Lauren Kuehne
@omfishient.bsky.social
DEI, forever. Also bio/acoustics, freshwaters, invasive critters, technology + society, WA State stuff. Omfishient Consulting, mother, writer.
"The revolution WILL put you in the driver's seat"--Gil Scott-Heron
"The revolution WILL put you in the driver's seat"--Gil Scott-Heron
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Lauren Kuehne
@omfishient.bsky.social
· Nov 2
Boycotting Resources_Kitsap County
docs.google.com
I made a resource as part of my Boycotting 101 & 102 workshops. Basically, it's a huge list of mostly FREE stuff, experiences, & mutual aid. Please share!
Kitsap County focus, but ++Puget Sound/Seattle too.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
@thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social @bikebremerton.bsky.social
Kitsap County focus, but ++Puget Sound/Seattle too.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
@thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social @bikebremerton.bsky.social
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For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.
www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations
Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.
www.themountaineer.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:27 AM
For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.
www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
I set the theme of my Environmental Impact Assessment capstone course to data centers - it's been eye-opening for all of us!
Excited to see their presentations next month, they are *really* digging in.
Excited to see their presentations next month, they are *really* digging in.
February 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM
I set the theme of my Environmental Impact Assessment capstone course to data centers - it's been eye-opening for all of us!
Excited to see their presentations next month, they are *really* digging in.
Excited to see their presentations next month, they are *really* digging in.
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
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And more reporting on a historic program that is increasingly unsettled, with late-breaking changes to criteria, fewer awards, applications returned without review, and more:
via @jonathanwosen.bsky.social for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/n...
via @jonathanwosen.bsky.social for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/n...
February 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
And more reporting on a historic program that is increasingly unsettled, with late-breaking changes to criteria, fewer awards, applications returned without review, and more:
via @jonathanwosen.bsky.social for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/n...
via @jonathanwosen.bsky.social for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/n...
That PRFB was a whole gestalt moment - not just AI, but even more narrow, AI in the service of Biotech.
Commercialized life, all the way down.
Commercialized life, all the way down.
February 12, 2026 at 3:33 AM
That PRFB was a whole gestalt moment - not just AI, but even more narrow, AI in the service of Biotech.
Commercialized life, all the way down.
Commercialized life, all the way down.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
The disappearing art gallery in your post office
The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.
wapo.st
February 8, 2026 at 2:08 PM
👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
Devyn the hedgehog is my son's pet, but I fell equally in ❤️ so now I can't remember how we lived without him.
February 8, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Devyn the hedgehog is my son's pet, but I fell equally in ❤️ so now I can't remember how we lived without him.
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The central arguments in this new Opinion are premised on what appears to be a reasonable opening and title
"A tale of many twos"
In this case the "twos" represent a division of who Thorp believes (or would like his reader to believe) are involved in confronting cuts to science.
"A tale of many twos"
In this case the "twos" represent a division of who Thorp believes (or would like his reader to believe) are involved in confronting cuts to science.
February 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The central arguments in this new Opinion are premised on what appears to be a reasonable opening and title
"A tale of many twos"
In this case the "twos" represent a division of who Thorp believes (or would like his reader to believe) are involved in confronting cuts to science.
"A tale of many twos"
In this case the "twos" represent a division of who Thorp believes (or would like his reader to believe) are involved in confronting cuts to science.
Leave it, to fuel our collective rage.
I felt reflexive interest (its a solicitation, after all), then dystopian despair of our AI overlords, then a strange conflation in "well, at least its only 75 awards" 🫨
For real, tho, this is such 🤬💩
I felt reflexive interest (its a solicitation, after all), then dystopian despair of our AI overlords, then a strange conflation in "well, at least its only 75 awards" 🫨
For real, tho, this is such 🤬💩
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Leave it, to fuel our collective rage.
I felt reflexive interest (its a solicitation, after all), then dystopian despair of our AI overlords, then a strange conflation in "well, at least its only 75 awards" 🫨
For real, tho, this is such 🤬💩
I felt reflexive interest (its a solicitation, after all), then dystopian despair of our AI overlords, then a strange conflation in "well, at least its only 75 awards" 🫨
For real, tho, this is such 🤬💩
Checking to see if @kenwhite.bsky.social has changed to Big Bold Email Hat yet...
February 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Checking to see if @kenwhite.bsky.social has changed to Big Bold Email Hat yet...
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
February 5, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
February 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
It's hardly perfect, but I try to only be a "parasite" on FB, where I have to use it. Unfortunately, they are still the go-to tool for Groups, including for community & political organizing and mutual aid. But I no longer use it for info-sharing, outreach, or networking.
February 1, 2026 at 7:16 PM
It's hardly perfect, but I try to only be a "parasite" on FB, where I have to use it. Unfortunately, they are still the go-to tool for Groups, including for community & political organizing and mutual aid. But I no longer use it for info-sharing, outreach, or networking.
And the way that they equate being a good scientist with advancing your own ego (vs. mentoring and boosting others, actually advancing the science) makes me sick, b/c it's such a part of research culture...one that I think was *starting* to crack, with DEI.
Still makes me sick to read it, in words.
Still makes me sick to read it, in words.
February 1, 2026 at 6:56 PM
And the way that they equate being a good scientist with advancing your own ego (vs. mentoring and boosting others, actually advancing the science) makes me sick, b/c it's such a part of research culture...one that I think was *starting* to crack, with DEI.
Still makes me sick to read it, in words.
Still makes me sick to read it, in words.
Reposted by Lauren Kuehne
American schools in 2024 spent $30 billion on education technology, with limited (or negative) results. "Imagine if all that money had gone into teachers instead" www.economist.com/united-state...
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
www.economist.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
American schools in 2024 spent $30 billion on education technology, with limited (or negative) results. "Imagine if all that money had gone into teachers instead" www.economist.com/united-state...
Capitalism reaching its purest form?
February 1, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Capitalism reaching its purest form?
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Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
![Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
_________________________________________________
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreigfz6fzbu65haq7nfqgaoe7m42gsaonpinpmaaptuzd5atkqvya4i@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
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Monday! Sign up and join us.
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Monday! Sign up and join us.
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If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons:
1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress
2) Write to your congressional reps.
3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;
1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress
2) Write to your congressional reps.
3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;
January 30, 2026 at 5:15 PM
If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons:
1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress
2) Write to your congressional reps.
3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;
1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress
2) Write to your congressional reps.
3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;
Reposted by Lauren Kuehne
1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors.
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.
www.technologyreview.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Great thread! I feel I saw a lot of this in academia, where for the last 10-15 years DEI was far too often (mainly?) lip-service without substantive reflection, let alone actions.
And then folks were surprised when academic institutions folded on DEI under Trump. It was actually just consistent...
And then folks were surprised when academic institutions folded on DEI under Trump. It was actually just consistent...
January 25, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Great thread! I feel I saw a lot of this in academia, where for the last 10-15 years DEI was far too often (mainly?) lip-service without substantive reflection, let alone actions.
And then folks were surprised when academic institutions folded on DEI under Trump. It was actually just consistent...
And then folks were surprised when academic institutions folded on DEI under Trump. It was actually just consistent...