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I'm sitting, masked, in the airport. Almost nobody else is masked, of course. A lot of people are coughing, sneezing, etc. Why is it socially acceptable to publicly, loudly cough, sneeze, otherwise spread your germs, but not socially acceptable to fart or burp, neither of which spreads illnesses?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The main planetary science meetings institution for the past ~40 years has decided to unilaterally and without notice delete abstracts from its repositories. The abstracts of mine that seem to have been deleted are all Equity, Justice, Accessibility, and Inclusion related.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

One reason fascists get footholds is understanding threats to fascism more than we appreciate them as the things that keep us free. They go after them because they know they’re more than places to borrow books. If you wanna nerd out on the history of libraries here’s my fave dude. #protectlibraries

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

submitted 41 days ago • 30 comments

Remember those piece of shit private security guards who violently dragged a woman out of a GOP town hall in Idaho back in February? They’ve finally been charged.

submitted 42 days ago • 64 comments

BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.

submitted 45 days ago • 187 comments

Note that the NIH Payment Management System doesn't mange only NIH-funded payments. I know from personal experience that some NASA centers use the system.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 45 days ago • 415 comments

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

submitted 46 days ago • 1169 comments

VICTORY: A federal court just BLOCKED the Trump admin’s attempt to bring back the cruel Remain in Mexico policy. The Court agreed with @immdef.bsky.social: it endangers asylum seekers + violates their right to legal counsel. 📣 Full statement: tinyurl.com/apr17-2025

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

They don't care what they break as long as they break. The goal is to keep our responses divided. Those who care about democracy outnumber fascists, but it's impossible to be everywhere at once. We have to trust each other. Do the things you're good at and let others do the things they're good at.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

US citizen detained and interrogated for three hours at the border mondoweiss.net/2025/04/my-e...

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

"Upon review of the government’s motion, the court denies...an emergency stay pending appeal... The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature...[W]e shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision."

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Did you know... From 1977 to 2020 there were only 28 cases of laryngeal burn from ingestion of hot food or liquid reported in the medical literature? Of those 28, two were fatal. If I go to a doctor, I might be case number 29 (of course, there might have been more since, I didn't bother to check).

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

It's not just anti-globalism protectionism. US consumers don't want them either. Auto mfrs have manipulated the clean air standards so the largest autos are least regulated & most profitable. The growth in truck size is not (just) a market demand issue. It's also a market manipulation issue.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The best thread on this subject I've seen so far. Sigh. Why do we have to keep going through this? If I ever had scientific hints of life on another planet, the last thing I would do is publish before I had all my peers review it and tell me why I was silly for even thinking it was a hint of life.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

What's your favorite (or least) example of "heat vision" or "IR vision" in popular media? I'm thinking of things like Predator, etc.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment