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M. Gonzalez-Marquez

@aerynthrace.bsky.social
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I engage in the subversive act of investigating & teaching how best to read & document science. Helio: zenodo.org/records/14242565 DMs about my work are welcome. If I don't know you, anything will else will get you blocked.

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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
They always tell you who they are by what they choose to kill. The Endangered Species Act isn’t just some environmental checkbox it’s one of the most successful, broadly popular, bipartisan pieces of conservation law in American history.
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Trump administration moves to roll back some Endangered Species Act protections
The proposed changes include the elimination of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s “blanket rule” that automatically protects animals and plants when they are classified as threatened.
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
#New #Mexico became the #first #US state to offer #free #child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.   Under the program, families can receive state vouchers to cover public and private child care fees.
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In US first, New Mexico launches free child care for all
New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.
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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The USDA has released a statement telling retailers that they are prohibited from offering discounts/deals to those who are facing hunger without SNAP benefits. #Pinks
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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I won't feed the publishing myth. My case: 1. We can live on my wife's salary alone. 2. My only jobs are writing and loading the dishwasher. 3. If I fail as an author, only my pride gets hurt. That's privilege. My wins don't prove midlisters can build careers without safety nets. I'm skeptical.
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M. Gonzalez-Marquez @aerynthrace.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A little bit of hope: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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Stingless Bees are at risk
Our support can help get them legal rights
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theviolenceoftruth.bsky.social @theviolenceoftruth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
If he succeeds, it shows the rest of the country it can be done. Suddenly, other politicians will rise up and demand simple things. And then suddenly, we’ll be just like Europe, taxing Oligarchs out of endless wealth, and average Americans left with universal healthcare, child care and maybe UBI.
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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Universal Basic Income is sounding really great about now. The money should come from the same billionaires that stole my 20 or so scholarly publications (intellectual property) without permission or citation to train their AI and make big bucks.
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Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
They project this will cost $75M up front and $30M a year and I'm guessing if you just gave the majority of these folks $57,000 and then a $23,000 basic income and let them live a life, they'd do just fine. And that's assuming they stay in budget. But helping people ain't our thing, punishment is.
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Profolus @profolus.com · 30/10/2025
KONSYSE: A 16-month outreach by a U.S. federal agent to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was uncovered by the Associated Press.
konsyse.com
AP Report Reveals U.S. Gov Attempt To Capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro By Bribing His Pilot — Konsyse
An AP investigation reveals extended United States outreach to the pilot of Nicolas Maduro during a covert plan involving financial incentives.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 30/10/2025
Putting people in cages instead of feeding them is a policy choice
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 30/10/2025
DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf
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Richard Steigmann-Gall @notoriousrsg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The thing about ceasefires is, you don’t pause them to kill more people, then say you are done and resume the ceasefire.
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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
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Profolus @profolus.com · 30/10/2025
KONSYSE: Trump calls a routine dementia screening a “very hard IQ test” and boasts about a perfect score. He then claimed U.S. Representatives J. Crockett and A. Ocasio-Cortez would be unable to answer questions beyond the initial set of basic items.
konsyse.com
Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for an IQ Test and Celebrates the Result — Konsyse
Donald Trump mistakenly describes a dementia screening as a hard IQ test and boasts about a perfect score.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Starbucks' outrageous CEO-to-worker pay gap might make you spit out your morning coffee. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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Andrea Reynolds @waternymph.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Trump is a feeble, mentally ill, old man suffering from dementia. Not sure where you get “strong” out of that.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I wrote about how Border Patrol taking the lead in immigration operations mirrors a shift that happens often in concentration-camp regimes, including Nazi Germany, and some ways we can respond.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
When bad things get worse
Border Patrol, ICE, and the repetition of grim history.
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anthony k webster🐿 @ethnopoetics.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Book talk at UT Austin on Bye Bye I Love You @michaelerard.bsky.social
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.
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M. Gonzalez-Marquez @aerynthrace.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Excellent article by @Smithsonianmag showing the domino effects of what the rich are doing to our planet: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...
smithsonianmag.com
Earth Is Getting Dimmer—and the Northern Hemisphere Is Losing Brightness Faster Than Scientists Expected
New research challenges the idea that the hemispheres' matching brightness is a fundamental property of the planet
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Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"Since when did we [universities] become Big Tech's free PR department?"
"In my area of expertise - management and organisational studies – the standard opinion goes as follows: 'Everything depends on how you use Al, it has good and bad sides. We will have to adapt, because those who cannot work with Al will be replaced.' If you say something along these lines, you are supposedly being constructive and nuanced, but all these statements are based on zero evidence."

Philosopher Vanrie also questions the discourse of 'inevitability' around Al that has seeped into Ghent University's policy. "The conviction that generative Al is inevitable leads to it creeping in everywhere, and this eventually makes it seem inevitable. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. But there's nothing
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Charles Miller @carl.fish · 27/10/2025
There was also a guy on @trashfuture.bsky.social the other week introduced as an expert on TESCREAL in AI, but they somehow got through the episode without mentioning Gebru or Torres once.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
If you are only against sexism provided women treat you nicely, I have a spoiler for you. You are not really against sexism. (Same of course for racism, ableism, queerphobia, etc.)
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Local government isn’t “boring bureaucracy.” It’s social care, housing, libraries, leisure centres, youth clubs. When these vanish, communities fracture – and people notice. When local government breaks, so does trust in politics itself.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
New report confirms local government crisis is growing
The Institute for Government’ annual review of the state of local government, published last week, paints an alarming picture
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 24/10/2025
“Authoritarians always target art first. They do so, because art and history are enemies of the myths a regime needs to survive." From my new TIME piece on Donald Trump’s campaign to defund the arts and rewrite our history. The stakes could not be higher.
time.com
Trump’s Campaign to Defund the Arts—and Rewrite History
"The campaign to defund the arts, capture our museums, and rewrite our history is a prelude to silencing dissent."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/10/2025
1 in 8 Americans rely on SNAP…
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 26/10/2025
Remember the Constitution doesn’t begin with I, the President; it begins with, We, the People.
-Gloria Steinhem
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M. Gonzalez-Marquez @aerynthrace.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
If we had #UBI, I would use the time to develop pedagogies to teach how to understand scientific processes, instead of wasting it writing grants to develop pedagogies to teach how to understand scientific processes.
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🔼🔽▶️ (Aud) @audart.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"If we had UBI nobody would want to work" my dude if I had UBI I'd be spending all my goddamn time volunteering at a hospital's art therapy program bc I did do that once for a summer and it was probably the first and last time I felt justified in Existing.
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Futurists used to talk about the machines doing the work and society enjoying a collective dividend in the form of basic income from the work done. Then the billionaires came along and wanted it all for themselves.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/10/2025
I need you guys to take a moment to watch Zohran Mamdani's remarks today about anti-Muslim hate and the bipartisan cancer it is. This will go down as a defining speech in modern American politics. www.facebook.com/share/v/1716...
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Me too....🍂
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/10/2025
Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage. 

That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech.

You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Enough. Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver. Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.
an outdoor blllboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
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M. Gonzalez-Marquez @aerynthrace.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Happy to announce that our new book chapter is out (OA)! What Little Red Riding Hood can teach us about reading science. Thank you to my fabulous co-authors Anouschka Foltz, Jeffrey Bye, Ali Fulsher and Matthias Wilde uplopen.com/chapters/e/1...
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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
On the same day the British "justice" system has ignored incontestable facts and let a soldier who murdered unarmed Irish civilians go free, the Israeli Supreme Court has extended a ban on independent press access to Gaza... which would reveal equally incontestable facts of mass murder of civilians.
timesofisrael.com
High Court gives state 30 days to clarify policy on press entry to Gaza amid ceasefire
Foreign Press Association petitioned court in 2024, asserting ban on independent access violated fundamental democratic principles of freedom of press and expression
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M. Gonzalez-Marquez @aerynthrace.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In case you missed my ZPID talk, here is the recording: Researchers are human: Implications for Open Science and the Scientific Record zpid.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page... Thanks for inviting me! @zpid.bsky.social #OpenScience
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Monica Gonzalez-Marquez: Researchers are human: Implications for Open Science and the Scientific Record
People are excellent at pattern-seeking. We also love stories, solve problems in similar ways and have porous memories. Some people are also researchers. What do these characteristics mean for the cre...
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GenXer-71 @genxer-71.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
No Kings Day holiday!
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