2025. #DEI - "Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?" [Thailand, Indonesia, Hungary?]. PLEASE - before deciding on a conference location, check if the LGBTQ+ community can be legally themselves! "I" stands for INCLUSIVE! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I think retina people will appreciate this collection at the Museum of the Americas in San Juan

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

So glad to have met @mads100tist.bsky.social at #ISDB25 his research and work in science communication is inspiring. His advice for effective communication in science advocacy will stick with me going forward.

I had so much fun sharing my work at #ISDB25 @socdevbio.bsky.social

A judge ruled EPA termination of environmental justice grants was unlawful. EPA cannot “thumb its nose at Congress” by refusing to spend appropriated funds, the judge wrote.

I just pulled out my copy of Newton's Principia, a book that was originally written in Latin, and noticed that the translation I am using was completed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has basically been destroyed Science depends on the humanities 🧪

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

@smith.senate.gov: "They try to pretend that this violence, in this case in Minnesota, was actually driven by left wing ideology, when that is clearly not what is going on here... Let's be honest, here we have Donald Trump, one of the first actions that he took was to pardon the insurrectionists."

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

2,169 events across 20 countries. Millions of peope are standing up tomorrow to say with one voice: No Kings!

The suggestion that Kristi Noem, a white woman, is the "delicate, beautiful, tiny" victim after a Latino man is physically dragged out of a room fits into the admin's pretext of criminality it attaches to people who are not white. Like Rep. LaMonica McIver.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

Thanks Harvard, for taking a stand. Perhaps we should all stand together….

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss

When they say “Nothing good happens after midnight,” they were talking about House Republicans' Big, Bad Bill.

The state of Georgia is using the body of a brain-dead woman as an incubator. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she died, and their abortion ban is from about 6 weeks, they are sustaining her on life support, without input from her family, until 32 weeks of gestation. A true dystopian nightmare.

Why are ICE agents masked to begin with? Our law enforcement officers shouldn’t be anonymous. Ever.

This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it.

Canadians will vote tomorrow in the most emotional election since 1988. I have my own preference. But I note: no one doubts that the vote will be free and fair - or that the loser will peacefully accept the voters' decision. That may not sound much. It's more than others have.

Conceiving “colonialism” merely as the process through which colonies were established and is now over ignores the fact that the concept is a function of coloniality - a specific way of looking at and organising the world that endures in most of the world even today

Horrifying. US citizen — 2 yr old Child deported with no legal counsel & no due process. 👇👇👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Every American should be deeply troubled by this massive escalation, and @democrats-judiciary.house.gov are standing strong for judicial independence. This is an unmistakable descent further into authoritarian chaos.

look, I know that I'm kind of eccentric, but it seems a bit much that everyone in town puts on elaborate musical numbers about how odd I am every time I go out to get groceries, mail a letter, etc.

NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…” Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

Can states withhold the tax revenue we would otherwise send to the feds so we can inspect our own goddamned food? www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

I hope the other schools are paying attention. Columbia didn’t listen to their faculty and students, Harvard did. People are ready for the fight.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Aujourd'hui on va analyser le tourisme spatial qui est une source éloquente de pollution pour multimilliardaires. Chaque vol de ce type est non seulement tout à fait inutile, mais ces riches bénéficiaires vont vous endormir avec de belles paroles tout en polluant. youtu.be/NIRwUQoLogQ?...

Not only do I hate it, I think we should regulate car height such that kid-crushing monstrosities like this cease to exist.

It's joke level stuff. You can lie all you want from the podium. In court they said his removal was an administrative error. They're lying.

The importance of @harvard.edu standing up to Trump yesterday is as example for other universities. fallows.substack.com/p/standing-u... Good to see Stanford signing on today stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l... Princeton led the way among old, established universities. Where is Yale?

What you're seeing are wet microbursts—intense downdrafts from thunderstorms that slam rain into the ground, creating those stunning lobes. Like a reverse explosion from the sky. Captured in Perth, #Australia

I’m loving Chinese manufacturers airing luxury brand’s dirty laundry on TikTok. [Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRMTmyP/ ]

Nightmare scenario. „On Feb. 16, customs officials detained her at Logan International Airport in Boston for failing to declare samples of frog embryos she had carried from France at the request of her boss at Harvard.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

This article reports that "more than 600 students at over 100 institutions had their visas pulled" as of today. Many have had no idea why. This doesn't affect only them, either; if they're grad students, their lab PIs & own students will be left in the lurch. www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

Recap: *Vance insulted our NATO ally Denmark in bizarre bid to take over Greenland *Commander on the ground says his comments did not reflect the working relationship btw US and Denmark *She is fired The mildest pushback against their authoritarian fantasies is enough www.bbc.com/news/article...

When I get to the Senate, I'll support a bill to ban Congressional stock trading on day one. No elected official should be cashing in while the American people see their retirements go down the drain.

He literally tweeted: This is a great time to BUY! Just hours ago. And then he paused tariffs. He’s literally committing crimes in front of the entire world. 😳

"It's criminal." Nina Olson, former national taxpayer advocate at the IRS, emphasizes the illegality of the IRS sharing taxpayer data with ICE.

For 50 years, Voyageurs National Park has brought millions of people from around the world to see all that the Land of 10,000 Lakes has to offer - remote island camping, paddling, world-class fishing, and abundant winter activities. Happy birthday, Voyageurs!

Trump admin admits it should not have deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, but tells SCOTUS no court can require his return because it would intrude on Article II powers to conduct foreign negotiations. If this stands, why can't Trump deport anyone "in error" and not have to undo?

It's getting buried, but Houston will almost certainly not have representation in Congress until January 2027. Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.

Kudos to the President of Tufts University and the Tufts administration, for standing up for their student Rümeysa Öztürk, a political prisoner taken by the Trump Administration. They have filed a legal declaration in support of freeing her. Courage is contagious. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Dark Pence is back.