@jimfaeder
Husband; Parent; Cat guardian; Computational/systems biologist; Professor; Section Editor, PLOS Computational Biology; Soccer referee (USSF Regional (!), NISOA, ECSR, PIAA); Spurs fan; Pittsburgh, PA
Though obvious to anyone paying attention, most of the undocumented and legal immigrants detained by DJT and his brownshirts at ICE aren't violent criminals, but people who came to the US b/c of what it stood for before 1/20/2025. Kseniia Petrova's story is 1 of them www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Can I help?
Just in case anyone has any doubts about EXACTLY who we are up against, consider that Mein Kampf is in and Maya Angelou is out as ordered by the cretin (and nazi) who is secdef www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
further evidence of the path our leadership has told us that they are taking: privately they describe what is going on as βirrationalβ but publicly they are afraid to say anything- even to answer lies with facts as @jeremymberg.bsky.social has so often done. A sad day for our institution and science
Please consider supporting Kseniia, a dedicated scientist from Harvard, who is currently facing uncertainty due to visa issues. She needs help with living and legal expenses. Thank you! gofund.me/3d4d303e
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#Science #News #USA #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #StopWar
sign reading "freedom of speech for Mahmoud & RΓΌmeysa & us all"
sign reading "First they came for Mahmoud" in the colors of the Palestinian flag
sign reading "hands off" on one axis and "Khalil & ΓztΓΌrk" on the other
sign that is just a list of names: Mahmoud Khalil, RΓΌmeysa ΓztΓΌrk, Badar Khan Suri, Alirezi Doroudi, Rasha Alawieh, Kilmar Garcia, DoΔukan GΓΌnaydΔ±n, Leqaa Kordia, Kseniia Petrova" followed by ellipsis
a thing I found heartening today was how many other signs (besides my own) were carrying these names. this isn't even all of the ones I saw, just a sample that I could crop without showing faces.
Portraits drawn with a pen of ICE prisoners in a women's detention facility run by GEO. Their names are Mrs Kailey, Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, 'Auntie,' 'FZ,' Kseniia, 'P.A.'
These portraits instantly brought me to tears. These are the forgotten people that companies like GEO keep hostage to extract profit. Damn every one of them! #HandsOff
How many other stories like this one are out there that we donβt even know about?
βPresident Trumpβs immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine.β
regarding Columbia University, I just learned about this (anonymous) account of negotiations of the Hitler regime in the 1930s with Frankfurt University -- Germany's most prestigious university at the time:
Panama took the canal remarks personally
Canada-USA concacaf Nations league 3rd place match
Panama with one of the greatest political sports victories ever sets up the match weβve been waiting for (thanks also to Mexico)
He started the Computational Biology (now Computational and Systems Biology) Department at Pitt 20 years ago this year. He spoke at our 10th anniversary celebration and blew us away by rattling off details about every single member of the department, including me!
Bluetorial: Mentors: The long-serving dean
Art Levine was a great leader, first at NIH, and then at the University of Pittsburgh
He is a great mentor to me and others and a scientist's scientist
(A long palate cleanser for today)
Long letter from NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, available here: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Letter-to-the-Community.pdf
π§ͺ The NSF director is lying to you.
Letβs fact check 7 claims from yesterdayβs letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. π§΅
Voting for you is a mistake I will not make again.
Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
CFPB Union NTEU 335 spies dodgy DOGE bros CFPB UNION EXECUTIVE BOARD POSTED ON FEBRUARY 7, 2025 POSTED IN PRESS RELEASE TAGGED WITH CHILD LABOR, CORRUPT BILLIONAIRES, ELON MUSK SUCKS AT VIDEO GAMES **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Washington, DC, February 7, 2025 β On the evening of February 6, three minions of professional Twitter poster and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Elon Musk appeared in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureauβs (CFPB) internal staff directory. The three underlings are Chris Young, a lobbyist for Big Pharma and past field organizer for former Gov. Bobby Jindal, and Elon fanboys Nikhil Rajpal and Gavin Kliger. Rajpal led a libertarian students group at public land-grant university UC Berkeley, and worked at auto-lender Tesla and wannabe-payment-processor Twitter. Kliger interned at Twitter, claims he owns a Tesla, and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2020. When he's not stealing Americans' private information with DOGE, Kliger enjoys writing lengthy essays defending rapists and retweeting white supremacists. Kliger's lawyer daddy works at Experian which is the same company CFPB sued in January for covering up errors on credit reports with sham investigations. While alleged coder Kliger made between zero to three git commits in the last year, workers at the CFPB returned $1.3 billion to scammed Americans in that time. The unelected Musk recently announced plans for a new payments platform run jointly by Visa and βXβ (formerly Twitter). Now, heβs moved his power grab to the CFPB, in a clear attempt to attack union workers and defang the only agency that checks the greed of payment providers, as well as auto lenders like Tesla. CFPB Union members welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators. While Acting Director Bessent allows Musk's operatives to bypass cybersecurity policies and wreak havoc with their amateur code skills inside CFPB's once-secure systems, CFPB Union members fight to protect our jobs so we can continue protecting Americans from scammers with conflicts of interest like Musk. ### The National Treasury Employees Union organizes federal employees to work together to ensure that every federal employee is treated with dignity and respect. CFPB Union NTEU Chapter 335 was chartered to represent employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). CFPB workers have returned over $20 billion to millions of American consumers who've been preyed upon by greedy hucksters like Musk. CFPB Union NTEU 335 CFPBUnionNTEU335@gmail.com https://www.nteu335.org
The whole thing in one iPad screenshot:
Worded in the positive: βheβs bluffing.β
First they came for the trans people
Treat time?
We are hiring compbio faculty at all career stages! www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...
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