Jasmine Clark will become the first Black woman with a science Ph.D. to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. https://scim.ag/4dDZe6P

Got my Bluesky feed displayed live on my 40 year old Apple IIc by wiring it directly to the server running the #indietechfeed and configuring the computer as a terminal!

This is, I think, the hardest hitting campaign launch I've ever seen in my life. youtu.be/rYE10gacxiE

I've been slowly getting in shape, but I don't like fitness tracking apps and I kinda hate the gym. So, I've using #Obsidian to stay somewhat organized. And... I accidentally built a fitness tracker. So, here's a fitness tracker for people who hate fitness trackers. github.com/ryneches/obs...

New version of Ratty is out! 🎉🧀 🐀 Ratty — A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics. 💯 Now supports SSH-friendly object payloads, transform control and keyboard scrollback navigation! 🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/orhun/ratty #rustlang #ratty

As always - @firefoxx66.bsky.social is on the case for phylogenentics of emerging pathogens ...

I bought I car! It looks (and is) tiny, but thanks to clever design and an EV powertrain, it's very comfy even for my 6'3" (190cm) self. I'm still going to be commuting by train, bike and foot, but now I can go exploring on the weekends. Also... access to Costco unlocked!

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

These incredible Buff Tip Moths blend in so well with branches that you might mistake them for sticks. Nature's masters of disguise are truly fascinating!

This is what a timelapse of sleeping seals looks like. Seals can hold their breath for up to 19 minutes and even nap underwater. While sleeping, they sink and periodically swim to the surface to breathe. Original post

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

New reporting on what has happened to science under the Trump administration and HHS leadership, building on publicly available NIH grants data. Take-away: across-the-board cuts are reducing our capacity to discover & serve. Out today, via @pratik-p.bsky.social 🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The thing James Cameron did with dogs always knowing who the Terminators were was a warning.

A reminder: ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of energy in their fuel. EVs are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain making it 3-4x more efficient.

🚨 H.R. 261 would remove oversight and risk harm to our National Marine Sanctuaries. Don't let Big Tech undermine our marine protected areas. Call your Rep today: Say NO to H.R. 261! 🐚🐋 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

This is outrageous, and (though it was completely obvious he should never have held this spot), Vinay Prasad needs to go. This vaccine candidate deserves review, not ideologically motivated rejection. Lives are at stake. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

How do bacterial pangenomes evolve, what controls their dynamics, why do they exist? Fitting a mechanistic model to 450 species from allthebacteria.org suggesting fast vs slow gene exchange (i.e. amount of MGEs) is a major differentiating factor, correlated with phylogeny rather than lifestyle

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny b) improving representation of the Global South in public data www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread 1/n)

Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition. This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.

In a long-form piece, I address recent claims by the Editor-in-Chief of @science.org that "quiet" insiders rather than "heated" activists should be credited for passage of top-line budget numbers for science and medical research. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/science-ad...

Every time. It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines. futurism.com/advanced-tra...

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Please somebody, tell me how. How can this be real life?

Labor leaders are warming to the idea of nationwide General Strike on May 1st. How Minnesota & Jan 30th shutdown changed everything paydayreport.com/labor-leader...

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Spanberger is a moderate Democrat who used to work for the C.I.-fucking-A. It should put the actions of Schumer and Jeffries into perspective for everyone. Are they Republicans? Because they sure act like it. They need to get the fuck out.

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Watch this video. Share it far and wide. Shout it from the rooftops. Because Alec Watson, who runs the Technology Connections channel, just found the best way to talk about what we are all facing right now.

A lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

Minnesotans don’t want ICE to abduct our neighbors a little differently. We want all of it to stop. And we’ll keep doing everything we can to make that happen. If you’re outside of the state, you should too.

As far as I know, Tom Suozzi here still does not have a primary challenger in his district (NY-3 on Long Island). The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.

They really have no fucking idea what is coming. No fucking idea.

Linux folks, now would be a good time to step up and make yourself available. Escaping from the Apple ecosystem is HARD. It's less hard when the person helping you is patient. It's time to #BoycottApple.

Well, I have been hooked on Apple products for many many many years. No longer. I am going to start figuring out how to detach myself from them. #BoycottApple

To those American academics out there who have chosen to remain silent/mostly silent about the horror going on in the USA these days at every corner of the federal government, please start speaking out and fighting back.

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I would just like to say that it's 2026, and @nature.com is still sending me manuscripts to review that have source code pasted into Word documents. Cool manuscripts, yes, but I am so, so tired that this is still where we're at as a community.

Good morning. What a deeply embarrassing day to be a US citizen, on so many levels.

It will take time (especially as an Apple user) make the technology and other products I own as independent from and non-reliant on American products as possible, but I'm finally getting started trying to do so. Recent events have been an impetus. This website is helpful: european-alternatives.eu

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I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

UPDATE: The database has been updated and now when anyone looks up this particular asteroid, my name is attached to it. Try it for yourself! ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_l...

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.