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A comedyish science podcast hosted by @alieward. Asking smart ologists not-smart questions about their professional obsessions. Every Tuesday. May be NSFW. https://linktr.ee/alieward

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Melania Trump urges protecting children’s education at UN after Iran school strike The first lady’s UN security council speech came days after Iranian media reported an airstrike killed 165 people and injured 96 others at girls’ school * Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Melania Trump became the first spouse of a sitting world leader to preside over the UN security council on Monday, calling on member states to protect children’s access to education days after Iranian state media reported that an airstrike killed at least 165 people at a girls’ school in southern Iran. The meeting, titled Children, Technology and Education in Conflict, had been scheduled before the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on Saturday. Continue reading...

Melania Trump urges protecting children’s education at UN after Iran school strike

02.03.2026 22:49 👍 106 🔁 51 💬 50 📌 33

Question: is it still ok if the war *authorized?* Morally? With our tax dollars when Americans don't want this?

02.03.2026 22:52 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

28.02.2026 18:53 👍 23557 🔁 5963 💬 142 📌 66

It’s 3am in LA. Both coasts are asleep and unaware they’ll wake up to a fresh war

28.02.2026 10:53 👍 93 🔁 2 💬 10 📌 0
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Great episode. Did you know last weekend was QuiltCon in Raleigh? A quilting friend attended & sent photos. She loved the pro resistance progressive vibe.
Next year it’s in Atlanta

27.02.2026 13:26 👍 35 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Sadly, this was shorter than my #migraine, but so glad its drop perfectly corresponded with the onset of it. It’s my favorite episode ever.

27.02.2026 01:24 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Culcitology (QUILTS) with Luke Haynes, Olivia Joseph, and Joe Cunningham — alie ward Scrap quilts. Sewing bees. Secret codes. Political activism. Controversies. Three of your new favorite Culcitologists – Olivia Joseph, Luke Haynes, and Joe Cunningham – are stitched together for one m...

You need 2 hours about quilts? We gotcha, pal.

Scrap quilts.
Sewing bees.
Fine art.
Secret codes.
Political activism.
Controversies.

Plus: advice on caring + repairing, with 3 of your new favorite #Culcitologists – Olivia Joseph, Luke Haynes & Joe Cunningham:

www.alieward.com/ologies/culc...

27.02.2026 01:14 👍 95 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 2

Let's see what @ologies.bsky.social is covering this week... 1:46 minutes on quilts... rock on!

26.02.2026 23:29 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

is he a time traveler

26.02.2026 23:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

For Podcast Movement and the iHeart Awards!

26.02.2026 22:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ooooh, a journaling expert!!!!

26.02.2026 21:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Culcitology (QUILTS) with Luke Haynes, Olivia Joseph, and Joe Cunningham Scrap quilts. Sewing bees. Secret codes. Political activism. Controversies. Three of your new favorite Culcitologists – Olivia Joseph, Luke Haynes, and Joe Cunnignham – are stitched together for one…

#Quiltsky! It’s the podcast crossover we’ve been waiting for! @ologies.bsky.social just dropped an amazing episode on quilting. Which I listened to while quilting, because that’s when I listen to podcasts (and Ologies is one of my top three favourites.)

pca.st/episode/77c2...

26.02.2026 16:50 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Anyone in Austin I should interview? I'll be there March 13-16!

26.02.2026 21:20 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 8 📌 0

Real question: what happens if you just keep lying and lying and people believe it? Like, do other countries know he's lying all the time? Does anyone watching Fox know he's lying? Aren't there laws against this?

25.02.2026 04:57 👍 121 🔁 4 💬 18 📌 1
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Read NPR's annotated fact check of President Trump's State of the Union As President Trump delivers his State of the Union address, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact check his speech and offer context.

A shovel for all that bullshit:

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

25.02.2026 03:59 👍 72 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests

Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests

Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests

25.02.2026 02:02 👍 6513 🔁 1110 💬 65 📌 39

Thank you for everything you do all day every day <3

23.02.2026 19:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Animal defenses with Dr. @tedstankowich.bsky.social.

Get into it:

alieward.com/ologies/zooh...

23.02.2026 19:39 👍 72 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
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Revolutionology (REBELLIONS & SOCIAL CHANGE) with Dr. Jack Goldstone — alie ward Storming the Bastille. Facing off with tanks. Canceling a streaming subscription.&nbsp; We’re talking protests, boycotts, insurrections, and demonstrations. Scholar, professor, and actual real life R...

"One day with a million people in the streets, that's a holiday; that's not a campaign. What you need is to have people in the streets every weekend for months on end. Despite rain, despite snow. That's how they showed their resolve to stand against the government.”

www.alieward.com/ologies/revo...

20.02.2026 02:34 👍 35 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Design by Andrea Diaz. Whistles, markers, megaphones, cameras documenting ICE raids and other human rights abuses, first aid kits, and masking up against crowd dispersal have become vital tools during protest work. These icons of resistance surround a passage from our Revolutionology episode with scholar Dr. Jack Goldstone in a speech bubble. The quote reads: “One day with a million people in the streets, that's a holiday, that's not a campaign. What you need is to have people in the streets every weekend for months on end. Despite rain, despite snow. That's how they showed their resolve to stand against the government.”

Design by Andrea Diaz. Whistles, markers, megaphones, cameras documenting ICE raids and other human rights abuses, first aid kits, and masking up against crowd dispersal have become vital tools during protest work. These icons of resistance surround a passage from our Revolutionology episode with scholar Dr. Jack Goldstone in a speech bubble. The quote reads: “One day with a million people in the streets, that's a holiday, that's not a campaign. What you need is to have people in the streets every weekend for months on end. Despite rain, despite snow. That's how they showed their resolve to stand against the government.”

NEW MERCH ALERT:

#Revolutionology quote + protest supplies to keep your spirits strong, your signs high & heads up.

Designed by the wonderful Andrea Diaz, with ALL PROCEEDS going the National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org

ologiesmerch.com/collections/...

Spread the word. Stay loud.

20.02.2026 02:32 👍 47 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
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Zoohoplology (ANIMAL DEFENSES) with Dr. Ted Stankowich — alie ward Barbs. Spurs. Stinks. Scutes. Shrieks. Fashion. Drama. Animal behaviorist, evolutionary biologist, Cal State Long Beach professor, and your new favorite Zoohoplologist, Dr. Ted Stankowich, divulges ab...

Barbs. Spurs. Stinks. Scutes. Shrieks. Fashion. Drama.

Zoohoplology (ANIMAL DEFENSES) w/ *the* Dr. @tedstankowich.bsky.social has armadillos, skunks, pangolins, horned lizards, wombats, coyotes, kit foxes, poodles, porcupines, tigers, deer & the will to survive.

www.alieward.com/ologies/zooh...

20.02.2026 02:23 👍 48 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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Delphinology (DOLPHINS) with Dr. Justin Gregg — alie ward Giant brains! Communication mysteries! Infamous sensuality! Dolphins are here to blow your relatively tiny mind with their squeaks, clicks, cliques, history, lore, zany evolutionary path, psychedelic ...

I wouldn't consider dolphins being one of my interests, but @ologies.bsky.social's "Delphinology" episode was really interesting. 🐬

www.alieward.com/ologies/delp...

20.02.2026 01:41 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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the new Republican talking point is that it's insulting to complain about requiring women to show their birth certificate and passport in order to vote because they're smart enough to figure it out

16.02.2026 22:22 👍 1866 🔁 453 💬 287 📌 106

"beautiful clean coal" keeps whispering through my psyche like pennywise

13.02.2026 03:22 👍 77 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0

Just in time for Valentine's Day! Learn about STDs, including recent studies in HIV, whether lesbians get STDs at lower rates than others, whether ace people need to have pap smears, how federal funding cuts and shutdowns affect STD/STI work, STIs in the eye and throat, and more!

12.02.2026 11:17 👍 81 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 2

VENEREOLOGY (Sexually Transmitted Infections) is up!

A brand new Valentine's Day ep on the health of your junk, how to have an STI chat w/ a partner, testing, vaccines and why you should be horny, authentic & safe with THE Dr. @inaparkmd.bsky.social.

We ❤️ her.

www.alieward.com/ologies/vene...

12.02.2026 05:48 👍 75 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2

stay tuned for venereology later tonight, happy vals day

10.02.2026 20:36 👍 59 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2

plenty of things I fear, but being in public writing an ep about gonorrhea and syphilis and crotch testing is not one of them

10.02.2026 20:34 👍 90 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 1

the primary reason rightwingers will never control culture is because everything they do is hinged upon it being a reaction to the broader culture. the TPUSA half time event would not exist without it being a representation of their grievences

09.02.2026 20:35 👍 6798 🔁 890 💬 88 📌 48

I had this conversation, and went go back to my table in a daze to finish writing about marmots. Surreal.

09.02.2026 20:47 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0