The ACCESS lab representing at #AERA2026 🥰

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

I still can’t get over how we lost this brilliant researcher doing such impactful anti-racist and anti-sexist work in biology because of anti-DEI BS. Please share this article widely!

www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

Huge congrats to @mellamosummer.bsky.social on their 1st first-author pub! 📝 This work reflects our own experiences into the contradictions of being light-skinned Latinas in STEM & how education research can erase Black & Indigenous Latiné student experiences. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

just hit 100 pages on my dissertation draft 💪🏻
#almostthere

I'm sorry, 50 what now?

"We present a GPU implementation of kallisto for RNA-seq transcript quantification (...). For a large dataset of 295 million reads, runtime drops from 40 minutes to 50 seconds"

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It would be cool if scientists and science communicators — who don't really have expertise on how expertise works — engaged more with philosophers of science, sociologists of science, and other folks who do have expertise on expertise, rather than broadcasting their oversimplified takes

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

who else cried when bad bunny mentioned your family's home countries :,,)

A PBS kids post of buster from Arthur with sunglasses on waving with the caption “we always loved a bad bunny”

PBS kids is sending me

Bad Bunny is telling the world that the people in Puerto Rico are American citizens and deserve reliable and resilient electricity and infrastructure investment from the U.S. government.

Fuck AI, fuck ICE, and long live a free Puerto Rico.

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

#SuperBowlLX

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Someone is going to write a dissertation about this half time show and I will read it.

I'm HYPED for Bad Bunny's concert tn 😤 It's bouta be so lit.

Those are the hardest working scare quotes in the business.

What is the goddamn bar for calling something racist without qualification if monkey videos don’t make the cut?

Political action is now crucial for US scientists Nature Human Behaviour - Political action is now crucial for US scientists

We wrote this piece as a call to action before what has been happening in MN. The myth of neutrality is a luxury scientists can no longer afford— we all have a role to play. Please repost w/ links to local orgs to help connect scientists to existing collectives they can join.

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5 Things That Cause Rude Behavior To Meteorologists During Storms A massive ice storm disrupted the U.S. South this weekend. Though forecasts were accurate, many people were rude to meteorologists. Here are five reasons why.

I saw some unbelievably rude behavior towards meteorologists this weekend during the ice storm. Of course, I had to write about it. Please share as you see fit as we need to get a handle on this.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

Doing a lit review for a paper on the experiences of Latinas in STEM and MAN, this work is so affirming! I can't help but see myself in study participants' refelctions. Love to see us engaging in resistance & finding ways to thrive in STEM. 💪🏻 This is why we need to #FundCriticalQualitativeResearch!

NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan

NSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks
www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

An event Flyer with a black background, a header with yellow background and black text, and white speech bubbles with black text: Title says: Defunded researchers speak out Speech bubbles have text that reads: Did you know? Since Jan. 2025, the federal government has terminated over 7,000 scientific research grants across the country. In Georgia, nearly 100 grants remain disrupted – an estimated $50 million loss. Want to learn more? Join us for a discussion and Q&A with science education researchers in Athens who have been directly impacted by these funding cuts. Free and open to the public! A yellow side bubble has the event info: Jan 22 7pm Little Kings. Above that info are logos for the Athens Science Cafe and Coalition of Athens Scientists.

If you're in Athens, don't miss this opportunity to hear directly from science education researchers impacted by federal funding cuts! January 22nd at our favorite community space -- Little Kings Shuffle Club.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Bucknell Botany Professor Reacts to Harry Potter YouTube video by BucknellU

Check out this great reaction video from Incoming BSA President, @martinebotany.bsky.social, who breaks down the truth behind the botanical references in the #HarryPotter movies!

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

#botany #plantscience

Tentative speakers for The SideQuest Colloquium include @martinebotany.bsky.social @mossmatters.bsky.social @brythebotanist.bsky.social @mellamosummer.bsky.social @andrewlhipp.bsky.social @andrewilloughb.bsky.social and more! Abstract is in the photo

BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.

Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.

This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

Polyploidy Webinar Speaker Signup 25-26

The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!