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Stacy Farina
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Associate Prof of Biology at Howard University studying functional and evolutionary morphology #BlackLivesMatter (she/they)

Fully funded MS Programs in EEB:
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Funded Organismal Biology MS Programs
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If a politician:

-Has never cared at all about whales before;

-Is in the pocket of big oil, an industry which has a financial incentive to oppose alternative energy;

and

-is a well-documented liar,

You don't have to take their "we have to stop offshore wind to save whales" claims seriously.
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Data centers are important for many reasons BUT consumers should NOT have to pay higher bills to facilitate the huge amounts of electricity they eat up.

The richest companies on the planet are building these centers and they should bear the costs — not you.
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Well, this is chilling AF.

The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1/2
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November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Remember how the news cycle seemed to move so fast in 2020?
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is going to be a figure in someone's dissertation someday.
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
He did this by adding hidden text to the assignment prompts. How do I do this? I want to add instructions to write the essay in the style of a pirate to drive the students crazy trying to figure out why chatGPT is in pirate mode.

Maybe it's best that I'm on sabbatical next semester...
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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IMPEACH!
Tell Congress to Impeach Trump
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Absolutely. Even if he weren't a damaged creep, his approach to scientific evidence is completely disqualifying.

We know the answer; We just don't have the science yet

There is no study that says that it is not true.

Bye, bye Bobby. You've "gone wild" enough. You going to kill lots of people.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Trump administration is demanding, in effect, a list of Jewish faculty, staff, and students at Penn. So far, Penn is resisting the subpoena. Please sign this petition in support of their resistance!

actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Stand with Penn Against the Trump Administration's Demand for a List of Jewish Community Members
We are deeply concerned by the Trump Administration's lawsuit, which demands that the University compile and provide the names, personal emails, phone numbers, and addresses of Jewish members of the P...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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it just seems plainly clear to me that if you serve the country in any capacity, civil or military, and you are not a conservative white man, the Trump administration wants to make the workplace as hostile an environment as possible so you remove yourself
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Good news! Judge James E. Boasberg just issued a serious warning to the Justice Department, signaling that he may open a formal contempt investigation into whether the Trump administration violated his order to stop deportation flights of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador back in March.
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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You may have heard that the UC decided to cancel the Presidential Postdoc program, a decision which lots of folks found incredibly short-sighted. But we just got an email from UC Pres Milliken that the fellowship program is back, baby! (at least for the time being, but hey, it's something)
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This is SUCH an important thread for white people (men especially) to read and learn to let go of your defensiveness around white privilege because you are not just harming others you are harming yourself with it!!!
One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:

The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Hank, thanks for your recent video where you emphasize that there is no biological basis for the social construct of race. Please, more of this. Sci Comm needs to spread the word of how "science" is weaponzied to dehumanize. The piggy comment is not science related, but it is vicious dehumanization.
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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The Trump administration just unveiled a plan to significantly narrow which bodies of water qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act. They proposed a new definition of what counts as a “water of the United States,” a change that would
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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First Trump allowed your premiums to skyrocket & now he wants medical bills to haunt you everywhere you go. Letting sickness crush people’s credit scores is exploitative & cruel.

This is what it looks like when you put corporate debt collectors, not working people, first.
Feds tell Maryland not to remove medical debt from credit scores
A Maryland law aimed at keeping medical debt from ruining people’s creditworthiness went into effect Oct. 1, and 27 days later the Trump administration said the state and 14 others were violating fede...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Trump’s making it easier for polluters to profit from poisoning waterways like the Chesapeake Bay.

A healthy Bay is an economic & environmental lifeline for Maryland & clean waterways are vital to communities around the U.S.

But in Trump-world, his big money pals always come first.
Why More Pollution Could Be Coming for Wetlands
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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It hasn’t been one year of his second term and the rails are already falling off.
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.

Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Even if Trump wasn't abusing the girls (doubtful), why are republicans so willing to ignore the fact that they were being trafficked out of his literal residence?
“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Right now, tens of millions of working families are trying to work out how they’re going to pay for their skyrocketing ACA premiums.

The time bomb is still ticking and Republicans are doing nothing to diffuse it — we need to act now.
November 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I can further confirm that @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is experiencing retaliation by “Free speech” Jay and the Trump administration.

@standupforscience.bsky.social stands with her and will continue to support public servants who speak out against the harms of this administration.
NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.

Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.

Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM