Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10hOssoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" 429118552632
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support. 443081689
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/09/2026I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not. 333183808
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/09/2026US House passes legislation that blocks federal aid for colleges and universities if they engage in boycotts against Peru in 237-169 vote. (jk, of course it's Israel). 2121977
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comHouse passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midtermsContinuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump 422885
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x 14436126
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/ 9454190
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account. 229114145342
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026authors who put a single endnote at the end of a long paragraph and then cite half a dozen different books without any indication of which factual assertions came from which sources are actually going straight to hell, I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you!!!! 33122472
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/07/2026Amnesty International has now issued a public groveling apology to JK Rowling's organization and has pulled her another report documenting the anti rights platform of gender critical organizations. www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...amnesty.org.ukAn Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full. 45946251
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/ 7476257
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026As far as I can tell, this dialog between MacArthur prize-winning mathematician Terrence Tao and Chatgpt about "the Jacobian conjecture counterexample" is very impressive: chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc... 1/ 310434
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Happy to share a new zine we just finished that's an updated version to "Recognizing Hate". This zine is a reference guide to identify various nazi dog whistles, and includes a list with brief descriptions of the most active far-right groups currently in the US. www.wewillfreeus.org/farrightthre... 12612358
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/07/2026Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/ 8942921545
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10716503120329
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans" 556286259498
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 02/07/2026The King must get his due these days OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake www.ft.com/content/7c80...ft.comOpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stakeSam Altman’s start-up in early talks for a public ownership deal as political pressure rises 023
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts 196133276753
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026This is a brief but utterly harrowing description of our nation in decline and the role of Trump's disastrous presidency in making it all happen, from @pkrugman.bsky.social on the pod. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2121... 28966381
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Social Circle wins. www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/u...cnn.comDHS scraps plans to turn Georgia warehouse into detention mega center, city says | CNNThe Trump administration is backing away from its plans to convert a warehouse in a small Georgia city into a “mega center” holding thousands of immigration detainees, just four months after first con... 1013118718
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars. 8153372301
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 10/06/2026As I wrote about Musk’s X earlier this year www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-epst...liberalcurrents.comThe New Epstein Island Is Right in Your Pocket: It’s Time to Abandon Elon Musk’s Paradise of AbuseIt has long been time to leave X. Now, it’s essential. 24211
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Ríhanna doesn't have an official legal defense fund because multiple crowdfunding websites have shut down her campaigns. please donate to her directly and send her well-wishes on Facebook. Venmo: venmo.com/u/Rihanna_Ke... www.facebook.com/share/p/18uT... 91113907
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I wrote about the way that killing people seems to just be another cost of doing business, and a modest proposal for a reversal in the ways our systems of commerce, government, and law operate that just might provide an effective deterrent. www.the-reframe.com/the-cost-of-...the-reframe.comThe Cost of Doing BusinessA modest proposal: Abolish the death penalty for humans. Institute it for corporations. 13357115
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The rebellions continue! The publisher Springer put pressure on a journal's editors to accept more papers, just to make more money. The editors resigned and started their own journal, which is peer reviewed and 'diamond open access'. That means FREE to publish in and FREE to read! (1/n)openlibhums.orgNew Open Access Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from Natural Language SemanticsThe Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language … 58432
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Time for a thread on all the @standupforscience.net action tools! Site: www.standupforscience.net Action Center: fight2win.standupforscience.net SUFS OMB Overview: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... SUFS Guide to Public Comments: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...standupforscience.netSTAND UP FOR SCIENCEScience activists and allies mobilizing to save science, health and democracy itself from the Trump administration's dismantlement and privatization. 21510
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Terror and retribution are a core part of how the Trump administration has governed. DOGE whistleblower had threatening note taped to his door and his brakes cut after Elon Musk accused him of lying. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...wired.comHe Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were CutA federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation. 231333635
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Sara Gregory @saraegregory.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The glass on MARTA’s new faregates is going to be replaced with new, thicker glass: www.ajc.com/news/2026/06...ajc.comMARTA switching to thicker glass after faregate panels shatterMARTA is swapping out the glass on its new faregates after a handful of panels shattered. 283
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:thehandbasket.coHating AI is good, actuallyLinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice. 12769311719
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 30/05/2026“Scientists alone can not defeat an anti-science machinery they did not create. What we can do is ask for help. Give guidance. Start acting and hope others will join” open.substack.com/pub/protagon...open.substack.comWe need to talk about the anti-science movement6 lessons scientists under siege learned the hard way, and how we all can fight back 17443
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Atlanta influences everything. 121364
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)NPR @npr.org · 27/05/2026ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing a database of biometric data. n.pr/4dAMaAon.prICE is spending millions of dollars on iris scanners, expanding its arsenal of tech toolsICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing a database of biometric data. 21250116
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)The Atlanta Journal-Constitution @ajc.com · 26/05/2026The effort to redraw congressional district maps in Georgia and other states is a cynical Republican ploy to subdue democracy and disenfranchise Black voters.ajc.comRedistricting push in Georgia and beyond is a direct assault on Black voters 0109
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4 497174096072
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026It’s really frightening. 30218916878
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Politico @politico.com · 25/05/2026Mexico’s president sees ‘no issue’ with her country hosting Iran’s World Cup team during tournamentdlvr.itMexico’s president sees ‘no issue’ with her country hosting Iran’s World Cup team during tournamentThe team will still play its group stage matches in the U.S. but its base has been moved to Tijuana, Mexico. 1011822
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Science Magazine @science.org · 25/05/2026The U.S. research community is asking the Senate to do something it hasn’t done in more than 3 decades: Hold a hearing on the president’s nominee to lead the National Science Foundation before voting on whether to confirm him. scim.ag/4dWgoxEscience.orgResearch groups want Senate to vet Trump’s nominee for NSF headA hearing would air questions about James O’Neill’s qualifications to lead the agency 313951
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)NPR @npr.org · 25/05/2026Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.n.prResearchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish scienceEven with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear. 17416196
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/05/2026from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal. 684547977
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Especially if you are cis, please read this www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...liberalcurrents.comThe End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic CollapseIt's never just one minority. 0214
Reposted by Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him)Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026People really struggle with this concept but: How will you prove YOU deserve due process if you aren’t afforded due process? 81447322