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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 1d

Completely agree and love the weaver analogy. Astronomy, public health, environmental sciences, materials sciences, social sciences, computational sciences, biomedical research, ecology etc - we have to stay unified in defending science and communicating what it offers humanity.

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 3d

“Klein’s musings about redrawing the line are, more importantly, a manifestation of a pervasive tendency in American elite circles to accommodate rather than fight back, to acquiesce rather than stand firm.” Not good.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 3d

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Bessie Stringfield, was born Bessie Beatrice White on February 9, 1911 (some records list March 5), in Edenton, North Carolina, to Maggie Cherry and James White. (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

allthatsinteresting.com/bessie-strin...

She Was The First Black Woman To Bike Across America — And She Did It At The Height Of Jim Crow

“Colored people couldn’t stop at hotels or motels back then. But it never bothered me.”

allthatsinteresting.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 3d

Hey folks in CA - I heard NPR interview of Steve Hilton like 6mo ago and started following on X out of curiosity. WOW - very scary. Sounded reasonable on NPR but super inflammatory and mis-information spreading on X. Polls show he is pretty close behind Porter. How worried should we be about this?

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 5d

Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...

www.newscientist.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 5d

bsky.app/profile/cele... Preview of what would likely happen to Universities that accept the government compact

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 5d

DeSantis gave it a right-wing overhaul in 2023. Since then, ~40% of the faculty has resigned. It spends more than 10x per student what the other schools do & ranking fell from 76th to 135th.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 5d

www.reuters.com/world/white-...

“$2.1 billion for major Chicago subway project’ "have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting’”

DOE “said it would cancel nearly $8 billion for …energy projects in 16 Democratic-led states, including California and New York.”

White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says

The U.S. federal government has put $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on Friday, in another jab at a Democrat-led city during the U.S. government shutdown.

www.reuters.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 5d

Compact requires

“universities to have policies prohibiting ‘all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,’ to abstain from ‘actions or speech relating to societal and political events except in cases in which external events have a direct impact upon the university.”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d

Nope. Not even close...

See "Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities" for more information.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d

My quote of the day

Jane Goodall

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 6d

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... Although somewhat encouragingly

“The Post’s poll finds significantly more Americans blame President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans for the shutdown than Democrats, though many say they are not sure.”

We asked 1,000 Americans who is to blame for the shutdown. Here’s what they said.

More Americans blame Trump and Republicans than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds.

www.washingtonpost.com

Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 6d

Unbelievable.

Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 6d

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Not that Vance cares about the scientific data…but longer ER wait times is a global phenomenon. Waiting for results from new high tech diagnostic tests and insufficient # of hospital beds (for those who need them) contribute to ER crowding and slow throughput.

Overcrowding in Emergency Department: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions—A Narrative Review

Overcrowding in Emergency Departments (EDs) is a phenomenon that is now widespread globally and causes a significant negative impact that goes on to affect the entire hospital. This contributes to a n...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 7d

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
“this fight is about America’s democracy and the First Amendment. It is about global journalistic freedom. It is about the human right to speak the truth about power, even when it is uncomfortable”

Speaking as a scientist - our access to unbiased info matters!

The Washington Post Accused Me of “Gross Misconduct.” Here's My Response.

This fight isn’t just about my job — it’s about who gets punished for telling the truth, and who gets protected for spreading hate and violence.

open.substack.com

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The Parkinson's Foundation @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social · 9d

50% of people with Parkinson’s disease experience a form of depression. 🧠

Today for Suicide Prevention Month, learn about managing depression within PD: Parkinson.org/understanding-parkinsons/non-movement-symptoms/depression

Depression

Research estimates that at least 50% of people with Parkinson's disease will experience some form of depression.

Parkinson.org

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 10d

Reportedly some ICE detainees are held for days, even up to a week. Our room stank of sweat & pepper ball powder after just a few hours. Their room appeared dirty, filled with men dressed for labor, trying to get comfortable to sleep in chairs or on the cold floor in the cinder block room.

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Unbiased Science @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social · 14d

🧰 If someone asks why we needed mRNA when other vaccines worked fine, here’s what you can say: We didn’t need it for diseases we’d already conquered. We needed it for the battles we couldn’t win with our old tools.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 27d

I know there is a lot going on but this went online last night and I am very proud it’s real. If you might be excited to find out how at every turn this nation could have prevented our current political moment by listening to Black people you can even preorder it before we get to designing the cover

A Second Sight

Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation t...

www.harpercollins.com

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Ainissa Ramirez, PhD @ainissaramirez.bsky.social · 13d

#tbt 2012, giving my #TedTalk, "Save Our Science:
How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists," where I called for a recommitment to improve #stemeducation for children in our schools and throughout our society.

#STEM #STEMforkids #BlackinSTEM #WomeninSTEM 🧪

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11d

You cannot keep your head down and expect to sneak through the next three years unaffected.

We MUST come together and say “NO!”

Suppression of freedoms *always* starts at universities and in the press.

You’ve got like 5 seconds to wake up.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 11d

All of this is so deeply upsetting because children will have preventable febrile seizures, mothers may miscarry due to untreated fever, and some pregnancies will be more challenging due to unmanaged pain. There are no upsides to this reckless misinformation from the top just harm and pain.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12d

This is the point of the new EO: it is to make people think twice before they provide their honest evaluation of the Trump regime. You called them fascist? Well, you must be antifa. You call them authoritarian? You are inciting terrorism.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 13d

Multiscale proteomic modeling reveals protein networks driving Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Proteomic profiling of post mortem brain tissue identifies glial-neuron protein networks associated with AD

Multiscale proteomic modeling reveals protein networks driving Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis

Multiscale proteomic network modeling of Alzheimer's disease integrates large-scale proteomic and genetic data from vulnerable brain regions and reveals key driver proteins such as AHNAK within a glia...

www.cell.com

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Unbiased Science @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social · Sep 8

We teamed up with Society of Behavioral Medicine to share how all of us—scientists, health professionals, and the public—can help combat misinformation 🧠.

This post highlights their toolkit with 10 practical tips to help identify and prevent the spread of misinformation.

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