Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable. 393659587
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesLili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 30/09/2026"Right out of the gate, Muse launched with a nasty zero-day flaw that created a backdoor on Mac computers, allowing a hacker to not only gain total control of the Muse AI client, but surveil you without your knowledge."karlbode.comMeta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious MessAuthoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable 03416
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2629208935673
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesRepresentative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 29/09/2026It’s almost as if there are more ways to measure the value of work than just the amount of money it makes people. A country with fewer social workers and teaching aides, with less study of the arts and history, is a country that’s not investing in its own future.newrepublic.comTrump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of DegreesUnder a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan. 723573
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, the media, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. 602237857
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesCaptain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something. 8717202
Reposted by Dr Sian Gramatesthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...music.youtube.comSongs In The Key Of Life - The EPEP • Stevie Wonder 532044647
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesChenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Requiring scientists to be political neutral is to require scientists to shut up when the facts are inconvenient. 16524
Reposted by Dr Sian Gramatesjustthisguy.net @justthisguy.net · 29/09/2026“When you cut into your leanest, most efficient state university, you are not trimming excess. You are cutting into muscle.” — President Tisa Mason, Fort Hays State University 03410
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Apparently Merck is no longer supplying Recarbrio. “In an unexpected move, Merck discontinued an important antibiotic from the U.S. market earlier this month, underscoring concerns about the commitment large pharmaceutical companies are willing to make to a field that is crucial to public health”statnews.comMerck discontinues a crucial antibiotic despite concerns over superbug resistanceMerck discontinued Recarbio, an important antibiotic in the U.S., despite concerns over resistance to superbugs. 34732
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/02/2025If we make it out of this with the country more or less intact, the next administration should retool the federal bureaucracy into a prestigious elite on par with the military officer class 428216
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752341418
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability. 717674
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My favorite part is how people will immediately recognize the reasons for "$50" vs "$3,596.49." The first is the co-pay the patient believed; the second is because the doctor lied about insurance coverage while making them sign a giant legalese form that waived it and consented to the billing. 1350274
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you love stationary and based on sales, I think a lot of people do. Here's a gentle nudge to move past "collecting" and to actually USE the stationary. Write letters to friends and family. Send thank you notes. Write actual cards and MAIL THEM. 20530113
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 329184643852
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesIgor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The power of funding fundamental discovery in driving unexpected benefits for humankind are unmatched. We should be funding more basic research not less 211034
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesDésespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is what talk radio sounded like before Howard Stern & Rush Limbaugh turned it into a circus. Jean Shepherd was an eloquent & melancholy barroom raconteur who wore the pose of an Everyman, without dumbing anything down or appealing to his listeners’ worst instincts. youtube.com/watch?v=jK3z...youtube.comJean Shepherd—"Geography" 1972/04/xx (edit/restored)YouTube video by The Jean Shepherd Show 1125
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesZebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Lovely feature on the uber-talented @taylorblack.bsky.social 🐠 And, after you read it, pick up some cool fish merch to support student scholarships at @sicb.bsky.social: fineartamerica.com/featured/ora... #sciart #scicomm #fishscifineartamerica.com 163
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Funnily enough, "bread prices skyrocketing >> the French Revolution" happened bc the French monarchy put "helping farmers"* as their top priority, over "keeping food prices sane." The things you can learn from history! 946766
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesMJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026 💥💥BOOM💥💥 Costco took its $184M in rebate refund and used it to lower costs targeting products that would have the most impact for members!! Kudos Costco!! www.seattletimes.com/business/cos...seattletimes.comCostco clinches $184M in tariff refunds, with more expectedThe big-box retailer said the money was reinvested to give "value back to our members." It’s more than a third of the total tariff refunds the company expects. 19970372280
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths". 892297479715
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 26/09/2026The lovely starburst amacrine cell scarf 🧪🐡https://artologica.etsy.com/listing/560710654artologica.etsy.comStarburst Amacrine Cell Scarf in Silk Chiffon - Neuron Scarf - Retinal Cells - EtsyThis Scarves item by artologica has 41 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Washington, DC. Listed on Sep 26, 2026 1234
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...paydayreport.comX Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back LulaPolls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference. 581254700
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesDawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The trailer for the documentary that a vacuous billionaire wants disappeared. Like the thousands of federal jobs his doge dudes removed. Like the citizens & immigrants removed from American streets. Please watch & repost. Thank you for your attention to this matter. youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10youtu.beMusk | Official Trailer | Bleecker StreetYouTube video by Musk 12270200
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I should also add that when the movie got to showing people burning Teslas and vandalizing dealerships, the theater of mostly older folks in Santa Monica started applauding. I think it is possible Trump and Musk turned libs over 50 into John Brown. 404265445
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesAlt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 27/09/2026This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in years. I am crying as I watch it over and over. 5376
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...newrepublic.comTrump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ HeelTrump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works. 792239640
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesPlayboy @playboy.com · 26/09/2026Readers of the braille edition, as the old joke goes, really did read Playboy just for the articles. Now, we look at how we could be more accessible.playboy.comThe Fight to Keep Playboy in BrailleFor more than a decade, the federal government published Playboy in braille. Congress defunded it. Blind readers sued—and won. 111714
Reposted by Dr Sian Gramatessasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place. 302151659
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026These people love the whole "but it's brainlike" but never for a moment think that's an utterly unscientific claim without minimally some definition. Superficial appearances matching and this being seen as something deep is core pseudoscientific knowledge. More below. 415335
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs. 1262051493
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...cmarmitage.substack.comBig Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six StatesFired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee. 1162503565
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesDJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 23/09/2026The Last Ditch lesbian bar mask requirement story was the topic of Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog's terf ass podcast on September 17th last week. Seems likely this is where the Globe is getting the content for the "viral story". Nice work everyone, great media literacy skills. 5386111
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesGreg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thomas Hunt Morgan was born OTD in 1866. If you're ever feeling that your work is uending and unedifying, remember that he once said this: "Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it." 🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM 34824
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesMadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪 15327138
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27674873141
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc 113058979
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesKOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Australian Institute of Marine Science This timelapse captures just over two years of coral growth, between May 2011 and August 2013, in the central Great Barrier Reef. The footage was taken by our fixed underwater camera at AIMS' weather station at Davies Reef. linktr.ee/AustInstitut... 22959272
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073242285
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188063851
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“1st, rather than cut NIH by nearly 40 percent, as the OMB proposed last year, we should double its $48 billion budget within five years. These are big numbers, but if they yield discoveries that trim the nation’s $5.3 trillion health bill by just 1 percent, they will more than pay for themselves.” 12514
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesDr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm getting tired of seeing a glut of AI executives, VCs, and computer scientists yelling about AI revolutionizing entire scientific fields on LinkedIn when none of them have likely been the people on the ground having to do the dirty work of making sure their methods and data are actually solid. 1132
Reposted by Dr Sian Gramatesderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Looks like US-made textiles and clothing have gotten more expensive since Trump imposed tariffs in April 2025. 482137330
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense. 131308392
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Attention Philly Families! It is critical that we show Drexel and city government that our enthusiasm for the Academy of Natural Sciences is going strong! Bring your kids, friends, & neighbors down to the parkway on Saturday from 2-6pm. It's a kid-friendly rally to support the academy! 3228144
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing. 332936910
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesMother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026To truly understand the scope and origins of the disaster that the Roberts court has unleashed by destroying the Voting Rights Act, you have to return to one of the darkest periods of our history.motherjones.comJim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past. 5246104
Reposted by Dr Sian GramatesThe A.V. Club @avclub.com · 23/09/2026The actor made the remarks while promoting his new film, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. www.avclub.com/mahershala-a...avclub.comMahershala Ali feels Kevin Feige "should feel" like a loser for biffing BladeMahershala Ali feels Kevin Feige "should feel" like a loser for biffing Blade 0152