Just so we are clear, this is different from the other Jan 6 rioter that Trump pardoned who was sexually abusing children.

An absolutely excellent analysis of how dangerous outsourcing your thinking is for early career researchers in astronomy. 🔭☄️

Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...

Now out in AEM @asm.org! 🎉🧪 *High school student-isolated mutants 👉🏻 novel genetic causes of biofilm-associated adaptations *We learn how diversity arises quickly and is maintained *EvolvingSTEM enables scalable research in classrooms & promotes scientific literacy journals.asm.org/eprint/FBU9M...

The premise of this article makes no sense. There is no either/or between protests and organizing. It is a plus/and. (1/3) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

Protesters gathered across the U.S. on Saturday for “No Kings” rallies against President Trump. They chanted defiant messages and carried signs that condemned the war in Iran, threats against voting rights, the White House’s mass deportation push and more. See more from the protests. trib.al/1Ty7Y49

It is great to see these big turnouts in these big blue cities, but the substantial turnouts in smaller red and purple cites and towns around the country are probably more important and striking. There were ~1000 very energized people at the event in the quite purple area near where we live!

No Kings in Seattle with the folks. #NoKings #Seattle

#NoKings ✊

French civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard was born #OTD in 1781. He was known for his contributions to information graphics, including his famous map of the losses suffered by Napoleon during his disastrous 1812 Russian campaign. 📈 📊 #DataViz Image: Charles Minard / Public domain

Exciting News! Grant-witness.us now has dynamic funding curves like mine for NIH available. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 1/2

When you’re stuck in line at the airport, at least you know exactly who's to blame. Speaker Mike Johnson.

They think power comes from fear and violence. We know better. Real power comes from solidarity. From showing up for each other. From refusing to be divided. March 28. #NoKings2026

"We must keep our sights fixed on the brighter, safer, more just, and equitable world we are working to inhabit, which cannot be a world where Black women are targeted. Together we are stronger than the hate that tries to divide us." Read the powerful blog by UCS's Sonja Spears.

The @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social puts this week's Crosslake Connection opening into context. This is a hugely important project that will finally give the Seattle area a formidable regional transit system. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Today is National Science Appreciation Day. At ISB, that means advancing research to better understand — and ultimately improve — human health. From cancer & the microbiome to multi-omics & data-driven biology, our teams are working across disciplines to tackle complex problems. isbscience.org

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

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.

Boy have I got some bad news...

Trump Administration Begins Investigations Into Three Medical Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u... 🧪

In a normal administration the DOJ would be investigating this because it was a national scandal. Instead it’s investigating the people the President dislikes

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...

How am I supposed to show up every day and be a productive member of society, when I frequently see stuff like this?

As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.

Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Not so marvelous news. ~95,000 scientists have left the federal government since the Trump regime took over.

BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA. Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.

So it appears there has been a regime change in Iran. The Revolutionary Guards are now running everything.

Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

"The public deserves an EPA administrator who will face the challenge of the climate crisis(...) not actively serve as an agent of destruction beholden to the whims of oil, gas & chemical industry execs. and an authoritarian, anti-science US president.”— @gretchentg.bsky.social via @theguardian.com⬇️

President Donald Trump has cast another mail ballot in Florida as he continues to publicly bash the voting method as a source of fraud and push Congress to curtail the practice. In the last week, Trump has called mail-in voting "cheating" and "corrupt as hell." https://to.pbs.org/41pvRz8

Christ on a cracker

11,000 children who don’t know if they’ll ever get to see their parents again. Who are forced to live with friends or even strangers. Whose lives will never be the same again. This is Trump’s legacy. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids

I’d rather live next to wind turbines and solar panels.

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'

Links between mother's intake of ultraprocessed foods during pregnancy with smaller embryonic growth and reduced fertility among prospective fathers academic.oup.com/humrep/advan...

When DOGE arrived at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the operatives had no real background in nuclear issues. They boxed out experienced hands, forcing resignations and massive exodus of talent. Over 400 people have since left or been forced out. Our full story: https://propub.li/4sxHHmW

“By September, we will have some of the first answers. Within six months of that, we will have definitive answers,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said about the causes of autism. It's now six months later. The FDA just quietly walked back leucovorin. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Not unrelated donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

Harrowing and essential reading. Gift 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

American concentration camps. Don't turn away. This is our great shame, and we must face it. We must dismantle this system, provide reparations to its victims, and punish those who built it.

Next Saturday, March 28th, I will join millions of Americans taking part in No Kings protests throughout the country. I hope you will join in. Everything is at stake. snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...

Many great points made in thi article. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The cynical weaponization of antisemitism remains one of the Trump administration's favorite cudgels. It's a front for advancing authoritarian aims, silencing dissent, wrecking liberal education, and imposing fear. Harvard’s leadership must not cave. Neither should any of us.

Robert Mueller pursued justice and the truth. May he rest in peace. www.npr.org/2026/03/21/n...

Robert Mueller earned his place in history; Donald Trump just proved he belongs in a comment section. Character can’t be faked, and integrity can’t be bought. No matter how many buildings you put your name on. — Rest in peace to a true public servant.

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠