Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 1hMargaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...nytimes.comMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has DiedMargaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. 322966
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 5hSoftware engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere). 335197
Dana 🌈🔬🪱 @millerlab.bsky.social · 8hUgh! I’m sorry that is happening - if you run into any problems maybe UAW4121 could help? Or dm if a random faculty from a different dept might be able to help 120
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14hQuota based, heavy handed affirmative action instead of pure merit at the Univesity of Chicago. 151
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14h“Don’t question me, peasants!” -Senator “One Term” Collins 031
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Spooky Neighborhood Spider-Menace @icanfly42.bsky.social · 14hI also want to challenge the people integrating it ino workflows to think about how OpenAI and Anthropic are going to act if they successfully enmesh themselves in society. Because I'm pretty sure they'll need to monetize everything so hard we'll think back on Adobe and Microsoft fondly 1268
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17hThe “literacies“ framework is as intellectually bankrupt as polarization right now. We will keep using it because when you’ve got one hammer and the NSF social science funding has dried up everything looks like a nostalgic managerial class nail. 444798
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16hYeah the thing about white elite obsession with rule by eugenics is they have to constantly caretake the power required to bend institutions to their will when their eugenics inevitably fail to be great: 417732
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 16hfeels like we should make a larger talking point out of the fact that AI is just another attempt to consolidate wealth for billionaires 21714145
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 16hExtend this call to academia. 1245
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There is no NSF leadership. They were removed and never replaced. 322471
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Photograph 51 was not the result of an experiment in need of analysis, but was refined documentation for calculations that she had already performed on the earlier photograph." link.springer.com/content/pdf/... 33518
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026someone call up will smith we need him to do something 189101531130
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026People will roll their eyes at this over the combination of The Atlantic and the "well well if it isn't the consequences of my vote" genre but it's good that he feels this kind of shame, that's how a human should feel and Trump's power is built on people with no remaining capacity for it 2649110
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 03/10/2026the NEH is a ghost of an organization. the NEA's budget is $29 million. I'm not saying this to be pissy, but simply to say that when we rebuild - and we will rebuild - I expect solidarity from my STEM colleagues as we robustly expand research in the arts and humanities as well. 214942
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase. 3494162
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026An entire generation of faculty and students (rightfully!) fully internalized “the institution cannot love you” and institutional leaders wonder where trust went 🙄 513543
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities 7613169
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Billionaires want you to think taxing their wealth "doesn't do anything." Massachusetts passed a millionaire tax and raised $3.1 BILLION. That money is funding bridges, buses, teachers, and free community college. Wealth taxes WORK. That's why the rich hate them. Tax the rich. 716977
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Universities have been going for the “insiders strategy” of trying to lobby quietly without making public waves. Counterfactuals are hard, but I would say the strategy has been a complete failure. 310029
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱ElizabethRDale @elizabethrdale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The very highly paid leaders of R1 universities. 054
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Immunoprof (she/they) @immunoprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hey data viz teachers….here’s a FANTASTIC example for class. 06717
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Nothing in movement conservatism makes sense except in the light of creationism (with apologies to Dobzhansky). 0115
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This contest might seem cool and interesting, who doesn’t want to know what their “biological age” or “real” age is? But I find this deeply, deeply dystopian. People “racing to biological youth” is a fundamentally deeply conservative and selfish mindset. www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1...technologyreview.comA new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youthAnd I'll be joining them. 2447
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱SpiderDIEphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It is one of my dearest hopes that John Roberts will be the last Chief Justice of a nine-person SCOTUS and that he'll be forced to watch his life's work be burned to the ground. And then he still never knows a moment's peace in public. 313625
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 26/09/2026The drosophila wings scarf! 🧪🐡 artologica.etsy.com/listing/9021...artologica.etsy.comDrosophila Wings Silk Chiffon Scarf - Science Scarf - EtsyThis Scarves item by artologica has 38 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Washington, DC. Listed on Sep 24, 2026 1314
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo 221972378
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 13974417
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026Impeach Hegseth on January 3. I don’t care if you don’t have enough senate votes to convict and remove. 24140921231
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I heard through the grapevine that Sen. Eric Schmitt has 18 staffers on his legislative team: 17 men and one woman. The woman on his staff deals exclusively with foreign policy, which means today's disaster during the hearing was all by conservative men who don't know sports. 311015172
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Captain 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. 8728206
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Usually in any discussion on this subject, a male jumps into the discussion and shouts Not All Men! Suggestion: put that energy into finding a solution to the problem.” 052
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱President Megan E. Green @saintlouispres.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The BOA endorsed SWU and their call for a fair union contract by passing Resolution 127. I’m proud to stand with working people and #BoycottStarbucks until baristas win a fair contract. Starbucks’ workers are taking on a multi-billion dollar company. Let them know they aren’t doing it alone. ✊ 04517
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. 333397818
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is such a fucking racket and these companies are all in cahoots. The best way to protect yourself and your employees from AI is to abstain from using it. 16848112
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-... 5648163
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s decorative race-baiting season, motherfcukers! 05416
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's the beginning of the school year for us. I don't know about you, but my inbox is full of undergrad requests to join the lab. I can't offer them all positions, so instead I wrote a bit of advice on the process. Feel free to share if you find it helpful. www.thekonglab.org/blog/looking...thekonglab.orgLooking for an undergraduate research position? A PI’s advice — Kong LabOne of the greatest joys of being a PI is mentoring the next generation of scientists. At a large public university (Woohoo… Go Dawgs!), I have the amazing luxury of hearing from many enthusiastic stu... 1208
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122123525253
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...npr.orgHow unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 citiesAlternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well? 5756271
Reposted by Dana 🌈🔬🪱AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542411630
Dana 🌈🔬🪱 @millerlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Have they outlawed testing for measles in some states? 100