Reposted by Zach StevensonAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership. 181814547
Reposted by Zach StevensonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.nytimes.comWashington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes. 12038061772
Reposted by Zach StevensonHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.wbur.org/news/2026/08... Why a UMass researcher is among the dozens leaving the U.S. for Canadawbur.orgWhy a UMass researcher is among the dozens leaving the U.S. for CanadaA renowned scientist at UMass Chan Medical School is moving his lab to Canada. The Canadian government named RNA researcher Phillip Zamore among the first recipients of awards that will total more tha... 23821
Reposted by Zach StevensonKenneth Loi @kenjmloi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR. We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets. Thread + link below. 7448197
Reposted by Zach StevensonKatiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"The government has not formally initiated deportation proceedings, but that is still expected to happen. Sidhe, a 43-year-old who worked as a doctor in Kenya and founded a nonprofit devoted to expanding healthcare access, had a medical crisis at the Tacoma facility"seattletimes.comUW Medical Center staffer ordered released from ICE detentionRobert Sidhe, who worked as a doctor in Kenya, came to the U.S. legally and had a pending asylum application when he was detained by ICE in Augst. 9427208
Reposted by Zach StevensonRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 03/09/2026You can now update bioRxiv/medRxiv preprints with funding information after the fact. Authors often omit/don't have all funding info when submitting, but funders understandably want it there. This solves the problem without requiring you to submit a whole new paper. openrxiv.org/updating-fun...openrxiv.orgUpdating funder information on preprints - openRxivFor the past year, bioRxiv and medRxiv authors have been able to include funder information with their preprints. This can be entered in a dedicated field during the submission process, using Research... 06428
Reposted by Zach StevensonBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If you have to pass out a flowchart for your faculty to perform basic operations to understand the policy, then maybe the tools you use for those basic operations is too complicated and is taking up too much of their time. SAP Concur is the devil. 3192
Reposted by Zach StevensonMN Mike @fiveman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The effects of this administration will be felt for decades. Meanwhile, Canada is adding top scientists and researchers from the U.S. We are dumb and getting dumber. It’s just sad, and it’s exactly where they want us. It’s easier to sell their pablum. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comCanada poaches dozens of top US researchers for its universitiesResearchers in fields like climate and medicine are being lured north by new research funding. 612762
Reposted by Zach StevensonParis Marx @parismarx.com · 26/08/2026The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.disconnect.blogGetting off US tech: a guideI’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider. 201576752
Reposted by Zach StevensonJules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Grand Central Bakery has recalled 517 loaves of Potato Sourdough bread sold in the Seattle and Tacoma, Washington areas after a pallet nail was discovered inside one loaf. The company says the affected batch could contain additional pieces of metal. #TheCityBrief 78865
Reposted by Zach StevensonStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 20/08/2026The NSF has a sneaky proposal that'll implement Vought's OMB Proposal policies ahead of time such as removing requirements tied to statutory civil rights obligations and applying international collaboration restrictions. 411379
Reposted by Zach StevensonEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Against all odds, with an HHS that has defunded mRNA research programs, the FDA just approved the first mRNA flu vaccine 452762583
Reposted by Zach StevensonKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas? 10995482184
Reposted by Zach StevensonLuca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Linda Wolff was pepper-sprayed by ICE goons in Inwood on 7/30/26, but she’s suing for assault & refuses to stop filming their crimes. Facing mace threats only proves ICE are total cowards hiding behind badges. We won't be intimidated or silenced by rogue bullies. ICE OUT! 34926444
Reposted by Zach StevensonChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.futurism.comThe Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced LaborThe lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak. 380112526092
Reposted by Zach StevensonMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/08/2026The cost of groceries has become one of the defining challenges of the affordability crisis. That's why our municipal grocery stores will offer a 30% discount on the grocery staples New Yorkers depend on — from meat to produce to dairy. 874335734
Reposted by Zach StevensonJay Shendure @jshendure.bsky.social · 30/07/2026New preprint from Shendure Lab on Locus-Scale aka Long-@$$ MPRAs led by the amazing Abby McGee & @carinabiar.bsky.social Most MPRAs test ~300 bp fragments next to a promoter. But real enhancers are bigger, act combinatorially and from a distance. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 26437
Reposted by Zach StevensonSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/07/2026ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately. 10428551266
Reposted by Zach Stevensonkenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026We can verify the daily physical status of a specific Seattle raccoon but apparently we're completely unable to determine whether a United States Senator is alive or dead. 331102042417
Reposted by Zach StevensonMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. 20378813424834
Reposted by Zach StevensonThe Verge @theverge.com · 19/07/2026The FBI reportedly won’t investigate ICE anymorebuff.lyThe FBI reportedly won’t investigate ICE anymoreThey’re just going to trust ICE to investigate itself. 198746
Reposted by Zach StevensonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org: 8953092939
Reposted by Zach StevensonWatchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Mexico says it will pursue legal action against US after deadly ICE shooting in Houston. abc13.com/post/mexico-...abc13.comMexico says it will pursue legal action against US after deadly ICE shooting in Houston"Unfortunately, there has been another death of a Mexican national in the United States," President Claudia Sheinbaum said after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent. 57134633282
Reposted by Zach StevensonJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I chatted with Bethany Brookshire for this important story in Verge on the proposed OMB rules changes. It's not too late to make a public comment if you haven't already. 17147
Reposted by Zach StevensonMary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Damn Colbert is a treasure. He very knowingly and intentionally played Linus and Lucy on the air, and the copyright holder joyfully got a fine out of CBS for it and then donated it to World Central kitchen. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...rollingstone.comStephen Colbert's Unauthorized Use of Vince Guaraldi's 'Peanuts' Music Leads to DonationThe owners of Vince Guaraldi’s music reached a licensing agreement with CBS over Stephen Colbert playing 'Peanuts' music during final ‘The Late Show.’ 255189784402
Reposted by Zach Stevensonnilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The most shadow banned post in the history of posts lol 8491551416
Reposted by Zach StevensonReese 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 Zach StevensonCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.diabetesjournals.orgMisguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent 9444286
Reposted by Zach StevensonBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms. This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it. 912554
Reposted by Zach StevensonAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026If they start hiring scientists, they will mostly hire their own citizens, many of whom trained in US universities anyway and are every bit as capable. US scientists mostly have to deal with that, under fascism, we're unemployed. 448243
Reposted by Zach StevensonGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/05/2026I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country. 41294690
Reposted by Zach StevensonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall 10353222101
Reposted by Zach StevensonScience in Seattle @scienceinseattle.com · 27/05/2026“Postdocs are the engines of innovation." Dr. Marion Pepper from UW Medicine believes that postdoc fellowships are integral to success in both academia and industry, and she wants to expand postdoc opportunities both at UW and SeaBridge: bit.ly/4uLZKXq 052
Reposted by Zach StevensonKathleen Cottontail 🏳️⚧️♿️🖖🏻🐰 @kathleengmaz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Time to fight back New Jersey. They wouldn’t even let the governor enter. abc7ny.com/post/protest...abc7ny.comProtesters clash with ICE agents outside Delaney Hall amid hunger strikeDemonstrators say agents used pepper spray and batons during the scuffle at Delaney Hall in Newark early Monday morning. 1116763
Reposted by Zach StevensonTamara Caspary @tamaragenes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026“The drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment. Taxpayers funded the research and the clinical trials. This country made a long bet on science, and I’m alive because it paid off.” www.ms.now/opinion/canc...ms.nowOpinion | The U.S. is dangerously close to defunding miracles like the one that saved my lifeJenney Bitner: I'm not a scientist or policy expert. But I know that the drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment. 04021
Reposted by Zach StevensonCascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A new Planned Parenthood service now offers Washingtonians the option to order abortion pills BEFORE they’re pregnant. This potentially lifesaving information shouldn’t be behind a paywall and therefore: 23014
Reposted by Zach StevensonMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Some of us just don't like getting colds 6156412563
Reposted by Zach StevensonSport Ponies 🐎🐴🍁 @sportponies.bsky.social · 25/05/2026CBS Broadcasting Inc. operates as a major division of Paramount Skydance Corporation. The company's corporate holdings are structured into discrete groups under the #CBS Entertainment Group umbrella. 16632981016
Reposted by Zach StevensonNick Fortunato @nickfortunato.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The news is state media 🥳🎊🎉 @bibugona.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @sassy0210.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.bsky.social @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social @sandor22.bsky.social @moberzan.bsky.social @teresa555.bsky.social @bluesnowflake.bsky.social 17133761378
Reposted by Zach StevensonEric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Stephen Colbert is a national treasure: The day after his show was canned after 11 years by CBS to appease a tyrant, he shows up on the Monroe, MI public access channel where he did his first Late Show broadcast in 2015.youtu.beOnly In Monroe --- May 22, 2026YouTube video by Stephen Colbert 16083991814
Reposted by Zach StevensonMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Someone in the news departments of @nature.com or @science.org needs to take a look at this--its a huge scandal from the scientific supplier that has become a monopoly 413950
Reposted by Zach StevensonThe Needling @theneedling.com · 22/05/2026“By just cutting back on little luxuries like that, avocado toast, or giving that transphobe hedge fund manager Brian Heywood your money by the dumptruck, you’ll have your fifth home in no time.” 05413
Reposted by Zach StevensonKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER 524352235533
Reposted by Zach StevensonMadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Protesters staged noise demo through the rich Seattle neighborhood of #Laurelhurst that lobbied against noisy helicopters flying sick and injured kids over their mansions to Children's Hospital. 🤪 It got a bit noisy. 49881872442
Reposted by Zach StevensonScience Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2026Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. scim.ag/4tsDqRrscim.agAfter USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by schoolMove comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs 19839442216
Reposted by Zach StevensonSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from. 593473991
Reposted by Zach StevensonMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Workers and businesses are feeling the impact of unjust U.S. tariffs — so we’re stepping in. This week our government invested $1.5 billion to help Canadian companies and workers adapt, diversify, and win in a shifting trade environment. 812196458
Reposted by Zach StevensonMadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Are you fuck'n kidding me? These fuck'n rich douchebags from #Laurelhurst, #Seattle are complaining that helicopters landing at Seattle Children's Hospital is causing them "discomfort" due to the "noise." They are forcing them to land elsewhere. WTF! Join us this Saturday. Let's make some noice! 27437891586