@leslie-bern
Founder @stemedify.bsky.social, core organizer @standupforscience.bsky.social • Psych Ph.D., Latina Sinvergüenza™️, y disabled nightmare dressed like a daydream ✨ • “Like Regina George but for a good cause” 📍Los Angeles | 🔗 https://www.leslie-bern.com
On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.
idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet
It’s actually FEWER Misérables
this made me cackle all the way through
It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."
But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.
They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.
Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.
they are this afraid of people advocating for humane behavior
nyunews.com/news/2026/03...
I have severe ADHD, incurable chronic migraines from botched dental work I had in my thirties, horrific chronic pain from multiple foot surgeries, and a GI disease that occasionally takes me out with incredibly painful flares.
My disabled ass never, ever needed an AI slop generator to make my art.
Lockheed Martin, RTX Land F-35 Contracts, US to Triple Some Defense Prodution
This is a publicly funded industry, proof that the U.S. can create jobs programs and design industrial policy when it wants to, but only substantially does so for the purpose of war and violence.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
The headline is great. Almost like all these good kids were sitting around being wholesome, and slurs started snapping and cartwheeling like it was Westside Story and overwhelmed the youths.
I tell people that if the government is covering up the existence of aliens, NASA is absolutely not involved, because astrobiologists can't keep a secret to save their lives
“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
Explicitly capitalist media again shares a new piece that Long COVID is concerning, has no cure and again, embarrassingly, is doing better public health comms about this than most public health orgs. www.forbes.com/sites/omeraw...
These increases are notable but they're not synonymous with accommodations, nor are they synonymous with *unfair* accommodations. Elite media is doing another social-contagion panic, this time on disability writ large.
They are clearly trying to whip up a moral panic about disability accommodations but this article doesn't include any data on accommodations.
This makes me think of that time in grad school when local news interviewed our electronic music professor about using IBM’s Watson to make music and how incredible and new it was, and his response was “Actually, we’ve been doing computer music for decades” and then they cut him from the segment.
I am not looking for a politician to explain why blowing up 100 little girls is good
If you couldn't be bothered to write it, why in the name of all things holy, unholy, and mundane should I take the time to read it?
If this were me I’d be haunting their asses so hard. Every cabinet flying open, candles snuffed out, hot breath on the back of their necks, chains rattling in the night, the whole shebang
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment
sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this
I am so fucking normie coded, but anytime I suggest on here that people do things that are not illegal, not violent, simply IMPOLITE, the PUSH BACK is unhinged.
IDK what to tell you.
My ancestors didn't earn their freedom by being polite.
There's this quote from the graffiti from the 1968 protests in France that goes, "you will die of comfort" and in my 20s I thought that quote was so true, but lately I've been thinking what's more accurate is, "you will die from politeness"
Major thanks to @melodyschreiber.com for interviewing me about what biology actually says about sex & gender
Unscientific attacks on trans rights are fueled by fascism, not science, and harm all of us - cis or trans
Excellent reporting 🧬🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“Silence is not neutrality; it is permission. The record that university chancellors, presidents and trustees create in this moment — who spoke, who acted and who stayed silent — will be studied long after today’s political actors are gone.”
