The idea of anything remotely Jewish being "uncritically supportive" of _anything_ is wild

@disabilitystor1.bsky.social

oh goody this one is gendered female

and named after the history of science’s Patron Saint of Having Your Work Ripped Off and Unrecognized By Dudes

Also (re Steyer), gov of CA is not an entry-level public service position!

and sometimes - with limited resources of time, energy, and authority - one is forced to choose between trying to hold someone accountable for their harmful behavior vs caring for those who have been harmed.

Excellent! Set up as many of those as you can.

I stepped down from chairing a ~50-person department for 9 years almost 2 years ago, and I am still recovering. Protect your physical (and mental) health! Also, set aside time each week for your own research/scholarship, and make that inviolate. (did I do this? No - but it's essential). Good luck!

This is the culmination of SIXTEEN YEARS of dogged work by everyday Hungarians.

You think that felt hopeless sometimes? I'm sure it did.

👏 Don't 👏 give 👏 up 👏

Texas Tech System leader cancels academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation, gender identity Chancellor Brandon Creighton directed provosts to phase out the programs and ordered universities to recognize only “two human sexes.”

Texas Tech is expanding its prohibition on "gender and sexual orientation" topics to include faculty research and student theses and dissertations.

Our chancellor wants to censor the truth because he knows it topples the hateful ideology of MAGA.

Knowledge is power, so they plan to destroy it.

There's a reason I highlighted Texas A&M in my column series on the Red Scares. Yet, they remain a member of the AAU in good standing.

Sharing with the text of the resignation letter in the alt

I have grown to love Iranians from afar.

FFS. This has been an incredible program since forever (I'm not even an ecologist - I know this all the way over in Developmental Biology) - archiving it will save $17.95. 😡

"When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it's because it is deeply unsettled. I think that this promise of an artificial intelligent future is really just a collective anxiety that very wealthy, powerful people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future. If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled —AI is already here, the end is already here-then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse." Today, I refuse. Tressie McMillan Cottom Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

see post for image showing _communion_ by bell hooks, vs _Communion_ by JD Vance .....

While every day is a great day to buy books by bell hooks, June 16 (Vance's release date - also Bloomsday!) will be particularly fine ....

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

had exactly this conversation earlier today ....

Thank you for making No Kings 3 the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen. #NoKings

The Shocking Speed of China’s Scientific Rise When will Chinese research pull ahead of the U.S.’s?

American science has been the envy of the planet since World War II but it has recently gone into decline. The Trump administration vandalized US scientific institutions, suspended research grants in bulk and put entire lines of cutting-edge research on ice.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

congratulations! Great news, and richly deserved!

REMEMBER YOU WERE SLAVES IN THE LAND OF EGYPT YA DUMB MFERS

I hope no one needs an MRI this year.

The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half.

No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

I am heartbroken to hear this. I will be thinking of you and your family.

OMG this is so triggering! (Didn't realize it was really a niche horror movie)

it's not a pipeline - it's a gel filtration column. (and yes, it's full of acid)

pure comedy gold ....

reposting for @jacobuzman.bsky.social -
birding is safer, no?

What’s crazy is that this really drives home what critics of AI have been saying: these AI products that companies push out and make us pay for have largely been trained and made from the free,unpaid,and public labor of people collecting data for them. And the ppl are completely unaware of this

Our @statnews.com survey of NIH-funded researchers drew nearly 1,000 responses from 45 states (plus DC and Puerto Rico). Here's a short thread on 5 scientists' whose labs and lives have been deeply impacted by federal policies 🧵

Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’ Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... “I think all of us in academia have an obligation to speak out and protest when our rights are being trampled on. And that’s what’s happening here.”