I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

You should laugh at anyone who says the president should have unlimited power because he was elected. His power has to be limited *because* he's the president. This is fifth grade level social studies

I recently opened an exhibition! Go see it in person if in Berlin :)

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I wrote about the Educational bookshop, and why the ugly and ridiculous attack on its owners matters. I don't know Mahmoud Muna personally but I heard him a few times and he always struck me as one of Jerusalem's most inspiring intellectuals.
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A particularly good op-ed on the arrest of Jerusalem booksellers Ahmad and Mahmoud Muna, by @yairwallach.bsky.social

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Same

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

i need to sell my vacuum as it has revealed itself to be intelligent life

🖤 Oh Jo Baer, 95 years of glorious life. As Barbara Thumm says so well, We will miss her radical humor, her endless well of stories, her rigor in artmaking, and her incredible curiosity for life. Jo Baer’s innovative spirit and fearless reinvention remain indelible in our memories. 🖤

On this week's episode of The Week in Art podcast: Artists in Gaza respond to the ceasefire, Cimabue at the Louvre, a Baroque printmaking family

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Listen now: https://buff.ly/3CcxcAF

Blue sky is awesome because a bunch of people who like to make jokes and a bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke are forced to share space

As a free thinker alpha male one of my highest values is unquestioning obedience to authority. Boss knows best, that's why he's the boss

Listening to an interview to a hedge fund art collector. He just answered a question starting with “Well, the Buddhist in me would say…” lol

Politicians after diverting cultural funds to the police:

Precios de alquiler de entre 1.300 y 2.100 euros mensuales en Idealista que descolocan a los antiguos inquilinos de Sanchinarro X. Uno de ellos, Sergio Sanz, no comprende quién puede pagar esto: “¿qué pareja gana 6.000 euros al mes en este país?”

There’s a lack of memes here. Thank me later.

Yay, a new app. This is like leaving coke to start something a bit more healthy like fentanyl.