An instructor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore who only just received a “teacher of the year” award has been arrested by federal immigration agents under the command of the Trump administration. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials detained Berhanu Kibre... TAT: [Nationalism]

University of Maryland ‘teacher of the year’ detained by ICE in Texas

DHS said pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret overstayed visa and arrested him at Dallas-Fort Worth airport

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First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

So, how's it going at your local University? I'd guess many are right on track for similar BS. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...

He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway. (Gift Article)

The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.

nytimes.com

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

Oregon’s 1992 ballot measure 9 would have amended the state constitution to proclaim homosexuality a "abnormal, wrong, unnatural, and perverse" behavior The concept was to kill gay rights, starting in battleground states. It failed, but only by 44 to 56%. Same is happening now with trans rights.

KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞@mary1kathy.bsky.social · 2d ago

If ANYONE at a school district attempted to examine my grandchild’s genitals it would be the LAST FUCKING THING THEY WOULD EVER ATTEMPT before they died!!! WTAF is going on in Washington state????? www.rawstory.com/anti-trans-s...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

muellershewrote.com

New study by Elizabeth Jeglic of almost 1000 survivors of child sexual abuse suggests grooming is "universal," even by family. "If we want to prevent abuse, we have to teach everyone, kids included, to recognize it in all its forms, including inside the home." authors.elsevier.com/a/1nHeZX18Yh...

there is a full fledged national debate over whether ADHD meds should be allowed meanwhile sitting members of Congress have investments in Kratom and it is sold at gas stations

I'm excited to announce that I will be reviewing graduate student applications for Fall 2027 admissions! I review applications in both the Personality, Development, and Health and the Clinical Science (Weinberg) programs.

Do journal cover letters really matter? Learn when to write a tailored letter, and when a simple submission note is enough. Read full article: https://www.peeref.com/e-collections/journal-cover-letters-when-they-matter-and-when-you-re-wasting-your-time #AcademicPublishing #CoverLetterTips

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

politico.com

so much I wanted to quote here about why we as scientists seem to find ourselves in this current political situation: “When and why powerful and wealthy outsiders chose to pluck scholars and ideas from obscurity should be of key concern to those of us interested in the independence of science.”

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."

The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

publicnotice.co

This is crucially important.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."

Unmissable Public Notice - “The new golden age is also about embedding Trump’s xenophobia into the fabric of American science.” 😱 @snipy.bsky.social | @atrupar.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

Just want to reiterate a point made in this post, as a person in Oregon. These fires are burning in MAGA territory and the smoke is blowing, not toward us liberal voters, but into Idaho and Utah. There are not red and blue states. To deny FEMA funding is cruel, unfair, and so fucking dumb.

anon normielib@anonlis.bsky.social · last wk.

Just today www.kptv.com/2026/07/29/f...

I lived 41 years on this earth without hollandaise sauce, then a week ago I had hollandaise poutine and everything changed. Last night I enjoyed my first eggs benedict. Why did the people in my life let me live like this? Why did the world keep this secret from me? Obnoxious.

$229 billion = annual amount spent in USA on alcohol $166 billion = annual sports gambling handle in USA (excluding pred markets) $300 billion = annual total gambling handle in the USA (casinos + sports) $600 million = NIAAA annual budget $0 = annual federal research funding for gambling

Gordon Hodson@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · last wk.

#AcademicSky We talk a lot on here about AI-relevant concerns. But we should be talking more about gambling. Wow, that's a TON of money spent on risky activity. What could go wrong? fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

Somewhere a university academic is being told to "do more with less" by someone whose job title didn't exist two reorgs ago.

cc: scientists who work with protected human data, and especially those ones who are also AI evangelists

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Austin police killed a 17-year-old Black child who called 911 while in distress. Three cops fired more than 20 rounds, killing him, because they thought he had a gun. It was a water bottle. The child was unarmed. Austin PD is calling it "suicide by cop." No, it's murder in cold blood by cop. 1/2

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say

The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.

cbsnews.com

It is going to be interesting to see the stats on the number of foodborne illnesses over the last little while. Lettuce, cilantro, eggs now… It’s like having an oversight and regulatory body with enforcement powers is important as business has shown time and again that it cannot regulate itself.

HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.

Who can say still say science isn't political with a straight face?

Neil Lewis, Jr.@neillewisjr.bsky.social · 2w ago

"In little-noticed court documents, federal officials acknowledged this month that they had terminated the funding 'based solely' on political criteria, targeting projects in states that were represented by Democrats and had voted for Kamala Harris..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

💥 New paper: Children Need Structural Explanations for Social Inequalities, and Educators Who Can Provide Them I enjoyed the opportunity to yap about two of my favorite things: Structural explanation and liberal arts education! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Children Need Structural Explanations for Social Inequalities, and Educators Who Can Provide Them - Rebecca Peretz-Lange, 2026

Children are highly aware of social inequalities by the preschool years, and they spontaneously generate explanations to make sense of them. In particular, chil...

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1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

nytimes.com