Hampshire College, which counts filmmaker Ken Burns among its alumni, is closing later this year Hampshire College, which includes documentary filmmaker Ken Burns among its alumni, announced it is closing later this year.

Hampshire College, which includes documentary filmmaker Ken Burns among its alumni, announced it is closing later this year.

‘Heartbreaking reality’: Hampshire College announces transition to closure - The Boston Globe The announcement marks the end of another tumultuous chapter in the ongoing saga of the liberal arts school.

Breaking news: Hampshire College, the liberal arts university in Amherst, announced that it would close after nearly six decades.

Federal map shows no plan for border wall through Big Bend While the federal government hasn’t made a public statement about its plans, official maps show a “virtual wall” going through the region rather than a physical barrier.

A border wall through Big Bend appears to be on hold after public outcry, but questions remain.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Internal emails show Gov Abbott demanding info on immigrant employees using H-1B visas at the Texas A&M University System bit.ly/4qAUKCZ

Documents prove the Trump administration arrested students for criticizing Israel Newly unsealed court records illustrate how the US government specifically targeted students for pro-Palestine speech.

NEW: Mother Jones and other outlets fought to unseal documents that show that the Trump administration targeted students for Pro-Palestinian speech. We won.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Sex and the repeated origins of sexes are key sources of biological diversity, contributing to enormous variation in how organisms reproduce. Yet our conception of sex/es is disproportionately shaped by animal models. We need broader comparative approaches and collaborations across organismal silos to develop more general, inclusive frameworks. This symposium convenes researchers working on protists, plants, fungi, animals, and theoretical models to engage with the complexities of sex and reproduction, aiming to distinguish shared principles from taxonomic idiosyncrasies, highlight fundamental differences and open questions, and generate new frameworks for understanding sex in biology. By fostering integrative dialogue across disciplines and taxa, we hope to advance a more inclusive and accurate understanding of reproductive diversity across the tree of life.

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Sex across origins: Questioning animal-centric assumptions & developing integrative frameworks
Organized by
M. Aramati Casper,
aramaticasper.weebly.com
Jay J. Falk
jayjinsing.github.io
Karen M. Warkentin,
sites.bu.edu/warkentinlab/

Somatic sex maintenance in the Drosophila testis. Left: in XY adults, chinmo prevents Zld protein expression, keeping traF off and allowing dsxM to maintain the male fate (blue) while the female pathway is switched off (gray). Right: loss of chinmo leads to the ectopic expression of zld, inducing traF and activating the female developmental program (red) in chromosomally male cells.

In the #gonad, #sex is not an irrevocable commitment, and requires active maintenance. Artyom Kopp explores a new @plosbiology.org study elucidating the molecular mechanisms that preserve sexual identity in the adult #Drosophila #testis 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4pMT6hq Primer: plos.io/3MRBBxG

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Dr. Lisa Diamond of The University of Utah is conducting a climate survey of the LGBTQIA+ community. To participate or share the survey follow the link here: bit.ly/OUTCommunityS...

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race Mamdani is a self-described democratic socialist and 34-year-old state assemblymember who will be the city’s youngest mayor in over a century.

Democrat Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday.
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In Texas, the fine for a DUI is $2,000

The fine for trans people using the “wrong” bathroom is $125,000

This is because trans women piss so much and so hard that if they don’t use a boy toilet, the pipes explode, which makes peepee poopoo flood the streets and causes hundreds of car accidents.

AI is doing 24/7 surveillance, compiling watchlists, and causing kids irreversible emotional damage

AI is basically Santa if instead of milk and cookies he ate 4 billion gallons of water

How 2 years of war have devastated Palestinian lives in Gaza Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip.

Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip.

But they can help us understand how thoroughly the conflict has upended the lives of 2.1 million Palestinians living in the territory. https://to.pbs.org/4mZNrlP

Jane Goodall, the influential primatologist who changed how people see chimpanzees and themselves, died Wednesday at the age of 91.

She died of natural causes while she was in California on a speaking tour, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a statement on social media.

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We would like to share some approaches for teaching gender-inclusive biology, here and now. Join us for a webinar with Science Educators for Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice (SEEDS) on Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 7 pm EDT. seeds4equity.org/event-6317102

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The real villain in Jaws isn’t the shark, it’s a capitalistic mayor that values profit over people!

The Texas House passed SB 8, the anti-trans bathroom bill. SB 8 is now on track to become law, after an 8-year fight.

#TXLege #SB8 #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

If you're in Austin I can personally confirm the best way to get a 24-25 booster is walk into an HEB with a pharmacy and just get it. They are very chill about it, I did this last Friday along with a flu shot, no questions asked no appointment needed.

Texas Senate approves GOP congressional map Republican lawmakers pushed the map through over fierce Democratic opposition, positioning the GOP to net up to five additional seats in Texas.

Breaking: Texas Senate approves GOP congressional map.

Republican lawmakers pushed the map through over fierce Democratic opposition, positioning the GOP to net up to five additional seats in Texas.

Live updates: Texas House approves new congressional maps that favor Republicans in 2026 midterms The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives voted Wednesday to pass initial approval to a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five new winnable GOP seats in Congress.

BREAKING: Texas House gives initial approval to new maps that would create up to five more winnable congressional seats for the GOP.

The Texas House has just passed the most racially gerrymandered map since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which prohibits racial discrimination in voting

Fifth Circuit halts West Texas A&M drag show ban as free speech lawsuit continues In a split decision, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the school’s prohibition on drag performances, finding students are likely to prove it violates the First Amen...

Breaking: A federal appeals court Monday blocked West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler from enforcing a campus drag show ban, ruling that the performances are likely protected under the First Amendment.

From a cell phone ban to Ten Commandments posters, new state laws bring big changes to Texas schools Lawmakers also approved new teacher raises, banned DEI initiatives and gave schools more flexibility to discipline students.

The 2025 legislative session was transformative for public education in Texas.

Here is a look at some of the biggest changes students, parents and teachers can expect as they return for a new school year.

I am really excited to be a part of this team. We took our time writing this, putting a lot of thought into how our journeys as #NativesInSTEM were affected by different aspects of Universities and looking for commonalities across the world. I hope folks in academia appreciate this work.