Competed in and placed second in our program’s 3-Minute Thesis competition 🎉🥈 thanks to @quallscreekmore.bsky.social for always encouraging and pushing me to be the best scientist I can be ❤️🐭🧠
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property
Shelf filled with goggles and whistles
This is Minneapolis:
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
#BlackWomenSTEM #BlackWomenSTEAM #STEM #STEAM #BlackSTEM #WomenSTEM #WomenInSTEM #EngineeringProfessor #RoboticsEngineer #BlackSky #MySTEMIsForTheStreets NoireSTEMinist.com
Representation Matters, amplifying Black Women in STEM, normalizing Black Women in STEM, supporting Black Women in STEM.
Super point George, thanks for pressing the bad guys' buttons here.
To this point, we're looking for signers in support of the #EPA heroes trying to stop their boss #Zeldin from de-regging energy, mining, oil & everything else.
www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
#StandUpForScience
#LilHelp
Tl;dr: 250,000 more Minnesotans at risk of devastating medical bills, higher energy prices, rural hospital closures, and longer ambulance wait times.
None of this is worth a tax cut for billionaires. Congress needs to reject this bill.
Tell it, Secretary! Thx for pushing this critical message @ such a crucial moment.
To ur point of oligarchs vs humans, looking for signers in support of the #EPA heroes who yesterday put their boss #Zeldin on notice. Any help deeply 🖤!
www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
#StandUpForScience
Image: Faux-newspaper front page with headline “BREAKING NEWS: Workers Unite to Expose Political Interference, Censorship, and Rollbacks at Environmental Protection Agency.” Below, smoke billows from a power plant as a photo of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin appears beside a tilted EPA sign. Subhead reads: “One bad day at the EPA – Zeldin gets a wake-up call.”
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
At 7:59am, Zeldin - Trump crony and head of EPA - received the Declaration of Dissent from EPA workers.
Workers are uniting against political interference, censorship & rollbacks at EPA under Zeldin’s leadership.
Someone’s week is off to a bad start. (1/5)
Since it is Juneteenth, I will share a lil something...
My ancestors were slaves in Texas & were freed on June 19, 1865. They came together to meet with other ex-slaves & formed the Limestone County 19th of June Organization. They bought 30 acres of land on Lake Mexia.
On Juneteenth and forever…
Honor, don’t bury or whitewash the history of our ancestors who were lynched.
(National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama)
#Resistance tools from bsky.app/profile/whys... when asked “why are we funding this” from uncles & Senators alike.
www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...
Shoutout bsky.app/profile/amer... for keeping the lights on while we reclaim #Science from the privatizing dismantlers.
#StandUpForScience
Stanford's professor and Bethesda Declaration signatory @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social notes that the declaration “represents the voices of the highly trained Americans at NIH who want to serve their country and steward the biomedical enterprise.” 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer.
21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences.
Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info
The moral of the story: The math ain't mathin'.
Trump's cuts to science spending will damage our economy, leave hundreds of thousands of people jobless, destroy the discovery pipeline, and most importantly, cost lives.
But we are fighting back.
Join us: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight...
Scientists,
I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature:
Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk.
It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨
🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY.
KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings.
THIS is how science cuts cost lives.
shorturl.at/JgTjU
*whispers*
Two $70,000,000 fighter jets fell off a navy ship in the past two weeks.
But 24/7 weather monitoring across the US is considered “wasteful”.
The math ain’t mathin
2 versions of the same design, all of which say "Biology is bigger than binaries", with a central image of a bee, a clownfish, and a lily. The one on. the left is pink, the right is orange,
You asked for it, you got it.
Biology is Bigger than Binaries is now on a shirt!
Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, printed here in Philly on 100% cotton Next Level Tees.
We've got... ironically 2 colors to choose from lmao.
Pre-order open until May 31!
squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/bina...
Ok, time to help us fill the map!
www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight...
Here are my top 10 singing dogs!
“You can’t make this up.”
- Marsha, making it up
Aaaand there it is.
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.
These posters are made to be shared!
We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.
get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
The silence from big patient advocacy groups and disease focused non-profits is astounding.
American Cancer Society, Alzheimer's Association, American Heart Association, American Lung Association...should be running CONSTANT ads against these cuts with stories from patients.
#StandUpforScience
The Trump administration is moving to terminate the EEOC judge who became the face of resistance. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
One thing about researchers is we will publish our way through the attempts to cancel us. New paper in @jama.com, the authors examine the impact of NIH grant cancellations on the US research enterprise by institute or center and ward type.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
KNOXVILLE: “University of Tennessee lost $37.65 million from the termination of federal grants by Trump… 42 grants terminated so far, 8 impact UT's Institute of Agriculture and total $31.19 million…” www.wbir.com/article/news...
