Photo of the painter Marc Chagall taken by my father in Chicago in the late fifties.

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I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

When I was embarking on my first book of narrative non-fiction, I wrote a proposal for publishers that cited three examples of the form that I thought beautiful and flawless. Two were "Soul of A New Machine" and "Among School Children." Tracy Kidder was a gentle, graceful master of the form.

Well worth the read.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

RIP She was one of the best.

Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Thank you Jamelle

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Season’s Greetings!

Santasaurus preferred to pull the sleigh himself.

Turns out climate change keeps happening even when we decide we don't want to talk about it anymore www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Today, unionized nonprofit newsrooms across the country are standing shoulder-to-shoulder to demand that news industry leaders agree to common-sense guardrails around the implementation of artificial intelligence to protect the integrity, quality and accuracy of our journalism.

On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured. The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

"Reguly implies, correctly I think, that the best argument for buying the F-35 is political, not economic or strategic. That they would remain under US control, giving the US a veto over Canadian military missions, strategy, & potentially over other areas of the relationship, should IMO be decisive"

What else can we ruin? Bring it on!

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‼️Demands of the march🪧🪧🪧: 🚨Remove Robert Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary. 🚨Reverse the harmful changes Kennedy has made to America’s critical public health institutions.

Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!

In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER. And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin. Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.

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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

This list is a failure of process and imagination. Process, in that one man is determining, with no public consultation, the future direction of the Canadian economy. Imagination, in its tripling down on resource extraction, returning Canada to its colonial roots. The opposite of transformative.

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again tell me what u are doing be proud of what u do and share it here

I like the analogy of digital asbestos. Treated like a miracle product now, but it's going to be a huge pain to remove all the embedded AI slop in the future.

Sadly, we are all too familiar with this word.

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

This is utterly ridiculous. Alberta — do better

“Canada’s most urgent problems will not be solved by investing in the military”

Old dog summer

In 2016, before Trump secured the GOP nomination, the Boston Globe made a fictional dystopian front page of what a nightmare world it would be if Trump won. And those just pretty much are our actual headlines now.

Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work? The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize. And they've saved literally millions of lives already. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

I think this is my favourite

Hundreds of malnourished Palestinians in Gaza have been scrambling to grab desperately-needed aid in the Israeli-besieged enclave.

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Who could have seen that coming? Sigh.

We do not invite the fae into the house and that now includes generative AI. We do not give them our full names and we do not, under any circumstances, make any sort of deal with them.

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Now available to download! Please share.

Worth the watch!

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

JUST IN: The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and other major national public health groups just filed a lawsuit against RFK Jr. to defend science-backed vaccine policy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

@mark-carney.bsky.social This is not why we elected you.

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