Bradley Allf
@bradleyallf.bsky.social
ecology postdoc at Colorado State, freelance science writer, TEDx speaker. advocate of citizen/participatory science, poetry. mechanic for the curiosity machine. 🐍 www.bradleyallf.com
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Bradley Allf
@bradleyallf.bsky.social
· Feb 5
Excited to introduce Thoughtcrime Checker! This simple text editor highlights any words on the Trump administration's "banned" list. Remove these words from your NSF/NIH grants and see if you can avoid the Thought Police!
brad7280.github.io/thoughtcrime...
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@theo.io @xkcd.com @byscottdance.com
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Science funding is drying up so we’re out here, cap in hand, asking for your support so we can buy hats for our bird monitoring volunteers! Donate link: give.colostate.edu/schools/Colo...
@justscience.bsky.social
@justscience.bsky.social
Help Public Science Study of Urban Birds
Support the Public Science Study of Urban Birds!
give.colostate.edu
October 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Science funding is drying up so we’re out here, cap in hand, asking for your support so we can buy hats for our bird monitoring volunteers! Donate link: give.colostate.edu/schools/Colo...
@justscience.bsky.social
@justscience.bsky.social
Science communicators of the Mountain West! Please consider submitting your work to @sciwrirockies.com's first ever #scicomm contest. No entry fee but must be a SWARM member to submit ($30/year, $15/year for students). Deadline November 1!
www.sciwrirockies.com/writing-awards
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Writing awards | Swarm
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October 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Science communicators of the Mountain West! Please consider submitting your work to @sciwrirockies.com's first ever #scicomm contest. No entry fee but must be a SWARM member to submit ($30/year, $15/year for students). Deadline November 1!
www.sciwrirockies.com/writing-awards
www.sciwrirockies.com/writing-awards
New update just dropped on thoughtcrime-checker.com/index.html! You can now automatically check your grant for banned words and replace them with a phrase 100% approved by the #Trump regime!
September 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
New update just dropped on thoughtcrime-checker.com/index.html! You can now automatically check your grant for banned words and replace them with a phrase 100% approved by the #Trump regime!
Time for South Park, Colbert and the rest to start their own breakaway media company.
Paramount Settled With Trump. Its Shows Are Skewering Him.
“South Park,” Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have all been critical of their own company and President Trump this week.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
“South Park,” Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have all been critical of their own company and President Trump this week.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
Paramount Settled With Trump. Its Shows Are Skewering Him.
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Time for South Park, Colbert and the rest to start their own breakaway media company.
"Politics is so much easier when you can say whatever you want, in the same way even an expert soccer player will not score many goals against an unskilled opponent who insists the sport being played is rugby."
Tone reminds me of @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Tone reminds me of @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Trump’s War on Competence
How the Right became polarized against knowing things
suithaver.medium.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Politics is so much easier when you can say whatever you want, in the same way even an expert soccer player will not score many goals against an unskilled opponent who insists the sport being played is rugby."
Tone reminds me of @kenwhite.bsky.social
suithaver.medium.com/the-rights-b...
Tone reminds me of @kenwhite.bsky.social
suithaver.medium.com/the-rights-b...
Imagine tripping in a small, smelly mouse cage in the bowels of some academic hall. I bet those telomeres would be even longer if the mice were in an outdoor pen with live grass and dirt! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice - npj Aging
npj Aging - Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice
www.nature.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Imagine tripping in a small, smelly mouse cage in the bowels of some academic hall. I bet those telomeres would be even longer if the mice were in an outdoor pen with live grass and dirt! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
April 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.
If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
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They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science
When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
Cancer itself getting in on the disinformation game. God help us!
April 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Cancer itself getting in on the disinformation game. God help us!
I’m sure the party that hates when cabinet secretaries mishandle classified information will be just furious about this
March 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I’m sure the party that hates when cabinet secretaries mishandle classified information will be just furious about this
Excited to see my #StandUpForScience speech in @westword.com today.
www.westword.com/news/colorad...
www.westword.com/news/colorad...
Stand Up for Science: In Defense of Curiosity
"President Trump and his administration lack the humility required to take an interest in understanding the world around them."
www.westword.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Excited to see my #StandUpForScience speech in @westword.com today.
www.westword.com/news/colorad...
www.westword.com/news/colorad...
This will be a really neat and timely event. Registration free for SWARM members, $10 for non-members. Join us!
Join us on April 2 to learn about how to protect sources & navigate sensitive stories — featuring investigative journalist @charlespiller.bsky.social! If you're interested in storytelling & ethics, this webinar is for you. Free for @sciwrirockies.com members:
www.sciwrirockies.com/event-detail...
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SWARM webinar: Protecting sources and navigating sensitive stories | Swarm
Featuring award-winning investigative journalist Charles Piller
www.sciwrirockies.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This will be a really neat and timely event. Registration free for SWARM members, $10 for non-members. Join us!
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A scientist loses funding for her research on vaccines during pregnancy due to a new NIH policy that bans all studies broadly related to "vaccine uptake."
March 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A scientist loses funding for her research on vaccines during pregnancy due to a new NIH policy that bans all studies broadly related to "vaccine uptake."
Stop throwing wrenches in our curiosity machine!
Honored to speak at #StandUpForScience Denver today. Thanks to event organizers @ssenese.bsky.social et al., and the amazing crowd (500 people? 1,000?) for coming out on a cold day to stand up together for our fundamental right to wonder.
Honored to speak at #StandUpForScience Denver today. Thanks to event organizers @ssenese.bsky.social et al., and the amazing crowd (500 people? 1,000?) for coming out on a cold day to stand up together for our fundamental right to wonder.
March 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Stop throwing wrenches in our curiosity machine!
Honored to speak at #StandUpForScience Denver today. Thanks to event organizers @ssenese.bsky.social et al., and the amazing crowd (500 people? 1,000?) for coming out on a cold day to stand up together for our fundamental right to wonder.
Honored to speak at #StandUpForScience Denver today. Thanks to event organizers @ssenese.bsky.social et al., and the amazing crowd (500 people? 1,000?) for coming out on a cold day to stand up together for our fundamental right to wonder.
I’ll be speaking about the importance of free inquiry/curiosity at this event on Friday at 2:30 at the Denver Capitol Building. Come join! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
March 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I’ll be speaking about the importance of free inquiry/curiosity at this event on Friday at 2:30 at the Denver Capitol Building. Come join! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
www.rollingstone.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Great write-up by @ishan-thakore.bsky.social on how Colorado scientists are responding to the cancellation of the National Nature Assessment.
www.cpr.org/2025/02/26/t...
@coloradopublic.bsky.social
www.cpr.org/2025/02/26/t...
@coloradopublic.bsky.social
Trump dismantled a first-of-its-kind nature report. Colorado scientists are still hopeful it will be released
The National Nature Assessment was meant to document how the country’s lands, waters and wildlife benefit Americans, and how climate change might change that picture.
www.cpr.org
February 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Great write-up by @ishan-thakore.bsky.social on how Colorado scientists are responding to the cancellation of the National Nature Assessment.
www.cpr.org/2025/02/26/t...
@coloradopublic.bsky.social
www.cpr.org/2025/02/26/t...
@coloradopublic.bsky.social
More than anything, the Democrats’ problem is aesthetic. Their policies are popular. Rebrand as the ‘Rebel Alliance Party’ or something—lean into the fight against authoritarianism and the established order.
February 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
More than anything, the Democrats’ problem is aesthetic. Their policies are popular. Rebrand as the ‘Rebel Alliance Party’ or something—lean into the fight against authoritarianism and the established order.
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Ukraine: wake up Americans. Trump is giving away the Allied victory in World War II. It's a form treason by a combination of venal self-interest and criminal ignorance. This president must first be denounced and then stopped by all who actually have a sense of history.
February 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Ukraine: wake up Americans. Trump is giving away the Allied victory in World War II. It's a form treason by a combination of venal self-interest and criminal ignorance. This president must first be denounced and then stopped by all who actually have a sense of history.
Would your research pass the #Trump administration's banned word censors? Paste it in Thoughtcrime Checker and find out!
thoughtcrime-checker.com
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
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#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
February 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Would your research pass the #Trump administration's banned word censors? Paste it in Thoughtcrime Checker and find out!
thoughtcrime-checker.com
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
thoughtcrime-checker.com
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
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Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO.
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
February 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO.
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
Hello, @mapquest.com. It’s me. I’ve been wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet
February 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hello, @mapquest.com. It’s me. I’ve been wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet
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With this abrupt change, I’m focusing more on science outreach—making research on misinformation, media literacy, and AI more accessible through my newsletter and podcast.
I’d really appreciate your support—whether by subscribing, sharing, or suggesting topics!
matthewfacciani.substack.com
I’d really appreciate your support—whether by subscribing, sharing, or suggesting topics!
matthewfacciani.substack.com
Misguided: The Newsletter | Matthew Facciani | Substack
Misguided: The Newsletter shares my research on misinformation and explores how social and psychological forces shape our understanding of the world. Click to read Misguided: The Newsletter, by Matthe...
matthewfacciani.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
With this abrupt change, I’m focusing more on science outreach—making research on misinformation, media literacy, and AI more accessible through my newsletter and podcast.
I’d really appreciate your support—whether by subscribing, sharing, or suggesting topics!
matthewfacciani.substack.com
I’d really appreciate your support—whether by subscribing, sharing, or suggesting topics!
matthewfacciani.substack.com