Margaret Moerchen (she/her)

They do say neither the site staff nor AGU can/will restrict access to the convention center

I don’t think it’s about to get communicated: 8 RIFs today (of ~150 total), 5 of them supporting DEI-related initiatives, 6 women, 3 women of color, 1 on maternity leave and 1 pregnant last trimester

The longtime lead of this program was just fired so it's not looking promising for Bridge-- hope people see that and make their voices heard.

Sounds like they’ve ended the program

It’s fully closed

One time @themountaingoats.bsky.social John Darnielle was in front of me at the Target self-checkout in NW DC and I tried to be cool and say nothing, and failed, but he was so incredibly nice despite just trying to take his kid to the zoo that weekend, apparently, and to buy cold medicine

I ran into Brian Wilson enjoying a cozy chair in the lobby of my hotel in Salt Lake City, and I managed a very restrained (imho) thank-you for the music. Enjoying that one especially this week.

Templates for Thanking President Trump Template 1 Dear President Trump and [RELEVANT MINIONS] I’m just writing from [UKRAINE / GAZA / THE HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS] to say, once and for...

Dear business genius,

I’m a [WORKING-CLASS PERSON / MIDDLE-CLASS PERSON / SUPER-RICH PERSON]. Thank you for making me poorer.

Staying brief to save ink money,
[YOUR NAME. LITERALLY ANYONE]

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Panch is a coward and traitor of the highest order

An effigy of Elon Musk over six feet tall wears a DOGE ball cap, sunglasses and a shirt that says cruel/incompetent/corrupt

A large crowd, many with signs, gathers on the grass and sidewalks around the Washington Monument

A poster depicting Trump with a Hitler mustache and a background swastika advertises RefuseFascism.org and states “in the name of humanity we refuse to accept a fascist America”

Lots of people and amazing signs in DC today #handsoff

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...

>1900 members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine issued a statement supporting science for the benefit of all citizens, and ... 1/2
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

arXiv used to be funded by Los Alamos for many years, so its a good job its not there now. It's a nice profile that captures Ginsparg pretty well (and there's still a question of its long term viability as funding is still dependent on grants). #scholarlypublishing #physics

This also goes for removing “censor-worthy” words from websites, like diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, etc.
Don’t do them a favor by doing their work for them!

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social is doing amazing work these days — a great example for Dem leaders AHEM

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

This person with a few physics degrees understood you fine the first time, hard agrees with you, and encourages you to say whatever you want with no amendments needed 💥

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Yay. According to this LibGen trained it's LLM on BOTH of my books, one of my features, and...

...my 2019 scientific article on the deletion of the VMAT1 transporter?

Love to see literal years of my work stolen so people don't have to work to write an email.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Looks like everything I ever wrote, original research or reviews or published recaps of other works, it’s all in there

Is everyone seeing this??

I know such events are happening at numerous ports of entry, but I wonder if it gives #LPSC organizers yet more pause about hosting the conference in Texas when it is hostile in so many ways to scientists.

I don’t know the answer, but I’ve been trying to figure out how to make this question into a holiday card for a lot of our extended family

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Tell your family, tell your neighbors, let’s break the ability to look away or not know

Here’s the list with their states

You would never see defections like this from the GOP for such a critical vote. Traitors.
Haven’t heard the term DINO a lot lately but seems we could usefully bring it back!