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@tom-joolery.bsky.social
let's go exploring 🌅🏳️⚧️
#67 with a roller derby league near you 🛼💥
Isotope geochemist fighting with the nearest mass spec 🧪
#67 with a roller derby league near you 🛼💥
Isotope geochemist fighting with the nearest mass spec 🧪
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Are you an academic looking to fight the rise of authoritarianism within academia?
Get advice from our new paper, which shares community recommendations for direct action collected during OSM '24 by The Oceanography Society.
doi.org/10.5670/ocea...
Feel free to reach out.
Get advice from our new paper, which shares community recommendations for direct action collected during OSM '24 by The Oceanography Society.
doi.org/10.5670/ocea...
Feel free to reach out.
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Where we stand, in long arc of history:
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Where we stand, in long arc of history:
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
Scientists, your voice has never been more powerful in fighting the silent creep of authoritarianism.
Many of you are colleagues from @whoi.edu: Shoot them an email to say their removal of the LGBTQ+ Resource Library is a step in the wrong direction. If you want more information, message me.
Many of you are colleagues from @whoi.edu: Shoot them an email to say their removal of the LGBTQ+ Resource Library is a step in the wrong direction. If you want more information, message me.
October 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Scientists, your voice has never been more powerful in fighting the silent creep of authoritarianism.
Many of you are colleagues from @whoi.edu: Shoot them an email to say their removal of the LGBTQ+ Resource Library is a step in the wrong direction. If you want more information, message me.
Many of you are colleagues from @whoi.edu: Shoot them an email to say their removal of the LGBTQ+ Resource Library is a step in the wrong direction. If you want more information, message me.
If you are American faculty and aren't loudly speaking out against what's happening at @tamu.bsky.social right now, I suggest you read the news. Absolutely despicable actions by their admin and true loss for reliable, unbiased higher education.
Acknowledging trans people exist is not "ideology".
Acknowledging trans people exist is not "ideology".
September 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If you are American faculty and aren't loudly speaking out against what's happening at @tamu.bsky.social right now, I suggest you read the news. Absolutely despicable actions by their admin and true loss for reliable, unbiased higher education.
Acknowledging trans people exist is not "ideology".
Acknowledging trans people exist is not "ideology".
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🚨 MAJOR BREAKING
A federal judge has THROWN OUT Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, ruling that the lawsuit lacked "any legitimate legal claims."
The judge is giving Trump 28 days to file another version of the lawsuit.
A federal judge has THROWN OUT Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, ruling that the lawsuit lacked "any legitimate legal claims."
The judge is giving Trump 28 days to file another version of the lawsuit.
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING
A federal judge has THROWN OUT Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, ruling that the lawsuit lacked "any legitimate legal claims."
The judge is giving Trump 28 days to file another version of the lawsuit.
A federal judge has THROWN OUT Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, ruling that the lawsuit lacked "any legitimate legal claims."
The judge is giving Trump 28 days to file another version of the lawsuit.
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«The New York Times reported in 1939 that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels terminated the careers of 5 prominent German comedians. Their crime? Making political jokes about the Nazi regime.»
boingboing.net/2025/09/18/s...
Image of the Times article below.
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
boingboing.net/2025/09/18/s...
Image of the Times article below.
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
September 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
«The New York Times reported in 1939 that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels terminated the careers of 5 prominent German comedians. Their crime? Making political jokes about the Nazi regime.»
boingboing.net/2025/09/18/s...
Image of the Times article below.
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
boingboing.net/2025/09/18/s...
Image of the Times article below.
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
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The mainstream media barely made a peep about Trump’s latest attack on Mahmoud Khalil’s free speech rights.
Jimmy Kimmel Wasn’t the Biggest Corporate Media Capitulation to Trump This Week
The mainstream media is up in arms about Trump’s attack on Jimmy Kimmel’s free speech rights — but barely made a peep about Mahmoud Khalil.
interc.pt
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The mainstream media barely made a peep about Trump’s latest attack on Mahmoud Khalil’s free speech rights.
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moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
Here here
September 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Here here
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US to retire its only icebreaker, stranding polar research - new article posted today by @cuboulder. The icebreaker is critical for researchers who study the changes on the edges of Antarctic glaciers and how they relate to climate change and sea level rise. buff.ly/oMAElHY #antarctica #glaciers
September 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
US to retire its only icebreaker, stranding polar research - new article posted today by @cuboulder. The icebreaker is critical for researchers who study the changes on the edges of Antarctic glaciers and how they relate to climate change and sea level rise. buff.ly/oMAElHY #antarctica #glaciers
As a trans person, it's really starting to feel like I genuinely wouldn't be safe working in American academia. It's beyond disheartening.
🚨 berkeley faculty association hits back against the "wholly unnecessary and legally improper" release of faculty, staff and student information. ucbfa.org/wp-content/u...
September 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As a trans person, it's really starting to feel like I genuinely wouldn't be safe working in American academia. It's beyond disheartening.
I was on this cruise! Awesome stuff from the Balch Lab at Bigelow and similar evidence recently out from the Bishop Lab at UC Berkeley. What other interesting things do diatoms have to tell us?
Why do some satellite images of the Southern Ocean show large swaths of reflectivity? Scientists investigate in new #AGUPubs research.
Mysteriously Bright Waters near Antarctica Explained - Eos
Shiny-shelled diatoms make a remote part of the Southern Ocean appear especially reflective in satellite imagery.
eos.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I was on this cruise! Awesome stuff from the Balch Lab at Bigelow and similar evidence recently out from the Bishop Lab at UC Berkeley. What other interesting things do diatoms have to tell us?
AI is not unbiased, do not seek information from it.
As John Mayer warned: “When they own the information, they can bend it all they want.”
September 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
AI is not unbiased, do not seek information from it.
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Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza
Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza
Stars read Michael Rosen’s 2014 poem Don’t Mention the Children in film released by Save the Children
Guy Pearce, Annie Lennox and Vanessa Redgrave are among the celebrities calling for an end to the “normalised horror” of children being killed in Gaza, as part of new short film.
Released by Save the Children and Choose Love, it features the stars reciting the words to a poem by Michael Rosen. Titled Don’t Mention the Children, the poem was written in 2014 in response to a Guardian article about the Israeli government banning a radio advert naming children killed in Gaza. It begins: Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza
At this moment in US history, we need you in the streets, not just donating to the politicians who let the system bring us here.
MAGA is showing up to their shit, are you showing up to protests to support democracy and protect your neighbors?
MAGA is showing up to their shit, are you showing up to protests to support democracy and protect your neighbors?
State terror is not a switch it’s a slide. It begins with words that brand fellow citizens as ‘enemies.’ It deepens when leaders shrug at violence ‘I couldn’t care less.’ It advances as legal protections are eroded. And it culminates when repression becomes official policy, backed by the government.
September 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
At this moment in US history, we need you in the streets, not just donating to the politicians who let the system bring us here.
MAGA is showing up to their shit, are you showing up to protests to support democracy and protect your neighbors?
MAGA is showing up to their shit, are you showing up to protests to support democracy and protect your neighbors?
Local community driven action is the way out of this mess.
If you're looking to fight extremism in your local community, please consider attending your City or Town Council meetings and urging your town to ban directive 287(g), which deputized local police forces to act as ICE agents.
If you're looking to fight extremism in your local community, please consider attending your City or Town Council meetings and urging your town to ban directive 287(g), which deputized local police forces to act as ICE agents.
NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it.
At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country.
make time for this new feature, you won't regret it
At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country.
make time for this new feature, you won't regret it
The Prison Next Door - Bolts
How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered residents in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.
boltsmag.org
September 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Local community driven action is the way out of this mess.
If you're looking to fight extremism in your local community, please consider attending your City or Town Council meetings and urging your town to ban directive 287(g), which deputized local police forces to act as ICE agents.
If you're looking to fight extremism in your local community, please consider attending your City or Town Council meetings and urging your town to ban directive 287(g), which deputized local police forces to act as ICE agents.
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BREAKING: Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, was just arrested under the Terrorism Act again, for a sign which said "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
Early this week she said: "Palestine Action are not a terrorist organisation. They damaged weapons used on Palestinians."
Early this week she said: "Palestine Action are not a terrorist organisation. They damaged weapons used on Palestinians."
September 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
BREAKING: Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, was just arrested under the Terrorism Act again, for a sign which said "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
Early this week she said: "Palestine Action are not a terrorist organisation. They damaged weapons used on Palestinians."
Early this week she said: "Palestine Action are not a terrorist organisation. They damaged weapons used on Palestinians."
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NEWS: Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the US illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding. (Bloomberg)
Harvard $2 Billion Funding Freeze by US Was Illegal, Judge Says
Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the US illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding.
www.bloomberg.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NEWS: Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the US illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding. (Bloomberg)
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Harvard University won a crucial legal victory in its clash with the Trump administration on Wednesday, when a federal judge said that the government had broken the law by freezing billions of dollars in research funds. Gift link: nyti.ms/41CEOWy
nyti.ms
September 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Harvard University won a crucial legal victory in its clash with the Trump administration on Wednesday, when a federal judge said that the government had broken the law by freezing billions of dollars in research funds. Gift link: nyti.ms/41CEOWy
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EXCLUSIVE: Susan Collins raked in $2 million from a billionaire private equity exec a day before she voted to advance Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
September 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Susan Collins raked in $2 million from a billionaire private equity exec a day before she voted to advance Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
September 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
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I don’t know how this is possible. Texas cannot control guard sent to Illinois without violating Illinois sovereignty. It must be federally controlled units, otherwise instead of a Posee Comitatus problem, we have a major constitutional crisis.
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago.
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I don’t know how this is possible. Texas cannot control guard sent to Illinois without violating Illinois sovereignty. It must be federally controlled units, otherwise instead of a Posee Comitatus problem, we have a major constitutional crisis.
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Gov. Pritzker today:
"In the absence of significant federal coordination, we’ve gathered information from
unauthorized patriotic officials inside the government and from well-sourced reporters
about Donald Trump’s plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
"In the absence of significant federal coordination, we’ve gathered information from
unauthorized patriotic officials inside the government and from well-sourced reporters
about Donald Trump’s plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
September 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Gov. Pritzker today:
"In the absence of significant federal coordination, we’ve gathered information from
unauthorized patriotic officials inside the government and from well-sourced reporters
about Donald Trump’s plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
"In the absence of significant federal coordination, we’ve gathered information from
unauthorized patriotic officials inside the government and from well-sourced reporters
about Donald Trump’s plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."