Great story, gives hope to all the people who are being removed from swearing in ceremonies across the country!

This posting this morning and his earlier statement about the Brown University shooting ("things happen"), clearly demonstrate that the President completely lacks any level of empathy with others. This is embarrassing. 💔

I added my name to this and so should all of you who are US citizens: Standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice. 📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.

Normally I would say "unbelievable" but that is the wrong statement these days. So what is next, delay mammograms or PSA screening?

A U.S. soldier was executed on the streets of the U.S. capital, yet the flags remain at full-staff. But when a hate-peddling podcaster was killed, the flags were lowered to half-staff within hours—and stayed that way for days. WTH? Tonight...

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Feel free to share with any undergraduate students that may be interested!

Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated. Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.

Just a nice memory on a gloomy and rainy day, this is how it looked 2 weeks ago (Price Lake, NC)

One of the few arrests that I have read about today. This is near Myrtle Beach, SC and she was driving around pointing a gun at protesters. Note the shirt.

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

No Kings in Winston-Salem, NC!

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Dartmouth’s President Balks at Trump Compact, Sources Say, as Feds Expand Offer to ‘Any Institution’ www.chronicle.com/article/dart...

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Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

Note that the Trump Administration is already going back to schools with whom it earlier reached "deals" (such as UPenn and Brown) for further concessions. Conceding to a bully has only emboldened them to make new demands.

It will be interesting to see how universities will coordinate and grow a spine to oppose this: www.statesman.com/news/educati...

This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

And people are surprised why tourism is down?!

May want to switch to a different TV channel occasionally?!

Scary when you realize that your former trainee has not really learned much from you with regards to critical evaluation of scientific information. Fortunately for me, he is now distributing his opinions @casewestern.bsky.social

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

So much for upholding the law.... As always, only the ones we want to uphold.

Anyone have any idea what type of caterpillar/insect this is? Touching it leads to really itchy skin… it is only about 1cm in size, sitting on a stalk from a strawberry leaf (or what is left of it)

For anyone still harboring the notion that everything will be fine, and we will be back to normal soon, wake up!

OMG... I guess having a privileged childhood, and growing up at a time when biomedical research and medicine where way behind its current diagnostic abilities and understanding allows you to make the most ignorant statements.

This is unbelievably shortsighted (and moronic)! Are there plans to cancel protstate cancer consortia the same way since they focus solely on men?

Interesting to see who has not signed yet…

There are many reasons to fight back, but a big one: Trump is a paper tiger. Often, fighting back works. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky wgntv.com/evanston/nor...

Time to bombard your senators and congressmen/women! This will pretty much kill biomedical research in the U.S. www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/t...

Trump justifies his war on foreign students with false accusations of antisemitism. It's a lie. They are kicking out people for speeding tickets and frog embryos. Vance gave the game away by saying foreign students are "bad for the American dream." www.salon.com/2025/04/17/j...

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

In the letter Harvard received from the Administration, Harvard was essentially asked to implement DEI practices to ensure "Viewpoint Diversity in Admission and Hiring"... Do any of these clowns actually know what they are doing and saying?! drive.google.com/file/d/1lOXi...

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Anyone else gets the sense that this guy is Joseph Goebbels reincarnate? Similarly delusional, and in urgent need of anger management... www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Maybe the Columbia example is illustrating even to Harvard lawyers that bending to adhere to the bully's demands will not work: www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

Bukele said he wouldn’t be returning Abrego Garcia in today’s appearance with President Trump. It’s clear that anyone sent there cannot be given due process as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Trump, meanwhile, again floated the idea of sending American citizens to the CECOT prison.

Just now…

Everyone who told me "what's the harm in hyping de-extinction technology that doesn't work" can choke on a bag of black-footed ferret dicks www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

This gets crazier every day. You would think humankind (and the U.S.) had learned from past efforts like this, but obviously not!

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

The bullying game continues…

I finally get it: Liberation Day liberated the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and other indices, they are no longer "stuck" in the high range they have been in for such a terribly long time... It obviously also liberated accrued funds in probably all our retirement portfolios.

So, maybe follow the Columbia story and see where accepting the demands will get you? If any school should be able to fight and weather this, it should be Harvard... Let's see! Would Harvard want Princeton to be the only opposing school? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

Breaking News: The Trump administration intends to block $510 million in federal contracts and grants for Brown University.

Reciprocal Tariff (in my simpleminded view) means that you add a tariff to items imported from country X if country X also charges a tariff on items you export to that country. Does not have anything to do with trade deficits. If you use it to balance that, then it is a penalty, and not reciprocal.

Nice map: scienceimpacts.org