actual gestapo shit. "Video posted on social media showed two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appearing to handcuff a man at a Las Vegas airport while he screamed in terror."

ICE agents in plainclothes handcuff man at Las Vegas airport, shocking onlookers

After their actions attracted attention, the agents walked away, leaving Phu Nguyen with a handcuff attached to one arm. He was later arrested before his flight left Los Angeles International Airport

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Congrats to CBITs Core Faculty Member @karmacap.bsky.social on her presentation at the annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research! The talk titled "Acceptability of SHER, a digital sexual health promotion intervention for diverse adolescents" shared teens' feedback on SHER. 🎉

This rule is currently in the notice and comment period. And while the Trump administration can’t be trusted to respond to those comments in good faith, they are required to respond to each and every one, which can slow adoption of the rule until after a federal election.

American Meteorological Society@ametsoc.org · last mo.

New AMS statement responds to a proposed OMB rule that would restructure federal grantmaking. The rule "would damage the nation’s ability to understand, predict, and respond to ... natural hazards with negative impacts on public safety and the economy." Read more: https://bit.ly/4awoYRO

The existence of a trillionaire is a policy failure.

First they came for the trans people But I did not speak out Because I did not work with vulnerable populations . . . Then the came for the university administrators and the journal editors Fortunately, there were those who had seen this coming and had been fighting the entire time. 1/2

Congratulations to CBITs core faculty @karmacap.bsky.social on her new position as president-elect of the International Academy of Sex Research. Well-deserved and excited for your impact in this space, President-Elect Kathryn! 🫡🏳️‍🌈️👩‍🏫🏳️‍⚧️ To learn more about IASR: www.iasrsite.org

IASR

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It’s true. he gasped loudly in a restaurant when I explained it and people turned around to look

A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.

Exciting and good news from the Glaze/Nightshade UChicago team! They are releasing a new non-profit, ETCH, whose mission is specifically to assist and prioritize humans in this GenAi era! One of the first public releases of ETCH is Quicksilver, an solid GenAi detector for music!

The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab)@theglazeproject.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy Monday. Today we're making a few updates/announcements. First up: our nonprofit ETCH is alive on the web. etch-humanity.org ETCH: Ethical Technology and Computing for Humanity. ETCH is not another AI nonprofit. It is a nonprofit that explicitly prioritizes people over AI.

Another trend I'm seeing emerge in some of these spaces: "We are very concerned that AI agents pose grave cybersecurity risks but we are using them for as many tasks as possible and we encourage others to do the same if you don't want to fall behind"

blair@blairaf.com · 6mo ago

Been to multiple practitioner workshops now where the convo is "AI governance is important there are so many risks we need to responsibly manage anyways we integrated a bunch of agentic tools into our workflows and we're not sure how to use them please help"

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats • The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats

The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

erininthemorning.com

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification

The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

thenation.com

A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation.

Start calling literature reviews “the lore”

I’m speaking at the Chicago @standupforscience.bsky.social rally tomorrow, rain or shine! Join me and your fellow Chicagoland nerds, be loud, and bring your best pro-science signs! 🪧 📢

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 5mo ago

It's up to us to save science, protect health and defend this democracy! Stand up! Speak out! Hit the streets on March 7th! Join us on the streets at rallies nationwide on March 7th.zurl.co/Rcwcl #ItsUpToUs #standupforscience #rally #March7

Massie goes full beast mode today. Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.

A year later we still feel the effects of funding cuts to #science. They trickle down to our communities and patients. The losses are immeasurable, but also often invisible to most people. Thank you to @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social for amplifying our stories and making the impacts clear as day.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com With the second Trump administration, “Americans have entered a grim new era, one where science itself is a political weapon, rather than a tool for the collective good,” writes Jeneen Interlandi.

thinking of all the clinical and counseling psych students on match day 🫶🏼 14 yrs ago i matched to the best place for me, even though i wanted to stay close to home. my spouse didn’t match on his first try and the year after made him way stronger. regardless of what your outcome was, you got this 💜

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities

Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

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a great article you should read instead of the Washington post one: theracket.news/p/the-most-a...

The Most American Halftime

Decoding Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl for the haters

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Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

i think maybe they laid off the wrong people

explain to me, very slowly, like the dimwitted child you must think I am, how body cameras or ICE cooperating with cops would have prevented any of the many, many, many law enforcement murders committed by both ICE and cops over the years which were already thoroughly documented on video

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 6mo ago

Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE: End the roving patrols and racial profiling. Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police. Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.

Columbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

To those American academics out there who have chosen to remain silent/mostly silent about the horror going on in the USA these days at every corner of the federal government, please start speaking out and fighting back.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Thank you @davidmalakoff.bsky.social for this write up about the past year in science and how orgs, including @standupforscience.bsky.social are meeting the moment. We all need to recognize that science is not the golden cow and we are on the chopping block, too. www.science.org/content/arti...

In the age of Trump, are U.S. scientists ‘bringing white papers to a gunfight’?

An unprecedented assault has forced researchers to rethink their advocacy tactics

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I needed some joy and Indiana brought it ❤️ 🤍 proud to be a #hoosier

NPR@npr.org · 7mo ago

Indiana bullied its way into the history books Monday night, toppling Miami 27-21 to put the finishing touch on a rags-to-riches story, an undefeated season and the national title. n.pr/3NlyfDB