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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 1d

Racism + ableism= “compassion fatigue”. You hate to see suffering but instead of alleviating it, you see it as something to cage and hide because white supremacy has made broken your sense of responsibility and empathy.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

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Alexis (she/her/hers) @alevickna.bsky.social · 2d

And if people know of physics/astro departments, med physics programs, and potentially nat. labs in the US or US Territories who are interested in continuous, data-informed improvements to remove unnecessary barriers for all populations, please let them know about @physastroseachange.bsky.social

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Henry Suárez 😷💚🇻🇪 @sciedhenry.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4d

I actually have more hate for this flavor because every Marxist/AnCap I have encountered who advances this position eventually terminates in “fuck the disabled. Sacrifices must be made for the revolution.”

At least the fash are transparent about their desire to end me.

juv3nal @juv3nal.neocities.org · 5d

there is a marxist/anticapitalist flavour of accelerationism but it isn't the kind in the discourse nowadays. it's not a good idea either but it does come to it from the "right" (which is to say the left) side.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

A whole generation of kids will be shaped by this experience of authorities harassing children and their parents at school and at home

That will be school for them

laist.com/news/student...

‘Can I just be a kid?’ Students shaken by immigration raids seek help from school counselors

Kindergartners repeat worries heard at home. Older kids text to check on parents during class. Therapists say mental health is at risk now and in the long term.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d

Disinformation thrives without data

No jobs numbers = the economy isn't struggling!

No food insecurity data = people are fed!

No education research = defunding and threatening schools doesn't hurt kids!

No public health studies = our policies aren't making people sick!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d

‘Almost 60 US scientific societies have signed a letter calling on the US government to “safeguard the integrity” of the peer-review process when distributing grants.’ ⚛️🧪🔭

physicsworld.com/a/us-scienti...

US scientific societies blast Trump administration's plan to politicize grants – Physics World

The societies call on the US Congress to safeguard the integrity of the peer-review process

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 9d

A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

I'm calling to demand that Senator Schumer not allow Donald Trump to take away access to transgender health care for anyone, let alone people with federal or state health insurance.
Trans healthcare is lifesaving medicine. It is not cosmetic or frivolous; it is miraculous and it is vital.
It is not something trans people can just go without.
[You can add a personal anecdote here-how it has helped you or someone you love, how long you've been receiving trans healthcare, etc.J Trans people are also over twice as likely to live in poverty, which means they are often receiving this care through government-funded programs. They simply cannot afford it otherwise. If this care is lost, trans American lives will be lost too. This is the truth.
If none of this stirs the Senator's compassion, please understand that trans people are, as a group, politically active, and they are rarely Republicans. The Senator should understand that if he caves and allows Trump to do this to us, it would be a betrayal of his constituents at an unforgivable level. If he caves, I will never vote for a Democrat again. I will not vote for a Democrat for president, for senator, for dogcatcher. This is a promise.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 10d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 10d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11d

Disabled people are particularly vulnerable to abuse under fascism.

ICE has been neglecting the medical needs of detainees.

One disabled immigrant, Rodney Taylor, needs our help.

He's a double amputee who's been in the country since he was two years old. He's being held in solitary:

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE

Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

www.disabledginger.com

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Henry Suárez 😷💚🇻🇪 @sciedhenry.bsky.social · 11d

That part was chef’s kiss. Also love all these intellectualsTM who are like “oh I didn’t know Friedman and Hayek supported Pinochet” 🤡 … if only they’d read how they were frothing at the mouth by what Allende was proposing/doing

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15d

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

NPR @npr.org · 15d

The science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear, despite President Trump's claims. Here's what parents need to know to make their own decisions about acetaminophen.

When it comes to Tylenol, what are parents to do?

The science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear, despite President Trump's claims. Here's what parents need to know to make their own decisions about acetaminophen.

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Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com · 15d

I escaped the Rapture and all I got was this weird discussion about Tylenol.

a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in the park .

Alt: a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in the park .

media.tenor.com

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Dr Emily MacLeod @emilymacleod.bsky.social · 17d

*What makes or breaks teaching for young people?*

I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17d

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture.

His posture.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17d

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time

“While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'”

www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Alex O'Keefe, Award-Winning Black Screenwriter, Pulled From Train After White Woman Objects To How He Was Sitting

Alex O'Keefe, an award-winning Black screenwriter, was pulled from a train by the police after a white woman objected to his posture.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 27d

Where have I been the past couple months? Working on a project that will feature #DisabledInSTEM chemists who pushing the boundaries of their fields! Can't wait for that to go live Monday!

Until then, I invite you to read about 8 disabled scientists who left a lasting mark on modern chemistry. ⬇️

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Sep 1

The landscape of life-altering medicines, the ways we “see” molecular structures, and even the periodic table wouldn’t be the same without chemists with disabilities. They’ve been working & innovating since the age of modern chemistry began in the 18th and 19th centuries
cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history

Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified

cen.acs.org

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Henry Suárez 😷💚🇻🇪 @sciedhenry.bsky.social · 19d

Yup! Which makes setting start/end dates reeeeaaalllly tricky because now there’s no guidance on when to expect the funds to show up 😵‍💫 but I feel like these are all compounding factors lolsob

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Henry Suárez 😷💚🇻🇪 @sciedhenry.bsky.social · 19d

Also, capping the number of awards per year (40), without really defining that period is… (or at least it hadn’t been last time I looked)

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Henry Suárez 😷💚🇻🇪 @sciedhenry.bsky.social · 20d

Wait I think I misread the graph. I thought it was saying m a g a ppl liked Allen… oh wait no ok yeah yeah I see what you’re saying. Even with that crowd, tool man Taylor and buzz lightyear is more likable than the handyman from newsradio.

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Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 21d

The disposability of humans across everything—eugenics, AI, government, etc.—is breathtaking in its scope. Our survival depends on breaking these systems of inhumanity

There's a part of me that will never forgive the tech industry for what they've taken from me and what they've chosen to do with it. In the early days as the dawning horror set in, I cried about this almost every day. I wondered if I should quit making art. I contemplated suicide. I did nothing to these people, but every day I have to see them gleefully cheer online about the anticipated death of my chosen profession. I had no idea we artists were so hated—I still don't know why. What did my silly little cat drawings do to earn so much contempt? That part is probably one of the hardest consequences of AI to come to terms with. It didn't just try to take my job (or succeed in making my job worse) it exposed a whole lot of people who hate me and everything I am for reasons I can't fathom. They want to exploit me and see me eradicated at the same time.

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Henry Suárez 😷💚🇻🇪 @sciedhenry.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks for sharing. My first assignment is coming back in a couple of weeks and I’m kinda bracing myself. Would be curious to learn about what they say

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Henry Suárez 😷💚🇻🇪 @sciedhenry.bsky.social · 22d

Hilarious and confounding that Tim Allen scores higher than JRo 😂

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Henry Suárez 😷💚🇻🇪 @sciedhenry.bsky.social · 23d

Who do we email?