BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

The point is to move public funds to private, for profit companies.

Well, would ya look at that! NSF is going to send >10% of its current budget to industry (read: tech start ups) instead of universities…it’s as if the admin is trying to dismantle our basic science mechanism and use it as a start up fund for private companies 💁🏻‍♀️ www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/...

NSF announces $1.5B NSF X-Labs initiative to pursue generational breakthrough science efforts

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The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

🌿 New study analyzes 111 papers focused on the relationship between Indigenous Peoples' lands and conservation outcomes. 75% show that Indigenous lands deliver conservation outcomes that are at least equal to state protected-areas. 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/D41kpCz

I'm very happy to share with you the results of a collaborative experiment between the Catawba Indian Nation and faculty, staff, and students at Davidson College. Yield, growth, and labor demands of growing maize, beans, and squash in monoculture versus the Three Sisters🌽🫘🎃 A few take home points:

Interesting. Modulation of microphysical environments by the plant biodiversity. At least at smaller scales, environment&biodiversity relations are bidirectional. 🧪 ⚒️ #Ecology #Geology #Botany

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#TansleyInsight: Diversity affects microclimate temperature and humidity: an overview of the evidence and major unanswered questions Alexandra J. Wright, J. English & C. Guimaraes-Steinicke 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Prof. Alexandra Weigelt, Prof. Alexandra Wright and I are delighted to invite colleagues to submit an abstract to our session 1 at the CBC Conference, in Leipzig, Germany. Abstract submission by April 21st lnkd.in/dz-bHADa lnkd.in/dq3ZUztV

🧪🌎 This needs to be a bigger news story than just seeing it as a social media post! More science under attack.

NIH Vigils@nihvigils.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Diversity affects microclimate temperature and humidity: an overview of the evidence and major unanswered questions - Wright - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Diversity affects microclimate temperature and humidity: an overview of the evidence and major unanswered questions

Climate change is increasing global temperatures, increasing atmospheric drying, and driving more severe and frequent drought. Plants can cool and humidify microclimates through sensible and latent h...

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gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 5mo ago

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

Alder catkins, dog’s mercury, wood spurge, red dead nettle #WildFlowerHour #SignsOfSpring @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Diversity affects microclimate temperature and humidity: an overview of the evidence and major unanswered questions nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌎 The 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 that the 𝗖𝗕𝗖 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 will have the honor of presenting is 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗟𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗷𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 (𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆, 𝗪𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 @w-u-r.bsky.social)

I am helping coordinate one of these sessions on biodiversity and microclimate, please submit abstracts and join us! Our new review paper on this subject is out today: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

CBC Conference@cbc-conference.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🌎 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲!!! #CBC2026Leipzig #Biodiversity #ClimateScience #BehaviouralScience @unileipzig.bsky.social @ufz.de @idiv-research.bsky.social

They should cut a deal with Weinstein to testify against every single one of them in court. It’s a house of cards.

Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...

Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos

Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...

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Remember like 3 months ago when NSF said we aren’t allowed to fund programs that serve protected groups but we are allowed to serve unprotected groups.

There have been 3 total firearms homicides in Minneapolis this year, 2 of them when citizens were killed by feds, per Star-Tribune

I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Heather Randell@heatherrandell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

If initial reports are true, they shot someone who they'd wrestled to the ground. Potentially an observer. These agents must be arrested and brought to justice.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Some families aren't leaving their homes as aggressive ICE operations continue in Minnesota, leaving their children confined and stressed. Across the Twin Cities, kids are anxious and afraid. n.pr/45ThqWO

The ICE surge is fueling fear and anxiety among Twin Cities children

Some families aren't leaving their homes as aggressive ICE operations continue in Minnesota, leaving their children confined and stressed. Across the Twin Cities, kids are anxious and afraid.

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Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

The most popular sled at today’s Art Sledding event in Minneapolis.