According to too many, there is white and then there is political there is male and then there is political there is capitalism and then there is political there is straight and then there is political there is cis and then there is political there is non-disabled and then there is political

📣 post-doc opportunity w/ Georgia Native Seed Network @ State Botanical Garden (Athens, GA) 🫘 lead conservation genetics research supporting restoration across the southeastern U.S. 🧬 50% molecular lab work, 30% research, 10% field, 10% training & development www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/503...

starting another writing project

DJ Khaled: Congratulations, You Played Yourself

Alt: DJ Khaled: Congratulations, You Played Yourself

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I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

Look, I know I’m radical, but I simply don’t think one should be able to be hired for a job they’re unqualified for under questionable pretenses & then use that sinecure to start lynch mobs against a Black academic as part of a personal vendetta to prove the biologically inferiority of Black people

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last mo.

Which opinions?

Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.

Everyone who says this about race science and eugenics specifically is outing themselves as stunningly ignorant. It's so hard to have even passing familiarity with biological and social science literature and not know the myriad was these ideas have been refuted that it almost has to be intentional.

Patrick Sturgis@patricksturg.bsky.social · last mo.

How about refuting them on theoretical and empirical grounds? That is kind of how science works. It doesn’t work by calling people names, refusing to engage with their claims and attempting to get them fired.

Hemiparasitic #Castilleja presence is correlated with increased plant #biodiversity across montane plant communities New #AJB research by Jordan Argrett, Makena Lang, Anders Hastings, Y. Anny Chung, Nina Wurzburger & Charles Williams doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

Hi #sciencebluesky friends! I'm starting a bioinformatics journal club and CANNOT pick a good first paper that is beginner friendly and also kind of fun?! Does anyone have a good recommendation that the can offer!? TIA!

New paper by grad student Jordan Argrett on the role of hemiparasitic Castilleja in plant community diversity! He surveyed over 400 plots across multiple sites, spp, and growing seasons. With gorgeous hand-drawn illustrations by an REU coauthor! 🌍🌱🌿 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Congrats to Talia for her Dbl Dawgs: BS Biology & MPH Epidemiology! Her commitment to science & social justice shifted her path from med school to quant research in environmental epi & health equity—all while doing critical qual work in our lab👏🏼Can’t wait to see her impact as a mixed-methods expert!

Life update! #PhDone

Dr. Tati@drtati.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congratulations to newly minted Dra. Summer Blanco for successful @mellamosummer.bsky.social! And thanks you for all your impactful contributions to the ACCESS lab 💙You are the future of the field, and I can’t wait to see how you will help bridge critical biology education research and genomics 🧬👩🏻‍🏫✊🏼

It’s out! Many thanks to our fearless leader, Quentin Sedlaceck, for shepherding this labor of love and resistance to its completion; and of course the many amazing co-authors ✊🏼🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️‍⚧️💚💛🖤💜💙♥️🧡💚🧡🤎🤍

The ACCESS lab undergrad researchers Dona and Candace and their mentor, soon to be Dra. Blanco @mellamosummer.bsky.social at the UGA CURO symposium! So proud of this team!

The ACCESS lab representing at #AERA2026 🥰

I still can’t get over how we lost this brilliant researcher doing such impactful anti-racist and anti-sexist work in biology because of anti-DEI BS. Please share this article widely! www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

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Huge congrats to @mellamosummer.bsky.social on their 1st first-author pub! 📝 This work reflects our own experiences into the contradictions of being light-skinned Latinas in STEM & how education research can erase Black & Indigenous Latiné student experiences. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

just hit 100 pages on my dissertation draft 💪🏻 #almostthere

I'm sorry, 50 what now? "We present a GPU implementation of kallisto for RNA-seq transcript quantification (...). For a large dataset of 295 million reads, runtime drops from 40 minutes to 50 seconds" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It would be cool if scientists and science communicators — who don't really have expertise on how expertise works — engaged more with philosophers of science, sociologists of science, and other folks who do have expertise on expertise, rather than broadcasting their oversimplified takes

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

who else cried when bad bunny mentioned your family's home countries :,,)

PBS kids is sending me

Bad Bunny is telling the world that the people in Puerto Rico are American citizens and deserve reliable and resilient electricity and infrastructure investment from the U.S. government.

Fuck AI, fuck ICE, and long live a free Puerto Rico.

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

#SuperBowlLX

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Someone is going to write a dissertation about this half time show and I will read it.