Attendance has dropped at Chicago schools in communities with increased immigration enforcement. Chalkbeat reports: blockclubchi.co/43hlTBr

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

*not where we want to be. This is what happens when the person in the social media driver's seat posts before they've have their caffeine!

Our remote employees are showing up today too!

This may be hour 3 of @sn-media-guild.bsky.social's picket, but it's also been more than 13,400 hours of negotiations. @society4science.bsky.social has spent that time opposing our demands for a fair and transparent pay structure and flexible work arrangements. But we're not giving up anytime soon✊

Recent fiscal decisions at the @society4science.bsky.social signal to us that the nonprofit's priorities are moving away from its mission to promote the understanding and appreciation of science. This strike is about getting focus back on what's really important. @wbng.org @newsguild.org

"... innovative ways to strengthen the camaraderie we built over the years. Instead our leaders doubled down and created two employee streams — remote and in office — hurting both parties in the process." @sujatagupta.bsky.social

"When pandemic restrictions lifted, I had hoped the company would create a new normal, one that valued and recognized the myriad ways in which we all showed up to work even when we could not show up in person. I had hoped the company would find ..."

"I want to keep sharing the wonder of the universe with our readers alongside a strong team with sustainable working conditions, where all of our contributions are valued and respected equally." @astrolisa.bsky.social

"We’ve demonstrated that we can do our jobs, and do them well, from all over the country and even world. We’ve built a collaborative team that thrives on trust and respect. But we need the support of our employer to keep delivering the award-winning reporting we’re known for." Jill Sakai

"The pandemic proved we can do award-winning science journalism from anywhere in the world. I and my colleagues who are fully remote continue to prove it every day. If only the Society could see that it’s the work and the people that matter, not where they sit and when." Chris Crockett

"Clear, informed reporting is as crucial now as it has ever been. Yet it doesn’t always feel like that work is appreciated. Our CEO has gotten raises that outpace my salary — as well as some other people on staff — while many of ours barely keep up with rising costs." @viruswhiz.bsky.social

"We all know, deep in our bones, that what we do is foundational to a functional, literate society. That's true today more than ever before. None of us do this job for the money, but we do ask for fair treatment." @laura-sanders.bsky.social

Our remote workers may not be able to join the #picket, but they have things to say too! "I would love to believe that the @society4science.bsky.social believes in us. Instead, I am in disbelief at how little they offer those who pour so much of themselves into its mission." @nikkogasa.bsky.social

I'm so proud of my @sn-media-guild.bsky.social colleagues, who have been picketing in front of the schmancy new @society4science.bsky.social building ALL DAY LONG. They are so cool and smart and funny and have so much freaking stamina 🥹

I may be biased but all strikes need to have violins, dinosaur costumes, a live sketch artists, and bird facts

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Workers of the Science News Media Guild will conduct a 24-hour #strike on Wednesday, 11/5. This comes after our members voted to reject the Society’s latest contract proposal. Our members previously voted by 92% to authorize a strike against the @society4science.bsky.social, if necessary.

This is such a disappointing management decision. Not just because @leximcmenamin.com and their colleagues are excellent journalists, but because they never, ever underestimated what teen girls might find interesting or care about.

Let's hear it for the farm workers who harvested the pumpkins that are decorating homes across America for #Halloween today. #WeFeedYou Que se oiga para los campesinos que cosecharon las calabazas que hoy decoran los hogares en todo los Estados Unidos. #SoyEsencial

"By late January 2025, two babies had died [of pertussis] in Louisiana. But the Louisiana Department of Health waited two months to send out a social media post suggesting people talk to their doctors about getting vaccinated." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Not only is there plenty of money to ensure that SNAP benefits go out next month even while the government is shut down, it's illegal for the Trump administration to refuse to fund them prospect.org/2025/10/29/t...

Lots of reporting on SNAP getting the details wrong. SNAP is not set to run out of money on November 1. There’s money in the contingency fund to pay benefits. The Trump admin is illegally refusing to deliver benefits on November 1, despite having funding to pay benefits.

“Technology companies are not shy of falsely claiming that students are lazy or lack writing skills. Such a mantra serves only to sell products ... We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.” — @olivia.science zenodo.org/records/1706...

The push to pump "AI" into everything is coming from the industry that profits from it, academia's middle managers who are happy to buy it, and parents who simply don't know any better because it's frankly not their job to.

I gave a talk at Middlebury yesterday & was buoyed by the conversation I had with students & faculty. The most interesting--& troubling--kinds of questions I got were from students who are opposed to the use of "AI" in their education & want to know how to convince their parents of its dangers.

This is even more apparent in how New ACIP performed during the voting process. They didn't use most of the mechanisms for evaluating data or developing policy questions that ACIP traditionally does.

New ACIP's performance has declined considerably relative to their predecessors. They have especially regressed in the "Independence & Non-Bias," "Making Recommendations," and "Integration into Policy Making" categories. Sucks, considering that's...kind of the point of ACIP!

“I missed a lot in life just because I missed two drops of a vaccine” - Harold Kipchumba was just three years old when he developed #polio which led to permanent paralysis. He is now championing the vaccine he wasn’t able to get: bit.ly/4e6cFe0 #worldpolioday

In late August, our workers voted with 92% support to authorize a strike. Two months later, we're still negotiating with @society4science.bsky.social for a fair contract. We've been waiting 548 days for the fairness and respect our members deserve. We are prepared to walk out, if need be.

It's me. The first raise is higher than my yearly salary. (And the 2nd comes VERY close.)

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities. n.pr/48PNNIt

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

DC friends!! Join us on this Sunday on the National Mall for a teach-in in defense of history and museums, ft. an all-star line-up! We’ll be there from sun-up to sun-down. More info here: linktr.ee/historyteachin

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

The U.S. is in imminent danger of losing the National Death Index (NDI), compiled by the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). This would be a tremendous loss for so many reasons. And an unnecessary one, as the NDI Program is 100% self-supported by user fees.

Did you miss the chance to sign up in advance for my conversation tonight with @starrevartan.bsky.social about her amazing book THE STRONGER SEX? I gotchu. Watch us without pre-registration on the YouTube channel of @emorycshh.bsky.social at 6pm US ET! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ75...

US measles cases top 1,600 as South Carolina outbreak grows The total represents the most US infections since 1992. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m... Photo: CDC/ Cynthia S. Goldsmith; William Bellini, Ph.D.

"And for me, because of my lived experience with fibroids, with anemia, with all of these maladies, I really wanted to understand how I could design biotechnology tools to help other people who I know suffer from these diseases disproportionately."

The North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest whales on the planet, now numbers an estimated 384 animals, up 8 whales from the previous year, according to the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Right whales were once hunted to the brink of extinction. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Did you know that thanks to evolving guidelines, you can now get vaccinated against HPV up to age 45? Hear from an ob-gyn why she decided to get the HPV vaccine—a safe, effective way to prevent certain cancers and protect long-term health—at age 43: bit.ly/42Ro4eO

The clips and conversations I’m hearing about the SNAP (food stamp) cuts should be above the fold everywhere. It’s a scary time for a lot of people.

"The company, which won a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Air Force in May, says its future constellation will deliver light on demand after sunset and before sunrise to paying customers on Earth" whyyyy

Telling people who are against plundering the environment, theft, plagiarism and labor exploitation that they are doing this complaining because they haven't "invested" in using tools based on such exploitation is quite ridiculous isn't it?

It's been 540+ days since we started negotiating with @society4science.bsky.social for a fair contract. We marked the occasion by holding a practice picket during our lunch hour. Judging by all the honking cars and trucks, we think it's safe to say DC commuters are with us! #faircontractNOW

Yesterday marked 533 days since @sn-media-guild.bsky.social began negotiating with @society4science.bsky.social. To make our voices heard, we held another practice picket during our lunch hour. D.C. commuters responded loud and clear. #faircontractnow

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS. This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.