End Trump's militarized occupation in Minnesota! Minnesota is the Trump administration’s testing ground to see how far he can abuse his power and authority against the American people. That is why we need every person—in Minnesota and across the cou...

Add your name to the petition NOW and demand an END to Trump's militarized occupation in Minnesota. sign.moveon.org/petitions/mi...

Collage of six books that were included in this year’s Blue Ribbon awards.

“The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books” has announced the 2025 Blue Ribbon awards, its annual selection of best works in children’s and young adult literature across the categories of Picture Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Novels, and Poetry. Read more📚▶️ bit.ly/3LzoQrk

BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis.

Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.

Steve is preparing for Halloween.
(I also really want to know what he has stashed in that pumpkin?)

Does Tylenol use during pregnancy cause autism? Here's what science says There's no definitive evidence that Tylenol causes autism, and multiple medical groups have reiterated that it remains safe to use during pregnancy.

“There's no definitive evidence that Tylenol causes autism, and multiple medical groups have reiterated that it remains safe to use during pregnancy. “
Does Tylenol use during pregnancy cause autism? Here's what science says www.snopes.com/news/2025/09...

Xuan Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, will present "Towards Small, Open-Source, Multi-Modal Language Model Agents for Science and Society,” as part of “The AI Disruption” speaker series.

Join us next Wednesday for the first “The AI Disruption” talk of the semester! Xuan Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, will present "Towards Small, Open-Source, Multi-Modal Language Model Agents for Science and Society." ▶️ bit.ly/4mVQV9J

Another fun stint working a timing line for the annual women’s Air Race Classic is in the books! This year we worked the McPherson, KS stop.

airraceclassic2025.maprogress.com Air Race Classic 2025 - MAProgress

Join our feminist movement. The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change.

www.womensmarch.com Women's March - Our Feminist Future - Women's March

My knees can not do a protest march. So I gave $ to the Women’s March coalition several times, this week towards to No Kings protests!

PETITION: Stop Trump's Attack on the Library of Congress We need to show that Americans will not stand for yet another attack on our institutions. Sign the petition today!

action.everylibrary.org/congresshayden

Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Her Majesty!

NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks. We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential. These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84). THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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Kitty feets! ❤️🐾

Wow! Best wishes on this adventure!

Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries

In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.

www.everylibrary.org/statementiml... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…

As a health sciences librarian I'm on PubMed daily. Every day this week I've thought "So what happens when the govt takes down PubMed?" Check out this piece from @hildabast.bsky.social for alternatives (along with other ways things can go bad). absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w... #meded

So silly!

A closeup of two cats sitting together on top of a bookcase. The tabby cat on the left, Joe has his head down and eyes wide, while his brother Frankie on the right, with tabby marking on the top of his head and a white front, appears to be whispering into Joe's ear. #CatsOfBlueSky

Gossips!

I swear this is me every morning! 😹🐈‍⬛

#BlackCats #HousePantherProblems #Cats

This square detail from a larger photo shows University of Arizona anthropologist Francois Lanoë With an earlier find from the same general area, an 8100-year-old canine mandible that also shows signs of having lived with humans. Photo by Zach Smith, courtesy of SciTechDaily.com.

Was it a #wolf or a #dog? Maybe both? This 12,000-year-old #canine left intriguing clues in its bones – a #cultural echo still vital in today’s Tanana Valley #indigenous Alaskan community.
scitechdaily.com/ancient-bone...

Beautiful!

There not their!

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

Yup. You could protect yourself on their more from ads and info grabbing if you haven’t already — www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Hmm. Looks a bit scary!