Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDEva-Lotte Schwarz @lotteschwarz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025🧵 (1/7) What a great think piece on the conservative obsession with suffering and conflict — especially in light of the “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” logic behind the new tariffs. 416031
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDJaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 05/04/2025NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comTrump administration cancels more than a dozen international student visas at University of California, StanfordAmid a national sweep over student visas that has hit colleges across the U.S., the Trump administration on Friday canceled more than a dozen international student visas at the University of Californi... 351072737
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/04/2025the present shortcoming is not that people protesting are cringe it's that there isn't presently a mass commitment to the kind of action that would force regime change. that isn't a criticism, just an observation. these things take time. and with time all things are possible. 572667414
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/04/2025New horrific footage shows that Israel lied through its teeth about its massacre of paramedics and rescue workers. But still Western media outlets will keep treating Israeli lies as credible. Accessories to genocide 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-lie... 19917393
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDJen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 05/04/2025When you realize you aren't alone and lots of people are mad, it makes it easier to speak up! Also sometimes you get new ideas. 16914
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025CHICAGO… 8454837511196
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025discussing the reality of Trump is hard because despite everything that has happened, if you talk about the reality of what geopolitical order and American politics look like, no one actually believes it 540342
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDJim Johnson 🇨🇦 @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social · 04/04/2025www.nature.com/naturecareer... UBC LSI Job!!nature.comAssistant Professor (tenure track) – Chromatin, Epigenetics - Vancouver, British Columbia (CA) job with The University of British Columbia (UBC) | 12837841Assistant Professor (tenure track) - Chromatin Regulation, Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms, Epigenetics, Epigenomics 03136
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025In a move that *should* be precedent-setting for other scholarly organizations, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) announces that this year’s conference will be held concurrently at sites in the US and Canada and online due to the dangerous US political climate. 6469189
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Regular, non-expert people can maybe be forgiven for thinking we'd get a redux of the first administration. But nobody who fancies themselves a thought leader should have expected that. This was a consistent theme during the election: no guardrails this time. 1052760
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Other fact-based ways to frame these attacks are: a) part of an ongoing GOP war against higher ed because they view it as a hostile institution b) an authoritarian breaking any venues of dissent. Going with the Trump framing is a choice to support the war and give credence to the authoritarian. 15983229
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDonion person @junlper.beer · 04/04/2025wokeness was keeping the economy afloat. wokeness kept planes in the air. wokeness kept us all safe 106128092115
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025True. Also true that a lot of Americans burned things the last five years. Our militarized police attacked them and I believe there are credible accounts of assassinations. 81634321
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Excellent critique of childhood development interventions: "The privileged of Global North & South can find solace in the idea they have little responsibility for inequality. If bad childcare & poor brain development are major contributing factors to poverty, then it's parents’ job to overcome it"aeon.coThe problem with parenting interventions in the Global South | Aeon EssaysEarly childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions 01211
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd 6287931988
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDZombies. The undead. You know, ghouls. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible. I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible. I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible. 202148135040
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Don't know about other cities but in Seattle, this is the first winter since 2020 that fewer people have died of COVID than the flu (it's been a really nasty flu season!) kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/... 750022
Haley Ragsdale, PhD @haleyrags.bsky.social · 31/03/2025resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/living-wit... Highly recommend this essay and the 1964 Hannah Arendt lecture it references, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"resnikoff.beehiiv.comLiving With a MurdererOn personal responsibility under the second Trump administration 030
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Started/Going. Two infants died of pertussis in Louisiana, where last month the state’s surgeon general banned health department staff from encouraging vaccination. 14025061206
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDDon’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 31/03/2025When traveling, or otherwise expecting potential encounters with law enforcement: Locking your phone with a long, strong pin code, turning off biometrics like Face ID is a strong contender for the one change the average person can make to vastly improve their personal digital security situation. 25222
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDonion person @junlper.beer · 30/03/2025imagine having enough money to where you could part with and donate this much money to sway the entire political ecosystem. pure evil 24564901273
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDMichael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack. 6646971527
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDMalevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 30/03/2025There is this really interesting phenomenon that happens in science communication where the updating of ideas is see as breaking the trust in science rather than a commitment to being accurate 1161992
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts. 14538201509
Haley Ragsdale, PhD @haleyrags.bsky.social · 30/03/2025"While much of the discourse surrounding college campuses has revolved around Ivy League colleges, virtually all the cases Zeteo reviewed occurred at state schools across the country." 030
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025"SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge" “Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students. @premthakker.bsky.social latest shocking exclusive for Zeteo:zeteo.comSCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students. 712005768
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhD🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 27/03/2025*taps mic* please for the love of all that is holy and good in the world, stop announcing to everyone that "NO ONE IS PRO ABORTION." YOU'RE WRONG. I AM. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE. ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE. I'M PRO HEALTH CARE. I'M PRO CHEMO. I'M PRO BUTTERFLY STITCHES. STOP SPREADING STIGMA.media.tenor.coma man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you .Alt: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you . that man is keanu reeves and he's bowing with his hand to his heart. 602627489
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The Trump regime will round you up off the street and arrest you because you spoke your mind. And federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it. It's fascism. Call it what it is. 27976112621
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025An article that makes you sick to your stomach.motherjones.comThe men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoosThe Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers. 36975284
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDAir-Moving Device @airmovingdevice.bsky.social · 23/03/2025DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024. Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts. 7222071094
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025"Everyone is fair game." More than 300 students have apparently had their visas revoked in the 'Catch and Revoke' program for their solidarity with the right of Palestinians to exist. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t... 15463264
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/03/2025"Grants are getting killed “without any scientific input anywhere. It is purely political,” said a member of a senior NIH leadership team. “The science in this country is going to be destroyed if you can change what the priorities are going to be every four years. You can’t do science that way.”"wapo.stThese 5 words have killed millions in grants and advanced Trump’s agendaFive words in an obscure regulation are being deployed by Trump’s appointees to kill grants unilaterally across the government. 8300138
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Nutrition Funding Cuts Could Claim 369K Young Lives This Year www.forbes.com/sites/daphne...forbes.comNutrition Funding Cuts Could Claim 369K Young Lives This YearNutrition funding cuts could claim 369,000 child lives this year, halting treatment for millions and reversing decades of progress against malnutrition. 053
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia. 41578094416
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDAdam Van Arsdale @apv2600.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This is straight Nazi shit 162
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDMelissa Bates @batesphysio.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Even if it’s not intentional, when people are worried about their jobs they spend a lot of effort talking about the situation, planning for contingencies, and generally being unmotivated to do more than the minimum for an enterprise they don’t feel values them. 13310
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDKatie Lee @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Reminder for Louisiana voters: there is an election on March 29. It’s got some shady-ass state constitutional amendments. Vote NO on ALL, y’all. I can drag up some citations & explainers if ya want. But GO VOTE against the shit Landry et al are trying to slide into a historically low-turnout time. 043
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDonion person @junlper.beer · 27/03/2025it is VERY important that anyone who lives in wisconsin votes for crawford for wisconsin supreme court on april 1st. wisconsin is only just starting to recover from the damage of the scott walker era and this would help solidify a new era in the state 4640231181
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'" Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy... 1072180993
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/03/2025Here NIH officials target contracts that "may be related to any form of censorship at all or *directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes*." Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education. 10423126
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t... 10394233
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDPablo J. Varas Enríquez @pablovarase.bsky.social · 27/03/2025🚨CALL FOR POSTERS🚨 Last days for you to apply, and attend, the 12th EconBio Workshop on “Sex Differences in Human Life History Evolution”! Just send your CV+abstract+cover letter before March 31 to econbio_poster@iast.fr More info in www.iast.fr/conferences/... @ehbea.bsky.social 037
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying. 4945592278
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time. 18263625316134
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDAnnals of Human Biology @annalshumanbio.bsky.social · 25/03/2025📈GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT Human Biology, Climate Change & Sustainability Read this OA study on WBT & b/feeding patterns in relation to maternal work - at the intersection of climate change and maternal & child health @bioanthmags.bsky.social @kstark8.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comHigh wet-bulb temperatures, time allocation, and diurnal patterns of breastfeeding in Bangladeshi fisher-tradersClimate change is a growing threat to population health, with dangerous combinations of heat and humidity increasing in frequency, particularly in South Asia. Evidence suggests that high temperatur... 022
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...open.substack.comThe shame of Columbia UniversityIn surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny 32980405
Reposted by Haley Ragsdale, PhDBrittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵docs.google.comCancelled NIH grant information submission formPlease use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH... 5266230