“… we are all constantly being bombarded with messages about what bodies, families, sexuality, and health should look like. The American Eagle jeans campaign is but one example of how oppressive beliefs can be so normalized.” - @sayantani.bsky.social #tlskychat

In an #OpEd, narrative medicine scholar @sayantani.bsky.social breaks down how the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle campaign controversy relates to medicine. www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/...

“The scientific community can and must challenge pseudoscientific justifications for hate, racism and bias.” Thank you @medpage @gfriedman for inviting me to comment on the viral TikTok I made on eugenics and the American Eagle Jean campaign. www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/....

Cover Reveal! It’s nice to see a new title by @sayantani.bsky.social!

🚨ITS COVER REVEAL TIME 🚨 A stolen ruby! A queenly sword! A museum heist! A chase across New York City! Immigrant kids getting the job done! THEFT OF THE RUBY LOTUS 🪷 coming April 2026 available for preorder now!

So excited to see The Serpents Secret featured in episode 1 of We Were Liars by the ever amazing (and style icon!) 😍🤩@elockhartbooks.bsky.social @primevideo.bsky.social

Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

We are disappointed for Texas teens that Tx House just passed HB3225. This would restrict Tx teenagers from using adult books in the library, including classic novels. Pregnant teens can't access books on childbirth. 250 years of libraries in this country without age restrictions until now. Scary.

To quote @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social among many: if we can free one, we can free them all.

Children pay the highest price in war and violence. #ForEveryChild, peace and protection.

Dr. Carla Hayden has done more for literacy and readers, has gotten more books into kids' hands and onto their home bookshelves than you can even imagine. Make calls, please. Demand that she be allowed to finish her ten-year term next year. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Mehmet Oz channeling his eugenic ancestors. The installation in this photo was set up at a "Fitter Families" contest in 1926, and draws the same explicit connections between health, the nation and patriotism that Mehmet does here. Have a read through what it says. Source: Eugenics Archive.

It's nice to see elected representatives visiting their constituents who have been detained by ICE but may I respectfully suggest university presidents consider doing the same

North Dakota! Censorship bill SB 2307 passed in the legislature so now we need to focus on pressuring the Governor to veto www.righttoreadnd.org/vetosb2307

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

NEW: Trump said government cuts wouldn’t affect public safety. But staffing changes at the Forest Service have weakened an already strained firefighting force by hitting support staff who play crucial roles in preventing and battling blazes.

I don’t think people are paying enough attention to the fact that the North Carolina court of appeals just ruled that 65,000 votes don’t count, and that the Republican Supreme Court candidate who lost actually won. This will be appealed, but make no mistake: they’re trying to steal this election.

Columbia Campus Occupation Could Have Ended Without Police, Report Says www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/n...

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Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!

Boosting: if you use a public library in the US and use Libby, Hoopla, or interlibrary loan, or have family and friends who do- that funding may be gone as IMLS is dismantled by DOGE. 🗃️

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do. Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

Disruption is all they seem to understand—so that’s exactly what they’re getting. For 14 hours, @booker.senate.gov has been on the Senate floor, speaking truth within the rules. This cannot be business as usual when our democracy’s on the line. Thank you, senator.

Today! FL folks, stop in to @thelynxbooks.bsky.social and ask for a FREE copy of -On Tyranny -Blueprint for Revolution -On Disinformation -Big Dirty Money Not in FL? Order and get 10% off all week. Fight the fools. ❤️👊

Senator Booker is still going 👊🇺🇸🔥 www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock on boards of trustees: “Who actually runs Columbia University?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for 17 hours and 21 minutes. The record of 24 hours and 18 minutes is held by segregationist Strom Thurmond, who spent that time protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957. I am pretty sure Booker would not mind changing that history.

Cory Booker has been holding the Senate floor for *15 hours* to call out Trump’s harm to Americans. More of this energy from every Democrat please.

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

It was an honor to deliver the annual Albert Morris Lecture at Boston University today and to end the visit with this poignant reminder from the late, great June Jordan. Indeed.

After a long and difficult week, uplifted to see this lovely review of my Secrets of the Sky series iexaminer.org/a-childrens-... 🙏🏾💕

If you're an author who has or will be publishing a books and you'd like to fight for the freedom to read & against book bans, we'd love to have you join Authors Against Book Bans. (OK, not the most creative name, but, you know, communicative!) All the info & the sign up form at

Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

@aoc.bsky.social: "You have a right to see your elected member of Congress... Our job is to hear from people. And if you aren't doing town halls because your own residents and members of your community are upset with what you're doing, the answer is you’ve got to own your decisions."

It's almost like obeying in advance doesn't work, won't keep you safe, and only emboldens totalitarians to be worse!

So they really think I’m going to spend the next four years hanging on every word he vomits? Haha, that’s cute…and not going to happen. Anyway, tonight’s read:

The ostriches in “leadership” need a boot camp run by governors like this

It bears repeating.

Call your rep. Demand a town hall. If they’re GOP and won’t give one, invite a Dem to your district in their place. Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Kidlit matters

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

Where are my carnegies, my rockefellers? Make me feel torn about hating your immense wealth because you do something good with it!

Join us! Join us! @girlswritenow.bsky.social is hands-down one of the most personally impactful orgs EVER! On March 4, they’ll be co-hosting a career chat featuring @sayantani.bsky.social, @lydiakang.bsky.social and Dr. IW Gregorio in partnership with Iowa JPEC and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.