Rachel Niederer
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Rachel Niederer
@roniederer.bsky.social
· Apr 16
Trans women are women.
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
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University boards are on a real heater when it comes to acting against the interests of the institutions they govern
just catching up on Bill Belichick’s disastrous year as UNC coach and discovering the exact mechanics of how he secured the job. www.theringer.com/2025/10/31/c...
November 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
University boards are on a real heater when it comes to acting against the interests of the institutions they govern
When lab meeting is on Halloween 😂
November 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
When lab meeting is on Halloween 😂
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The Star Trek thing (see previous RTs) pisses me off not just bc it's obviously wrong but bc it's based on a deep misunderstanding of Trek, the least macho SFF franchise in which everyone abandons greed and aggression in favor of problem solving while wearing bright primary colors
October 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Star Trek thing (see previous RTs) pisses me off not just bc it's obviously wrong but bc it's based on a deep misunderstanding of Trek, the least macho SFF franchise in which everyone abandons greed and aggression in favor of problem solving while wearing bright primary colors
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do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
July 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
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A groundbreaking study reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn’t.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Cancer patients who got a COVID vaccine lived much longer
A groundbreaking study reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn’t. Researchers from the...
www.sciencedaily.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A groundbreaking study reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn’t.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
At the very least, read her closing argument:
At the very least, read her closing argument:
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
At the very least, read her closing argument:
At the very least, read her closing argument:
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By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
www.washingtonexaminer.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
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You only needed to look at the overwhelming success of stuff like Libs of TikTok, a crowdsourced campaign to get teachers fired for the crime of being gay on social media, to see this. But it seems that for lots of media types, it's only real cancel culture if it's people like them losing their jobs
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
October 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
You only needed to look at the overwhelming success of stuff like Libs of TikTok, a crowdsourced campaign to get teachers fired for the crime of being gay on social media, to see this. But it seems that for lots of media types, it's only real cancel culture if it's people like them losing their jobs
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Fobazi’s article about vocational awe was one of the first things I read in my master’s program at UW, and it set the tone for the type of librarian I would become and in turn influence how I mentor the next generation of librarians. Please donate if you’re able. This field owes so much to her.
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena
gofund.me/c8485b58
gofund.me/c8485b58
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
August 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fobazi’s article about vocational awe was one of the first things I read in my master’s program at UW, and it set the tone for the type of librarian I would become and in turn influence how I mentor the next generation of librarians. Please donate if you’re able. This field owes so much to her.
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Atrocious from Netanyahu, who presumably won’t stop until every living Palestinian has been bombed, starved, displaced or murdered. War crimes in plain sight, as Starmer et al look on and whisper the world’s feeblest condemnations. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Netanyahu announces plan to take over Gaza City in further escalation
Proposal that needs to be approved by full cabinet would mean stationing troops in approximately 25% of territory
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Atrocious from Netanyahu, who presumably won’t stop until every living Palestinian has been bombed, starved, displaced or murdered. War crimes in plain sight, as Starmer et al look on and whisper the world’s feeblest condemnations. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Here’s my top line overview:
August 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Here’s my top line overview:
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Anyway, they’re all playing in your face about AI. As soon as it deprofessionalizes everybody that the market hates because their credentials give them wage power, you’ll be able to buy a LLM tamagotchi at the Family Dollar and we will all vaguely remember when these toys were a fix for everything
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Anyway, they’re all playing in your face about AI. As soon as it deprofessionalizes everybody that the market hates because their credentials give them wage power, you’ll be able to buy a LLM tamagotchi at the Family Dollar and we will all vaguely remember when these toys were a fix for everything
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Sorta feels like "they are actively gutting cancer research" should be finding more purchase out there
July 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Sorta feels like "they are actively gutting cancer research" should be finding more purchase out there
If you’re in A2 vote yes on A and B! www.damnarbor.com/2025/07/lett...
Letter to Damn Arbor: The Library Green Conservancy and AADL
NOTE: This is a letter to Damn Arbor from former AADL Director, Josie Parker. If you'd like to submit a Letter to Damn Arbor, please send it...
www.damnarbor.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
If you’re in A2 vote yes on A and B! www.damnarbor.com/2025/07/lett...
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NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death
"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...
www.huffpost.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
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Oh yea we've got tons of evidence for this
“Univ. of Illinois report shows that a large humanities department like English produces substantial net profit; units like engineering and agriculture run at a loss. The widely respected Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity shows the same pattern.” /7 thi.ucsc.edu/the-humaniti...
The Humanities Really Do Produce a Profit – The Humanities Institute
thi.ucsc.edu
July 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Oh yea we've got tons of evidence for this
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A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.
Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
July 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.
Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
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@tressiemcphd.bsky.social well describes how conservative supposedly liberal elites are: “Every single time liberals use “woke” as a slur, they empower the right’s attack on multiracial democracy.”
The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Opinion | The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social well describes how conservative supposedly liberal elites are: “Every single time liberals use “woke” as a slur, they empower the right’s attack on multiracial democracy.”
The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
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Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference.
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
“Johns Hopkins has not merely preserved its discriminatory DEI framework — it has entrenched, expanded and openly celebrated it as a cornerstone of its institutional identity,”
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
Conservative group files complaint against Hopkins medical school
America First Legal is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into diversity policies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference.
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
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Dr. Gonsalves has written a piece that is equal parts brilliant and tragic. Read it and use it as motivation to keep fighting the destruction of US science infrastructure. @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
America Is Sliding Into the Abyss
Our science and health infrastructure lies in tatters. Once-dead viruses are roaring back to life. Many people will die. In other words, we’ve reached the point of no return.
www.thenation.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Dr. Gonsalves has written a piece that is equal parts brilliant and tragic. Read it and use it as motivation to keep fighting the destruction of US science infrastructure. @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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If you live outside of Los Angeles, I’m asking you to prepare yourself for the activism you want to enact to fight this. The ICE budget increase will cause this level of militarism in all major cities. Especially Democrat majority cities.
July 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you live outside of Los Angeles, I’m asking you to prepare yourself for the activism you want to enact to fight this. The ICE budget increase will cause this level of militarism in all major cities. Especially Democrat majority cities.
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“rural voters who lost hospitals were roughly 5–10 percentage points more likely to vote Republican in subsequent presidential elections. If anything state Republicans seemed to benefit in rural areas from rejecting Medicaid and resulting rural health woes.” @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social
People who think there is going to inevitably be a big pro-Dem backlash against Medicaid cuts should read this article.
You have to remember there is an entire proganda apparatus that will blame the Dems for the effects of these Republican cuts.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You have to remember there is an entire proganda apparatus that will blame the Dems for the effects of these Republican cuts.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Politics of Rural Hospital Closures - Political Behavior
Who do citizens hold responsible for outcomes and experiences? Hundreds of rural hospitals have closed or significantly reduced their capacity since just 2010, leaving much of the rural U.S. without a...
link.springer.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“rural voters who lost hospitals were roughly 5–10 percentage points more likely to vote Republican in subsequent presidential elections. If anything state Republicans seemed to benefit in rural areas from rejecting Medicaid and resulting rural health woes.” @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social
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"Even when shown pessimistic information about mobility, right-wing respondents do not want to support more redistribution policies, because they see the government as a 'problem' and not as the 'solution.'"
Why People Vote Against Redistributive Policies That Would Benefit Them
New explanations from economics research.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
July 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Even when shown pessimistic information about mobility, right-wing respondents do not want to support more redistribution policies, because they see the government as a 'problem' and not as the 'solution.'"