10 years ago today, @elisabethbik.bsky.social published a preprint heard around the world.

this is a massive violation of international law. autonomy in international waters is literally the backbone of like 95% of global GDP growth over the last 50 years

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸 Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in. This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale. Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

Hey so…healthcare in this country is absolutely collapsing at an unprecedented rate and most of you have absolutely no idea and frankly don’t give a shit and that’s exactly part of the problem and the reason it’s been picking up speed in its collapse since the beginning of COVID.

April 17, 2026 Cumulative measles cases reported in the United States by year Johns Hopkins {https://publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/resources/us-measles-tracker}

Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza. A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.

Someone who used every tool at his disposal to overthrow our democratically elected government is most emphatically not a "good man," and most emphatically does deserve to have his career destroyed.

We should be learning from other countries...

Get ready for #AskALibrarian! Send us questions about what you want to read over the next 24 hours, and our team of librarians will come up with a custom rec just for you. We’ll share recommendations from questions here and on our Instagram stories live from 9 to 10 am PT on Thursdays! 📚 #booksky

Hive mind: I thought Bluesky was set up so that I would see posts and repost from people I follow, but I am now seeing posts from people I don't follow and don't want to follow. (I have blocked a couple of accounts of guys showing off their muscles, for example.) 1/

After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.

@nanwiener.bsky.social Have you seen this post? bsky.app/profile/susa...

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

If Harvard is looking for professors who will provide "viewpoint diversity" in exchange for $10 million, I'll happily preach communism at Harvard Business School or teach courses on anarchy at the Law School. Hell, throw in a 3BR2BA and I'll be the creationist in your Biology Department as well.

Deutsch Oper Berlin has an excellent season coming up and the most amazing thing on it is Stockhausen's "Mittwoch aus Licht."

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

Thread! tl;dr: you wanna see a symphony concert? Find a date you're free and a price you like and go. :) don't worry about how you dress (nobody cares; if they do they're jerks), don't worry about prior knowledge. See if you like the music! There's a huge variety at your local orchestra.

Excellent thread about colonialism in space.

One of the world's rarest whales lives in only one place: the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand oil and gas drilling that scientists fear could push the giant mammal to extinction. https://to.pbs.org/4sUKB5a

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post

györgy kurtág has outlived viktor orbán's autocracy in hungary www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK4G...

Telling that as big of a piece of shit as orban is, he managed to concede to defeat. Something Trump has never been able to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

Four women “One member of Swalwell’s staff said they quit immediately after receiving CNN’s detailed list of questions about the allegations.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

Carter, speaking just before the disastrous Reagan years, was prescient.

today's a great day to celebrate Florence Price and to let you all know about Dr. Samantha Ege's excellent book, "Southside Impresarios", about Black women classical musicians, including Price, who were active in Chicago during the interwar period www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

If you're wondering what discussions are happening at the White House today (and every other day during this presidency), the AHA has filed a lawsuit to protect the records of this administration for posterity, after DOJ declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional last week. 🗃️

The workers including nurses at Methodist Hospital on Brooklyn have to pay hundreds every month to park in the hospital lot. I think that is ridiculous. Help them @mayor.nyc.gov!! Let's take care of our hospital workers who protect our neighborhoods.

a sex pest real estate guy who lost money on his casinos got elected president twice because he played a deals man on tv and then he destroyed the global economy. baudrilliard would die if he wasn't already dead.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

Kaija Saariaho's "Innocence" at the Met; searing, as expected, but there was a surprise: at SF Opera, the stage crew, which works absolutely miracles out of sight of the audience, got the first bow. Not at the Met. Good to see the enormous applause for everyone on stage and in the pit. 1/

Anecdotally, this is my experience with my Jewish students. The ones who might want to talk about real antisemitism on campus are being dissuaded by the fact that they do not want to feed the destruction of higher education as a whole, and now by the fear of ending up on the admin's Jew list.

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II

A most senseless epitome of oppression on full display. Over and over and over again.

Tonight, Kaija Saariaho becomes the first woman to have two of her operas performed at the Metropolitan Opera. Let there be many, many more, with two, three, four operas performed in the world's opera Houses.

Trump desperately wants to return to his happy zone: racist fear-mongering and playing the victim of Democrats and the media. But boo-hoo, the war he started for no good reason keeps getting in the way. www.salon.com/2026/04/06/i...

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

Journalistic malpractice and democratic betrayal.

Not to mention mall restrictions, closing arcades, and they defunded every bit of teen programming possible at the libraries, closed all the community centers, and refuse to fund after-school and weekend events...

So should universities like Stanford, UCSF, Hopkins take back people who have presided over an unprecedented destruction of science & public health in the US, particularly Bhattacharya, Prasad & Makary? No. When this is over, there should be no going back to the places they once called home.

The 2025 budget of the National Endowment for the Arts was $210m

Still trying to figure out a landing spot for these two pups; I can’t safely bring them home myself right now on account of not having two working legs, but if anybody can take them in I’ll either deliver them to you myself or cover the cost of transport 🙏🏻 link to foster application is in the thread