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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

A mental health expert offers coping tips for those experiencing stress from immigration operations, as the climate has created widespread fear and uncertainty.

Expert says threats of militarization and immigration enforcement fuel anxieties

One mental health expert offers tips on how to cope with the stress of immigration operations in the Chicago region.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

500 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics are now closing or at risk of closure because of the Republican bill that guts health care funding, per @protectourcare.org.

Map of the U.S. with dots for each of the 500 health facilities closing or at risk of closing.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 1d

Gray-headed Chickadee aka Siberian Tit may now be extinct in North America #Ornithology 🌎🪶 @richardkbroughton.bsky.social
www.aba.org/lost-on-the-...

Lost on the Frontier - American Birding Association

Conjectures—and some evidence—regarding why the Gray-headed Chickadee may have been extirpated from the ABA Area.

www.aba.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

crimes. you mean he's doing crimes.

bucking tradition is wearing a white suit after labor day.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Andrew @andrew-ecoathome.bsky.social · 4d

Introducing BIRDBASE, which aims to be the world's most comprehensive avian trait ecology database. Article links to open access paper, & data in Excel spreadsheet. phys.org/news/2025-09... #science #environment #ecology #eco #biology #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #openaccess #datascience

BIRDBASE dataset tracks ecological traits for 11,589 species of birds

Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining achiev...

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 1d

This is a very smart idea that I hope @governorferguson.bsky.social is examining closely.

Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan

States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater

www.theguardian.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Blue states need to band together to protect immigrants, science, health, and our values. Some of this is happening already, we just need to face what more we can and must do www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 4d

Details on how they're spending your taxpayer dollars here:

Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 HUGE ICE procurement activity this week:

• Detention/transportation contracts: $91.7M

• Significant spending on weapons & ballistic/tactical gear: $74.6M

• GPS monitor-based alternative-to-detention program: $22M

• Current total: $218.6M | Potential total: $1.3B

Table listing ICE contract recipients, cities, award descriptions, and dollar amounts. High-value awards include:

CoreCivic ($35.6M) for detention/transport at California City Detention Center.

BI Incorporated ($22M) for the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP).

GEO Group ($21.3M) for detention services at Houston’s Montgomery Processing Center.

Akima Infrastructure Protection ($19M, potential $73M) for housing at Krome Processing Center, FL.

Lionheart Alliance ($15.5M) for ballistic helmets.

Price Modern ($14.3M) for office furniture.
Other entries ($3M–$10M) cover firearms, tactical gear, laptops, rifles, ballistic plates, and Tasers.

Continuation of ICE contract table. Awards in the $600K–$3M range, including:

Atlantic Diving Supply for holsters, pistol lights, law enforcement gear.

Thomson Reuters ($1.75M, potential $3.5M) for maritime analysis tools.

Greenbrier ($1.66M) for Cisco networking hardware.

Blue Tech ($1.59M) for security management software.

Koniag IT ($1.5M, potential $8.9M) for document fraud analysis software.

FCN Inc. and Glock Inc. for laptops, weapons parts, and accessories.
Overall theme: firearms equipment, IT infrastructure, laptops, and digital forensics.

Table of smaller ICE contract awards ranging from ~$30K to ~$600K. Examples:

FCN Inc. ($492K) for network appliances.

Anacapa Micro ($465K) for Juniper equipment.

Blue Tech ($442K) for videoconferencing systems.

Lionheart Alliance ($407K) for Glock optics mounting plates.

DISYS Solutions ($385K) for firewall devices.

Prime Masonry ($100K) for garage doors at Port Isabel detention center.

Software Information Resource Corp. ($97K) for iMazing mobile backup licenses.

Colonial Parking ($58K) for ICE staff parking in Washington, DC.
Mix of IT, infrastructure, law enforcement gear, building repairs, and facility services.

Final page of ICE contract table, showing awards under $25K plus a major multiyear total.

Avaya Federal Solutions ($24K, $8K, $4K) for VOIP phones.

Skopenow ($19.5K) for intelligence-report software.

All American Cabling ($6K) for fiber installation.

Small contracts ($4K–$30K) for security systems and cabling.

Large cumulative ISAP contract: BI Incorporated, potential total $1.02B.
Summary totals at bottom: $218.6M current, $1.33B potential contracts.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

Fyi, this is the “political violence” they call “law and order.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

I just signed this. Please consider do so as well.

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

alumni.controlshift.app

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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dr Katarzyna Nowak @katzyna.bsky.social · 4d

Published 30 yrs ago & as much or more of a book for our times: the tortilla curtain by @tcboyle.com — the well-off wall themselves in, from adaptable people & wildlife, but ultimately can’t keep out wildfires etc. Here’s excerpt I liked. And yeah, they be paving the border road here now. #ecocrime

17 year old protagonist América encounters another protagonist - a coyote - in a canyon where she and her man Cándido refuge in between what menial labor they’re granted in s. CA

Paving of road along Poland’s state border barrier, initially erected to keep out people on the move from countries like Syria. Source of photo: Polish border guard

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 5d

Before I landed in academic public health, I wanted to start a long-term project on medical schools' complicity in the trafficking of cadavers. Harrowing stuff.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · 5d

🚨 Penn is being pressured by the Trump Admin to sign the “Compact for Academic Excellence,” risking academic freedom & student rights. Tell leadership to say NO. Read the AAUP-Penn statement & sign the petition ✍️: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...

Just Say No to Trump's Compact for Academic Extortion

Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania was one of nine targets of the Trump Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Through it, Trump asks once again for universitie...

actionnetwork.org

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Elise Say-Sallaz @elisesaysallaz.bsky.social · 5d

Very happy to share our new paper published in Current Biology !

We show that the “big bad wolf” actually fears humans for good reason.
It’s the first-ever playback experiment on wild wolves in Europe 🇵🇱🌲.

Mammal Research Institute PAS @mripas.bsky.social · 6d

Our new article shows: The 'big bad wolf' fears us. Would you have thought? authors.elsevier.com/c/1lt5E3QW8S...
Photo by Rafał Kowalczyk. @currentbiology.bsky.social
@kathikasper.bsky.social

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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dr Katarzyna Nowak @katzyna.bsky.social · 7d

Impressive bilingual meeting in Polish and in German organized by #Rewilding Oder Delta on the topic of #wolves and our interactions with them including mitigation of conflicts through #transboundary knowledge exchange. @rewildingeurope.bsky.social @mripas.bsky.social

Rafal Kowalczyk presents the “beauty and the beast” of wolves

Kathi Kasper tells us how one reason for wolves losing fear of us is protection and seeing us as less of a threat which should be celebrated

Krzysztof Niedziałkowski discusses the role of democracy, politics and NGO-academia cooperation in the protection of wolves in Poland, Germany and rest of Europe

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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 20d

🦊 Reimagining habituation: The case for a reciprocal and contextual understanding ➡️ buff.ly/6rbtYxu

@livwildlab.bsky.social @ethanddoney.bsky.social @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social @hannalp.bsky.social @csandbrook.bsky.social

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 7d

Super excited to be collaborator on great new article led by @ranadajani.bsky.social and Delaney Glass- "Doing Science With Our Grandmother's WISDOM:A Worldview Integrating Sociality, Diversity, and Observant Meaning-Making" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

figure outlining the 4 steps t this project: a worldview, integrating sociality, diversity, and observant meaning making

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Kendall Powell @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social · Jul 25

ICYMI: @ranadajani.bsky.social in a @nature.com Careers podcast on why she's driven to help women and children scarred by war and trauma and why she's a big supporter of women in the Arab world pursuing science careers.

Why I study trauma's genetic legacy www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why I study trauma's genetic legacy

Rana Dajani's research includes identifying risk factors for type 2 diabetes, and genetic links to trauma.

www.nature.com

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 8d

There can no longer be any pretence that our 'leaders' - in politics, business, or elsewhere across society - are seriously addressing the climate crisis

Where does that leave us? Where does that leave you?

Are we going to fight to defend our futures? Giving up is not an option

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire

In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 8d

🦏 New #OpenAccess article in Biological Conservation!

'Community-based #conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers & obstacles of local reporting on rhino & plains game poaching in Namibia'

www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

Community-based conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers and obstacles of local reporting on rhino and plains game poaching in Namibia

Conservation surveillance, or the monitoring of people for conservation purposes, is a core component of coercive conservation governance. Over the la…

www.sciencedirect.com

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