“Engineers and computer scientists, please defend humanities research just as loudly as you might defend research in STEM fields.” With thousands of funding cuts across the humanities, it’s vitally important that engineers stand up to support the humanities.

The same people in DC who got us into this mess are not going to be the ones to get us out of it.

Today I'm announcing my campaign for U.S. Senate.

Because we don't have a minute to wait.

Lead story in @nytimes.com tonight speaks to one small way protests help shape national discussion: photos. Without protest, how would a news org visualize this debate? Treasury, computers, DOGE? Many feature Musk smiling. Here we see the drama of public opposition, which also helps justify story.

In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about tik tok being banned when they can still read the blue sky posts of late nineties alternative rock band eve6

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Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!

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Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...

It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

Delighted to hear @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social is considering a run for DNC chair - lots of time for this race to develop & folks to make their case but she’s exactly the kind of next-generation Democrat we need as part of the conversation - someone who knows how to both fight & build.

I wrote about the most interesting man you’ve probably never heard of, who discovered the real Noah’s Ark, and gives us a window into a fascinating world of the first humans who invented writing. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-mirthf...

John and I identified this phenomenon ages ago, where upstart social media platforms had a hard time working because the first wave of people to leave a platform are the ones who have the most radical positions, are the most aggrieved, and it's very hard to build a coalition of people like that. 1/x

This kid's reaction to Lamar Jackson's scramble last weekend is the best (via Ravens)