Julie Wieczkowski, Ph.D.
@chasingmangabeys.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Buffalo State. Primatologist, platelet donor, Chickpea's human, Buffalo Polish. She/her.
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Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
h/t @msnbc.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
h/t @msnbc.com
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Have an idea for an #AABA2026 symposium? The submission portal is OPEN! Check out the guidelines and submit your proposal by August 15 bioanth.org/95th-annual-...
The deadline for submitting Invited Symposium proposals is August 15, 2025. - AABA
Be sure to read the instructions below. Have all materials ready to enter prior to starting the submission process as you cannot save a draft […]
bioanth.org
July 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Have an idea for an #AABA2026 symposium? The submission portal is OPEN! Check out the guidelines and submit your proposal by August 15 bioanth.org/95th-annual-...
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🇺🇸This Independence Day, practice your patriotism by supporting these brave civil servants:
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Our legacy is built on the premise that the populist many CAN overcome the tyrannical few. Keep it going.
🇺🇸This Independence Day, practice your patriotism by supporting these brave civil servants:
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Our legacy is built on the premise that the populist many CAN overcome the tyrannical few. Keep it going.
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
act.standupforscience.net
July 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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🇺🇸This Independence Day, practice your patriotism by supporting these brave civil servants:
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Our legacy is built on the premise that the populist many CAN overcome the tyrannical few. Keep it going.
🇺🇸This Independence Day, practice your patriotism by supporting these brave civil servants:
EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad...
NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Our legacy is built on the premise that the populist many CAN overcome the tyrannical few. Keep it going.
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The gratuitous nature & careless instigation of this mass death may mark out the Trump regime as *the most evil in American history* — in a country that had the most brutal form of chattel slavery in world history, genocided its indigenous neighbors, & put its own Nisei ppl in concentration camps
The death toll from the Trump Administration’s foreign aid cuts could total more than the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust, Ukrainians killed in the Holodomor, and Cambodians killed in the genocide by the Khmer Rouge, combined.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
www.nbcnews.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The gratuitous nature & careless instigation of this mass death may mark out the Trump regime as *the most evil in American history* — in a country that had the most brutal form of chattel slavery in world history, genocided its indigenous neighbors, & put its own Nisei ppl in concentration camps
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The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion.
They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
June 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion.
They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich.
Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
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Here's the official union statement on the HUD takeover.
Small correction that's not included in the screenshot: "Correction: currently 1,833 NSF employees work in the NSF headquarters building."
Small correction that's not included in the screenshot: "Correction: currently 1,833 NSF employees work in the NSF headquarters building."
June 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Here's the official union statement on the HUD takeover.
Small correction that's not included in the screenshot: "Correction: currently 1,833 NSF employees work in the NSF headquarters building."
Small correction that's not included in the screenshot: "Correction: currently 1,833 NSF employees work in the NSF headquarters building."
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What the fucking fuck
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
What the fucking fuck
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RFK Jr. fired science and hired delusion at the CDC.
He replaced experts with skeptics & swapped facts for fear.
Science is being erased. Lives will follow. Add your name to our Open Letter: zurl.co/5hCTQ
zurl.co/OVdYo
He replaced experts with skeptics & swapped facts for fear.
Science is being erased. Lives will follow. Add your name to our Open Letter: zurl.co/5hCTQ
zurl.co/OVdYo
RFK Jr. proves integrity and competence are optional now | Letters
Opinion: RFK Jr. has filled his department with singularly unqualified people: conspiracy theorists, quacks and vaccine deniers.
www.cincinnati.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
RFK Jr. fired science and hired delusion at the CDC.
He replaced experts with skeptics & swapped facts for fear.
Science is being erased. Lives will follow. Add your name to our Open Letter: zurl.co/5hCTQ
zurl.co/OVdYo
He replaced experts with skeptics & swapped facts for fear.
Science is being erased. Lives will follow. Add your name to our Open Letter: zurl.co/5hCTQ
zurl.co/OVdYo
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In the year after Dobbs, 210+ people faced criminal charges for pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth, while conditions for pregnant & postpartum people in the criminal legal system worsened. Pregnant people need HEALTHCARE not HANDCUFFS.
It's simple: law enforcement has no place in pregnancy.
It's simple: law enforcement has no place in pregnancy.
Today marks 3 years since the fall of Roe v. Wade
Now, for most women on probation and parole, the ability to receive abortion care depends solely on getting *permission* to travel out of state from an officer
Access to basic health care should not be in the hands of officers
Now, for most women on probation and parole, the ability to receive abortion care depends solely on getting *permission* to travel out of state from an officer
Access to basic health care should not be in the hands of officers
June 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In the year after Dobbs, 210+ people faced criminal charges for pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth, while conditions for pregnant & postpartum people in the criminal legal system worsened. Pregnant people need HEALTHCARE not HANDCUFFS.
It's simple: law enforcement has no place in pregnancy.
It's simple: law enforcement has no place in pregnancy.
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Reposted by Julie Wieczkowski, Ph.D.
I cannot emphasize this enough that for YEARS:
-trans women played various women’s sports.
-trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed.
-trans folk could get accurate documents.
-trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate.
AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
-trans women played various women’s sports.
-trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed.
-trans folk could get accurate documents.
-trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate.
AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
June 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I cannot emphasize this enough that for YEARS:
-trans women played various women’s sports.
-trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed.
-trans folk could get accurate documents.
-trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate.
AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
-trans women played various women’s sports.
-trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed.
-trans folk could get accurate documents.
-trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate.
AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
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Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago.
Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away”
timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...
Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away”
timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...
ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court
"Our presence made a difference," one priest said, quoting an immigration lawyer saying their client was given more time to prepare for another hearing.
timesofsandiego.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago.
Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away”
timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...
Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away”
timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...
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when we scream and shout about doing things, this is what we mean. got popped and still went back again? hell yeah brother
THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
June 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
when we scream and shout about doing things, this is what we mean. got popped and still went back again? hell yeah brother
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Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress could put a stop to this at any time.
June 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress could put a stop to this at any time.
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I’ll be there!
Good Neighbors make Good Trouble! Join the Western New York Overpass Bridge Brigade tomorrow (Friday June 20) from 4-6pm for an overpass protest on Cleveland Drive over the I-90 split. Parking is available on Crestview near Lunetta's Restaurant. redwineblue.controlshift.app/events/overp...
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I’ll be there!
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I spoke with several leading archaeologists to better understand the impact recent federal funding cuts will have on archaeology in the US. The future doesn’t look good.
#NSF #NEH #archaeology #paleoanthropology #heritage
New at @science.org 🏺🧪
#NSF #NEH #archaeology #paleoanthropology #heritage
New at @science.org 🏺🧪
Funding cuts to U.S. archaeology could imperil field’s future
A Science analysis of canceled and curtailed federal grants reveals hits to research, collections, and training
www.science.org
June 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I spoke with several leading archaeologists to better understand the impact recent federal funding cuts will have on archaeology in the US. The future doesn’t look good.
#NSF #NEH #archaeology #paleoanthropology #heritage
New at @science.org 🏺🧪
#NSF #NEH #archaeology #paleoanthropology #heritage
New at @science.org 🏺🧪
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Reflecting on the HUGE #NoKings turnout vs lackluster attendance at Trump’s parade & realizing this administration does not have the power we feared.
Because—and this is important—WE are choosing not to give it to them. The only power they have comes from us.
Don’t let them take your power.
Because—and this is important—WE are choosing not to give it to them. The only power they have comes from us.
Don’t let them take your power.
June 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Reflecting on the HUGE #NoKings turnout vs lackluster attendance at Trump’s parade & realizing this administration does not have the power we feared.
Because—and this is important—WE are choosing not to give it to them. The only power they have comes from us.
Don’t let them take your power.
Because—and this is important—WE are choosing not to give it to them. The only power they have comes from us.
Don’t let them take your power.
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Political scientist says: when millions protest, it’s not destabilizing — it’s democracy functioning.
Portraying peaceful dissent as a threat? That’s a hallmark of authoritarian-style governance.
The people know the difference.
zurl.co/31cDH
#StandUpForScience
#NoKings
Portraying peaceful dissent as a threat? That’s a hallmark of authoritarian-style governance.
The people know the difference.
zurl.co/31cDH
#StandUpForScience
#NoKings
Millions rally against authoritarianism, while the White House portrays protests as threats – a political scientist explains
Protests can serve two opposing purposes. They can represent a mass movement in favor of democracy – and simultaneously serve a nascent dictator in their efforts to undermine democracy.
zurl.co
June 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Political scientist says: when millions protest, it’s not destabilizing — it’s democracy functioning.
Portraying peaceful dissent as a threat? That’s a hallmark of authoritarian-style governance.
The people know the difference.
zurl.co/31cDH
#StandUpForScience
#NoKings
Portraying peaceful dissent as a threat? That’s a hallmark of authoritarian-style governance.
The people know the difference.
zurl.co/31cDH
#StandUpForScience
#NoKings
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Sadly, I can’t see that flying in the US because one party is overly invested in the performance of norms, and the other revels in breaking norms and laughing at the rubes that let them keep doing it.
In some countries, like the UK, there’s a (relatively recent) tradition of letting the party of any lawmaker killed in an act of political violence run unopposed in the by-election.
It lets people know violence cannot change the balance of power. It would be good for the US to do this.
It lets people know violence cannot change the balance of power. It would be good for the US to do this.
June 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Sadly, I can’t see that flying in the US because one party is overly invested in the performance of norms, and the other revels in breaking norms and laughing at the rubes that let them keep doing it.
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When people asked early in the administration how we could lose access to vaccines -pediatricians were most worried about the dissolution of the ACIP.
This is very, very bad news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
This is very, very bad news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
When people asked early in the administration how we could lose access to vaccines -pediatricians were most worried about the dissolution of the ACIP.
This is very, very bad news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
This is very, very bad news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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JUST IN: California has officially sued the Trump administration to rescind the deployment of the national guard over the objection of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The lawsuit:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The lawsuit:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
JUST IN: California has officially sued the Trump administration to rescind the deployment of the national guard over the objection of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The lawsuit:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The lawsuit:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...