black and blue ink painting of black hole with grid

Hey, I made some more #sciart! New Black Hole ink painting on yupo artologica.etsy.com/listing/4486...

This is absolutely infuriating and completely idiotic. An estimated 95,000 scientists and researchers have left federal agencies since Trump returned to the White House. These are the people tracking hurricanes, studying pediatric cancer, and modeling the climate tipping points that determine whether we can still prevent catastrophe. We lost them because this administration defunded their work, shuttered their offices, and made clear that finding out the truth is no longer a government priority.

Why spend years getting trained in research, building a story, just to watch capricious decisions, not based on science or merit, destroy years of your hard work and career?

I feel this deeply.

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and, like, almost everything bad that happens in air travel

trans pride flag hanging in Boston University science building window.

My small part. Glad BU paused this silly policy.

I have students going to a domestic conf who decided not to bring their awesome prototype (not dangerous, but it has "wires") because they are afraid of getting stopped by ICE. And they were right to do so, bc this is the world we live in.

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

taking their claims at face value, i sort of see a future possible where venturing onto the open internet is something people reluctantly do at work, either because it's unsafe or just very tedious to wade into, and personal life is either largely offline or through very controlled content channels

Today is disasters large and small/personal

Painting with dashes reflecting two young black girls, one with her arm around the other's shoulder, dressed in a red and a purple dress, walking away

Sister and Friend, 2024
by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter #WomensArt

picking up the pieces

Just been watching the Artemis II crew interviews that took place overnight and I just want to say what a great crew they are. You can see how well they know each other from the facial expressions and gestures. Couldn’t have picked a nicer bunch!

This rocket shit makes me so emotional LOL I will never not be overwhelmed by the incredible achievements of the human mind.

I had to contribute to the discourse.

AI is a better writer than your average senior engineering major. That's as far as it goes. It is always detectable to anyone who actually does writing.

Amid rising vaccine hesitancy, more parents reject vitamin K shots

When @davidlhillmd.bsky.social can't persuade parents to give their newborn a vitamin K shot, he at least tries to "make sure they're aware of the signs of a stroke or of a brain bleed in their babies" so the infants get fast medical attention.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

I taught a high school engineering class twice - and I never ever went back.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.

That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Nice! This is NOT a dem stronghold!!

"Rather than fighting perimenopause, let’s fight the disempowering concept that women and their hormones must be medically controlled. "

The perimenopause movement sells women the lie that they are ruled by their hormones The recent explosion of perimenopause attention tells women that they are controlled by their hormones.

The perimenopause movement sells women the lie that they are ruled by their hormones www.statnews.com/2026/03/26/p... via @statnews.com

NO KINGS Chatham · Mobilize PLEASE - keep everyone safe by staying on the lawn. We are not going into the street. **We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a sing...

See you there.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

I'll be in Watertown Square.

totally innocent

Notes from the aftermath of the cataclysmic collapse in my research life due to the DOGE bros:

◾ Our department is in receivership due to "financial distress" -- an invented form of receivership by our uni leadership

This requires a ton of extra (unpaid) work to save ourselves

Do you still have freedom of expression out there in the Berkshires?

Notably, the comments are off. As a donor, I am very disappointed by this writeup. There have been numerous signs up on campus in faculty windows for my 23 years at BU. A Bill Bradley sign and a Howard Dean sign were up for more than a decade.

Notably, the comments are off. As a donor, I am very disappointed by this writeup. There have been numerous signs up on campus in faculty windows for my 23 years at BU. A Bill Bradley sign and a Howard Dean sign were up for more than a decade.

FAQ: Boston University’s Signage and Posted Materials Policies Answers to some of the recent questions about BU’s policies and practices related to flags and signs posted in office windows and other outward-facing places

Oh my. www.bu.edu/articles/202...

In solidarity with my colleagues at BU, I've put up a Pride flag in my office window at Northeastern, facing Leon Street. Trans rights are human rights.

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025
Who were most affected?
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Early career and women researchers