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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

Did you know that fevers in early pregnancy also cause genetic mutations in fetuses and resulting developmental abnormalities? Know how we treat and prevent that? Yeah, Tylenol.

Quite a crowd gathered to listen to @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social talk about the origins of elements! (And the crowd is still growing.)

I learned a new word this weekend: Congratudolences! It’s what you say when someone wins a something that is arguably an honor… but will also lead to more work. Like the winner of the pie eating contest & the prize is more pie. Or being elected department chair. Hi! I’m the new CUNY Astro chair!

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

I will be including this image in my slides, fwiw

Hello, Eugene Oregon! Wanna listen to some FREE space talks by astronomers tomorrow? Come to the relaunched Universe on Tap to hear Ben Farr discuss black holes and @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social talk about the origin of elements- no prior knowledge assumed! Claim 52 Brewing at 6pm, Sept 22 🔭🧪🎢

The inaugural Oregon Astronomy Research Symposium is on Monday, and I paid a student into graphic design to make us a logo, and the UO print shop made us stickers for the participants. Turned out better than I expected! 🤩 🔭🧪 #sciart

completely oregon-pilled ‼️ don’t talk to me unless you’re Douglas fir maxxing 🙅🏽‍♀️

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

More good news I missed: the two Metro bus drivers who’d been fired for speculating about how they’d resist ICE have been *reinstated* after public outcry.

Also to clarify, the cost is $100K per year of the visa, so it is actually $300K for a 3-year visa. As postdocs cost about $100K/year, this fee doubles the cost of postdocs on H1-B visas.

So many of us came through the same levels. I was a J1 student undergrad, OPT postdoc, H1B research assistant, Green card, and citizenship. The U.S. invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in my grad program. Luckily I am a citizen now. But this would have been devastating for me and my family.

the calm before the storm

omg omg 😱

Since the deadline update last week there's not been any change to the GRFP website. And even if it's opened tomorrow, students will have a bit over a month instead of the usual 90 days.

On the 🔭🧪 postdoc job market? Excited about science with Rubin and big surveys? Come join us at DiRAC. I’m so excited that we’re able to offer a few of these Fellowship positions this year! Please share, LMK if you have Q’s! aas.org/jobregister/...

unexpected @philplait.bsky.social mention in the acknowledgments of A City on Mars (by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith) 💀

Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.

Girl, I am losing my mind

An apt comment from Harold Varmus in this piece: ‘Running a lab is not like running a clothing store, where if your sales are down you can bounce back. You are dealing with highly trained people and projects which, when stopped for a short time, are ruined.’

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

🌊🦦🦦

Had a blast visiting the Knight Cancer Institute in Portland to talk about their record-setting $2 billion gift from Nike founder Phil Knight, and how they plan to use the cash to become a household name in cancer research and care. Check it out, and enjoy the photo quality from my ancient iPhone!

sending my husband 15 videos of silly animals on 3 different platforms in a span of 2 minutes

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

He's gonna blame Tylenol? Even RFK Jr., as the head of the most powerful health organization in human history, can't find evidence for vaccines causing autism (because they don't)!

every day? every day???? we just had a day yesterday! every single one, all the time??? it’s untenable. it’s absurd.

every damn day

Pregnant women already avoid taking painkillers, and suffer as a result.

WSJ reports RFK Jr has instructed HHS to link autism with Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiency.

god I’m so sick of hearing the stupidest people doing the most asinine thing possible every damn day

Great news if you love drama: the FDA said it plans to publicly release drug rejection letters asap after they're sent to the companies themselves, and has also put out 89 new rejection letters--including Replimune's controversial melanoma snub. My story: www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/fda-...

breaking news: cinnamon is sooooo sleepy

✨ New AAS Journal Author Series Video! Stephanie (Alex) Brown (Stockholm University) chats about neutron star tides — what her latest article reveals and where the science takes us next. #Astronomy #TheGoodStuff 📺 Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/-HQK2jUW-hc

Being on social media is fine but if it’s getting in the way of you doing deep reading and deep thinking, then your balance of how you spend your time is off Lots of interesting threads here and none of them are a substitute for reading a good book or essay

Deep beneath southern China, the world’s largest neutrino detector, JUNO, has gone live. The 20,000-ton ‘liquid scintillator’ setup aims to solve the long-standing question of neutrino mass ordering and deepen insights into supernovae and exotic physics. buff.ly/vpt6qWB #ShareGoodNewsToo

Look, Ma, I’m a real scientist! And touring the optical labs of the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT)! I spotted a coronograph design to block out a star’s light so an exoplanet can be imaged, and adaptive optics for wiggling mirrors to compensate for wiggling atmosphere.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

My review of “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)” by @astrokatie.com damienkanerigden.com/blog/f/the-e... Read this book! #booksky

STScI is now accepting applications for the Giacconi Fellowship in astrophysics. Start date is Fall 2026 and funding is available for 3 years. More info here: www.stsci.edu/stsci-resear...

just wanted to sit in my yard for a few mins and enjoy the weather but my cats are HOWLING because they can see me through the window and the hummingbirds I’ve been feeding are divebombing me. Nevermind I guess!!!

With misinformation nearly everywhere, one professor tested a simple fix of 150 minutes of fact-checking homework – and it worked, boosting the students’ ability to spot misinformation by nearly 20%.

NEW: More than 199,000 federal workers have left their jobs or have been forced out by the Trump admin since Jan. 2025, per a new report. That’s nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce. “We’re seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...