This was an amazing project to be a part of! Led by Hildegard Uecker and Matt Osmond, and including a bunch of awesome people.

'A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concent...

In a functioning democracy, he would not be president by this evening

Congratulations to Dr. Joey Bernhardt on winning the 2026 #StevensonLectureshipAward 🎉 An Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph she is recognized for her contributions to aquatic ecology, biodiversity research, and interdisciplinary scholarship. Learn more ▶️ https://ow.ly/tKnu50Y9U3w#StevensonLectureshipAward

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

The President literally tilting at windmills- but without any of the romantic/heroic aspects of Don Quixote.

#GRAMMYs Best Traditional Blues Album Winner: Ain't Done with the Blues - Buddy Guy

Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who was detained by federal agents while wearing a Spider-Man backpack and a blue bunny hat, is back home in Minnesota, a statement from his school district said on Sunday. A federal judge had demanded that the boy and his father be set free a day earlier.

Over 1,200 miles in the car this weekend, to and from the far corners of Kansas. Up by 5 and home after midnight, making every hour count: tabling with the party, meeting supporters, lecturing on negotiation strategy, and seeing a bald eagle strike. God, I love Kansas.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Concentration camps by any other name are still camps.

2026 has already been a fairly terrible year, but Catherine O’Hara? When we need laughter more than anything? It’s horribly unfair, we should have been blessed with her for so much longer.

“Permit to carry holders, they’re allowed to carry in public," said Rob Doar, president of the Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center. "There’s nothing inherently criminal about that activity. You also don’t have to choose between exercising your First Amendment rights or your Second Amendment rights.”

Stephen Miller is a very sick person, more so, IMO, than the president. And he is calling the shots. I remember when Terry Moran dared to make this observation and got fired from ABC for it.

There were six or seven agents, trying to harm a man who looks unarmed and still they murdered him in broad daylight. These ICE agents are venal, incompetent, cowardly and this type of execution will keep on happening because they are an unchecked paramilitary force of scared men who crave power.

The NSF strategic plan FY 2026-30 is available for public comment until Jan 27. Please make your voice heard! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

are they not monsters?

NSF is open for feedback on their strategic plan, deadline is Jan 27!! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham jail: "We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

Another thing that I do to support my students is that I acknowledge what’s happening, and I don’t pretend that stuff like this is normal, and that everything’s fine. I have had students tell me that they feel like they’re going crazy because they see what is happening but no one will speak of it.

I don’t make the rules, but when it’s reposting this, I damn well follow them and YOU’D BETTER TOO. youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.

Was honored to hear @colinmcroberts.bsky.social speak last night - great views on accountability in the Department of Education and the economic importance of flipping Kansas’ 1st Congressional District. colinforkansas.com

Do you care about the future of the US NSF and science in general? The agency is seeking feedback on the draft Strategic Plan. www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

“Scientific societies can support you and foster you through your whole career” - SSB President @trayc7.bsky.social opening the #ssb2026 meeting Can’t join us today? Make sure your registration is up to date to keep up with SSB news and happenings www.systbio.org

Washington National Opera is the latest group attempting to leave the newly-renamed Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It would end a partnership of over five decades.

Breaking News: The Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center after President Trump’s intervention upset artists and donors. The opera has performed there since 1971.

Danceable, which is good because we need to dance right now youtu.be/mrV8kK5t0V8

Anatomy promotes neutral coexistence of strains in the human skin microbiome Take home: each pore is dominated by a single genotype due to neutral bottlenecking (priority effects) I absolutely love this paper. It's very clearly written and fun to use when teaching. 👏🧪 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Whenever a law enforcement officer shoots an unarmed person or even an armed person for that matter, those who would justify that behavior are doing so under the belief that the death penalty, without judge or jury, is an appropriate response.

A tenured professor who was briefly fired by Austin Peay State University in Tennessee in September for what the school’s president said was an insensitive social media post about the killing of Charlie Kirk will get a $500,000 settlement and his job back.

Applications now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2026! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Apply by January 30: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social

It might be cringe but I sincerely and earnestly recommend getting involved with local political orgs as the best remedy to despair. Connect with the good people in your community and do the work. I promise it helps. I attended the Douglas County KS Democrats happy hour tonight & am so inspired.

Even in Kansas! @colinmcroberts.bsky.social for KS-01!

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you! Hi, I’m pneumonia. You would think the flu couldn’t almost take out a healthy person in their late 20s. You would be wrong.

Key point is that Trump foreign policy is not about sovereign equality. It is about dominance and extraction for the ruling elite clique. To really understand what is going on we need to view not through Westphalian lens but of neo-royalist order. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A lovely Black Manhattan, utilizing some wonderful birthday bourbon!

I’m working next to Colin (@colinmcroberts.bsky.social) at a coffee shop while he writes thank-you notes to donors to his congressional campaign. Seeing how many of you have donated to him makes my heart so full. THANK YOU so much, dear friends!!!

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

“.. We can no longer permit ourselves nor ask our audiences to step inside this once great institution,” he said. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict is now out! Get your copy directly from @harvardpress.bsky.social

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

Happy Boxing Day - and may all your Christmas trees include a hidden cat.

Oh, NOW he has a sense of what might go wrong.

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!! 1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each) nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

For fuck’s sake . . . not only is the leader of our country a wanna be dictator, he is a whiny jealous little baby. I know, on the grand scheme of horrors, this is rather minor, but I’m ashamed to be on the same continent as this loser.

Misjudged a step when taking my dog down the back steps, stepped down hard on one leg and now my hip and back are killing me. Positives: didn’t go tumbling down the steps and break something. Negatives: being old sucks.