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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/08/2026

Our leaders and institutions failure to signal to the American people that January 6th was a hideous act of treason will be viewed as a truly historically-horrible strategic error.

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk. It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow. The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.

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PlasmaNerd @plasmanerd.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is dangerous. The minute you start limiting what can and can not be studied, you start biasing your results. Just because you don’t like - say climate change - doesn’t erase it. Ignoring a problem, limiting what words can be used negatively impacts research & our ability to understand the world

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is the NIH grant screening disfavored words list published by Nature: media.nature.com/original/mag...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Btw if the senate wasn’t full of cowards they’d impeach him

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Adding pointless administrative burdens to deter legal immigration

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Sysfin @sysfin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

My hatred is infinite. There is no such thing as too much punishment for him and his supporters.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers

A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

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Congresswoman Nikema Williams @repnikema.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.

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Congresswoman Valerie Foushee @foushee.house.gov · 07/04/2026

The sitting President just called for the end of an entire civilization. It’s time to impeach him.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office. Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached. When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?

Trump truth social post: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I hate the too-cool-for-school attitude of dismissing this with a "but they won't." That is surrendering in advance. The pressure should be put on them, the message should be unrelenting that this is what must be done and they're the ones refusing to do it. Don't act like they don't have agency.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

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Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal
The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trump is completely unhinged. He's lashing out with no plan, threatening horrific war crimes after already bombing a girl's school. It's making the entire world, including the United States, less safe. Every Republican enabling him is responsible. Congress must act.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Obviously not a substitute for Congress doing its job, but now would be a good time for Clinton, W, Obama, and Biden to say something jointly.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Republicans in Congress support this. It’s that simple

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 07/04/2026

Trump’s unhinged threats of violence and genocide are inexcusable. He is a warmonger, escalating the conflict for his own profit and consolidation of power. My Republican colleagues can't keep turning a blind eye. He must be stopped and impeached.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

That was a multi-day story. The story where the former top general who served as Trump's chief of staff warned he was an insane fascist got buried on A14 and never mentioned again. In retrospect, perhaps more important than the Walz thing idk.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Provides some insights into what is happening (or rather what is not happening) with regard to federal science grant making.

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thing is, it is hard to tell how/where/who wanted this. Like anti-vaccine sentiment, this level of slash and burn appears to be enthusiastically backed by a very narrow slice of right wing elites. And we're in a spot where knowledge that this has happened is very, very low.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I love that Trump's toadies are wearing comically large shoes because the boss bought them and they're too chickenshit to mention that he guessed the wrong size.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner

Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

We seem to have collectively decided, gradually and mostly out of apathy, that presidents can launch flagrantly unconstitutional wars of choice without congressional approval and there just won’t be any consequences. Would be nice if this is where we start reversing the trend.

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

the US once again sending the message loud and clear: never negotiate, just get nukes. Never compromise, just get nukes. Never give in to sanctions, just get nukes. what could go wrong

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Wow the exact same amount he was suing the IRS for. He just took it. Not only impeachable but [Redacted] as well.

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David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Absolutely insane that our elites are not screaming about this. We have a generation of leaders who have completely failed to internalize the values of democracy. People of no conviction whatsoever. Truly the iron cage.

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Salome @salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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‘Together, We Are America’

Bad Bunny’s critics said his Super Bowl halftime show would be divisive. They were totally wrong.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

“Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.”

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Achilles Kapanidis @achilleskap.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Great to see our Science Review on emerging multiplexed single-molecule methods that use libraries to link sequence to dynamics. A fun collaborative writing project! From sequence to function: Bridging single-molecule kinetics and molecular diversity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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From sequence to function: Bridging single-molecule kinetics and molecular diversity

Biological function is fundamentally determined by nucleic acid and protein sequence. Beyond encoding genetic information, nucleic acids also display complex physicochemical parameters that shape stru...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The Trump admin already failed to get an arrest warrant on him—magistrate judge refused so DOJ went to appeals court, prompting that letter from the chief district judge torching the DOJ, and appeals court denied too—so God knows what this new one is, or if they even bothered to get a warrant.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Now published in Protein Science: Dan used single-molecule and SOFI microscopies to visualize curli fibers (the major component of E. coli biofilms) on living cells! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

That's what's happening. We're a nation at the mercy of our president's rogue private police force..

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

So here’s to making 2026 a better year. For science. For our country. For the American people. We have the momentum. The resistance is growing. Let’s make 2026 the year we turned the tide.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

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The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College

A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

what else is there to say

Inside CDC, many of us are grieving, not only for colleagues who have left, but for the institution we once believed was resilient enough to withstand political cycles and changes in administration. We are grieving the loss of institutional memory, of mentorship, of the quiet competence that made crises manageable even when resources were thin. We are grieving the realization that dedication alone cannot protect an agency from leaders determined to destroy it.
The prevailing mood at the agency is one of devastation and a growing recognition that there is little we can do to stop the chaos; no rescue is coming. The atmosphere is…

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