Reposted by Lauren Browntara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 15/10/2026dude, that jake bauers story about having to re-up minor league ball for health insurance for his pregnant wife? not a cute charming human interest story! a scathing indictment of our system! 322352
Reposted by Lauren BrownJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public. 75150015616
Reposted by Lauren BrownKavi Kat 🌬️ @katinthestars.bsky.social · 13/10/2026🚨 RFK Jr's CDC seeks to move forward with a mad science experiment on Guinea-Bissau newborns‼️ THIS IS NOT A SCIENTIFIC STUDY⚠️ ☠️ Against all international law, half the infants in the study will be given placebos instead of a life-saving vaccine, dooming them to disease & early death❗️ #TakeActionfight2win.standupforscience.netStand up for ScienceStand up for Science 01714
Reposted by Lauren Browngeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors 774166838
Reposted by Lauren BrownThe Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice theonion.com/worlds-scientists-admi… 222604264
Reposted by Lauren BrownJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I could do this all day, but you get the point(s). Trust in higher ed ≠ trust in Ivy Leagues. Budgets are moral documents and if you want to examine trust in higher ed, look at how states prioritize public higher education. 125243
Reposted by Lauren BrownJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY. 3408120
Reposted by Lauren BrownJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I read in the Inquirer today that UPenn’s endowment *increased* by $6 billion last year. The FY27 executive budget for CUNY is $6.4 billion. 120634
Reposted by Lauren BrownJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The University of California system, not including CSU or community colleges, is 300,000 students. 628231
Reposted by Lauren BrownJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000. 151359302
Reposted by Lauren BrownA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8685412212
Reposted by Lauren BrownAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... " 1375339638295
Reposted by Lauren BrownLucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we 91202252
Reposted by Lauren BrownBillie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Too many Democrats concede as "fact" the stereotype-driven propaganda that far-right groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom have promoted: that trans athletes at all ages and forever have a competitive advantage and that safety, even, is at issue. A long body of research disproves these claims 6411155
Reposted by Lauren BrownKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Arte Moreno bought the Angels in 2003 (the year after they won the Series) for $184 million. He then spent 23 years running them into the ground, let the stadium decay, wasted Trout and Ohtani, and sold for $4 billion. And the owners are crying poverty and threatening to kill baseball next year. 382130586
Reposted by Lauren BrownTim Hathway @timdarklighter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Shameless plug for a cool puzzle game that uses the same critical thinking skills as structural analysis from NMR spectroscopy. (Try the ten tutorial puzzles before attempting the daily puzzle). www.multiplet.appmultiplet.appMultiplet — Daily NMR Spectrum PuzzleA daily puzzle game inspired by chemistry and NMR spectroscopy. Build a structure whose spectrum matches today's target. 12312
Reposted by Lauren BrownAshley @ashleyrodrigues.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Have the Padres even commented on this?? I know I haven’t seen anything or heard anything on a broadcast 1111
Reposted by Lauren BrownCasey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Fernando Tatis Jr. with the coldest grand slam robbery I have ever seen in my life 20833178
Reposted by Lauren BrownEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I'm keen on AI having a transformational impact on human health. But these cure projections are wildly off-base and impossible. 1215024
Reposted by Lauren Browndr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/08/2026we literally stand on the shoulders of giants. towering figures who have exited the world. fierce intellects who believed things like "you can ban or regulate dangerous stuff" and "societies can rein in excesses," and "peace is generally preferable to war and chaos." may as well have been aliens 203090484
Reposted by Lauren BrownCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 26/07/2026“If universities oppose the actions of the administration, they need to say so quickly so that their constituents aren’t left wondering whether there’s a plan. The alternative is a community of university scientists adrift and grasping for a lifeline.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgUniversity science in the US needs a coherent planThe Trump administration continues to degrade America’s scientific establishment, causing widespread harm to the country’s broader interests and well-being. Last week, the Association of American Univ... 25323
Reposted by Lauren BrownMarc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026From the LinkedIn of an academic I have a lot of respect for. 20571241
Reposted by Lauren BrownMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026being afraid of the DSA is loser shit, sorry. “these progressive ideas are scary!” grow up. 1376487926
Reposted by Lauren BrownAmanda Deibert @amandadeibert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026#SDCC comic con: our daughter left her 3D printed black dragon in the restroom near E/Starbucks. She printed it herself and is devastated. We checked the restroom and lost and found which means someone picked it up. If you bring it to 5552 I will give you a signed comic as reward 15762679
Reposted by Lauren BrownBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/07/2026Tonight we all dine at 10 PM 71203157
Reposted by Lauren BrownKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too. 1173355865
Reposted by Lauren BrownGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I'm joining the war on Taco Bell on the side of Taco Bell 632478
Reposted by Lauren Brownlocal blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026Pretty concerning that this is increasingly becoming a tactic of the elite class to go after journalistic outlets by trying to sue them to death 101625297
Reposted by Lauren BrownErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Let’s be really clear about this lettuce situation: it’s not just the destruction of public health tracking, it’s also years and years of ending regulations that would have prevented conditions causing outbreaks in the first place, combined with climate change that makes them more likely to happen. 162324644
Lauren Brown @laurbrown.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Thorndike Parmesan and Walter "Bud" Parmesan sound like prime AJP draftees who never pitch an inning for the Padres, fated to be flipped at the deadline for a 4th 2nd baseman, platoon 1B, and a catcher with a ~400 OPS. 000
Reposted by Lauren BrownDerek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Demis Hassabis says a lot of very strange things, not least about my own field of drug discovery. I go on at length here:science.orgThe End of Disease 54112
Reposted by Lauren BrownMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 02/07/2026🧪 New from @dataforprogress.org: Federal research grants are awarded on scientific merit judged by panels of scientists and outside experts. Trump has moved to change that. Voters don't approve. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/7/... 6274124
Reposted by Lauren BrownBeyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Clarence Thomas is not a biology expert Sex is bimodal - it's why intersex people exist Sex is mutable - it's why HRT works Transness is innate - it's why we have existed throughout human history and across cultures He and the court are the ones who lie 4406154
Reposted by Lauren BrownJimmy @jimmy-d.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Fuck the Supreme Court and long live our trans friends and family 129872
Reposted by Lauren BrownPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine. 552731937
Lauren Brown @laurbrown.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This (Baseball Bummer interrupted by Gay Joy) is the inverse of a drive into deep left field by Castellanos (Gay Bummer interrupted by Baseball Joy). 120
Reposted by Lauren BrownCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag. 2662431401
Reposted by Lauren BrownDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The advances in cancer have been so fast that if you’re a doctor who doesn’t specialize in cancer, you simply can’t keep up. There are cancers that I learned are incurable in med school (‘98-2002) that are now cured or managed as long-term issues. Insane levels of ignorance from Peter Thiel 😳 361784361
Reposted by Lauren BrownKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Gender-affirming care for minors is not a bad thing. It’s been so needlessly demonized and the position has been so thoroughly capitulated to that I think people forget it’s actually a good thing. A Grammy award winning artist had gender affirming surgery at 16. It’s a great thing! 503497738
Reposted by Lauren BrownPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/06/2026/3 The common theme Is “I am unlikable, and rather than work on myself, society should adjust to make being unlikable an acceptable norm enforced by social sanctions against telling me I am unlikable.” 2388976
Reposted by Lauren BrownReese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below) 18590367
Reposted by Lauren BrownJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 04/06/2026Among the wild things about this: Unitarian Universalists (4, albeit separate groups at the time) and Deists (arguably 2) were represented among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Those are among the groups reportedly now excluded from faith codes. www.military.com/dod-official... 21264122
Reposted by Lauren BrownDr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!? 484112272254
Lauren Brown @laurbrown.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Not sure I've ever mobilized to replicate a recipe more quickly... 030
Reposted by Lauren BrownGrant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 13/05/2026i can get more engagement in 10 minutes on a quote tweet that requires the reader to click through and see the context 1622
Reposted by Lauren BrownCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Jason Collins is exactly the sort of person I think of when I lament the good ones we've lost while the bad ones seem to go on forever. The key, I guess, is to never forget the lessons and example of the good ones no matter how much the bastards try to bring people down. Rest in peace Jason Collins 223926
Reposted by Lauren BrownJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11/05/2026When we say medical misogyny kills people, this is the shit we mean. 171365363
Reposted by Lauren BrownBaseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 20/04/2026114 Years Ago Today: View of the fans arriving for the first game at brand new Fenway Park! (April 20, 1912) #MLB #Boston #RedSox #History 15010
