Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026it's also pretty interesting that "expose yourself to more intellectual diversity from the right" rarely means "hire more experts credulously studying the intellectual basis for Hindu nationalism, the gender politics of the Black Hebrew Isrealites, or the righteous teachings of al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ" 322316361
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026actual gestapo shit. "Video posted on social media showed two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appearing to handcuff a man at a Las Vegas airport while he screamed in terror."nbcnews.comICE agents in plainclothes handcuff man at Las Vegas airport, shocking onlookersAfter their actions attracted attention, the agents walked away, leaving Phu Nguyen with a handcuff attached to one arm. He was later arrested before his flight left Los Angeles International Airport 472329761
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalCenter for Behavioral Intervention Technologies @cbits-nu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Congrats to CBITs Core Faculty Member @karmacap.bsky.social on her presentation at the annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research! The talk titled "Acceptability of SHER, a digital sexual health promotion intervention for diverse adolescents" shared teens' feedback on SHER. 🎉 011
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/07/2026This rule is currently in the notice and comment period. And while the Trump administration can’t be trusted to respond to those comments in good faith, they are required to respond to each and every one, which can slow adoption of the rule until after a federal election. 13022
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026The existence of a trillionaire is a policy failure. 351703265
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026First they came for the trans people But I did not speak out Because I did not work with vulnerable populations . . . Then the came for the university administrators and the journal editors Fortunately, there were those who had seen this coming and had been fighting the entire time. 1/2 2388
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalCenter for Behavioral Intervention Technologies @cbits-nu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Congratulations to CBITs core faculty @karmacap.bsky.social on her new position as president-elect of the International Academy of Sex Research. Well-deserved and excited for your impact in this space, President-Elect Kathryn! 🫡🏳️🌈️👩🏫🏳️⚧️ To learn more about IASR: www.iasrsite.orgiasrsite.orgIASR 011
Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 25/05/2026It’s true. he gasped loudly in a restaurant when I explained it and people turned around to look 0211
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalAbraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels. 13332121
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalKarla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Exciting and good news from the Glaze/Nightshade UChicago team! They are releasing a new non-profit, ETCH, whose mission is specifically to assist and prioritize humans in this GenAi era! One of the first public releases of ETCH is Quicksilver, an solid GenAi detector for music! 122279
Reposted by Kathryn Macapagalblair @blairaf.com · 20/04/2026Another trend I'm seeing emerge in some of these spaces: "We are very concerned that AI agents pose grave cybersecurity risks but we are using them for as many tasks as possible and we encourage others to do the same if you don't want to fall behind" 2328
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalErin In The Morning @handle.invalid · 20/04/2026Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats • The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.erininthemorning.comFederal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital ThreatsThe judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care. 191443445
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/04/2026The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comWe Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-TrumpificationThe damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health. 712204776
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 20/04/2026A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation. 42691092710
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalChelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Start calling literature reviews “the lore” 2639
Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I’m speaking at the Chicago @standupforscience.bsky.social rally tomorrow, rain or shine! Join me and your fellow Chicagoland nerds, be loud, and bring your best pro-science signs! 🪧 📢 0141
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Massie goes full beast mode today. Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files. 470180045560
Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 23/02/2026A year later we still feel the effects of funding cuts to #science. They trickle down to our communities and patients. The losses are immeasurable, but also often invisible to most people. Thank you to @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social for amplifying our stories and making the impacts clear as day. 270
Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 20/02/2026thinking of all the clinical and counseling psych students on match day 🫶🏼 14 yrs ago i matched to the best place for me, even though i wanted to stay close to home. my spouse didn’t match on his first try and the year after made him way stronger. regardless of what your outcome was, you got this 💜 051
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalJon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...mprnews.orgICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin CitiesSome people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ... 28258373151
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/02/2026a great article you should read instead of the Washington post one: theracket.news/p/the-most-a...theracket.newsThe Most American HalftimeDecoding Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl for the haters 119664
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/02/2026explain to me, very slowly, like the dimwitted child you must think I am, how body cameras or ICE cooperating with cops would have prevented any of the many, many, many law enforcement murders committed by both ICE and cops over the years which were already thoroughly documented on video 11096232
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Columbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now. 282710447
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc 37265326078
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalJonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 25/01/2026To those American academics out there who have chosen to remain silent/mostly silent about the horror going on in the USA these days at every corner of the federal government, please start speaking out and fighting back. 219244
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/01/2026I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA. 31698092994
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 25/01/2026“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.” 322297
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants. 744103546016
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Thank you @davidmalakoff.bsky.social for this write up about the past year in science and how orgs, including @standupforscience.bsky.social are meeting the moment. We all need to recognize that science is not the golden cow and we are on the chopping block, too. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgIn the age of Trump, are U.S. scientists ‘bringing white papers to a gunfight’?An unprecedented assault has forced researchers to rethink their advocacy tactics 33214
Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I needed some joy and Indiana brought it ❤️ 🤍 proud to be a #hoosier 000
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalThe Athletic @theathletic.com · 20/01/2026Curt Cignetti has done the unthinkable, turning the biggest loser in college football history into a 16-0 national champion in just two seasons. With the win, he has proven to be the best coach in the sport, @brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social writes. 1227530
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19/01/2026HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT 1534346735
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters) 28326341205
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status. 577334888598
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalJonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 15/01/2026My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror. 6945881496
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out 378268718137
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/01/2026WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature? FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb. 1252133612715
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.” No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true. This is journalism. Well done, @people.com 3939611255
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalChristopher Pepper (He/Him) @mrpepper.bsky.social · 09/01/2026We need a total and complete shutdown of ICE in the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on. 021
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalAram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook 23572203110
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering. 666378983
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 08/01/2026this country truly is allergic to helping people 136420
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalTexas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 04/01/2026🤠 Hey, Texas faculty! As you prep for the spring semester check out our blog for tips + advice. 👇 1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression. 3) Organize your department. We are stronger together! aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...aaup-texas.org2025: A Year of Resistance, Solidarity and ResolveCONTACT: Brian L. Evans, PhD, President, Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), affiliated with the Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT), aaup.texas@gmai... 05129
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full: 6712722010761
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalPopular Science @popsci.com · 18/12/2025The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...popsci.comFirst-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transitionNinety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare. 142176666710
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalSabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?" 37652285
Reposted by Kathryn Macapagaldr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 03/12/20251/ NEW: I found out who sent me that vile voicemail. His name is James Catalano, 62, of Fresno, California. I break the whole thing down in this video 813130
Reposted by Kathryn MacapagalLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 02/12/2025People talk about mental illness in terms of depression or psychosis or violence but please don’t forget the “high functioning” mentally ills who are hyperproductive because their brain tells them if they don’t adhere to a rigid and punishing schedule they will literally die 2649