Same here!
Same here!
Stand up for Science Rally is TODAY in Boston Common 12-3 pm
fight2win.standupforscience.net/Boston-March/?
As usual, Nicholas kristof is spot on:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/o...
Hoping as many American professors, researchers, trainees & technicians as possible attend the #StandUpForScience rallies across the US tomorrow. Itβs an important message to send to Washington, but the rest of the world is also watching & supporting you in taking a stand on attacks on science. π«‘
ICE wants to turn warehouses into detention centers. The suburbs are fighting back.
βMost of our pickleball group is here,β said Marion Atwater, a 73-year-old in a navy visor and puffer jacket. βWe did not bring our paddles, but we are here with our signs.β
Read more here: https://bit.ly/40jJek3
"I AM ONCE AGAIN ASKING YOU TO STAND UP FOR SCIENCE ON MARCH 7TH" HIT THE STREETS TOMORROW. standupforscience.net/march7
WE NEED YOU TO JOIN US AT YOUR LOCAL RALLY TOMORROW!!! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local rally!
#standupforscience
#science
#March7
#rally
#savescience
Important OpEd from Michael Roth. The demobilization of students has left a gaping hole in our democratic defenses. Michael is organizing to correct that. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...
Stand up for Science National Day of Action this Saturday!
Find an event near you.
I'll be speaking at the one at the Parkman Bandstand in Boston
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
WELL, DORKS! @timothysnyder.bsky.social says there is nothing more important than science and no one more important than scientists to establish a decent society and politics...which is why we are STANDING UP FOR SCIENCE on MARCH 7TH across the nation!
JOIN US! www.standupforscience.net/march7
Bernie Sanderβs 2028 litmus test would strangle Americaβs golden goose
Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?
If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.
Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.
How is the US at war with Iran when Congress didnβt approve it?
Harvard Lawβs @noahfeldman.bsky.social explains π₯
Atand up for Science rallies this Saturday March 7 in many cities!
I'l be speaking at the Boston event:
fight2win.standupforscience.net/Boston-March/
All the snow in Falmouth last week gave us a snow mountain to stand on for our Saturday protest.
February 28, 2026 Trump's actions this morning were unconstitutional and bear enormous consequences at home and abroad. The stakes of speaking out against this administration are higher and more urgent today than they were yesterday, which is exactly why we are taking to the streets on March 7th. We will keep you up-to-date on where things are transpiring with how we may be incorporating this into our planned actions, and we look forward to seeing you out on the 7th. We hope you join us to make our voices heard. Save science, protect health, and defend democracy, Colette STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
See you in the streets March 7th.
standupforscience.net/march7
Colette believes it is imperative that scientists push back when their profession comes under attack from partisan political actors.
π£οΈ "If you just sit there and keep your head down, you're part of the problem!"
Clip: youtube.com/shorts/tz7cK...
Full chat: youtube.com/watch?v=KDTt...
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Historic Shift
lots of good points have already been made on using AI Agents for cheating (e.g. the latest Canvas-bot), it degrades learning, etc.
One additional thing I'd like to point out: if you use this stuff, you're not being clever, you're just an asshole.
to explain:
National day of action. Save science. protect health. defend democracy. March 7th. Washington dc and nationwide! standupforscience.net/march7
Hey @hcrichardson.bsky.social! Can you help us get the word out about our SECOND National Day of Action on March 7th??
#standupforscience
π£οΈβWe can blame the Israelis for committing genocide in Gaza all we want. But the fact of the matter is, we committed genocide in Gaza.β β Dr. @FerozeSidhwa , an America trauma surgeon who volunteered multiple times in Gaza over the post two years, told the California Democratic Convention Progressive Caucus on Saturday. He told the audience that what he witnessed in Gaza felt like a βprelude to the end of humanity,β and what weβre now experiencing in the United States is a βsmall fraction of what can happen when the end of humanity comes home.β βAcknowledging what we have done in Gaza and facing the truth will not be easy,β Dr Sidhwa stated. βFacing the truth will reveal that some of the people you thought had normal human values are actually monsters. Good. Thatβs exactly the point. Letβs figure out who wants to make the world a better place, and then letβs go do it.β
π£οΈβWe can blame the Israelis for committing genocide in Gaza all we want. But the fact of the matter is, we committed genocide in Gaza.β
β Dr. @ferozesidhwa.org, an America trauma surgeon who volunteered multiple times in Gaza over the post two years, told the California Democratic Convention...
This hero sacrificed his job to warn us:
Former ICE assistant chief counsel Ryan Schwank testified before Congress, revealing that ICEβs training program is deficient, defective, and broken.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YAd...
βI hope this news brings some joy to all who need to hear it,β she said. βAs an important side note, I would like to be called Dr. ΓztΓΌrk, not Miss ΓztΓΌrk, from now on.β πππ
21% of Americans support US attack on Iran:
sadat.umd.edu/sites/sadat....
"But that moment probably wonβt come. Things have gone too far too many times already. Hoping for better is still the right attitude, but only as long as we prepare for the worst."
"And yet life continues as usual. What was unthinkable only yesterday we now take in stride, and we wait for that moment when things really have gone too far this time, when the fever breaks and things will revert to normal.
"When Donald Trump refused to say whether he would accept the outcome of the election in 2016, people should have sensed the danger. And yet at the time, respected intellectuals told me that everything would be fine:...Since then, one red line after another has been crossed...
"The human capacity for hope is an essential quality. Without hope, there can be no improvement. But hope can also turn into delusion. The United States today is not Hitlerβs Third Reich. .... But as humans, we are prey to similar kinds of self-deception...
"One reason for public docility ...is fear... But there is something more insidious...: the hope that things will turn out all right soon, that the political outrages are temporary or at least that they canβt get worse. One way of dealing with bad times is to pretend that they are normal...
"Almost until the last stages of the war,... the cinemas were full, the dance revues were in full swing, the soccer competition went on, and people visited the zoo and sunbathed on the Wannsee opposite the infamous villa where the logistics of the Holocaust were worked out over glasses of brandy"...
"The terrorism of the Nazi state was often in plain view.
And yet most people looked away, pretending to see nothing, and carried on with their lives. Why? ...under autocratic regimes... things go from bad to worse in stages. Todayβs outrage is tomorrowβs normal. People adapt and get used to it...
I recommend Ian Buruma's excellent piece on how people today (like those in Nazi Germany) look the other way and delude themselves that things will just get better on their own.
Putting some exerpts into a thread:....
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...