Ok but my real question is who is naming the variants and why cicada?!

Loooool

As someone who just lost their non profit job of less than a year after five plus years of unemployment, it’s not just about earning money; it’s about having something to do with your hours, days and weeks. Humans need work to occupy our minds and time and keep us sane.

This is timely as I was discussing fallbacks given the state of academic research and my fallback is like public health government work 😭😭😭 so it’s uh not looking to hot.

I make enough money writing books and TV and freelance pieces to live semi-comfortably, and I have no guarantee any of those jobs will get me to retirement age. To some extent, this has always been true for my profession; what is new is the idea that there are no real, safe fallback jobs.

Did they really name this after Rosalind Franklin 😝 Do they know

Had a great time as the colloquium speaker for UC San Diego Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics! I even got to talk about @blackinastro.bsky.social in a “Antiracism in the Physical Sciences” class! #BlackInAstro

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

The front group trying to defeat new maps in Virginia by using misleading images of Barack Obama and MLK is fueled by none other than MAGA darling Peter Thiel. @thelisagraves.bsky.social takes a look at Thiel's dark past — and his new project — for Grave Injustice.

THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME DEBUTED AT #9 ON THE INDIE BESTSELLER LIST!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!! What I love most about this is that it means people are supporting indie bookstores ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ www.bookweb.org/sites/defaul...

The financial disparity between "wealth classes" is so great in this country that people are FURIOUS about being taxed on SECOND HOMES worth more than $5 million dollars.

Shoutout to nasal allergy spray

Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists. We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't. Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding

he’s not as visible as most of the folks in the administration but after stephen miller vought is probably the most evil of the lot he is ideologically committed to destroying the entire concept of the public good

New collaboration project unlocked. 😁

It’s hard not to see Vance’s criticism of the Pope’s theological bona fides as just silly hubris. But I also see it as a stress test of sorts — can they manipulate sentiment against a pontiff. Not for Trump’s interests. More likely for Thiel’s.

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

WTH ?! No.

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

Exactly what Kate said. Whenever someone asks me where the Mayor should get the $150 million more funds for NYC public libraries, the answer is the cops. Period.

I'm not out here screeching "NO FEDPOSTING, GANG" just to hear myself type, folks.

Personally, the fact that universal pre-k4 does not yet exist in Maryland is BANANAS

Looking at this graph of consumer economic sentiment, seems clear the vibes have been Bad since May 2020 - and I suspect a pervasive sense of chaos and instability since, coupled with Covid trauma we mostly just don't talk about, is contributing big-time to that: yougov.com/en-us/articl...

Yea I remember when adults joined Facebook and just obliterated the vibes there. It’s one of the reasons I am ok with not being on tik tok. It’s not for me and that’s ok. (No I’m not subbing anyone if you’re an adult on tik tok this is not a personal attack. Stop Typing)

how adults colonize every third space and remove young people — including the Internet link: dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/8134647...

Amazing how not wanting DEI and Black lives Matter has caused so much havoc

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

*stares in #TheDoubleTax*

Neo-Nazis have shut down the entire federal funding office for social and behavioral sciences so they can spread election, war, and health disinformation without accountability, and we have to suffer the final indignity of the tongue-in-cheek lie we might be able to debate them into decency

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

An unfortunately perfect example of a policy entrepreneur

The hits really rolling in this week. 😭

For someone who campaigned on a cast-iron promise to strengthen Medicare and not start “new wars,” saying that the federal government can’t “take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare[…]” is a stark U-turn that may put the health care access of tens of millions of Americans at risk.

House Democrats were blocked from bringing up a vote to stop Trump's war in Iran during a Thursday session held while the House is on break.

It’s a sit in your car for 15 minutes and hype yourself up to start the work day kinda morning 🙃

Mantasy? You mean the entire fucking history of the genre? Fuck out of here with this shit. In fact, we need LESS dudes in SFF. Just a hiatus on dudes writing their vision of the future for the next decade because we've done such a LOVELY job with the present.

The thing is once you’ve been deported from somewhere it makes it substantially harder to apply for immigration to travel, study or live anywhere else. Not that Miller or Trump or anyone cares about anything else but the whitening of US universities

I just… what's even the point anymore, y'know? Why do i bother.

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Don’t cross the picket line!

I am honored to be nominated for ASCB Council this year. If you are an ASCB member, please share and vote before April 30th! The amazing @rogerslabucd.bsky.social is also on the ballot!

When the only clinic that offered abortions in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula closed, an urgent care decided to step in to fill the gap. Now, others are considering similar moves as brick-and-mortar clinics close in blue states. n.pr/4chq6J5

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

You know the brand is strong when your former postdoc advisor gives you a content warning when they are about to bring up AI as a discussion point. 🤣

a group of AuDHD women is called a Clusterfocus

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News)