Happy World Book Day #WorldBookDay

C’mon people! This is nearly fully funded.

If you aren’t on the inside, you are the mark.

I’m scheduled to give. It’s easy and there are lots of locations. Look on the site for a donation location nearby

Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations,,, so I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the US gofund.me/140322128

Shermer is well known in the Sceptic community and is the reason I won’t attend any CSICON events ever again. He’s an anti science misogynist creep. OSU should be ashamed for creating the Salmon P. Chase Center let alone inviting him and Ross Douthat to speak.

ICE is bad. Deportation is bad. Immigration restriction is almost always bad. Armed masked men going into homes without warrants is so obviously villainous that the fact anyone approves it is a stain that will haunt even generous histories of our nation ever after. I am anti-ICE.

Lovely.

“Why don’t we invite your friend over?” he suggests, testing the waters. “There’s nothing I love more than watching two women in sweatpants engaging in hot political discourse."

Things are pretty terrible but I finished a little embroidery today and it’s pretty cute.

Back when I worked for Ohio EPA I said “If I never see the inside of another sewage treatment plant it will be too soon”. I’d make an exception for these guys.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Things are terrible but raspberries were on sale this week

Hero

So the “closed” daycares…were closed during the last week of the year, during which most daycares are closed. And the doors were “locked,” which they are at every daycare. And they wouldn’t let in a “journalist” with a camera…which they wouldn’t do at any daycare. Got it.

I wouldn’t have watched that 60 Minutes story because I don’t watch that show but I watched it this time. Trying to bury information backfires spectacularly.

Orange Spice cookies ala @marissarothkopf.bsky.social. These smell like Christmas! #Cookies

Too many Hallmark movies.

@ninawest.bsky.social is a national treasure. What a bunch of tools.

Only 2% of @wikipedia.org users support. I am one. As a professor in 2006, I hated it; thought my students would get wrong info. Instead, I found it a great starting point for them & me, plus *rigorously* corrected. Now it’s one of few places not skewed by misinformation. Low as $2.75 a month. Give!

Fuck these people that this was even necessary.

Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

Anyone voting in 2026 without a full understanding of the information below is not an informed voter.

These are typically all worth your time to read. We all need a little humor.

Posting things as facts without providing citations

The f*&%ing library.

#copyediting No, we're not calling it Alligator Alcatraz. It's a Florida concentration camp.

When I hear people say “why do children today need so many more shots than I did?” all I hear is “why can’t children today get infected and sick as much as when I was growing up?”

My husband’s most recent work.

Going to get an MMR booster today before it’s too late to get one.

As usual, we are living in the dumbest times. Light up the phones people!

I can’t begin to express my admiration of @charlotteclymer.bsky.social. She is the only person who could adequately describe this ceremony with the gravitas it deserves.

As if I didn’t need another reason to leave Ohio. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Don’t we all need a little good news? The new recombinant shingles vaccine is even more protective against dementia than the live virus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An advance look at Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices,” the cover for next week’s issue. #NewYorkerCovers

I feel this in my bones.

It would be funnier if it was actually funny

This Day in Labor History: March 25, 1911. 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City died when the building in which they worked caught on fire. Let's talk about the horrors of the Triangle Fire, what changed, and what remains the same 114 years later (mostly it's all the same)

Funny enough, I do happen to find myself in Columbus.

Me too. All of these things are more important to me than tax cuts for the rich.

I have no reaction other than what the actual fuck.

It’s macaron baking day

We need to stop letting them get away with using the initials. It’s Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion. Make them say what they oppose. Make them say it out loud.

It’s not so much a panic “attack” at this point, it’s more of a standing appointment we have in the morning where we meet for coffee

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

If this is your Senator, the time to call their office is NOW!

OMG my favorite regional sewer system is on BlueSky❤️