@melayberhane.bsky.social
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Four scientific leaders at NIH have resigned & denounced the Trump admin’s political interference: “Not only is our health at stake, but this attack on science is an attack on freedom of speech and thought. What we have seen at NIH is a threat to the fundamental freedoms that all of us cherish.” (🧵)
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
www.statnews.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Four scientific leaders at NIH have resigned & denounced the Trump admin’s political interference: “Not only is our health at stake, but this attack on science is an attack on freedom of speech and thought. What we have seen at NIH is a threat to the fundamental freedoms that all of us cherish.” (🧵)
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Her name is good. May her death from an ICE agent’s bullet not be in vain.
January 8, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Her name is good. May her death from an ICE agent’s bullet not be in vain.
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I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis
Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource
I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice.
Long 🧵😊
Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource
I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice.
Long 🧵😊
October 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis
Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource
I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice.
Long 🧵😊
Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource
I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice.
Long 🧵😊
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This time the great powers vying for influence in the region are Russia and the UAE, along with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, and China. The new players are happy to stoke the war machine regardless of the human consequences, so long as it gives them what they need.
#SaveSudan
#SaveSudan
The Murderous Bazaar – Transition Magazine
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu
December 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This time the great powers vying for influence in the region are Russia and the UAE, along with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, and China. The new players are happy to stoke the war machine regardless of the human consequences, so long as it gives them what they need.
#SaveSudan
#SaveSudan
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‘You sneak in and hope you make it back’: the Sudanese volunteers risking it all to bring care to millions
Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms network didn’t mind missing out on the Nobel peace prize because ‘we only want to help’
Sudan’s beacon of light and hope 💜
Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms network didn’t mind missing out on the Nobel peace prize because ‘we only want to help’
Sudan’s beacon of light and hope 💜
‘You sneak in and hope you make it back’: the Sudanese volunteers risking it all to bring care to millions
Members of Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms network tell Guardian they didn’t mind missing out on the Nobel peace prize because ‘we only want to help’
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
‘You sneak in and hope you make it back’: the Sudanese volunteers risking it all to bring care to millions
Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms network didn’t mind missing out on the Nobel peace prize because ‘we only want to help’
Sudan’s beacon of light and hope 💜
Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms network didn’t mind missing out on the Nobel peace prize because ‘we only want to help’
Sudan’s beacon of light and hope 💜
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#OtD 25 Dec 1951 Harry T. Moore and Harriette Moore, teachers and civil rights activists, were killed on Christmas Day when their house was bombed by racist terrorists in Florida stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9726...
December 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#OtD 25 Dec 1951 Harry T. Moore and Harriette Moore, teachers and civil rights activists, were killed on Christmas Day when their house was bombed by racist terrorists in Florida stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9726...
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the slow death of legitimate, verifiable, reliable knowledge systems
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
the slow death of legitimate, verifiable, reliable knowledge systems
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Great speech, Trump, but I think the American people have already spoken.
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Great speech, Trump, but I think the American people have already spoken.
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Another day, another symbol of national pride warped into a vanity project.
California's world-class state parks — the largest state system in America — will always remain accessible and unafraid to tell the truth about our history.
California's world-class state parks — the largest state system in America — will always remain accessible and unafraid to tell the truth about our history.
The Donald Trump administration has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They will be replaced with Donald Trump’s birthday.
They will be replaced with Donald Trump’s birthday.
December 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Another day, another symbol of national pride warped into a vanity project.
California's world-class state parks — the largest state system in America — will always remain accessible and unafraid to tell the truth about our history.
California's world-class state parks — the largest state system in America — will always remain accessible and unafraid to tell the truth about our history.
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And I'm going to post this cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social so the world never forget what Trump did.
That should have been the end of it, at the very latest !
Never forget #January6th
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And I'm going to post this cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social so the world never forget what Trump did.
That should have been the end of it, at the very latest !
Never forget #January6th
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December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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And I'm going to post this cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social so the world never forget what Trump did.
That should have been the end of it, at the very latest !
Never forget #January6th
💠 👊 💠
And I'm going to post this cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social so the world never forget what Trump did.
That should have been the end of it, at the very latest !
Never forget #January6th
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Brava to Beth Thompson of Big Hill Books in Minneapolis for this excellent rejoinder to our reprehensibly and rabidly racist president.
www.instagram.com/reel/DR0RJ-p...
www.instagram.com/reel/DR0RJ-p...
Big Hill Books on Instagram: "An important message from Big Hill Books.
@bmna #minneapolis @midwest_booksellers"
Minneapolis book seller Beth Thompson shares her appreciation for the Somali community and highlights the importance of supporting local businesses that bring people together. The importance of commun...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Brava to Beth Thompson of Big Hill Books in Minneapolis for this excellent rejoinder to our reprehensibly and rabidly racist president.
www.instagram.com/reel/DR0RJ-p...
www.instagram.com/reel/DR0RJ-p...
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"Temperatures are rising at twice the global average, with intense heatwaves that are pushing society to the limits.
Human health, ecosystems & economies can’t cope with extended spells of more than 50 °C – it is simply too hot to handle" - @wmo-global.bsky.social
#MENA
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Human health, ecosystems & economies can’t cope with extended spells of more than 50 °C – it is simply too hot to handle" - @wmo-global.bsky.social
#MENA
wmo.int/news/media-c...
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
"Temperatures are rising at twice the global average, with intense heatwaves that are pushing society to the limits.
Human health, ecosystems & economies can’t cope with extended spells of more than 50 °C – it is simply too hot to handle" - @wmo-global.bsky.social
#MENA
wmo.int/news/media-c...
Human health, ecosystems & economies can’t cope with extended spells of more than 50 °C – it is simply too hot to handle" - @wmo-global.bsky.social
#MENA
wmo.int/news/media-c...
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"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough"
The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced
This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n
The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced
This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n
"The cost of silence in Sudan’s civil war is too high"
As Sudan’s brutal civil war rages on, more than 12 million people have been displaced — deepening an already devastating protection and humanitarian crisis. In this episode of The Humans in Human Righ...
www.ohchr.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough"
The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced
This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n
The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced
This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
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This open access series of interviews that students in Germany did with climate scientists including @retoknutti.bsky.social, @rahmstorf.bsky.social, @akleidon.bsky.social, @frediotto.bsky.social, and others not on Bluesky is worth your time.
Conversations on Climate: The People Behind the Science
This is an open access book which presents interviews with high-profile climate scientists about state-of-the-art research questions
link.springer.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This open access series of interviews that students in Germany did with climate scientists including @retoknutti.bsky.social, @rahmstorf.bsky.social, @akleidon.bsky.social, @frediotto.bsky.social, and others not on Bluesky is worth your time.
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This is particularly stunning because the sheer number of times we demonstrated Bjorn Lomborg was just flat-out lying grew so large that it almost became literally pointless to keep doing it, because he just ignores it and keeps on going
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is particularly stunning because the sheer number of times we demonstrated Bjorn Lomborg was just flat-out lying grew so large that it almost became literally pointless to keep doing it, because he just ignores it and keeps on going
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That's really cool, @philplait.bsky.social. So much left to uncover -- cosmically and culturally.
Have you ever heard of Betty Webster? I hadn't until recently, and she co-discovered the first black hole ever found! Here's her story, to honor her memory and fantastic accomplishment.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-woman-...
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The woman who discovered the first black hole
Betty Webster is a name to remember. Also: more rogue binary jovians
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
That's really cool, @philplait.bsky.social. So much left to uncover -- cosmically and culturally.
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The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Sounds like a great turnout motivator.
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sounds like a great turnout motivator.
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The Trump Administration's lack of duty, responsibility, or leadership to address the climate crisis is an abomination and a disgrace.
California remains a stable and reliable partner in low-carbon, green growth.
California remains a stable and reliable partner in low-carbon, green growth.
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Trump Administration's lack of duty, responsibility, or leadership to address the climate crisis is an abomination and a disgrace.
California remains a stable and reliable partner in low-carbon, green growth.
California remains a stable and reliable partner in low-carbon, green growth.
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Texas A&M panel: Firing violated professor’s academic freedom - @texastribune.org share.google/Q5UVRMb2CCd5...
Texas A&M panel: Firing violated professor’s academic freedom
University officials dispute the faculty council’s conclusion. Melissa McCoul lost her job after a video of a classroom debate went viral.
share.google
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Texas A&M panel: Firing violated professor’s academic freedom - @texastribune.org share.google/Q5UVRMb2CCd5...
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how could senate democrats possibly be expected to go toe-to-toe with this political juggernaut
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
how could senate democrats possibly be expected to go toe-to-toe with this political juggernaut
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Donald Trump's authoritarianism is happening in plain sight.
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Donald Trump's authoritarianism is happening in plain sight.