The number of academics in the Epstein Files is staggering (and disappointing, to say the least), but not all that surprising. Some of these are one-off meetings or brief email exchanges. Some are years of continual activity, communication, and visits. Truly gross.

Jack Horner being in the Epstein files is not something I had on my bingo card for 2026.... Horner seemingly visited Epstein's ranch multiple times, including apparently with a student.

Two more students from Liam Ramos' school are now in ICE detention, joining their mother who was detained first. The school principal "said the boys cried when he told them what was happening and were frightened and asked to hold a school nurse’s hand when they walked into the Whipple Building."

Thread breaking down footage of federal agents disarming, beating, and THEN shooting a man multiple times. He had already been disarmed and then was shot multiple times. Even after he was still on the ground, agents shot at least five more times. This is murder. Again.

7 democrats made this bill pass. If they all voted “no” it would’ve failed 213-214.

Reminder that “Say her name” was developed specifically to call attention to murders of Black women

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3

New Collection Study Grants for students and postdocs to come visit the @burkemuseum.bsky.social! Applications due 12/15/25. www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

This article is a reminder that "abolish ICE" isn't just about the agents now in our streets, but is about a sprawling carceral system that must be dismantled completely. There must be consequences for politicians who try to spend a single dollar more on this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Please see below the ICE rapid response community network phone numbers for the Bay Area. Share widely.

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

Everything is awful, but at least there are dogs.

Only a couple more months for humans to invent the massive kaiju-fighting robots of Pacific Rim, which takes place in 2025. My optimism is waning.

Getting sick of the term “political violence” when a public figure closely aligned w/one ideology or other is a victim. ICE is also political violence. Armies are also political violence. Not sure of my point - just wish for a term that doesn’t immediately wall an act like this off from all the rest

THIS IS A F'ING 5 ALARM FIRE. #SaveUSScience www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

No money for emergency rescues but hundreds of millions for concentration camps…

I found a non-exhausted list of Indigenous radio stations that you can donate to in order to keep them afloat after the defunding If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)

I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly. Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent. You can sign up at the link below! www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

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.

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:

If you are not alarmed at the type of thing these people now feel 100% comfortable saying out loud that they would have been scared to type into a group chat 10 years ago for fear that anyone might ever see it, I don't know what to tell you.

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

We just had a political assassination in the United States last week. We CANNOT let this leave the news cycle and be forgotten.

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Proposed cut to NSF Biology budget is 70%. 70%. Seventy. Call your senators & reps nonstop. Give them numbers on NSF impact for state/district. tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFbyN... explain this will decimate the economy if their districts, especially if it has a major research univ. 🧪

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Trump's detailed vision for NSF's 2026 budget is not a pretty picture. www.science.org/content/arti...

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

JFC

The FY 2026 proposed NSF budget will gut basic science research in all areas and includes an overall budget reduction for NSF of more than 50%. The budget reflects a complete reorganization of NSF under the administration. To be very clear, THIS IS VERY BAD.

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

Hello, Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

"The Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus"

Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

Just imagine, folks, if you: a) busted your ass to make it to grad school b) developed a research program incredible enough to earn a F31, only to see it terminated b/c you are URM c) applied for a HHMI Hannah Gray, only to see the program canceled This is evil, hurtful, resegregation of science

The Trump regime has proposed redefining “harm” in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as directly injuring/killing an #animal and not as habitat modification/destruction. In fact, habitat loss is the largest cause of extinction. You can object by submitting a comment by May 17, 2025.

Do you ever just feel like the goat from the 2010s internet music videos?

Hello hive mind! Given the current state of *gestures wildly*, I’m looking for other sources than NSF who fund postdoc salaries through grants. Project could easily be categorized in anthro/archaeo, paleontology, geosci, environmental sci, or forensics. Any ideas welcome!

Hearing from sources that grant terminations are starting now, likely targeting grants aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science.... which congress explicitly asks NSF grants to do.

US-BORN US CITIZEN BEING HELD FOR ICE IN FLORIDA HIS FAMILY ALREADY PROVED CITIZENSHIP TO ICE DAYS AGO floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

It's agony. I am begging people to stop being fans of politicians.

The Alf Museum @alfpaleo.bsky.social is hiring a fossil preparator (aiming to begin in first half of June) -- info here: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

This. And as Chanda notes: We celebrate this genetic and muscular diversity...in MEN. www.scientificamerican.com/article/spor... This isn't about "protecting girls" or "fairness." It's about power, dominance, and exclusion.