You had me at keystone species.
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You had me at keystone species.
Hey Harvard alumni, you okay with this?
I’m no longer surprised people would elect Lex Luthor and The Penguin to office.
Yessss!
Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"
My parents, who have never touched a weapon in their lives, just called to tell me they got Florida hunting licenses They're going to enter the bear hunt lottery so they can not kill the bear and save the bear's life
This is the way
The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
Any suggestions of scholarship on wearing technology (smart watches, oura rings, ovulation tracking apps) and data privacy considerations? I’d love to include some of this scholarship in my class! Thanks in advance 🙂
More than 180 current and former FEMA employees signed the letter sent to the FEMA Review Council and Congress warning that FEMA's capacity to respond to a major disaster was dangerously diminished.
Or it will make the virus stronger. God I hate these people.
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
I would call my member of congress to support this.
Its still iffy whether your insurance will pay for it even if the pharmacist will administer it.
Remove them in 2026.
I miss the old brand #CDC
If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
The Wizard of Oz Tornado District
Pretty informative thread.
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This is pathetic
There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Kristi Noem still hasn’t been brought before the Judiciary Committee. What are Republicans afraid of?
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov
Everyone should listen to this real talk, but especially my fellow journalists. & consider the fact that a governor, saying this now, is putting themselves at risk. That’s his job. It’s our job, too.
“I will not interfere with access to vaccines.” 💣 Fires entire ACIP panel and appoints nutters 💣 Works to disband USPSTF 💣 Removes kids from COVID guidelines 💣 Threatens pediatricians who vaccinate children according to AAP guidelines It’s time for him to go. FIRE RFK JR #firerfkjr #savehhs
Pope Defends Rights Of Refugees Evicted To Build US Military Base
Did you miss any of @eos.org's live coverage of the EPA hearings on the proposed repeal of the endangerment finding, where hundreds of Americans spoke out in defense of climate science? Check out highlights here: eos.org/research-and...
URGENT: If you have ANY information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and/or the process to send him to Uganda, PLEASE message me on Signal: marisakabas.04 Your anonymity will be fully protected. I know it’s scary to speak out, but this is a man’s life.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
If you’re afraid of sandwiches, I’m not sure I’d recommend invading Chicago.
Here in Baltimore this morning, where clergy and activists have gathered in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is set to check in with ICE this morning. Heavy faith presence in addition to, just, a lot of people for 6:45am. Kilmar himself is about to speak.
👏👏👏👏👏
Welp ICE is kidnapping people in my town now.
NIMBYs come for data centers.
I thought you said fun.
Ugh.
It’s a good day. Abrego Garcia, Free From Tennessee Jail, Is Returning to Maryland, Lawyer Says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Second date idea:
The people that kept saying “we support immigration, it just has to be legal” are now going through 55 million legal visas to find new people to deport.
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Big news out of Florida tonight! An environmental challenge has brought the use of the Everglades detention camp to a halt.
Comfortable is the new cold.
Gonna keep going to CrossFit to see how many other of these motherfuckers I can outlive. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Day 3 of the public hearing on the EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding will begin shortly.🧪 As before, we’ll be following along: 👇🧵
Now that the academic purge is coming for Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies, can we please stop pretending this has anything to do with "fighting antisemitism?"
Oh shit.
I'm not a finance person but Target as we knew it is done. Too many people have gone too long without shopping there and realized that they were just buying junk. For a lot of people Target was a habit they used to self soothe and their position on DEI forced people to change the habit
know what really doesnt belong in US cities? The US military.
A representative of the Maryland Department of the Environment calls the proposal illegal under the Clean Air Act and prevent states like MD from meeting Ambient Air Quality Standards. "2010 is not a year we want to go back to." [apologies from Eos, we missed the speaker's name]
It’s not just that mRNA vaccines prevented 20 million people around the world from dying of Covid. MRNA tech also show promise for personalized cancer vaccines, autoimmune therapies and treatments for rare diseases. We’re walking away from all that but full speed ahead on coal burning and AI.
Carolyn Heckman, Evangelical Environmental Network, details the lingering damage in western N.C. from Helene. "I'm horrified to see that *this* is how we respond as a nation" [referring to the proposal]. "All god's children deserve to grow up with a healthy, vibrant environment."
Victoria Goebel, also EEN, says that the Bible calls us to ask justly, and that we cannot do that while ignoring the unequal impacts of climate change. Heat waves cause >12,000 deaths every year & that number will only grow. She says the proposal is a threat to life & calls this a pro-life issue.
Today is Day 2 of the public hearing on the EPA’s reconsideration of the 2009 endangerment finding, the key ruling underpinning U.S. greenhouse gas regulations. 🧪 Testimonies start at the top of the hour, and we’re following along: 👇🧵
From @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social: “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now—before the FDA label changes (possibly this Friday). Once it happens, access will be limited immediately.”
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✨🍁Now Open! 🍁✨ The application for the Fall 2025 Young Voices of Science Program is now open through Friday, September 5th! Please share with your community! Application Form: forms.gle/Q7PvvNWQowF9... 🔗No need to be a student to apply! #science #sciencecommunication #scicomm
❗️ALERT❗️ ICE making arrests at 8th & H St NE! Stay clear of the area! If you see someone being detained, get their name, date of birth, & a person to contact. You can DM us to coordinate getting that info to legal support
NEW: A Senate investigation led by Sen. Jon Ossoff found more than 500 credible reports of abuses in ICE custody, including alleged mistreatment of pregnant women and children. @dell.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/senate...
Slow down ICE by helping local businesses put up signs to clearly mark “Staff Only” areas that can’t be entered without a warrant. Protect your community while showing solidarity with immigrant workers and customers: act.indivisible.org/...
Life comes at you fast
Mobius strip from hell.
Outside Dupont north metro
We had actual an actual assassination of a Democratic legislator in Minnesota two months ago & it’s completely disappeared from the National Conversation™️. This happens the time over & over again 👇
One thing about DC is it’s considerably prettier and cleaner than most other American cities. Too bad the people in charge of the country hate it so much.
I’m not sure how a regional sewer district in northern Ohio became one of my favorite BlueSky contributors but here we are.
Just cause I was born in 86 I'm excluded. Thanks.
Would also like to add that pregnancy can also push you towards developing diabetes. You know the thing they want to force ppl to be/do.
I did this — writers, heads up.
Those of us in STEM must vocally affirm that the humanities are our allies, and no department is expendable. Arguing we can survive by cutting whole disciplines isn’t just inhumane, it’s nonsensical. The humanities tell us why we’re here in the first place, and what to do about it! This isn’t hard!
Is the world laughing at us or looking on in horror?
Huh. I don't remember the federal government asking me what flavor of "white" I am before. This list of what are I think meant to be ethnicities also seems really arbitrary, and doesn't map out onto ethnicities per se. (This is for an NSF annual personnel report for a graduate training program.)
Amazing how many of our current villains have similar origin stories: Someone criticized them or failed to give them the respect / status to which they felt entitled. Naturally, this left them with no choice but to destroy the offending institution/s, possibly the whole country.
As if D.C. traffic wasn't already a nightmare.
People who don't realize the people in charge don't like scientists because they hate being wrong, would rather make things up without any thought for consequence (but they might profit from selling their snake oil).
Arrest the damn humidity.
What makes me unsafe in DC
Could be a mobius strip of nightmares.
The crime scene in D.C. most damaging to everyday Americans is at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I just… what are some of these people *doing* out here???
It’s too early for this.
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National Guard deployed to protect the Epstein Files.
So please shut your mouth about humanities majors.
![harpersmagazine ••• [HARPER'S INDEX] Chance that a recently graduated U.S. computer-engineering major is unemployed : 1 in 13 That an economics major is : 1 in 20 That an art-history major is : 1 in 33 Source: Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:byohyhodi6iknxngf3oypcge/bafkreidrlhphnllzih5wyhxigl3omfsdso3yayfjbxl3lbn7oh4baph4j4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.
Mishti doing loaf pose.
Flying this Christmas to see my brother, I'm an American Citizen but still worried cause of my melanin.
Ah, yes, the National Mall. Lots of drugs near The Museum of Natural History. Tons.
If you’re in DC and seeing National Guard/Federal agent activity, reach out via Signal at marisakabas.04
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Come check out my presentation on what community properties can predict microbiome resistance to drought today! #ESA2025 COS 015 BCC 336 3:30-5:00
Wins are happening every week at local elections. In many cases, these are blowout wins for progressives, with repercussions that will ripple outward for years.
Natalie Litofsky 