Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil killed during Israeli "ceasefire" in Lebanon

apnews.com/article/leba...

Awesome!

Ah, thanks for clarifying!

Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found.

There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

🚨 BBC has examined trade volume data on several financial markets & matched them to some of Trump’s most significant market-moving statements.

It found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a SM post or media interview was made public.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"We Don't Talk About Bruno" - 'Songs in Sign Language' YouTube video by CartoonBrew.com Official

I haven't heard a single post about this anywhere--
disney's had their animators reanimate some of their recent iconic songs in ASL?? here's "we don't talk about bruno"??? this is amazing???

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBrv...

Toolkit | De-ICE Citizens Bank Your daily action plan & everything you need to help de-ICE Citizens Bank.

"On April 23, Citizens Bank will hold its annual meeting...We need your help to make sure that they are aware of the damage Citizens is doing to its brand by continuing to bankroll the for-profit ICE detention companies"
www.de-icecitizensbank.org/toolkit

Had this happen when I was a kid. In that case I think it was matchsticks left in a candle. Instant flame tower. The fireball when we, being kids,tried to put it out with water burned off my friend's eyebrows.

Happened again many years later, and I was smothering that thing so fast.

So scary!

Two UNICEF water truck drivers killed in Israeli "ceasefire" in Gaza.

www.unicef.org/press-releas...

Lebanese homes, mosques, churches and historical sites detonated in Israeli "ceasefire".

Thread with video:
bsky.app/profile/yair...

Ha'aretz (hit translate if needed): contractors paid by number of Lebanese homes demolished.

www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...

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Page 1 of a legal Judgment document from the United States District Court, District of Oregon for Case No. 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on 04/18/26. The plaintiffs are listed as "STATE OF OREGON, et al.," and the defendants are "ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, et al." The document is from United States District Judge Kasubhai. It outlines that final judgment is entered in favor of the Plaintiffs on Counts I, II, III, and IV. Item 3 states the Court holds unlawful, sets aside, and vacates the "Declaration of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services RE: Safety, Effectiveness and Professional Standards of Care for Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Children and Adolescents".

Page 2 of a legal judgment document for Case 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on April 18, 2026. The text outlines a court order declaring that defendants lack the authority to unilaterally establish standards of care that supersede professionally recognized standards for gender-affirming care in the Plaintiff States. It permanently enjoins defendants and their agents, including the HHS-OIG, from enforcing the "Kennedy Declaration" against providers in those states. The document is dated April 18, 2026, and is signed by United States District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai.

Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Next up: sue the govt for entire US GDP.

This was 100% true for me. In college, reading Sharon's "Warrior" was a huge thing even after Said, Shlaim, Morris etc.

E.g. he just goes out and says we're inviting families out onto military bases to build settlements to ensure there will never be peace or a 2 state solution that returns land!

Coatimundi in a tree with its long nose pointed up at the sky

Who doesn't want to see the underside of a coatimundi nose? #wildlife

Give students a few analytical tools and half a chance to dive into the literature and data on topics they care about and it is always amazing to see what they come up with.

Let’s Finally Do Something About the Bulldozer That Killed My Daughter Bernie Sanders is trying to end the shipment of US bulldozers to Israel—like the one that crushed my daughter, Rachel Corrie, to death 23 years ago.

In 2003, US citizen Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers using a US-provided bulldozer.

Her parents are calling on senators to vote yes today to block $295 million worth of these bulldozers to Israel. Join them by calling your senators TODAY:

Brazil creates the South Atlantic's largest marine park | Conservation International Conservation International helped secure a million-hectare marine park, two decades in the making.

Brazil has created the South Atlantic’s largest marine protected area, spanning about one million hectares. Supported by Conservation International, the reserve—roughly the size of Jamaica—aims to safeguard biodiversity, fisheries, and critical ocean ecosystems.

TIMELINE CLEANSE!!! Thank you, Ennion, glassmaker of 2,000 years ago!

Sharkmer: repurposing PCR primers for targeted genome assembly using in silico PCR AbstractSummary. We introduce an in silico PCR (sPCR) method for the assembly of specific genomic regions spanned by PCR primers using raw sequence reads.

Ever wanted to assemble specific genes out of raw sequence reads? Try sharkmer, a tool for in silico PCR (sPCR) developed with @shchurch.bsky.social - academic.oup.com/bioinformati.... Feed it raw reads and primer sequences, it gives you amplicon sequences. Can work on a laptop in minutes.

Had a pretty good run of it, but back to zero again.

(This time this gentleman. Right at Micaela's place at the kitchen table.)

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

💯. It is stagerring to think about how many brilliant and talented women are driven out of politics by this kind of crap. Cleaning house is the right thing to do.

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

Great news! 📕

Also: Forget a government "run like a business". I want a government run like a library.

I also think Trump's erratic policy confuses media coverage & makes protest harder. "A civilization will end" led Indivisible to call for emergency protests at 6pm, at which time policy already changed.

That said, what ideas do you have to best protest this awful war (probably more productive)?

Zogby poll from link as bar graph. Early war shows 48.8% support, 49.31% against. Mid-war is 32.7% support, 66.1% opposed.

Iranian Americans per Zogby now mostly oppose the war, but were reportedly much more split initially. I think this combines with other factors (campus crackdowns).

It's not too hard for me to imagine rightly hating a repressive regime so much you wish for foreign intervention (that proves awful)

Iran and Immigration Frustrations Fuel New Wave of ‘No Kings’ Rallies

I mean trivially, for mass protest opposing war with Iran was a main reason given by No Kings protesters.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

For civil disobedience, many 🇵🇸 protests were lead by Palestinian-Americans along with leftwing Jewish allies.

Polls say Iranians initially split on the war.

Just a reminder - if you are looking to advertise opportunities in marine science in the New England area, or look for marine science opportunities in the marine science area, the New England Marine Science opportunities listserv is your place to be! groups.google.com/g/ne_marine_... 🧪🌊🌍

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet.

What are we doing here?