NEW: It’s… another abortion pill lawsuit against the FDA, this time filed by Louisiana and an individual plaintiff, who argue the FDA should reinstate an in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone.

And if you guess Alliance Defending Freedom might be involved here, you guessed correctly.

That Texas sheriff facing charges for sexual harassment and retaliation (plus new charges for lying to a grand jury)… his office is now accused doing abortion monitoring.

It is all about power and control for sheriffs.

Oil companies in Texas requested permission to burn off or release more than 195 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year — enough to power more than 3 million homes and generate millions in tax revenue had the gas been captured.

W/ @insideclimatenews.org & @texastribune.org

Sheriffs being terrible. Again. @mirya.bsky.social

Read this immediately

Happy Anti-Prime Day! Free shipping today and tomorrow at Bookshop.org -- support bookstores, not billionaires!

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

Tulane terminated an academic director after the syllabus she’ helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected by an instructor because it included an academic article about a polio outbreak in Gaza.
Delaney Nolan reports for @thelensnola.bsky.social lailluminator.com/2025/10/06/t...

As an alum of @tulanesphtm.bsky.social I’m even more disgusted by this firing. This is not the approach to public health they claimed to have when I attended. They touted how many students went on to be in the peace corps, which requires understanding the effects of conflict on public health.

Coverage like this is how you Individualize the world into doing nothing about climate change.

The issue here is systemic, manufacturers need to change the inhalers. That will require laws.

The solution is SYSTEMIC.

It is NOT "shame people who use inhalers for their ACTUAL SURVIVAL"

Wiley had over $1.8 billion in revenue last year, but their new CEO decided to replace editorial assistants with AI. Our editor and reviewer profiles didn't even get transferred over from the old system; we've been assigned AI-generated keywords that editors need to "fix" to "improve" the algorithm.

Also, I'm not the first to cover this research study. But apparently I'm one of the only journalists who knows how C14 dates work.

The shoe is dated to "674 +/- 22 years BP." BP is "before present." But C14 "present" is NOT TODAY. It's 1950. The shoe is 674 years plus 75 = 749 years old. 🏺🧪

Even though the demography is clear, the idea that polygamy is unsustainable and is the root of male-vs-male violence is super influential in political science, incel groups (⚠️), and theories about the evolution of monogamy. In the article, we talk through all three sets of discourse (13/14)

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join me and @lizhare.bsky.social at the Big Team Science Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom Today from 16:30 UTC.

Register now (for free or pay-what-you-want) at bigteamscience.github.io to catch our Talk: Big Team Collaboration on Data Management and Analysis with @ropensci.org

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

It’s spreading

#nolasky what’s on fire?

#BMES2025 is next week. I'm looking forward to great science 🧪 & colleagues.

Please check out this off-site reception Wed 10/8! There are many events, but please join us (the whole time or even for 20min). Free food & drinks. Short walk from Conv Center. 🏳️‍⚧️🌈

Please share & DM me for the location!

South Carolina is attempting to do what Louisiana couldn’t 3 years ago: make abortion a crime punishable by death.

They are also introducing a bill that would ban birth control, force students to watch propaganda videos on it, restrict IVF, & make all info about abortion online & via phone illegal

Lauren Jewett, who is challenging Steve “David Duke without the baggage” Scalise next year speaking at the Zulu SAPC picnic last Sunday.

Check out her web site -

www.laurenjewett.com

thelensnola.org/2025/10/03/t...

Thanks @delaneynolan.bsky.social & @thelensnola.bsky.social for covering this.

To be clear: genocides are bad for population health and influence susceptibility & transmission of infectious disease. Science is clear. International consensus: this is a genocide.

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

"Queer scholars discuss their need to build chosen family and community in acknowledgments, as well as to throw shade on the obstacles they encounter"

Love the use of throwing shade in a doi'ed piece