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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 5h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 8h

Met amazing colleagues & friends in science journalism; helped organize a group to help change the distorted media narrative about addiction & pain (changingthenarrative.news), got lots of great new sources. twitter was once great for ideologically diverse collaboration in areas of agreement.

Changing the Narrative | Drug Use & Addiction

Changing The Narrative is altering the way media represents drug use and addiction. Our mission is to help journalists and opinion leaders provide accurate, humane, and scientifically-grounded informa...

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 1d

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 3d

This generational trauma ICE is inflicting will reverberate for longer than we realize, in ways we can only begin to imagine.

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 4d

but imagine the therapy bills your child will have if they realize they got named by a bargain namer ;-)

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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 4d

Good #caturday morning everybody!! I slept in and I am not sorry.
🐈.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 5d

this is the only purpose of prohibitionist drug law.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Trump says the US is in "armed conflict" with drug cartels.

Meanwhile, his DOJ is disbanding a task force that took on cartels.

Trump doesn't care about stopping drug trafficking — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy.

This is a power grab.

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 5d

interesting idea about applying harm reduction to journalism itself.....

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 6d

"If we want different results, we have to abandon standard practice."

YES.

Finally, someone put together what I and many other critics have been saying about political coverage — then took it further. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti...

Author Michael Hauser Tov is 28 years old.

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 5d

p.s. here's how to get naloxone (narcan) for free if needed www.getnaloxonenow.org#getnaloxone

Get Naloxone Now

Get Naloxone Now is a free online resource to train people (lay bystanders and professional first responders) to respond effectively to an opioid overdose emergency.

www.getnaloxonenow.org

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5d

It's almost as though all he did last year was brazenly lie, and it should have always been covered as brazen lying. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals

President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 5d

If your state has a suspiciously low overdose death rate, check it out! (also, know the signs: if someone's snoring weirdly, breathing infrequently, looks blue on skin or nails... USE Narcan! & keep it in every first aid kit so it's there) [excellent piece!] flatwaterfreepress.org/we-dont-know...

We don’t know the real number of Nebraskans dying from drugs. It’s costing us. - Flatwater Free Press

Every year, Nebraska undercounts overdoses, say state officials, public health experts, on-the-ground treatment workers and a new Flatwater Free Press analysis. Laws and money are impacted. And lives ...

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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨
I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 6d

No they fucking didn’t—they said another manufacturer can make generic mifepristone, the same drug that’s been on the market for 25 years

Washington Post push alert:
Breaking News
The Trump administration quietly approved a new abortion drug, infuriating the right

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6d

AUTHORS: It’s time to submit your claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement.

1. Look yourself up here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

2. File your claim here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Form asks for ISBN and copyright reg # for each work. Can find in step 1.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12d

🚨AUTHORS: The judge has approved the settlement in the Anthropic copyright case. By 10/2 you will be able to look up your name/works on the settlement website to see if you are eligible for payments. Which Authors Guild explained will be split evenly between authors/publishers who both hold rights.

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild

Background Bartz v Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by authors against an AI company for using books without permission to train large language models. It was filed by nonfict...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 6d

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

None of us should feel exempt or invulnerable, because if they can do this to our neighbors, they can come for us, too. That said, those of us who are not presently among those being targeted should not focus on our own fear and vulnerability. We should support those in the immediate path of harm.

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 6d

I need a bot to just create quote posts with the tagline "Is this even legal?"..... because, really, it can't be....

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 6d

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 6d

journalists who bought this really need to consider why they weren't more skeptical. whatever happened to "if your mother says she loves you, check it out" from j-school? & why do so many accept government statements at face value like "national guard to cities for crime" when clearly in bad faith?

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 6d

Old enough to remember...

NPR - Trump again distances himself from Project 2025
https://www.npr.org › 2024/08/22 › trump-project-202...
Aug 22, 2024 — Earlier today at the Arizona-Mexico border, former President Donald Trump defended himself against a series of attacks Democrats have lobbed ...

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 6d

i love this!!!

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 7d

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 7d

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 7d

Amazing

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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Karen (Cryin’) Yin 😢🎃 | Buy My BOOOOks @karenyin.bsky.social · 7d

it's october.

a black cat is laying on a shelf next to books including pet sematary

Alt: Animated clip of a black cat on a bookshelf, blinking and yawning. On the shelf, a skull; under the shelf, a cobweb.

media.tenor.com

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 8d

"Even as he wraps himself in his family’s storied history, [RFK Jr.] seems determined to make himself an accomplice in wiping their greatest achievements from the earth." Ari Ne'eman on "The Trump administration’s Soviet approach to autism policy":

www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/r... #autism #RFKjr

The Trump administration’s Soviet approach to autism policy

A strange and largely forgotten U.S. delegation to the USSR in 1963 offers lessons about autism, diagnosis, and politics, writes Ari Ne’eman.

www.statnews.com

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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 7d

what the hell is up with that guy's proportions? obv. AI, but really weird....

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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