Huge news: Jordan Acker, who infamously pushed state to prosecute UM student protestors, loses bid for re-election to UM Regents. The winner: Amir Makled, who provided pro bono legal support to those same UM students. Enormous victory for the Palestine/student solidarity movement.

This is embarrassing for science

PEOPLE ARE DYING BECAUSE OF SOME OF THESE SPEAKERS, KATY

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Great summary of the cognitive dissonance of seeing the U.S. celebrate the Artemis mission while the current administration cuts science, by @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social in @eenews.bsky.social

www.eenews.net/articles/art...

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

let's be clear about what's happening: donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, whose countries have been committing genocide in gaza since 2023, unilaterally started a war with iran, and are now threatening genocide there.

I called my 89 year old grandma and she said “We only heard it but nothing more.”

It’s ‘normal’ for her to hear a strike. At least it wasn’t too close.

This isn’t normal. It just isn’t.

We do have fabulous maps of the Moon already, but the photos the astronauts are taking right now are very likely the ones you'll be seeing on magazine covers and in documentaries for decades. These distant, wider views, from odd angles and with human descriptions, are *contextual* 2/n

The astronauts actually acknowledged that at one point. One picked out some brown hues, and another was asked to confirm at a different window, but that one had a thermocouple on it with Kapton tape, which is bright orange, and he said it was messing with his perception of color.

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

What this also means:
We should be grateful for our atmosphere
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A mostly dark screen with the NASA logo in the upper right and a bit of hazy light peeking out from an entirely dark Moon in the lower right

Total solar eclipse! Solar corona! From behind the Moon! #Artemis

This is where I was vaccinated as a kid. Many Iranians are posting their Pasteur certificate of vaccination online 😞

I’m not. But then again, I sat through an interrogation in June 2023 from Jim Jordan’s “Weaponization” committee where he threatened my and my team’s funding (studying online rumors and disinformation). They’ve been at this for a few years now. Using science funding as part of their culture wars.

Radar from KTLX showing reflectivity and velocity data

High end, potentially destructive severe thunderstorm moving across southern OKC metro including Moore. Radar showing winds up to 90 mph and likely brief tornadoes.

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

Sometimes I come back to this post, stare at it for a bit, then gaze off into the middle distance

Graphic showing the spring leaf index anomaly for March 27, 2026 for the contiguous United States, with spread arriving very early in central and western areas and late in the southeast.

Spring is arriving across much of the West more than 20 days earlier than average when looking at when plants first leaf-out - even reaching almost to Canada! I'd expect significant ecological impacts from the heat this March.

Graphic/data from @usa-npn.bsky.social: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...

Home care wasn't ready for the climate crisis—even before Trump's Medicaid and FEMA cuts As extreme weather mounts, disaster relief for millions of people is being systemically gutted.

I looked into if Medicaid-funded providers who oversee disabled people living independently are ready for worsening climate events. The support they need from the federal government isn’t there, and it’s worsened under Trump. My latest for @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Graph of snow water equivalent in the state of Colorado for 2026 relative to climatological statistics since the 1980s. 2026 is current a record low around peak conditions typically in March and April.

Awful. Conditions just continue to worsen for Colorado's snowpack (and across many other western U.S. states), with average snow water equivalent nosediving after the historic March heatwave. (which actually continues today with more record heat!)

Graphic: nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-p...

"the blackout is of course hitting hospitals hard. People aren’t able to get crucial surgeries, or even get to the hospital, which means Trump is simply killing the sickest Cubans."

Another day, ANOTHER study shwoing clear benefits for the baby when mom gets vaccinated against COVID during pregnancy

I'll never forgive Bhattacharya, Makary, & RFK Jr for posting that horrific video that recommended AGAINST vaccination in pregnancy; it was dreadful disinformation

The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...

🚨 This analysis piece in @bmj.com is absolutely 🔥 (disclosure: I was a peer reviewer)

The authors argue that US actions to dismantle public health at home & abroad “constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under international law”

1/2

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Demoralized CDC Workforce Reels From Year of Firings, Funding Cuts, and a Shooting Leadership uncertainty comes amid a year of disruption and dismissals

MAGA/MAHA did all it could to destroy the CDC

"It will cause generational harm, which always makes me tear up. The harm that's going to come to people that don't even know what CDC was protecting them from."

www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals.

And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked.

And then the DEI office was killed.

And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

I'm also thinking about how the things we do to make talks & knowledge production more accessible are being weaponized by tech bros to steal (1-Record talks, 2-Provide those recordings post-talk, 3) Add captioning). So angry because they are making it harder for disabled People of Color to access

I know I'm not saying anything new but I'm saying it anyway that in tech bro culture there is both a specific commitment to 1) harassment, the way everything is done without consent & 2) theft, the way they steal knowledge & art from creators that is so deeply built on colonization & white supremacy

The 2025 federal employee viewpoint survey was a pretty sobering read. Absolutely brutal year for public servants and everyone is feeling it. Thread below and full document here bestplacestowork.org

As I keep saying, this is easily one of the most anomalous out-of-season heatwaves that I’ve observed. Its impacts will be far-reaching after an already historic snow drought this winter. Without a pattern change, water concerns will then amplify this summer.