers and the people behind them. Trans people in the US are in crisis. We are fleeing in astronomical numbers for our safety. We are terrfied for our lives Please don't look away

Anyone have a lead on replacement syringes for Malvern VP-ITC instruments? They no longer sell them, and they want me to upgrade to the PEAQ system. Unfortunately, we have a PEAQ-ITC, and it doesn't work with the concentrations needed for nanoparticle experiments. #chemsky #biophysics #ITC

Normally I’d say “don’t give into imposter syndrome” but when you’re literally THE health secretary I’d say step the fuck down before you kill any more people

I think a lot about an interview I saw once with one of the oldest people still living in a full iron lung from polio paralysis. He was talking about how he can no longer source parts for it because no one produces iron lungs anymore. He said that in and of itself was a "miracle of medicine". 💔

DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds? RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?