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agawande.bsky.social
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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paulisci.bsky.social
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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writerbeverly.bsky.social
This infuriates me. While breast cancer is much more rare among men, they DO get it. I have a friend who's a male breast cancer survivor. Making people starve/die bc political ideology is what fascists do. #BreastCancerAwareness
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14d
Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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himself.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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davidc1935.bsky.social
"...Few figures have informed the sensibility of NPR more than Stamberg. Colleagues considered her a mentor, a matchmaker, a founding mother — always tough, and always true to herself."

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www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...
NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
www.npr.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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dianateuthis.bsky.social
OH MY GOD YES YES YES
rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Sep 24
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
“I am reminded—for a second time in my life—that the stakes we have in a democratic system of education are always under threat and that, for those of us who value it, the fight for its preservation is an urgent, if never-ending, challenge.”

This was great.
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
www.bostonreview.net
September 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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nstenhouse.bsky.social
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
dburbach.bsky.social David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · Jun 29
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
No, brain MRIs won't cure gendered mental health gaps. See my new article: “Precision Medicine” and the Failed Search for Binary Brain Sex Differences to Address Gender Behavioral Health Disparities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
“Precision Medicine” and the Failed Search for Binary Brain Sex Differences to Address Gender Behavioral Health Disparities
Human brain imaging took off in the 1980s and has since flooded the zone in the analysis of gender differences in behavior and mental health. Couched in the aims of “precision medicine,” the vast maj...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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davidimiller.bsky.social
🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.

Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET

Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.
May 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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birdlady.bsky.social
1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Rethinking Gender/Sex Identity
Until quite recently, investigations of gender/sex development operated from a baseline assumption that gender/sex is dichotomous or binary. Most such studies constructed gender/sex outside of or adj....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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davmicrot.bsky.social
Harvard is literally one of the most valuable brands in the world, attracting best & brightest from around the world to spend tons of money in the US, to produce science that benefits all of US, but also spawn technology that fuels US exports: What Trump is doing is attacking a core US industry.
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · May 6
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then… running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede… Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education
May 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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jeffhamilton.bsky.social
I never see this really emphasized in news about Senate votes so - reminder that the 45 Democratic senate seats represent something like 54% of the population.
A spreadsheet presenting the following information: United States Senate: Voters Represented: Proportion of Pop Represented: Number of R: 53 151196069.5 45.71% Number of D: 45 178560948.5 53.99% Number of I: 2 1002718 0.30%
April 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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katherineschof8.bsky.social
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance.

In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."

But this is unequivocal fact.
The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long
For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread
www.whitehouse.gov
April 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Pleased to share the video of Lin Bian's excellent WiSH seminar @ Rosalind Franklin University www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzcu...
Lin Bian, PhD - Gender Stereotypes about who can be 'Brilliant'
YouTube video by Women in Science and Healthcare
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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atrupar.com
New in PN: There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump

"The nature of a protection racket is that it doesn’t actually keep one safe. The cost to comply can always go up. The nature of what constitutes compliance can always be changed. And once you agree to pay, you can’t really stop"
There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump
Corporations are learning this the hard way.
www.publicnotice.co
April 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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herberthistory.bsky.social
Why the science of #autism is failing women and girls with @ginarippon.bsky.social

jasonherbert.substack.com/p/off-the-sp...
Off the Spectrum
Why the science of autism has failed women and girls
jasonherbert.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Pretty obvious this was coming, when 60% of college grads are women. But I'd argue income is the driver: men don't need college degrees to earn as much or more than women (assuming traditional gendered careers). www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
The New Marriage of Unequals
Women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman.
www.theatlantic.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Mar 21
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
March 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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samwang.bsky.social
The number of protests is more than double that at the same point in 2017. From Erica Chenoweth and collaborators at the Crowd Counting Consortium.
March 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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gregpak.net
Trump is pro-lamprey.
brunojnavarro.bsky.social Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · Mar 2
Sweeping layoffs of federal employees have struck the program responsible for controlling the invasive sea lamprey that threatens fish across the Great Lakes, the earth’s largest freshwater ecosystem.
Federal Firings Threaten Great Lakes’ $5 Billion Fishery - Inside Climate News
Cuts to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could unintentionally thwart efforts to control populations of the destructive sea lamprey.
insideclimatenews.org
March 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"Sexual diversity within a species is an evolutionary adaptation, not a bug" -- brilliant piece by Donna Maney www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ba...
This Backyard Bird Has a Lot to Teach Us about Sex Variability
White-throated Sparrows demonstrate that traits we usually associate with sex can be influenced by genes that are not on sex chromosomes
www.scientificamerican.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Despite a longstanding scientific rumor, girls are not more socially-attuned at birth. Our systematic review and meta‐analyses found no #gender difference in neonates' social perception or discrimination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM