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Meanwhile in New Haven. #YaleRecord

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

Notably, in 2005, sex-same intercourse had only been legal in TX for two years! I was a junior in high school in TX when SCOTUS decided on Lawrence v. Texas. But most importantly: the dial moves! They’re going after trans kids just like they once went after gay kids. And trans adults.

Democrats seeing the special place in hell getting lined up for the Republicans and getting..jealous?

"I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... >>

Great read on an important day. The 1526 Rebellion: The 500th Anniversary of North American Anti-Slavery Resistance medium.com/orobo-journa...

‘Just the beginning’: New Mexico AG warns AI industry after $25B Meta ruling politi.co/4zOmVme

Everyday the fuckers at Bobby's Brainworms want to set fire to a pile of orphans. And everyday, groups like @defendpublichealth.bsky.social and @standupforscience.net have to haul ass to save the kids and let people know that we shouldn't appoint Baba Yaga to lead the nation's health. Make it stop.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.

This year, we launched a SuperPAC called the Science Victory Fund. My objective is to have it for TWO (2) election cycles—because we will fight to get big money out of politics by overturning Citizens United. We don’t have $276m, but you can chip in at the link below. www.npr.org/2026/10/14/n...

Molṑn labé

Excuse me sir do you denounce the Doobie Brotherhood?

Together with other scientists I’m suing the 🇺🇸 US National Institutes of Health for violating our 1st Amendment rights & censoring our health science. I’m ready to shine a light on the darkest days. Buckle up, read on. This gets pretty wild… THREAD

They put Indigenous People's Day & National Farmer's Day on the same day, good thing you can be boooooooth. Here's just some of the farm & food work NC-based tribes are doing! Corn+beans+squash plot, at the Catawba Nation. They recently pulled a corn variety back from almost-extinction 💪💪💪

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

I’m not fucking sorry for saying so. There’s no evidence fueling fascist anti-trans narratives helps Democrats win. None. The opposite is actually true.

They’re all just Joel Olsteen, except it’s the computer god that is going to save humanity. They believe they’re on the AI ark that will save humanity, even if they cause the flood.

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

strong statement from the Association for Human Mathematicians. "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."

“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work,” she said." To me, this is the crux. Science is a human, community endeavor. They are destroying science.

The entire Republican Party and broader conservative movement need to be smashed to bits. Donor networks gotta be exposed and disrupted. All the outside machinery needs to be dismantled. And electorally it must lose over and over and over and over. We need a truth and reconciliation commission.

We need to root out and oust conservatives from institutions of higher learning. We need to retire or impeach and remove conservative judges. We need to prosecute every official in this lawless administration and ICE agents.

We’ve got measles, potential plagues escaping labs.But this cigarette eating fucker wants to run trials killing children of preventable diseases so he can sell more methylene blue, or whatever anti-vax flavor is popular this week, and rid the world of vaccines.

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

Project Jupiter exemplifies the tech billionaire strategy of speed-running data center projects. A giant Ellison/OAI investment started in the middle of the desert before locking in water rights, power supply, waste treatment, state and federal permitting. Reminiscent of DOGE or the WH ballroom.

At @standupforscience.net we aren’t just talking about a better future…we are forging it.  OUT NOW from the SUFS Foundation Policy & Research Team: @irenesufs.bsky.social @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social @colesci.bsky.social @wondersofnature23.bsky.social www.standupforscience.foundation/how-we-got-h...

This is a deep and powerful report from the @standupforscience.net Foundation. It is thorough and deep but worth the time to read. www.standupforscience.foundation/forging-the-...

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I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.

According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

I attended NY Climate Week w/ @standupforscience.net. I have some THOUGHTS. 1/ Climate change is an existential threat. Addressing it means confronting unequal harms, powerful political & financial interests, & an uncomfortable reality: good intentions do not necessarily produce adequate action.

From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️

The Cornell rape story and the Silicon Valley professional orgy culture story are the same story.

Good for them but goodness gracious I swear half of university admins are super villains. I hope the players are getting the support they need from some other adults <3

To the guy who just single handedly got everyone at the front of the plane their bags in the back of the plane before de-boarding began: 🫡

Great, they’re making it a shitty tamagotchi you can’t starve to death.

As an early career scientist who…departed from my research career to do activism to try to save our science: We need more from the establishment than guides on ethical research for ECR’s.

Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.