Duo on my widget is just so dramatic lol. At 8am, the little guy acts like I'm going to leave him forever.

I need an excel sheet to help me figure out a parent-teacher conference schedule for my 3 kids. Sigh.

A reminder for these times.

German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.

What the actual ... ? A German citizen is being held indefinitely at an American ICE facility. She experienced 9 days of solitary confinement at another facility before being transferred.

Seriously, I will not visit America as long as the current goons are in charge.

www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Dragon age veilguard complete

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

7: Mom. We were going to read Do Not Bring a Dragon to the Library. I told everyone that I have Dragons Love Tacos and Dragons Love Farts at home. Everybody laughed. [pause] But the teachers.

I do not possess the self control to simply walk past the pen aisle at Target

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

Fight Back Against the Trump-Musk Coup

I think we can safely say that folks are paying attention. If you're looking for ways to take action to fight back against the Trump-Musk Coup, we've got you covered with call scripts, email tools, explainers, and toolkits over at @indivisible.org: indivisible.org/coup

Lots more coming this week.

ALSOBROOKS: You said 'we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that is given to whites.' Can you please explain what you meant?

RFK Jr: There's a series of studies ...

ALSOBROOKS: What different schedule would you say I should've recevied?

Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic," according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times. The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport's vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.

NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

Y'all: This is devastating for universities. Imagine you have a colony of research animals and can't re-order the food. Or you are a grad student on grant funding who lives paycheck-to-paycheck (also know as a student on grant funding). wapo.st/4gfgcHQ

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between

If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Breslin arena before the MSU game

Go Green!

“Mommy, does the future ever happen?”
Existential questions at 8am

I love dimension 20. “Say ‘hi,’ intrepid heroes!”

Professorial groundhog

“If great teaching is as important as universities claim in mission statements, then they should reward such excellence with career advancement.” @holdenthorp.bsky.social isn’t your article and this quote itself a Ground Hog Day? But keep saying it please!

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

So excited that MSU will be virtually hosting @karencosta.bsky.social! All MSU educators should check this out! (I will be teaching 😭but hopefully it will be recorded) tech.msu.edu/news/2023/10...

How the attacks in Israel are changing Threads Twitter can’t handle the misinformation, so people are turning to Threads.

@caseynewton.bsky.social says the only thing standing in the way of Threads becoming the new Twitter for news is management embracing this role for their product (& maybe complying with European regulations).

Wish the Bluesky team could compete more aggressivley.
www.theverge.com/2023/10/10/2...

But I’m liking this space for the people

Threads may not have wanted to be a news space, but it is already so much more reliable than the bird site, and it feels like there are more news outlets there than here

I could listen to the Stardust audiobook non-stop