"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

If you / your lab / your institution rely on NIH funding, you need to read this and understand how this is one of many changes affecting you. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

fish are fun and games until you're expected to draw every scale and fin ray

A fun species of clingfish found in Japan, often clinging to brown algae or seaweed

Marine life in Japan

Given the news about erasing the history of slavery, this story is a must-read about why learning and studying history matters. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

When he died, Washington owned 123 slaves; the nine memorialized here were in his Philadelphia household.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home. So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET

Winter is tough 🦉 #sciart

Americans will do ANYTHING to avoid using the metric system. 😑

👍 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Advice for folks medically-dependent on electrical power library.planetree-sv.org/disasters/po...

218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.

This is Minneapolis: It’s -6°F (-21°C) & a dozen folks are keeping watch at elementary school drop off as federal agents circle all over our neighborhood, following some next level terrorizing they did in our neighborhood yesterday. Some Somali moms bring hot tea and sambusas for our volunteers.

Meet these wide-ranging cuties, the Snailfish! #LetsChangeThat

Good advice for anybody facing down this winter storm:

Will my car start tomorrow? We’re gonna find out 🤪

In case you needed to see something NOT terrible tonight, we millennials will get to relive Cool Runnings as grown-ups!

Yesterday, you all sent over 800 letters to House Reps calling on them to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.!!! Here's a heat map (since you dorks like data lol). You can do it every day and it takes literally 5 seconds after you've done it once: fight2win.standupforscience.net

#FishADay Nimbochromis venustus Giraffe Hap. A cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi; prefers deeper parts of the lake, where it plays dead and waits to snap up smaller, juvenile cichlids. youtu.be/-XyVW3HXu7Q

#philsky UB’s PPE group is hiring again! There are four open postdoc positions, all renewable for up to three years. First, we’re looking to hire two teaching fellows. This is only a 2-1 required teaching load and $70k salary. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/607...

NOAA Fisheries jobs are to be posted soon. New questions are now required to be answered by all applicants, see below www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...

🐟The unique geomorphology of rivers in the eastern #Himalaya has long intrigued geologists. 🐟Here, Sui et al. use a cold-adapted #fish genus as a biogeographic proxy to reconstruct the evolutionary history of one such river. 🐟 doi.org/10.1111/jse.... @wileyecology.bsky.social #EcoEvo #evolution

The Institute for Environmental Genomics at U Oklahoma (www.ou.edu/ieg) has 3 Research Scientists & 4-6 Postdoc openings (see details linked below). Contact [email protected] w/ questions.

Ok I need to spell this out more slowly, clearly: Greenland is Inuit land and nobody but Inuit should be getting to decide what happens to it

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

🌊💻 Our director Erika Jensen spoke to The Detroit News about how data centers could affect the #GreatLakes: https://ow.ly/OiQf50Y0QAS#GreatLakes The GLC recently passed resolutions calling for more study of energy/water use and strategies for reusing non-potable water.

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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

#ProjectAnimalia 777: Payara/vampire fish (Monocirrhus polyacanthus) Another aggressive Amazonian fish! But three feet long and comes with fangs. 😚 #sciart #dailyart #animalart #scientificillustration #medart #illustration #animalart #fishart #vampirefish #payara

I have been told that this undercover ICE agent tried to get observers to scan a QR code “for his website”. The QR code did not resolve to a link. DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS. This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it! Stay frosty, friends.

For some reason, children's publishers and TV producers are uninterested in my self-esteem-building animal character, the Try-lobite.

VERY important for US university professors because the semester is starting!!! If certain people come to your class asking for this information, you can send them away! (Ofc it is not guaranteed they will go away, but this is how it technically works.) #HigherEd #LFK #KU #Jayhawks

His name is DAVID EASTERWOOD and he’s not just “reportedly associated,” he’s the Acting Director of the ICE Field Office here. They want to be badass warrior spies with no mercy, no rules until they face the *tiniest* bit of accountability, then they cry like babies who got their juice box stolen.

My collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

New publication from my lab, led by @njorisfleck.bsky.social! 🧪 We explore the diversity and origins of a genus of tiny frogs 🐸 on an isolated mountain in north Madagascar. A cool case study of both in-situ diversification and repeated colonisation! vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1664...

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Five freshwater fishes that went extinct. How it happened. Why it matters. tnature.substack.com/p/five-cool-... #Extinction #Freshwater #Biodiversity #Conservation #EdgeEffects #NatureWriting

Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside. I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start! SquidFacts.net

The sea is such an incredible, vast space 🐟 #sciart

A study found that a widely used insecticide, chlorpyrifos, speeds up aging in a common lake fish by shortening the protective caps on its chromosomes, and leads to its premature death. https://scim.ag/49Hp7jU

if you’re in line to hate AI, STAY IN LINE!

Absolute garbage. Call your reps and tell them NO BODY CAMS, NO TRAINING - ICE CANNOT BE "REFORMED." ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES, THEN DEFUND AND ABOLISH ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS. Find your reps here: reps.fyi They are giving ICE *MORE* money with these garbage "reforms." More money to HURT US.

URGENT 🚨 Congress is considering a bill to permanently revoke the 20-year ban that protects 225,000 acres of Superior #NationalForest from risky copper mining — putting the Boundary Waters at great risk. The House could vote as soon as tomorrow, Jan. 21. Take action ➡️ bit.ly/4qupohg

The GLC will be hiring a 2026 miseagrant.bsky.social summer intern! This position will fund an undergraduate to work on aquatic invasive species projects relevant to the #GreatLakes, including the #GLAISBlitz. For more info and how to apply, visit: https://ow.ly/ZTSk50Y05Hv