I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.
Accessibility is not a wish. It is a discipline. Nic Chan’s “Wishcessibility” challenges the habit of hoping accessibility will happen instead of engineering it intentionally. Inclusive design requires planning, accountability, and craft.
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#DigitalAccessibility #A11y #UX
Local Republicans are getting slammed so hard on ICE warehouse plans that DHS is having to feed them talking points
@douglasmac.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Trump cannot end protections for 350,000 Haitians, US appeals court rules reut.rs/4d6r0dd
It's critical through all of this to remember that people who are doing the work of persuasion can't fly into a rage at anti-vaxxers. Contempt and rage from healthcare providers, from city or state or federal public health officials - that gets us nowhere.
They have a job to do, they're looking at years of research into how best to persuade people who are opposed to vaccinating their kids. They're doing a job and they're doing a hell of a tough job - it's difficult persuasion.
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A country that always defends human rights and international law, like Spain, earns the respect of the entire world, as has happened in recent weeks.”
Headline and subhed of Washington Post op-ed arguing that there should be more representation of evangelical Christians on the Supreme Court and other government institutions.
I’m currently writing a book about what’s really wrong with #SCOTUS and how to fix it.
Suffice it to say, this ain’t it:
Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.
Page of forever stamps with a picture of Alex Trebek and a jeopardy style Answer reading “this naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! For 37 seasons”
Spouse who is an immigration lawyer just got the world’s greatest USPS forever stamps for his mail
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Abolish DHS, abolish ICE
This makes no sense and it is disgraceful and incomprehensible that this is the president of the United States, with lethal force at his disposal, communicating in wartime.
It’s hackneyed now but it should never be: don’t normalize this.
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
The impacts of Trump's attacks on science can be found in every nook and cranny of the discovery pipeline. This chart from @joshuasweitz.bsky.social shows that even with a funding INCREASE in 2026, LESS SCIENCE is being funded.
That means fewer cures and treatments.
#standupforscience
What an ad. Today, about 38% of our rail is electrified. India just hit 100%.
The oil didn't run out, as we've drilled in ever more dangerous places (eg DeepWater Horizon) and in dictatorships. But it's suffers the same problems that OPEC showed in the 1970s.
Electrify everything.
Now on SSRN and looking for a good home - "The Case for Professional Disobedience"
Using healthcare professionals as a case study, the Article meets this perilous moment in U.S. history by thinking seriously about disobedience as a response to institutional failures
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...
Tesla proactively protected the recent Austin mass shooter after he assaulted a woman last year, preventing his prosecution for it. Tesla faces a lawsuit for creating an unsafe employment environment after the guy assaulted an employee and Tesla wdn't tell her his name so she cd file charges.
On the right side of the photo in white text reads: "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE ANNOUNCES DR. AKILAH CADET, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AS A SPEAKER AT THE VIRTUAL NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION RALLY (tr.ee/virtual-rally) MARCH 7TH, 2026 NATIONWIDE". Below that is the "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE" logo. Below that in white text reads: "Join the fight at standupforscience.net". To the left side of that is a photo of Dr. Akilah Cadet wearing a shirt that says "KEEP BEING AMAZING".
Stand Up for Science announces Dr. Akilah Cadet, Human Rights Activist as a speaker at the VIRTUAL National Day of Action Rally (tr.ee/virtual-rally), on March 7th 2026, Nationwide.
Join the fight at standupforscience.net/march7
#March7
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#rally
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”
Make a recovery plan now to avoid losing access to your account in the future. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-aler...
So far, 16 products affected by this food contamination incident (probably in just one factory), spread throughout the entire country.
Hawaii: you're up. Call your House representatives and tell them to oppose SB 2761, which is heading to the House from the Senate: it's a total ban on social media for under-16s, not made any better by the obvious typo in the effective date of 2077. legiscan.com/HI/bill/SB27...
