So proud of this piece!! cacm.acm.org/opinion/comm...

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

I need a pirate expert - or just someone who REALLY gets into Talk Like a Pirate Day. It’s for research!

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

Don't trifle with a Mainer

Come to my Rogue Workshop at #CHI2025 - if you're furious at funding cuts and public kidnappings and letting 19-year-old kids mess around in the Social Security database, this workshop is for you! Wednesday, April 30 Room G313 2:10 - 3:40 pm

Watching this talk feels like looking at the near future of the US #CHI2025

Heading to #chi2025! See you all in Japan!

A friend who was out as a gay man during Section 28 was telling me the advice he used to give to straight allies asking how they could help back then: stand in solidarity with us so that some of the shit they’re throwing at us sticks to you. If you’re clean, you’re not standing close enough.

Sign spotted in a yard in Capitol Hill, where freedom of expression endures.

Today’s Bonus Daily Cartoon, by Guy Richards Smit. #NewYorkerCartoons

Beautiful 🥹 apple.news/AyXnrnJRMTTe...

Imagine if Terry Pratchett wrote a #DoctorWho episode What if the TARDIS landed in Ankh-Morpork? What if Death and Binky met The Doctor “OH DEAR, IT’S YOU. *sighs* I FIND YOU INCREDIBLY IRRITATING AS JUST AS YOUR HOURGLASS RUNS OUT IT BECOMES FULL AGAIN. I CALL THAT CHEATING” @rhi.bsky.social

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sorry i didn’t reply, i: ☐ forgot to ☐ am speechless! ☐ honestly thought i did? ☐ have nothing of value to add ☐ have no idea what you’re talking about ☐ don’t know how to respond to that? ☐ disagree and am letting the leaden weight of my silence speak for me ☐ don’t want to (check all that apply)

New essay: Fuck Fascism: On Radical Rudeness www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-fuck...

We Stan a legend

INFO’s little walk-out protest contribution today - just a couple of us, but we are but one node in a broad web… What do we want? SCIENCE! How do we want it! PEER REVIEWED What do we want? SCIENCE! How do we want it! APPROPRIATELY ARCHIVED

Doing meta-reviews of reviews of meta-analyses. I feel very meta right now.

Some things, once taken apart, cannot be "mended." Even so, they can still hold value. This is a post about disability. This might also be a post about democracy.

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

Reject hopelessness. Embrace joy. Go to battle.

No shade to The Verge but this Lenovo sponsored post promising AI WILL UNITE ZOOMERS AND BOOMERS IN THE WORKPLACE is the funniest bullshit I've ever read

I’m not sure what to think about the vanity plate I just saw - LOLITA

One of my students, presenting on how interactive and amazing museums can be, said: "Traditional museums are modeled after old British museums full of artifacts from countries they colonized. And they say DON'T TOUCH THE ART. Which is ironic."

TIL about the history of 'ugly laws' in the USA! '...a law of 1867 deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself or herself to public view."' With exceptions for 'demonstrations' 😒

The Business Insider referenced Vimes’ boot theory! It really has gained huge traction 😍 apple.news/AAlTaE1sqSS2...

👏🏽 😂 It’s good to see! apple.news/AJt5jdGEJQI2...

The bold, inspirational vision for 2024 from my state's Democratic Party: a "decency agenda"

Plus, they have the best flour (and their gluten free mixes are truly mind blowing)

I had no idea trail mix could be THIS GOOD 🤩 kickashproducts.com/shop/p/kick-...

Family in various states: we’ve got 12 inches of snow! My Newfie in Maryland: high of 60 tomorrow - can I come live with any of you?!

man what am i even supposed to do here

I’m not sure that ‘grass fed beef jerky’ goes in the Plant-Based Snack section, CVS 😂

Today is the Winter Solstice! I hope everyone has a good shortest day ☀️

Pls watch the segment w/ which @chrislhayes.bsky.social ended his show tonight. “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—& truly Oct 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza & what we as Americans & our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.” Yes.

A Tuesday at noon seemed like a good time for a Costco run - apparently everyone else had the same thought 😭

NEW: Judge Engoron DENIES Trump's motion for directed verdict in NY fraud case—and shares impressions of expert witnesses: "Bartov is a tenured professor, but all that his testimony proves is that for a million or so dollars, some experts will say whatever you want them to say." tinyurl.com/mr4asu3z

if Donald Trump hates immigrants so much, he should stop marrying them

I get SO MUCH work done when there's grading to avoid!

This piece from the Crisis Group is an excellent overview of where things stand -- and with a sharp and clear conclusion. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...