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UW biology prof. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk I don't like fascists. he/him
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0. Vought, Vance, Rufo, and those attacking academia see scientists as bureaucrats—in the most pejorative sense of the term—who they can "put into trauma" and drive to quit. They don't understand that science is not just a job. It's a vocation, literally, in the original sense of *a calling*.

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

This is bullshit—of course the US could apply diplomatic pressure to have him returned—but if it is allowed to stand, the executive branch has the power to disappear people permanently without any sort of due process. That in turn will be the end of all other constitutionally guaranteed rights.

submitted 13 hours ago • 24 comments

This is a very nice diversion from everything else on my feed. And oh my gosh, yes these things can bite.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

I mean this is not a big deal in the scope of things but the US produces less than 1% of the coffee it consumes and there's no room to chance that because there's nowhere to grow it. What kind of utter dumbass puts a protective tariff on coffee under those circumstances?

submitted 20 hours ago • 124 comments

Putting the state's monopoly of power in private hands is incompatible with democracy. It's that simple.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

In case you haven't been paying attention for the past two decades and some, Erik Prince is a threat to liberal democracy and human rights on a global scale.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

What the fuck is going on in this country? No. Don't answer that.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Wow Gemini going full Aristotle.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Racist asshole.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Gosh, maybe we shouldn’t let Big Balls vibe code the deportation system

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

DOE goes full NIH.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Ask yourself why the White House is willing to go to escalate this after a supreme court decision against them. Why are they so scared to bring Mr. Abrego Garcia back? I can think of a number of reasons, and they're all terrible.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Today the NY Times posted an interview with Chris Rufo that anyone associated with universities — or anyone who benefits from advances in health care or any other aspect of the research taking place there — should listen to or read in transcript. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...?

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Amidst all of the horrors of the Trump administration, one stands above the rest: the trafficking of 270 men to El Salvador's CECOT prison. Here is the definition of concentration camp from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Strong presidents have brought people home after they have been imprisoned in gulags by hostile superpowers. Our current president can't bring someone home after *he himself* put the man in a gulag run by a small nation that is also a close ally.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Totally unexpected development: my employer is responding to a financial crisis by implementing new bureaucratic measures that not only waste a ton of faculty time but serve to increase, rather than decrease, administrative staffing needs.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Don't let up. Don't look away. This is a crisis. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments