Thank you, Emma, for speaking out with such conviction and clarity. 👏 Courage is contagious, so I hope some of those at the top are listening.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

As someone who has gone through a RIF reinstatement. I encourage you to imagine being fired from your current job abruptly and callously. Now imagine your employer was forced to rehire you. How excited would you be to return?

Worked with a student who mused in their app if a sentence was “too DEI”. It’s sadly valid under this admin.

This is the kind of half baked, flashy and wasteful idea that I’ve come to expect from Oded. 🙃

Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask. (Published September)

“Critical thinking AI” something AI can’t do. 🫠

From yesterday's rally calling for the impeachment of RFK, Jr. www.dcnewsnow.com/video/hundre... @standupforscience.bsky.social

Do the mysteries of synonymous codons keep you up at night? Are you constantly correcting your colleagues when they say "SILENT MUTATION" Then you need to be at The 3rd Codon Usage Conference: Function, Mechanism & Evolution Montreal Canada (May 31-June 3, 2026) sites.google.com/view/codonus...

SCIENCE ON THE MOVE! The march has reached HHS, where stacks of petitions are piling up! FOLLOW ALONG ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/3Hi18Fv...

Impeach RFK Jr. If things go on, North America is on track to becoming a hotspot for permanent measles transmission. Canada could lose its measles-free designation this week. We are not be far behind. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...

Today at 4:00 PM on the National Mall in Washington DC, the March for Health and Science is taking place. If you’re in the area, we’d be grateful if you joined to support healthcare workers and scientists during this unprecedented attack by the Republican Party.

At @embo.org #EMBOMobileGenome and want to connect with other TE researchers and follow the latest goings on? Use #TEworldwide and #TEsky in your posts to be featured in the TEworldwide feed, which you can also find here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

One of those places where academia and creative fields rhyme.

42 million people cant buy food this month. It’s time to tax billionaires.

-Sep 30: USDA releases guidance saying they can use contingency fund -Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse -Oct 23: USDA deletes guidance saying they can use contingency fund -Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund -Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds -Nov 1: no funds go out

Adaptogen is another 🚩 IMO.

There is a legal case for [a heist from the Louvre]—but it is strewn with obstacles.

The best two things in one database: Transposons and Fungi

Support Jamaica. Donate at this .gov.jm website. “In [Melissa’s] aftermath, recovery will take every helping hand. Together, let us stand ready to protect and help families recover, rebuild homes and restore livelihoods once the storm passes.” supportjamaica.gov.jm

The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.

And notably fungi. 🍄‍🟫

It’s not comfortable, there is a risk, and that’s what makes it powerful. So, when you feel the need to crouch down and not rock the boat: TAKE THE OPPOSITE ACTION. This is AMERICA! Rock the boat. Say Trump’s name. Call out people and places to take a risk. Courage is contagious.

“You need to be harvesting the moon” -Bezos Nope! Nobody needs to harvest the moon. Billionaires in space means extractive colonialism for profit in space. 👎

Sounds Bayesian. 🤨

“You need to be harvesting the moon” -Bezos Nope! Nobody needs to harvest the moon. Billionaires in space means extractive colonialism for profit in space. 👎

Fertility rates are a fixation of eugenicists and they’ve been screaming about this loudly for decades. The largely discredited credo on this The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich was published in 1968.

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

Inhaling *not oxygen* cures diseases insofar as dead people don’t get diseases.

A reminder to all scientists & data viz people 🧪: It's Spooky Science Time. Adjust your models to use the paranormal distribution 👻from now until November 1st.

I can’t wait until my platform is large enough for me to complain about being censored. 🤬

Updating my LEGO White House

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

We’re working on different ways to package & share my weekly debriefs. You’ll get the fastest & latest from me here as I move through my days, but if you want it scaled back and threaded with just the key links, that’s what we are designing the main Liminal posts to do.

Is that dog blowing a whistle?? 🧐

oh my god he demolished it lmao www.lawdork.com/p/trump-demo...

All pasta is good pasta.

The government shutdown is especially tough on men, who are losing $1.00 for every 75¢ a woman loses.

Oh @lovettbr.bsky.social Bug King turned Science Fighter. What would we do without your data viz skillz and levity?!

Illegally in shambles.

If you are cheering on universities for not signing the compact, you need to hold scientific societies to that same standard. No capitulation. RFK Jr and his MAHA movement are killing people, sowing mistrust and disinformation, and harming the public in ways that will be felt for a VERY long time.

On Sept 17th, 2025, @aaas.org and @researchamerica.bsky.social hosted Jay Bhattacharya—NIH Director—as the keynote for the National Health Research Forum. Less than two weeks later, he spoke at the MAHA Action hour alongside Oz, Russel Brand, Tony Lyons, and Callie Means. I have a call to action:

You have to shout it as you enter each room just in case. 😜

I hate to be controversial, but Democrats shouldn’t run candidates with Nazi tattoos. I will never vote for someone with a Nazi tattoo.

TAKE ACTION WITH US! Join us for a phone zap targeting voters in Republican swing districts about saving science! ⏰ Thursday, October 23rd at 6pm ET 📍Virtually! zurl.co/rIiV6

Hard to not feel like we are living amid the death of the U.S. research university — for all its problems, a truly important institution. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Our new paper from #EntoPOC led by Dr. Evangelista! Evaluating perceptions of STEM majors to explain diversity gaps in entomology and other sciences url: academic.oup.com/aesa/article...

everything about Trump would be too hacky and on the nose for fiction