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Mike Hill
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Mathematician at UMN.
President of Spectra, the association for LGBT+ mathematicians.
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An important write up from the NYT on the funding changes at the NIH.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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This poor graduate student (who was the course instructor), being harassed for doing their job.
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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kissphoria.bsky.social
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
The University of Oklahoma takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms. Upon receiving notice from the student on the grading of an assignment, the University immediately began a full review of the situation and has acted swiftly to address the matter. First, the college acted immediately to address the academic issue raised by the student. College leaders contacted her on the day her letter was received and have maintained regular communication throughout the process. As previously stated, a formal grade appeals process was conducted. The process resulted in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student from the graded assignments. Second, the student reported filing a claim of illegal discrimination based on religious beliefs to the appropriate university office. OU has a clear process for reviewing such claims and it has been activated. The graduate student instructor has been placed on administrative leave pending the finalization of this process. To ensure fairness in the process, a full-time professor is serving as the course instructor for the remainder of the semester. OU remains firmly committed to fairness, respect and protecting every student's right to express sincerely held religious beliefs. The UNIVERSITY of OKLAHOMA
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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It tried to kill me but I have finished the book. Second pass pages read through, final copy and line edits done.

Please read my book. I worked very hard on it. 😭 (Also read Legendborn, as you can see from the background, I’m a fan)

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
Me with my head on the second pass pages of the book, tongue stuck out
November 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
I see Azeen Ghorayshi isn’t in a rush to cover this story
harmscommitted.com Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 4d
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."

"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."

"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Between tearing babies from their parents' arms and traumatizing countless children, abandoning climate action and environmental protection, and loosing RFK on public health, the Trump Administration is engaging in quite a bit of child sacrifice. To their right-mania goals.
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4d
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
Screenshot of a tweet from Brian Allen on X.com. It discusses JD Vance claiming settlers in the New World found “widespread child sacrifice” and that “Christian civilization ended the practice.” The tweet explains historians say this is fabricated and calls it racist revisionism. Below is an image of JD Vance speaking at a Turning Point USA event, standing at a podium with a slide behind him showing "Oxford, MS" and “University of Mississippi.”
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Literally every law or invention that exists to prevent people from being accidentally or intentionally killed by the natural or built environment is going to be on the chopping block for these people, because they are a death cult who worship the idea of death and want to kill you
jeisinger.bsky.social Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 6d
The Republicans are standing up to the power of Big Emergency Brake

www.wsj.com/business/aut...
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.

President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
This story was produced by Bolts and published in partnership with The Nation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day... Read More
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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esqueer.net
"The suspects...were seen in a video aggressively chalking the crosswalk."

This is what DeSantis is spending Florida taxpayer money on.

www.wftv.com/news/local/r...
‘Resist’: Two arrested after chalking former Pulse Memorial Crosswalk
The video showed the men grinding chalk onto the crosswalk, with the word ‘Resist’ chalked nearby
www.wftv.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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retractionwatch.com
Springer Nature flags paper with fabricated reference to article (not) written by our cofounder
Springer Nature flags paper with fabricated reference to article (not) written by our cofounder
Tips we get about papers and books citing fake references have skyrocketed this year, tracking closely with the rise of ChatGPT and other generative large language models. One in particular hit clo…
retractionwatch.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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ence.bsky.social
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Preserving these data sets is critical. I applaud her work. And it's unfortunate that the current regime has made her work necessary @cdelawalla.bsky.social
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September 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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“An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train.”
September 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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New PreTeXt feature: Handouts!

If you use guided notes in your teaching, or just want to make accessible versions of the printouts you bring to class, you can now author these in #PreTeXt and print directly from the browser (or save as PDF to annotate on a tablet).
mathtech.org/2025/08/17/h...
Handouts and Worksheets in PreTeXt
We all know that PreTeXt is great for writing textbooks. But did you know that it can also be used to create small, standalone course materials? Perhaps you want to create an in-class activity to en...
mathtech.org
August 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Surround yourself with the kind of people who are proud to have a library card.
August 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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esqueer.net
This is legitimately insane. It's not an exaggeration to say this is actually a full on bathroom ban for trans people because they're banned from using spaces of their sex assigned at birth too!
Screenshot of text discussing draft guidance on excluding trans people from certain services. It states that, in some cases, a trans person could be excluded even if their biological sex matches the service. The text explains that exclusion might be justified to prevent alarm or distress to others, giving the example that a trans man could be excluded from a women-only service if he presents as a man and others might reasonably object, making exclusion a proportionate means to a legitimate aim.
August 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Please share widely with friends, family, and foes. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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fuck homophobia
aubreyjones.bsky.social Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · Jun 2
Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.

I'm so angry.
Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. Tristan Kern de Gonzales
June 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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#FACTS
May 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“Come and Cavort!" The first Gay-In at Griffith Park was held #OTD in 1968. #LGBTQhistory

Photos of the 1970 #GriffithPark Gay-in, via ONE Archives at @usclibraries.bsky.social:
May 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Time to post it again.
A meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the top panel, one man labeled "literally every company" hands a plate labeled "AI" to a man labeled "me." In the bottom panel, the man labeled "me" nonchalantly tosses the plate down the hallway, discarding it with casual disdain while the first man watches.
May 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM