L’accordo UE-Mercosur porterebbe in Europa cibo con pesticidi vietati, minacciando salute e agricoltori. Agisci ORA per difendere i nostri standard alimentari! #StopMercosur action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...
Trump didn’t declare martial law. He built it. His April 28 executive order militarizes police, guts oversight, and punishes dissent. The Insurrection Act report is hidden. Democracy is being signed away—one order at a time. #Resist #Authoritarianism Full Article: www.facebook.com/share/p/16KE...
"China's foreign ministry urged Washington on Friday to stop "misleading the public" on bilateral tariff negotiations:
"The United States and China are not engaged in consultations or talks on the tariff issue"
www.reuters.com/world/beijin...
Today in #Chicago. Lots of people.
Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. www.msha.gov/notice-stake...
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
When elected officials see mass protests and then immediately adjust their behavior in response, that is a good thing. That's how this should work!
Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.
For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research.
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
The Anti-Woke Counterrevolution Begins | Richard K. Vedder url:https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=15230
“It should be obvious to everyone that what’s happening on this campus is not about protecting Jews.” -Columbia Professor Emerita Marianne Hirsch, daughter of Holocaust survivors
#FreeMahmoud
We have *48 hrs* to make a difference!
“This week is the best shot at finally forcing Senate Democrats to fight against the DOGE crime spree, which is really an attack on the sovereignty of the American people.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...
These are challenging times for science, but I'm happy to share a bright moment: our work is on the cover of Cell today.
We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe
www.cell.com/cell/current...
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
Check it out - PhD student @maggiesteiner.bsky.social's nice thread and link to our new preprint on how sample design, in terms of how geographically narrow vs broad a sample is, impacts the discovery/SFS of deleterious variants.
WHY THIS MATTERS!
~only care about their bottom line.
~ If we disrupt the economy for just ONE day, it sends a powerful message.
~ If they don't listen we will make the next blackout longer
This is our first action.
This is how we make history.
February 28th
The 24 Hour Economic Black Out Begins
Join us in Tuscany this summer for a Gordon Conference aimed at the cutting edge of how we use genomics to answer fundamental questions in ecology and evolution! Lots of great speakers already and we'd love to add you to the list
www.grc.org/ecological-a...
An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
Rubio: "no country's ever made an offer of friendship such as this"
Bukele: "we are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee"
bbc.com/news/article...
Without public knowledge, Elon Musk is serving as a “special government employee” under President Donald Trump, with access to sensitive information (including your SSN) and broad authority granted by Trump.
Elon Musk’s staffers have gained unauthorized access to sensitive government employee data by installing a server at the OPM. They now have access to USAJOBS, the federal hiring portal where applicants submit personal details such as Social Security numbers, home addresses, and employment histories.
I’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon.
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...
