Robin G Nelson

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i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life

Went to nail salon - really tried to get a light pink number, something super spring and femme. Black. Black cat's eye. that's what I left with - the black just speaks to my soul 😏

I know people won’t remember this bc there’s so many dumpster fires. But somebody better be keeping a list.

Social science research stays catching Ls at a time when we need it most. 😩

it's very "maybe they'll have 2 dolls instead of 30"

I'm so unexcited about the work I have to do today 😩

came here to say just this - but you said it better so *repost!*

Summers should’ve been kicked the curb when he said:

There are “innate differences” between men and women and that might explain the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields.

So this is loooong overdue, and frankly allowing him to step down at end of year… is more grace than he deserves

This is for me today, but I may also be for you. Audre Lorde.

OMG Cecília!! this is wonderful!!

DM-ing you but yes to all of this - I've been enraged thinking of the timing of all this

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

There were so many of us, exactly when these emails were being written, expressly working to undo the harms of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in science. And so many people refused to believe us that any of it was real. It was all real.

19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

completely agree - messes up the whole vibe

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

When Minnesotans were talking about “not letting this happen to our neighbors,” this is the heartbreaking “this” they meant

YES. all the time -

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

We are torpedoing a major advancement in vaccine development & public health due to fringe ideas and misinformation about the dangers of mRNA vaccine technologies. We will regret this & future generations will look back at this moment and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

I know I'm a homeowner now b/c all I could think when I saw this was: how they gonna get that fixed? the insurance back and forth! the displacement while the repairs happen! the damage to the things in the house 😖

my (critical) mother the other day: please just don't get the tattoos all the way up your arm - up your shoulder and all that.

**Both forearms are already inked & I'm 46 and kinda done hearing her opinions on my body. Girl children of Boomers know what I mean 🙄

Go Birds

My son (13) asked me if I knew what cortisol is today - a lovely and funny moment of teen kid's knowledge intersecting w/mom's expertise. Young teens are hard and wonderful - just learning something new every day :)

anybody else hear the Kawhi laugh in your head when he scores?? no? just me? 🤭

Don't feel like grading so I'm putting myself in grading jail until it's done.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

After more than 1.2 Americans lost their lives to Covid, NIH director Jay Bhattacharya orders the agency to deprioritize pandemic preparedness & biodefense.

Make it make sense.

Scoop from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wild that a sitting member of Congress, a Republican no less, feels compelled to post this.

The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Dreaming of a future where (among many other things like handling human rights issues) science funding is restored. I am holding on to that hope.