The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger.
People know this, right?
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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We're working with the E. Kensington Neighbors Assn & H.A Brown school to create a community-driven mural on the biodiversity of our Philly neighborhood!
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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Scientists being purged has never been a good thing for a society.
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
Zoom information sessions: Impeach RFK Jr. Questions about the campaign? Join an info session this week and learn more! tr.ee/RvpnzG standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Want to learn more about our campaign to impeach RFK Jr, and our long-term path to victory? We're hosting Zoom info sessions every day this week to answer: what's next? And how can you get involved?
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Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:
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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
HEALTRGATE RFK, JR: THE PUBLIC MAN-MADE DEATH The government has cut $783 million in federal funding to basic research and 56% of HIV clinical trials have been halted. New HIV infections are predicted to increase 49% by 2030. ACT UP LEARN THE FACTS DISMANTLING HEALTHCARE = DEATH
ACT UP NY announces HEALTHGATE, “a campaign released on the heels of World AIDS Day…that condemns Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s deadly pseudoscience-led healthcare death circus while calling for the implementation of the New York Health Act & sustained funding for public & global health”
"When we hear and accept what we hear without meeting others, without asking how can it be, without looking for friends outside our circles, when we accept hatred for a group as a legitimate discourse – Pharaoh is alive and well, inside ourselves."
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Pls share: Hofstra University is looking for a Tenure-Track Microbiologists!
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We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system.
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I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one
Hand holding small black and white hand lettered zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe". Sunflowers in background.
Hand holding open zine. Pages read: "S Size of group, A Actions/Activity, L Location, U Uniforms/Clothes, T Time/Date, E Equipment
"How to Report ICE" zines are available for free printable download for these places:
California
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area
Florida
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NC Triangle Area
NYC
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Zine request form in folder.
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A photograph of the front page of The New York Times dated September 2, 2025. The main headline reads: “In Blitz on Science, Experts Warn of an Autocratic Tilt.” Below it are two featured articles. The first, by Apoorva Mandavilli, is titled “C.D.C. Left Battling for Its Survival” and describes turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, leading to staff losses, leadership resignations, and questions about the agency’s legitimacy. The second article, by William J. Broad, is titled “Are Research Cuts Fighting Red Tape or Free Inquiry?” and discusses threats to science and research under political pressure.
A1 above the fold in the @nytimes.com. The message is getting through. Keep pushing everyone. We can save the #CDC, save the #NIH from the clutches of #RussellVought #StephenMiller and #DonaldTrump. Keep the pressure up on your members of Congress and the media (letters to editors, op-eds).
My quote of the day
Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.
William Foege
Here is a script. Please, please call. We cannot sit by and we cannot let our representatives sit by as our nation’s public health infrastructure is destroyed.
I might put Shucked around a -1,3? It was very funny but the music was forgettable except for that one song
“Do not obey in advance.”
“Prioritize joy.”
“Take up space.”
“Be in solidarity.”
“Organize.”
Fantastic piece on what FreeDC is teaching us with its immediate and potent resistance to the Trump attempt to take over that city.
All academic institutions will soon realize we are in this together, facing an autocratic ruler who wants to destroy academia, science, and public health (together with media and courts - pick up a history book).
There is only one solution - stand up, speak up, and, critically, collective action.
It is a relief to know that our ancestors were worriers — awake in the darkness with crowded minds. Their worry is why we’re here.
"The study is impressive in its scale...cases and deaths dropped by more than 50% and in the Indigenous population the drop was even more dramatic: more than 60%."
Nature Medicine study shows the effects of Bolsa Familia strongest in Black and Indigenous populations
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
a graphic that says Scientists we need you, then an old school rotary phone that has a speech bubble saying "talk with classrooms across the globe" and a bulleted list Volunteer for 1-5 Q&As per semester Get matched with the right teacher for you via email 35+ categories of scientist, from squid to space It’s free for teachers" and then "sign up at skypeascientist.com"
Scientists!
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
Adding my tiny voice to support this wonderful initiative. Skype a Scientist is a highlight of my science life. There’s truly nothing like telling a room full of kids that you’re a poop scientist and that it is, in fact, a real job 😎
