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📊 data visualization engineer, 💊 healthcare analytics consultant, 🐶 dog mom, 🌱 vegan for the animals. www.savethedogs.io

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 28/09/2026
Just saw this news now (looks like it is a few days old) arXiv has received private funding -- $17.2M to be distributed across the next 3-5 years to help it establish and transition to an independent not-for-profit. This is good news for the preprint server and open access resources! 🔭🧪
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arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit
arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026
In the newsletter: "Visualization as epistemic representation" openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/visualizat... Or: Building bridges between information design and the philosophy of science & scientific representation #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics
A diagram depicting the cycle of epistemic representation. An object called the "vehicle" (a chart, for example) represents another object, called the "target" (for instance, a data set). The reader of the "vehicle" can make inferences about the vehicle itself, and later they can use those inferences to make inferences about the "target"
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 25/09/2026
Unveiled today. 📊
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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This interactive op-ed by Giorgia Lupi on creativity and AI is so good (and Miles Davis also gets a mention) #dataviz
nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think
Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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PETA @peta.org · 27/09/2026
Together with @marchforanimals.bsky.social, 1,000+ people joined the 207-mile March to Abolish Animal Testing from Albany to Marshall BioResources, the world’s largest breeder of dogs destined for laboratories to demand an end to animal testing. Animals are NOT ours to experiment on ✊🐾
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 27/09/2026
Florida, let’s elect Jolly for governor & @angieforfl.bsky.social to the U.S. Senate! 🌴✊💙! We can win if we all show up!
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Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 27/09/2026
Happy Sunday ☀️, free Palestine 🇵🇸, free the beagles at Marshall BioResources ✊🐾, and fuck Donald Trump.
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh yes, let’s make cars and trucks less fuel efficient while gas and diesel prices are at an all time high. Not to mention the impact on air quality and the climate. Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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Team Animal Voice @tav4accmedicals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"There are cattle dogs & then all other dogs" Meet Oreo McFlurry nycacc.app#/browse/265037 #AdoptMe Oh baby girl, how did you end up in NYC? Oh my.... they have no idea the treasure they found Intelligent, playful, trainable, active, loving, loyal, protective; did I say active?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Rowdy Girl Sanctuary @rowdygirlsanctuary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Denver Vegans, come out to hear my talk at the University of Denver on Tuesday, September 29 from 6-8pm! I'll be sharing stories from my memoir, “Rowdy Girl: Confessions of a Vegan Cattle Rancher.” Learn about this program put on by the Animal Law Program: buff.ly/TESkeND
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 26/09/2026
Nice job, RFK, Jr. 💔
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Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 26/09/2026
Flock off!
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
Early voting has already begun for the midterm elections. Here’s a guide to the key deadlines for voting in your state. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
2026 Midterm Elections: When to Register, Vote Early or Vote by Mail in Your State
See the important deadlines for registering to vote, mailing ballots and voting early in person.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
Where things stand for the weekend in the Northeast corridor: rain, flooding and gusty winds. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/w...
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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: A new report recovers nearly one million link shortener URLs used by OpenAI's agents while hacking Hugging Face. The agents attempt to message other chatbots like Claude, solve CAPTCHAs and exfiltrate Hugging Face's internal Slack messages. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector (Gift Article)
A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds new details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 26/09/2026
Taken together, European seas averaged 21.6 C (70.9 F) between June and August, the highest in 45 years of available data.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 26/09/2026
Please call your congressional representative and insist that they support this important legislation.
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Florida Phoenix @floridaphoenix.com · 21/09/2026
“These are folks who should be focused on getting the help and care they desperately need, not overcoming even more obstacles.” floridaphoenix.com/2026/09/21/r...
floridaphoenix.com
Medical groups, patients sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements • Florida Phoenix
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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South Carolina Democratic Party @scdemocrats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Conservative columnist George F. Will is backing Dr. Annie Andrews in the Washington Post. 👀💙 Will highlights her experience, knowledge & respect for the Constitution. This seat belongs to the people of South Carolina, not one family or politicians in Washington.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"
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Retire in peace
McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
How fast does government run? That’s up to you. This November, there will be 5 questions on your ballot aimed at making government work more efficiently for New Yorkers. Make sure your voice is heard. Register to vote by October 24th. Learn more about the ballot props by heading to nyc.gov/fast.
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Stephen James @stephen5150.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
yahoo.com
Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data
Musk's "VoteSafe.org" is a scam that doesn't actually register voters
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/09/2026
“Widow’s Bay” won big at the Emmys in an evening that underlined how television, “despite years of movie stars dominating prestige shows, remains best designed for versatile performers and textured roles,” @shirklesxp.bsky.social argues:
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The Emmys Made Widow’s Bay Its Personality
The Apple TV show’s big night was fitting for a ceremony that celebrated versatile performers, not movie stars.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
a scooby doo "unmasking" meme. it reads: 

highly capable, powerful, advanced super-intelligent AI 

army of humans hired by OpenAI to read real ChatGPT users' chats
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Between the Trump and Natalie kissing photo, and the video of Mitch McConnell’s face as he grins like a sentient whoopie cushion, today is a bad day to have eyes
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Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 14/09/2026
The one thing you can do to help a whole lot of animals, explained in 4 charts  www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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The one thing you can do to help a whole lot of animals, explained in 4 charts
Why a bite of chicken hurts way more animals than a hunk of steak.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🧵US Weekly COVID update: Sep 14, 2026 🔸1 in 92 Actively Infectious 🔸530,000 Daily Infections 🔸3,800,000 Infections In The Past Week 🔸107,000,000 Infections in 2026 🔸190,000 to 760,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases 🔸900 to 1,700 Weekly Excess Deaths Source: pmc19.com
A map graphic titled "COVID-19 Heat Map, Based on CDC Wastewater Data & Standard Levels" from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) Model, dated Sep 14, 2026.
The color-coded map of the United States and its territories shows widespread high and very high prevalence. Large swaths of the West Coast, Southwest, South, and Northeast are shaded in dark pink (Very High) and red (High). Central and Midwest regions show lighter shades of orange (Moderate), green (Low), and blue (Very Low).
A legend links colour codes to PMC prevalence estimates, with Very High indicating a >3.5% actively infectious proportion.
Text below states that the US has at least 34 states/territories with COVID outbreaks and lists them, starting with Alaska, Hawai'i, and Guam, and ending with New York, Connecticut, and Maine. The graphic is credited to Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA and references pmc19.com.
A data table graphic titled "National COVID-19 Estimates (U.S.)" from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) Model, dated Sep 14, 2026.
The chart breaks down data into three light blue and white rows under major bold headings:
•	Infections: Lists 1 in 92 (1.1%) as actively infectious, 530,000 new daily infections, 3,800,000 infections in the past week, 107,000,000 infections total in 2026, and 5.40 cumulative infections per person.
•	Long COVID: Estimates 27,000 to 106,000 cases resulting from new daily infections and 190,000 to 760,000 cases from new weekly infections.
•	Excess Deaths: Estimates 130 to 230 deaths resulting from new daily infections and 900 to 1,700 deaths from new weekly infections.
The source is listed as pmc19.com.
A data table graphic titled "COVID-19 State Prevalence Estimates" from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) Model, dated Sep 14, 2026.
The table ranks U.S. states and territories alphabetically from Alabama to Mississippi, showing columns for CDC levels, PMC infectiousness percentages, and the mathematical statistical risk of encountering an infectious person in gatherings of different sizes.
Key data points highlighted in red rows include:
•	California: PMC estimate 1 in 27 (3.7%) actively infectious; 98% chance someone is infectious in a room of 100 people.
•	Hawaii: PMC estimate 1 in 24 (4.2%) actively infectious; 99% chance someone is infectious in a room of 100 people.
•	Mississippi: PMC estimate 1 in 17 (5.8%) actively infectious; >99% chance someone is infectious in a room of 100 people.
A footnote at the bottom critiques the CDC, stating that on August 14, 2026, the agency "revised categorical descriptors downward without notice or rationale," a process they refer to as "bluewashing." The source is listed as pmc19.com.
A data table graphic titled "COVID-19 State Prevalence Estimates" from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) Model, dated Sep 14, 2026. This page continues an alphabetical list of U.S. states and territories from Missouri to Wyoming.
Columns detail CDC levels, PMC infectiousness percentages, and statistical risks for group sizes of 10 to 100 people. Red-highlighted rows indicate high-risk areas:
•	Nevada: PMC estimate 1 in 17 (5.9%) actively infectious; >99% chance someone is infectious in a room of 100 people.
•	Texas: PMC estimate 1 in 25 (3.9%) actively infectious; 98% chance someone is infectious in a room of 100 people.
•	U.S. Virgin Islands: PMC estimate 1 in 15 (6.7%) actively infectious; >99% chance someone is infectious in a room of 100 people.
A footnote critiquing CDC "downshifting" or "bluewashing" matches previous pages. The source is pmc19.com.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Russians are attacking trains right at the border of Poland, shortly after former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and top European security officials had passed through. Kamala Harris told us how it was all going to go.
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 11/09/2026
It should be an event for the data visualization community that this video from 2013 that got 26 million views has just been updated. 📊 It has entered the mainstream in the way that very few dataviz have. youtu.be/2GxlL5-0m_g?...
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Wealth Inequality in America (Updated 2026)
YouTube video by politizane
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Join me on October 1 for a #ggplot2 workshop as part of the @rinpharma.bsky.social conference! 📊 #RStats #DataViz
R in Pharma flyer. Date October 1 and time 3-5pm GMT+8
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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · 14/09/2026
📊 This week: "Dual-axis & waterfall charts" on Wednesday, Sept 16 at 6pm CET / 12pm EDT. Get to know our newest chart types! Live Q&A included. You can register here: watch.getcontrast.io/register/dat...
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Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 14/09/2026
Dirty Dancing
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul 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 ... "
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/09/2026
One thing not getting as much attention re: Dario's essay. In it, he talks about the need for third party evaluators to review models for safety. But a few days before the essay, Anthropic... refused to submit its latest models to the UK's evaluator: www.ft.com/content/560e...
ft.com
Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency
Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups
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Hardcore Vegan @hardcorevegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Shoutout to whoever managed to get both Bing and Google maps to list Marshall BioResources as a Prison in New York state 🎯🏅
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PETA @peta.org · 10/09/2026
The sheer magnitude of this animal breeding factory farm will make you sick 💔 As you're watching this video, 14,000 beagles, 11,000 ferrets, & other animals are suffering at Marshall BioResources. Don't let another animal experience the same fate, text in TODAY!
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Marshall BioResources Faces Call for Criminal Investigation riseforanimals.org/news/marshal...
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Marshall BioResources Faces Call for Criminal Investigation
Whistleblower testimony and veterinary evidence raise serious allegations of cruelty at Marshall BioResources. Help demand a criminal investigation.
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Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 14/09/2026
Happy Monday. And fuck Donald Trump.
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our new paper led by @josbarlow.bsky.social shows extreme heatwaves and heat-driven droughts are intensifying much faster than overall averages in #Amazonia and often severe far from deforestation frontiers www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🌎 🧪☀️@ras-network.bsky.social #ClimateChange
nature.com
Rapid increase of climate extremes reveals new areas of concern in Amazonia - Communications Earth & Environment
Climate change impacts in the Amazon, particularly heat and drought extremes, are increasing faster than average climate trends, with especially rapid changes in the central-northern region that has s...
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of the definitions of the "surveillance state" that I operate under is when a government turns *all* methods of data and information collection---no matter what purpose it was supposed to serve, into surveillance intended for punishment.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Ariana Grande posted starving people to death is a red line… well who would know better about starving?”😕 Arrogant-as-ever @billmaher makes a sick joke about famine in Gaza, attacking Ariana for her weight + defending 🇮🇱’s genocide — even as 🇺🇸 overwhelmingly turns against it
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