Sarah B (she/her)
@lovesthesox.bsky.social
I'm an engineering librarian at the University of Michigan and a maker of pies. Forever a Bay Stater and now a Michigander (〽️) too!
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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You too can wear Library-branded hoodies and crewneck sweaters and support the Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library and AADL!
IT'S THE FRIENDS OF THE ANN ARBOR DISTRICT LIBRARY APPAREL SHOP!
undergroundshirts.com/groups/frien...
IT'S THE FRIENDS OF THE ANN ARBOR DISTRICT LIBRARY APPAREL SHOP!
undergroundshirts.com/groups/frien...
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
You too can wear Library-branded hoodies and crewneck sweaters and support the Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library and AADL!
IT'S THE FRIENDS OF THE ANN ARBOR DISTRICT LIBRARY APPAREL SHOP!
undergroundshirts.com/groups/frien...
IT'S THE FRIENDS OF THE ANN ARBOR DISTRICT LIBRARY APPAREL SHOP!
undergroundshirts.com/groups/frien...
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Andrea is one of over 170 U.S. citizens who have detained by ICE. It should never have happened, and we will hold Kristi Noem and the Trump Administration accountable.
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Andrea is one of over 170 U.S. citizens who have detained by ICE. It should never have happened, and we will hold Kristi Noem and the Trump Administration accountable.
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*sigh*
Where is NAS? Where are the civil society leaders in science?
There is an active campaign to destroy American science and it's getting coverage like this.
Where are the counters to this?
Where is NAS? Where are the civil society leaders in science?
There is an active campaign to destroy American science and it's getting coverage like this.
Where are the counters to this?
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
*sigh*
Where is NAS? Where are the civil society leaders in science?
There is an active campaign to destroy American science and it's getting coverage like this.
Where are the counters to this?
Where is NAS? Where are the civil society leaders in science?
There is an active campaign to destroy American science and it's getting coverage like this.
Where are the counters to this?
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I feel such a weird pride in saying I read this Twitter thread in real time. Really is the best palate cleanse.
Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I feel such a weird pride in saying I read this Twitter thread in real time. Really is the best palate cleanse.
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The #ConstellationPrize celebrates engineers whose work embodies environmental protection, social justice, human rights, and peace. Nominations open through January 7 for US-based engineers and their collaborators who are reimagining what engineering is for: www.constellationprize.org/nominations
Award + Nomination | The Constellation Prize | United States
The Constellation Prize sheds a light on new modes of engineering engagement, research, development, and design. The prize promotes engineering for environmental protection, social justice, human righ...
www.constellationprize.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The #ConstellationPrize celebrates engineers whose work embodies environmental protection, social justice, human rights, and peace. Nominations open through January 7 for US-based engineers and their collaborators who are reimagining what engineering is for: www.constellationprize.org/nominations
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
This is incredibly depressing.
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This is incredibly depressing.
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Of note: Mamdani did seemingly go on the record, again, in the White House, next to Trump - affirming that he thinks the dude's a fascist. He said "yes" to the reporter, after Trump said "I don't mind". We are living in the strangest of timelines.
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Of note: Mamdani did seemingly go on the record, again, in the White House, next to Trump - affirming that he thinks the dude's a fascist. He said "yes" to the reporter, after Trump said "I don't mind". We are living in the strangest of timelines.
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
Following the recent election, leadership will be changing in many districts where conservative values previously dominated school board meetings and community actions.
epgn.com/2025/11/18/v...
epgn.com/2025/11/18/v...
Voters shift school boards toward LGBTQ+ inclusion across PA and N.J. - Philadelphia Gay News
School boards in PA and NJ are shifting fast—LGBTQ+ leaders are winning, conservatives are losing, and policy battles are heating up.
epgn.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
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Once again something that falls into the category of "not surprising, still infuriating"
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Once again something that falls into the category of "not surprising, still infuriating"
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RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
I was a senior in college when LS’s comments about women having lower aptitude for science and engineering (🙄) made the news. I vividly, viscerally remember sitting at my desk in my dorm room trying to study for physics but being too distracted and unable to concentrate bc I was so mad at that jerk.
in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I was a senior in college when LS’s comments about women having lower aptitude for science and engineering (🙄) made the news. I vividly, viscerally remember sitting at my desk in my dorm room trying to study for physics but being too distracted and unable to concentrate bc I was so mad at that jerk.
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first conclusion. It runs a search then evaluates the results likely with Gemini 3? At certain points you can make it go deeper, but it seems to always stop when it has found 50 relevant results OR looked at the top 300 results! (1).
Google Scholar gets into "AI powered" space Assuming this can use all the full-text they have indexed this might be a game changer. The timing of this release maybe suggests Gemini 3 is being used? scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho... . Apparently some hit a waitlist, I have access though (1)
Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search
Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar...
scholar.googleblog.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
first conclusion. It runs a search then evaluates the results likely with Gemini 3? At certain points you can make it go deeper, but it seems to always stop when it has found 50 relevant results OR looked at the top 300 results! (1).
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Google Scholar gets into "AI powered" space Assuming this can use all the full-text they have indexed this might be a game changer. The timing of this release maybe suggests Gemini 3 is being used? scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho... . Apparently some hit a waitlist, I have access though (1)
Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search
Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar...
scholar.googleblog.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Google Scholar gets into "AI powered" space Assuming this can use all the full-text they have indexed this might be a game changer. The timing of this release maybe suggests Gemini 3 is being used? scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho... . Apparently some hit a waitlist, I have access though (1)
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
Resumption of Operations at NSF
Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.
www.nsf.gov
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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Dems openly calling on soldiers and officers to refuse illegal orders is a pretty big shift in rhetoric and it's good that this is happening.
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Dems openly calling on soldiers and officers to refuse illegal orders is a pretty big shift in rhetoric and it's good that this is happening.
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Jamal Khashoggi was a WaPo columnist when he was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at the direction of the Saudi government. The entire world condemned it, except Trump. This wasn’t “things happen.” It was a state-sanctioned assassination for exercising free speech.
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Jamal Khashoggi was a WaPo columnist when he was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at the direction of the Saudi government. The entire world condemned it, except Trump. This wasn’t “things happen.” It was a state-sanctioned assassination for exercising free speech.