The ableism. The misogyny. The ignorance of basic facts. The absolute disregard for human life and suffering.

Since this is going to be headline news tomorrow… The highest quality research has shown Tylenol use in pregnancy is NOT at all associated with autism risk. To suggest otherwise is to be an amateur that cherry-picks data points from decades ago. What we discussed 2 weeks ago remains true today ⬇️

Important to remember that H1B visa holders have their whole life in the US. The home they rent or own is here. Their family. Their kids go to school here. Being locked out of the US is also in many cases rendering them homeless and away from their family, with no obvious path to return

You pissed? Good Get creative Get strategic Get organized

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

I think a lot of the time, complaints about lack of intellectual or ideological diversity are actually complaints about a diversity of values. It's not that no one likes their ideas, it's that their values are bad ones counter to what many academics hold.

I think there's some value in trying to stay off whatever lists the Trump Administration is going to use for whatever but the NIH/NSF experience suggests that the lists they're going to use are vastly stupider than you are capable of anticipating

I teach about how casinos and gambling apps drive compulsive use via providing the right rate of "close enough" payoffs to destroy peoples finances and lives for profit and it honestly feels like such childs play compared to AI companies running this playbook to destroy fact itself

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Mel Gibson's production company or the people that did that dumb child trafficking movie are going to remake Sound of Music but about these people, aren't they

have spent the last 12 hours in some sort of pre-grief for what's clearly coming, an imperial boomerang with x-ray vision now unconstrained by whatever law we had left

Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.

I see we need to bring back Hannah Gadsby daring men to take on a woman actually in their prime (last two minutes of this video) youtu.be/IuoTAkn-0DQ?...

Oh no not this, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible

Nobody who’s spent a week in Illinois winter has thought “yes, I willingly want to fuck with the people who live here”

i bet it feels amazing to be a middle aged college professor and say stuff like "napoleon wouldn't stay in his lane so the duke of wellington locked in" to a survey course of a hundred bored 18 year olds

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

He was only 83. A man who famously protested segregation was only 83 and has just passed. 👁️👁️

The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.

Look there has been no official word on why all our salt trucks are out. But Chicago having all our Salt trucks blocking street access while ICE is trying to invade our city is just perfection. We are the City of Big Shoulders; we are also a poem.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

I was really hoping this would go like it does when you get tenure/a promotion at a university: slap a piece of lab tap over "defense" and write "war" on it with a sharpie

Important for people to understand that the DC occupation's *primary focus* is on rounding up undocumented immigrants. The whole "crime" stuff is, IMHO, mostly for the cameras and to provide justification for the immigration aspect. The same thing is coming to Chicago just as it did in Los Angeles.

Standing them down would definitely be good (for the troops most of all!), but the National Guard is not a serious threat to DC residents. ICE and some other feds are. While @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social is doing this, @mayorbowser.bsky.social is agreeing to extend the occupation indefinitely.

My entire feed rn is Senator: Do you think heart failure causes death RFK: Senator, medicine doesn't work, we all need to be drinking raccoon blood

First: nice

I’m a helicopter tracking account until further notice. Park Police mission is to be flagrantly annoying these days.

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now

Mayor Bowser, "shared priorities" with this administration means having masked agents disappear our neighbors in the middle of the night. It means soldiers with assault rifles in our neighborhoods. It means arresting children. These are the priorities of a dictator. DC does not share them.

The fight for science and universities is, at its core, a fight for democracy itself. Lose one, and you will lose the other. I wrote about what we are up against for STAT News. www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/h...

The House discretionary budget bill is now out for FY26, including a proposed *slight boost* in NIH funding & many other components that will take time to unpack. Bill text: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su... A few key points including IDC analysis in a provisional 🧵

Along with this: it's tempting to collect technical skills like pokemon, and there certainly is focus on work with breadth that rewards this. But don't forget about the value of depth. Hard to do good science without deep understanding of what you're doing. That only comes from years of immersion.

Same with bioinformatics, honestly. Doing a two-month rotation in a lab that uses computation is going to give you a taste, but don't fool yourself into thinking you'll develop meaningful transferrable skill in that time

You aren't developing good hands by taking a bootcamp, reading a book, or half-assedly pipetting while watching youtube. No more than you're becoming a world-class pianist or athlete that way. Talent helps, but skills are developed through practice, not exposure alone

One of my former students sent me an update letting me know she got into medical school and included a picture of her white coat ceremony. It made my day! Send your professors updates on what you're doing, it's a real highlight in this job.

One thing that’s come up a lot among those of us living amidst constant abductions by DHS agents is how many of us wish we spoke better Spanish. So. Maybe a way to prepare, for those of you who have like a month or two before it reaches you.

These kids spent ~24 hours being packed up, loaded on planes (likely military planes, not commercial), sitting on the tarmac for hours and hours, then being unloaded and returned to shelters. Imagine your worst travel day, then multiply it by being a traumatized child in a foreign country.

If you have tomorrow off, if your kids attend middle school instead of working in a factory, if you have workplace protections, and if you have sick leave and vacation time, thank unions. Even if you don't belong to one, they're responsible for things we all take for granted. And happy #LaborDay.

this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups

I think the psychic toll of the law enforcement stuff (as contrasted to the ICE snatch squads) is larger than its other harms but I really do want people to understand that the psychic toll is significant and you can see its marks on people

as a DC resident I cannot overemphasize how much less safe I feel

Thousands of women writing and speaking for decades with all the creativity and feeling possible about the wrongness of rape can’t make sexual violence stop or even be understood as real violence but RFK Jr croaking “beef tallow is the philosopher’s stone” has the force of policy now

Thing is, the Noem & Homan Show has yet to come to a city that's just terribly designed. We give your GPS nightmares. We love a sudden dead end. We have like 19 Washington Streets & none of them have street signs bc fuck you. You took a left? Surprise, motherfucker, you're at Logan Airport. Forever.

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Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.