Perhaps an early (bad) sign of what is to come:
Vinay Prasad, who helped lead a campaign against lifesaving mRNA vaccines at FDA, is being welcomed back to the University of California San Francisco, where he was prior to joining the Trump administration.
Re-upping because it looks like it’s been showing up around downtown. DM me ASAP if you see it.
Just yesterday, experts released a draft report--initially quashed by Trump 2.0 in its first ill-wrought days--revealing the grim reality of the country's ecological health. And yet politicians in Congress are poised to hand the keys to our future over to EnergyTech industries?
GTFOH.
What a great idea
A dark brown cocoon on the ground.
Who is this??? 🦋🌿 #invert #insects
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Guess which one of these things I planned to be on my lap…
Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...
A yellow vase with a bulbous shape and narrow neck containing bright yellow daffodils pale yellow and deep purple blue bell shaped flowers, and a twiggy branch with yellow buds
#FridayFlowers it’s raining again so I’m bringing the sunshine in; mini daffs, forsythia and the feral hyacinths (which always come up before the new season ones in pots) #GardenFlowers
It's the asymmetry of U.S. politics. The right is largely homogenous with a few super effective scapegoats to target.
The left is demographically and ideologically diverse, makes it so much harder for this type of macro-level organizing.
I grant him bloody,
Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
That has a name
The Twin Cities still need help. Men brandishing guns are still roaming the streets. Families in hiding are struggling to pay rent.
www.standwithminnesota.com/
Democrats seem to be saying to Black voters:
“Give us your votes, but leave your voices behind”
We’re not going to be silent partners in our own fight for equity and equality.
An image of frog photoreceptors but in a top down view, so it looks like a fuzzy shag carpet.
Happy #FluorescenceFriday Here is a whole mount frog retina. Every once in a while (also in sagittal sections) I see some very thin rods groups together (in this image I pseudocolored them green). I haven't verified it, but frogs have red and green rods, and I'm wondering if that's what they are.
Confocal micrograph of a mouse embryonic fibroblast with membrane labeled in blue, nuclei in yellow and cellular cytoplasm in red.
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Here is a mouse fibroblast with multiple thin membrane extensions reaching out toward its neighbors. The long (>10 um) extensions are a type of signaling filopodia called #cytonemes that transport signals like SHH, WNT, Notch, and GFs! 🔬 by Senior Scientist Hong Lin. 🧪 👩🔬
Once again I will point out that most deaths in early concentration camps occur from illness and poor conditions. But these deaths are not accidents; this is one of the intended outcomes of a concentration camp.
ICE arrested a journalist yesterday without a warrant. She's is an asylum seeker, has valid work permits & is married to a U.S. citizen!
fox17.com/news/local/n...
A blue bird with an orange breast perches in a mostly bare tree. There are a few leaves in the background that almost match the bird’s orange.
I’m seeing a lot of Eastern Bluebirds around which is a delightful surprise
#birds 🌿
Super shocking. Given that Russia helped our enemies during Vietnam, Korea, and both gulf wars, who could have guessed this would happen. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...
Also, as my awesome colleague Brigitte Fielder always reminds me, what we think of as "technology" is not new, nor is it relegated to 20th and 21st centuries. (Listen to humanists. Always.)
They are still kidnapping our neighbors.
Abolish ICE.
"It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they'd known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family," [Dr. Nolen] said.
Degrading trust in vaccines comes with consequences.
...that is vaccine hesitancy. And it is not useful either to shame those communities/parents for their doubts. If you work in public health, you have to operate from the stance of wanting to change those minds, working with the communities, acknowledging historical traumas, etc.../
#TripleTheNIHBudget
Really great opportunity for early career scholars w NIMHD: 2026 Health Disparities #Research Institute. Would love for #disability health #disparities researchers to apply! Please share widely & apply if this is you! Apps due Fri April 10 2026. More details here: www.nimhd.nih.gov/training-car...
I’m chipping in from PDX! If others are looking to donate, give the actual donation page a second to load — I’m hoping the lag means lots of donating happening now 💸
hey buddies
Huh. “Mullin is an ultra-conservative, white-passing Cherokee who has been an advocate for both tribal sovereignty and for encouraging tribes to assert that sovereignty by allowing private energy production on their lands.” Interesting piece.
i only review toilet paper but Jason Chavez is the best human being of all time
Knitting as protest..."Her actions have since inspired a broader knitting movement in protest over the gender imbalance in Denmark’s public monuments..."
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a...
#knitsky
