Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Jesse Zaneveld

@jessezaneveld.bsky.social

830 followers 1.3K following 610 posts

Random selection of 🎲: 🪸🧫 Coral microbiomes 💻🐍 Bioinformatics 🕊️📰 Politics & PoliSci ♟️🎴 Sciency Games & Game Design 🦜🦔 Delightful Animal Facts 🔥🧯 Hang tight we're in it now (Personal account | Views my own)

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · Jun 3

New Benthos protypes arrived & I made a quick video of the unboxing

Benthos - A Game of Underwater Intrigue @benthos-game.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our first printed copies of Benthos from @thegamecrafter.bsky.social arrived and they look 🤩.

Hop in while we open it up and get a first look at what's inside the box! 🪸🐠🧪

1 1 5

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

Can I just say that this is a beautiful and thrilling public example of Black community care? One member of the community has experienced a carceral lockout and the entire architecture is being reoriented to bring him home. 👏🏽👏🏽

Clinton Bowen @torrho.blacksky.team · 1d

Correct! This week we built a fallback mechanism to query slingshot, constellation, and the PDS directly.

For now it is limited "read only". Soon enough you'll be able to interact with Link on blacksky.community

26 95

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 2h

I cannot stomach what this country has become. The viciousness and hate now visited on the dogs of people living here (in this case: the people are citizens).

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 4h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

6 4

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · 4h

*note

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · 5h

Love this

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6h

Community Whistle flyer from Rogers Park area in Chicago.

@prisonculture.bsky.social says, "This is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone."

Why It Works
✪ Instant Alert System

✪ Faster Than Social Media

✪ Turns Silence Into Community Action

Analog device that's "Faster Than Social Media"? Lolol.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

Graphic:
FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER

[I will share some pieces of this in a separate post]

ROGERS PARK
WHISTLE PROTOCOLS

WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS

• A SIMPLE TOOL
FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD. •
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO
IGNORE. •
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.

WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE
CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.

WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM

• FASTER THAN
SOCIAL MEDIA

• TURNS SILENCE
INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION

WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE
AROUND YOUR NECK
• TEACH FAMILY &
NEIGHBORS THE
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH
OTHER, ALWAYS

TOGETHER, WE
KEEP OUR
COMMUNITY
SAFE.
FORM A CROWD,
STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
@PROTECTRP_

ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
@ @PILSENARTSCOMMUNITYHOUSE
INFO@PILSENARTSCOMMUNITYHOUSE.ORG

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · 5h

Nightmarish. Apparently the student is speaking to her Dean. Not this is apparently a required and inexplicably paid textbook.

Not on TikTok but if folks are I wonder if faculty on the outside can help confirm details and intervene in any way (username downthread).

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

1 1

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 7h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

17 840 1.9K

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 7h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

93 1.6K 6.6K

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20h

if you’re not Catholic, let me real quick tell you about the breathtaking audacity of bringing the monstrance with him

a monstrance is a big bedazzled gold ornament with a round glass window in the middle where you put a consecrated wafer, usually the bigger ceremonial one and not the bite-size

4 110 690

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d

A great URL explainer from Julia Evans's saturday comics, drawn from her http zine! wizardzines.com/zines/http/

A hand-written explainer on "how URLs work," with an explanation of various parts of the links' anatomy - scheme, domain, port, path, query, etc.

1 31 120

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

260 3.4K 14K

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

48 1.2K 3.2K

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

89 810 2.1K

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

590 5.8K 14K

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

29 900 2.8K

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · 2d

I'll take a million of those for my new charity treating a ... condition.

(The condition is a lot of people could use like $550 million right now)

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · 2d

😂

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · 2d

Feels like an easy one "Quick question: if a drug was $100, what will it cost after the 650% discount?"

2 1 47

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · 2d

Just over there lining up the anti-science to ableism to antisemitism bank shot 🎱

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

390 7.2K 14K

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

28 670 1.4K

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2d

I've been officially threatened with a good time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

4 15

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · 2d

I mean ideally when ICE commits crimes they would be arrested, but there are many gradations in the middle that matter also.

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome news from folks at the Portland protest.

I don't think it's naive to recognize that when or if ICE's violent lawlessness intensifies it really matters if their relationship with local police is one of friction, neutrality, grudging cooperation or fully resourced & enthusiastic support.

Mosaics by Darcy @darcyrobles.bsky.social · 2d

It depends. Was it PPB (Portland Police Bureau) or ICE.

So far, we've been happy with how PPB has been conducting themselves and interacting with the protestors. They've really done a 180 since 2020.

1 1 3

Reposted by Jesse Zaneveld

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 2d

Elon Musk, together with LibsOfTikTok call for a nationwide boycott of Netflix and mass cancellations over a single cartoon character coming out as trans. This is picked up and massively promoted by a host of right-wing influencers, As a result, Netflix stock... is up 2%. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com

7 44 190

Jesse Zaneveld @jessezaneveld.bsky.social · 2d

Some smart thoughts about inflatable frog suits 🐸:

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward