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Last night, the U.S. Supreme Court paused a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to release $2 billion in frozen USAID funds and handed Trump his first legal victory in his effort to consolidate power.

Our article, "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding our Feminist Imagination," is in Contexts Magazine! This is an extension of our award-winning book, The Gender Order of Neoliberalism. 📖 Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🎶 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...

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I just wanted to thank all of you who have subscribed to Law Dork. The fact that Law Dork has now passed right on by 56,000 total subscribers sends a powerful message about the broad interest in informed reporting and analysis about the Supreme Court and our legal system. Thanks! www.lawdork.com

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

“I wish I had a garden,” said Toad. “Here are some flower seeds. Plant them in the ground,” said Frog, “and soon you will have a garden.”

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

New blog post! How Organisms Adapt to Climate Change: sustainable-nano.com/2025/02/14/h... Or if you'd like some more traditional Valentine's Day fare, here's a thread... #chemsky🧪

We won’t disappear just because you change a website.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

"...studies support the therapeutic benefit of St. John's wort in treating mild to moderate depression. In fact, some research has shown the supplement to be as effective as several prescription antidepressants." #health (Shrubby St. John's Wort USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N) wildflower.org) 🌱

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.”

Just got the dreaded email. University of Iowa is halting all NIH grant submissions. Losing a generation of scientists here will send the state backwards. What a travesty.

Michael Burawoy, 1947-2025: Patron Saint of Public Sociology www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/02/mich... #sociology

A mind-boggling fact: Identical twin correlations in schooling are nearly identical in egalitarian Sweden and the less-egalitarian U.S.—around 75%! That means three-quarters of schooling differences can be traced back to family background 🤯 #sociology Tab. 2: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dhanda Meena explores the persistence of “everyday casteism” and the ways such discrimination could be addressed globally. 🔎 Our #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project provides open-access educational resources, including video lectures, reading lists and lesson plans.

Swiss scientists have taught fungi to generate electricity. How do mushroom batteries work? #mycosky #fungifriends #green #eco-innovation www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

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To everyone's surprise, it turns out that attaching a money-sucking machine to a hospital system makes it worse.

Peter Hotez writes on how to counter the next wave of anti-vaccine activism in @plosglobalpublichealth.org 🧪 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Anecdotal evidence: my personality changes with the language I speak, I have a different humour, and I slip in and out of different cultures. (am multilingual: de, en, ru, it, fr, sp, Latin, ancient Greek) 🧪 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings. Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community.” #scicomm #bluesky #twitter #socialmedia www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🦋

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#MorningReads Community Health Workers as Catalysts for Mental Health Promotion in Transgender and Nonbinary Communities thanks to Arjee Javellana Restar, PhD, MPH, Kellan Baker, PhD, MPH, Grace Wang, PhD, MPH, Karen Ashley, EdD, and April Joy Damian, PhD, MSc

86/ "Play is an activity - it is what students and instructors do in the classroom and with course concepts (wither physically or mentally); it is a behavior or set of behaviors." - Ludic Pedagogy: A Seriously Fun Way to Teach and Learn (Lauricella & Edmunds, 2023) #PostingTheBookOneSentencePerDay

🚨I'm seeing some climate accounts posting overpopulation stuff, so I've removed the paywall from my article on the subject: Overpopulation Is A Racist Trope.

#art #drawing #abstract #sketch #ink #creative #lineart @bsky.art An enlightened person is inexhaustible in their willingness to teach and without limit in their support of others.

Once again, overthought it and went way wrong for my first guess. 😅 birdie 🦃 #922: 🟥🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛ birdiegame.net

#StarTrek: The Next Generation “Starship Mine” Picard takes Tim Russ down with a Vulcan nerve pinch. Vowing to never be out-Vulcan’d again, Tim Russ went on to play a Vulcan for seven seasons on Voyager.

Excited for final stages of fall semester student project comparing insect prey capture between two Sarracenia pitcher plant species - S. leucophylla and S. rubra. Spoiler alert: they eat a lot, including a few butterflies..!

It's William Blake's birthday on Thursday. I drew pictures to go with some of my fave Blake quotes. Here's one. More here: thisisjam.es/illustrating...

Could we be able to predict earthquakes based on data of our pets' behavior?!? Illustration for a fascinating collaboration between Tractive an the MPI of Animal Behavior. More info in Alt text. #SciArt @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social

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Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl... (and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

Darlingtonia Californica (carnivorous pitcher plant) field in Southern Oregon.