Nebraska bans parents with abuse, sex assault convictions from… WORLD is a news organization producing Biblically sound, daily coverage of global, national, and cultural current events.

"Parents who have prior convictions of sexual assault or child sexual abuse may not legally homeschool their children, according to a new Nebraska law signed last week."

I was very pleased to be able to attend the Intact Global Conference at their headquarters in Los Angeles this past weekend.

The wholesale failure of the mainstream so-called "AI ethics" project is because it is instead a successful process of creating industry stooges, who walk amongst us, hollowing out future colleagues and posturing provocatively about the inevitability of the future theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...

Apologies if the link doesn't work right. YouTube Livestream VODs are tricky to deal with.

Intact Global, Inc. 18 likes, 5 comments. "Intact Global 2026 Conference Livestream – Day 2"

Our Grief is Real, Too: Creating Inclusive Activism Together
Presented by Alliana Arshad and T. T. Perry, Ph.D.
Intact Global Conference 2026

Calling for a united coalition against anti-trans laws (AKA pro-circumcision laws). 🌈

(Begins at 29 minutes, 10 seconds)
www.youtube.com/live/I3iEeuJ...

This happened today. Are you curious how it went?

Hmmm I don't know, doesn't that seem a bit... gender?

*Gets abducted by the Palantir branded thought surveillance police*

Oh it turns out that vanquishing the college student who uses they/them in their email signature is not bringing you the fulfillment that you hoped for? You are still working in your crappy and unfulfilling job, paying a mortgage you now can't afford, and dealing with your annoying kids... I see.

With little lassos?

I saw the title and just knew it was a skip for me

‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans.

“We scientists are used to sticking to our knitting. But I began realizing that science needed defending,” says @samwang.bsky.social.

@nature.com talked to researchers running for office who say the "science is above politics" era is a failed business model.

I'm on a train! Woo trains!

Steeping very young men in the manosphere is bad for literally all of us and I don’t know, someone somewhere has to dive in and start trying to detoxify these weirdos.

Brief fun survey from Jessica, Andrew & myself:

If you are a faculty member, research scientist, postdoc, or senior Ph.D. student in any area of science, please take five minutes and fill it out. We’ll share the results widely along with some reflections.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

of course.
because “everybody has human rights” stops at children.

so many good proud leftists reveal this if you listen to them long enough. 🥚

Your dad has invented boneless TV?

one of the big things covid trauma did was cause a lot of people to erase the memory of covid trauma.

Sex testing has been used by sporting bodies to target women athletes who, often through variations in their sex characteristics, or intersex traits, have higher than typical natural testosterone. The practice has been debunked as unethical, unscientific, and unworkable.

www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

Good for you!

A cake in a grocery store display case. The top has a rat and a rainbow xylophone drawn in icing. It's Neil banging out some tunes.

Seen in my local grocery store!

Thank you. I appreciate this

Before I knew about this news, it was already a PTSD heavy day for me, and now I'm just... it's just gonna be what I have to spend my time on today, getting my brain out of PTSD space.

University of Minnesota professor suspended from monkey research after decade of serious problems Neuroscience professor Geoff Ghose was disciplined for an “overt failure to comply” with rules around working with lab animals.

This is a story about the professor who supervised the MnDRIVE Neuromodulation Fellowship I won from 2016-2017.

Yes, I'm a real neuroscientist who has done monkey research. Yes, I saw things. I experienced things. I still have PTSD from it! Students, beware!

I'm very envious

Trauma is not a moral education.

E.g., if you recognize that sex assault is, simultaneously, extremely common and extremely damaging, you might let go of highest-stakes punishment for a small number of people, in favor of thorough accountability for a MUCH larger number, plus prevention, plus truly supporting people harmed by it

There are lots of academics who are also con artists. To meet them, join this zoom call!

What if intersex, trans, and nonbinary folks and men's rights folks got together in the same room and talked about the huge differences between gender-affirming care and unwanted circumcision?

I bet that wasn't on your bingo card!

Having PTSD flashbacks to everyone arguing about Fediverse vs. Mastodon.