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Are you publishing research and want to share your work open access? Join our workshop April 8, 11a-12p on Zoom. We'll guide you on OA publishing options, funding sources, and strategies for maximizing research impact. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/03/31/w... @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social

I am UNBELIEVABLY moved! Over 130 people attended our first public campaign event and collected an SUV’s worth of period products for Chicago’s Period Collective!!! Thank you to anyone who came!! If you want to know more about our beliefs + outreach efforts, go to katforillinois.com.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Staffers at 18 rape crisis centers told ProPublica that payments were delayed for months after North Carolina’s state Legislature directed $15 million for sexual assault survivors away from Democratic-led agencies that had long overseen such money. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

end the week with some dogs? lets end my first week back with some dogs and cats and maybe even a hedge hog and lizard or two if u feel like sharing

The Wuhan lab is STILL doing unsafe research that could trigger a pandemic AND getting prestigious pubs as incentive.😫 To fix this for the future, we have to admit we were deliberately misled on the possibility of a lab leak in the past. Horrid but true. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

On Tuesday I edited a story about the FTC firings. Readers took issue with our framing — not just us, but other publications as well. And you know what? Y'all were right. www.theverge.com/policy/63339...

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

Read this thread and beware

mr beast talking about the human lives he has trapped in simultaneous simulations with "cant wait to upload these" is why black mirror can never be as good as it used to be

‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese – Channel 4 News www.channel4.com/news/we-have...

A thread on true courage.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

real monkey's paw that we invented the ability to hold the sum of all human knowledge in the palm of your hand and then a few years later we're turning it into your stupid friend that pretends to know the answer to every question

holy shit this question at the Rep. Chuck Edwards town hall 🔥🔥🔥

Thread. In hindsight, it's expected when you play the filthy, dirty, cheaters. But somehow you get used to calling them FDC, or whatever acronym, and you forget their nature.

I love how she’s like. Listen, to be clear, I’m racist. However this is too far

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

Another reason why I'm against the death penalty.

Challenge to murder mystery screenwriters: write a mixed gender duo without ANY underlying sexual tension.

my doctor

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

This is a tough watch. It's so frustrating that the United States government and the corporate media have proven to be untrustworthy. They all cherry pick facts to fit their narrative and the American people are stuck fighting over partisan fairy tales.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

They're irresistible

This is the most comprehensive document I have ever read on library censorship. Extensive, well-researched, and deeply important work. It will send chills up your spine.

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

WSJ: A staffer for Elon Musk’s DOGE whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics He resigned Thursday after the WSJ asked about it. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

The almost explicit position of these groups is that anything more than a token number of black and Hispanic students in an elite institution is de facto evidence of anti-white racial discrimination.

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