The Beautiful Ones always smash the picture Always, every time.

Midnight Marauders please and thank you

Listen to Erika.

Authoritarianism is scary and dangerous but so very far from invincible. And if you let yourself be convinced too much of their power, then they've won. Authoritarianism is built on fragile illusions of control and competence. It's hard but brittle and shatters readily under even a little pushback.

Grateful for my local independent pharmacies and for science and for vaccines. I got all of them, both arms. Gladly and reverently.

I think the problem with rallying around the most privileged when they've been targeted is that it never trickles down. they're touted as examples for "all of us" but it's not actually true.

I used internet blocking software to get some things done today - and to give my mental health a break from the onslaught of shit news. I highly recommend it - the news will be shit when you get back to it in a few hours time.

Parenting during all this (looks around - waves arms frantically) is really a mind fuck. I'm mentally exhausted all the time and you cannot put that on your kids -

At the stage in manuscript editing where one coauthor adds a word and another coauthor removes the same word, and repeat. 🧪

Imagine in 2025, after all the times Black women warned literally everyone about everything that’s happening right now, announcing that Black women commentators are just very paranoid When we have been right???????? This whole time????? About pretty much everything????????????!

I didn't know who this person was 10 minutes ago but i love her

Anthropologist here and I wholeheartedly support this!

Today was a "finish coffee #1 and immediately buy coffee #2" kinda vibe 😮‍💨

This Is What Malnutrition Does to Children’s Bodies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This made my morning. He looks so good - may he continue to thrive~

Genuinely loving the vibe of this woman owned tattoo studio - happy birthday to me!!

I have work to do but tomorrow is my birthday...and I'm just done !!

I have to be on a zoom call in an international conference session at 11:30 pm tonight. I was in denial about this until noon-ish today 🫠

Political violence is not just violence against politicians. Political violence is also violence for political ends - like ramping up dehumanizing language against marginalized groups, disappearing people off the street, & calling for the release of police convicted of the murdering Black people.

I took a lot of bible courses decades ago — really — and I don’t remember there being a grand prize for making the most pious social media post being on the list of “get you into heaven” items.

Remember to save thoughts for the group chat and phone calls (even better). Bluesky is a public platform

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

BREAKING: Susan Monarez, forced out by RFK Jr as CDC director, to testify in front of Senate panel next week. Monarez has said RFK Jr pressured her around vaccines. RFK Jr has said she was untrustworthy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

RIP David Baltimore. He is famous for breakthrough work that challenged dogma that information flows from DNA to RNA. In viruses, it is the opposite. This took virology in a new direction. This was NIH funded research. We stand on the shoulders of giants before us. 🧪 www.salk.edu/news-release...

Went running today and it was a few degrees warmer than my last run -(83 ish) and humid for here...and my body was happier. Phoenix metro has officially broken me.

the end of this game was absolutely wild

Had a little to much dip on my chip today - headed to Costco thinking I was going to buy a Saguaro Cactus 🌵 (yes! they sell them at my Costco right now!!) BUT - it was way too big to fit in my car and cost $600. (That's the right price - but not the right price for me). My kids thought I'd lost it

Okay fam, we did it! I got the updated covid vax! 3 pharmacy trips, multiple calls, and 5 prescriptions sent by my outstanding doc's office. (It should NOT be this hard.)

Scientific research would be moving right along instead of fighting to avoid near certain death The CDC & NIH would be fully staffed and functioning So many disappeared people would be with their families We wouldn't be worried about where to this season's Covid and Flu vaccines

They are too afraid of him

trying to be ok with the fact that "taking care of myself" sometimes means not working out 🙃 at this point, I'm running on exercise endorphins and keeping busy b/c shit is so grim

Finally watching “unknown number” - the Netflix doc and I’m dumbfounded - I can’t make sense of the way the mom is talking knowing she did it

I really, REALLY wish people would internalize the absolute stranglehold voter suppression and gerrymandering have over many red states with high BIPOC populations (who reliably vote blue) before consistently writing off these entire states and saying shit like “they deserved it”.

In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available. virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

I think about this a lot! Medical professionals and their societies are sounding the highest level of alarm about the dangers of rejecting science and favoring conspiracy theories and it is hardly breaking through. That's how far down the rabbit hole the US is. This fight is hard.

I’m deeply worried this fall/winter will bring one of the toughest respiratory virus seasons in years. Policy missteps, weakened access to vaccines, and rampant misinformation are setting us up for packed hospitals and preventable deaths. We are priming ourselves for failure.

BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.

A giant great blue heron flew over me while I was running the other day & for a second I imagined how terrifying pterosaurs must have been.

NJ students in grades 6-12 will now learn about “the history of organized labor, notable strikes throughout history, unionization drives, and the collective bargaining process and existing legal protections in the workplace.” This is genuinely so important, and so good to see. Jersey strong, baby!!

The WHO has confirmed and officially declared an Ebola outbreak is unfolding in the Kasai province of the DRC. Thankfully this time there is stockpile of 2000 vaccines readily available to be deployed to respond to this outbreak. Following this closely. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.

The Amer Anthro Assoc. meetings always falling the week before a national holiday always pisses me off. I get it - whoever set this date eons ago had no caretaking responsibilities and wasn't responsible for planning a damn family thing 🙄

My in-laws left for a multi-week trip to Europe yesterday. But today?? Today, I got an early birthday card in the mail. They also promised to call and sing to me on my birthday. So grateful for their care 🥹

It only took them almost two years, but they're finally coming around to what the rest of us already knew

We just went on a girls trip together ❤️

Listen, for seven years now I’ve been in a neverending cyclical multinational fight with people mad that I call the obsession with blondness everyday eugenics. It keeps the white nationalist repertoire alive for times such as these. Just constant rage wars about this for almost a decade.

Michigan football is back. (I have all kinds of conflicted feelings about college football - mostly conflicted b/c I love Michigan Football and think college football is not good for the kids, the colleges, etc.) But also Michigan Football is back. #Hail 😩

“‘She uncovered the social experience of women in science’ — the lab assistants who never became managers, the geologists poring over data in government offices while their male peers were doing fieldwork, those who despite their advanced degrees didn’t get hired or promoted, or who were sidelined…”