Elizabeth Holdsworth

Call to oppose Ohio House Bill 42 urging support for immigrant communities and stating schools are not immigration enforcement agencies.

Ohio HB 42, a bill that would require schools to report immigration status to the federal government, has a hearing this afternoon.

Every child should feel safe, welcome, and protected at school, no exceptions. Take action today by urging lawmakers to oppose this bill. ➡️ bit.ly/StopHB42

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Johns Hopkins University has spent nearly double on lobbyists since Trump took office In the first nine months of this year, Johns Hopkins spent $1.3 million on lobbyists, compared to $750,000 during the same period last year, according to federal disclosure forms.

Exclusive to the @thebaltimorebanner.com: Johns Hopkins has spent nearly double this year on federal lobbyists. The university has spent $1.3 million so far, with money going directly to an associate of Trump to lobby to the Executive Office of the President:
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

WE ARE RECRUITING PHD STUDENTS!!!

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Photo 51 showing the X-ray crystallographic image of DNA. It's a blurry outer ring with four dots in the middle radiating out in an X-pattern.

"Photo 51" was the X-ray diffraction pattern that revealed the internal structure of DNA, produced by PhD student Raymond Gosling working under Rosalind Franklin's direction at King's College in London in 1952.

Let's talk about how CORK & a PAPERCLIP played a central role in DNA's discovery.

The number of doctoral students I personally know for a fact (and another group I suspect) are using Chat for their dissertations is so disgusting.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Biology and Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, Lecturer (Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex ), Non-Tenure track Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000Benefits Information: https://www.luc.edu/hr/benefits/The Department of Biology and the Women’s Studies and Gender Studies (WSGS) Program in the College of Arts and Scie...

The Dept of Biology at Loyola University. Chicago has an open lecturer position in Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex. The successful candidate will have a 50% affiliation with the Women's Studies and Gender Studies program and 50% Dept of Biology.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

RT @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social :
“Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts.

Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”

Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!

So No Kings 2 protests were:
75x as big as initial Tea Party rally in Philly
About 200x in DC
200x in Boston
20x in Austin
7x in Houston

All politics is local.

Election Day is in a couple weeks.

That new official might be the difference between ICE coming to your community and terrorizing you and your neighbors

"... the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion ..."

A treaty begun by Washington, signed by Adams and ratified by a Senate filled with many of the same people who drafted the Constitution.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

When Ziblatt is talking about the lessons from Weimar for the present day, you listen. Chilling.

Susan Monarez just got fired from the CDC, a few weeks after responding to an attack by a gunman with bravery and compassion for CDC workers. No one is saying why she was fired yet.

Screencap from linked article, reading: “I want to mention that this is a government document so factual accuracy is the top priority,” an Everett staffer told ChatGPT, while asking for help conducting an analysis of racial disparities in the housing section of Everett’s comprehensive plan.

Some excellent reporting from PBS & KNKX on how city governments in WA are using ChatGPT. It is getting urgent for people to understand how synthetic text extruding machines actually work, so we stop seeing things like this:

www.knkx.org/government/2...

Wow. When I first read about this I assumed this was an anonymous letter. But turns out they had the courage to sign their names to it knowing the consequences of a highly vindictive Trump. Lots of respect.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Philosophy Dept @ U of Toronto invites applications for 7 #philjobs incl

Asst Prof – Metaphysics & Epistemology, St. George Campus (deadline: Nov 3): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Asst Prof – Philosophy & Statistics, St. George Campus (deadline: Nov 4): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
#philsci

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the c...

The government claims broad authority to search our devices at airports and other border crossings, and the Trump administration has even reportedly used that power to search for posts critical of the president.

This has an unacceptable chilling effect on anyone traveling to or from the U.S.

IDF database suggests 83% of Gaza dead were civilians Classified intelligence reveals Israel killed 8,900 militants by May, indicating an almost unparalleled proportion of civilian slaughter.

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians.

www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

Suspension of Submissions to Generalist Preprint Server for Review and Next Steps — Community Servers Hosted by OSF Preprints Remain Active Effective August 25, 2025, COS will suspend submissions to its generalist preprint server hosted by OSF Preprints. The generalist server has operated alongside community-run preprint servers on OSF Pr...

OSF is reviewing its generalist preprint server partly because of “Volume and quality challenges: The generalist server has seen increasing numbers of suspicious or low-quality submissions…trends such as generative AI and paper mills have introduced new risks to research integrity”

On August 3, we issued a statement in response to OSU President Ted Carter's interview with "Face the Nation" in late July.

The full statement is here: www.ohiostateaaup.org/uploads/1/3/...

See our webpage for more
www.ohiostateaaup.org

Looks a useful read (published 2023): "Shows how the so-called free speech crisis on US college campuses has been manufactured through misinformation, distortion & political ideology. Offers guidelines to distinguish between abuses of scientific evidence & sound scientific claims in public argument"

Spotify’s Daniel Ek secures €600 million investment in A.I military drone company Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek is leading a €600 million investment in Helsing, a military A.I company branching out into drones.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's firm has invested $690 million in AI-powered military startup Helsing.

Helsing builds AI-powered military decision-making software, and is moving to produce its own drones, aircraft, and submarines.

www.thefader.com/2025/06/20/s...

Here’s me as a baby scientist 30+ yrs ago working on the Tongass as a fisheries tech. I am so grateful for the protections that have preserved so much since then, & I am now very worried about the repeal of the “Roadless Rule” & associated return to road building & other destructive practices.

On the third anniversary of Roe v Wade being overturned, Abebe Shibru of @msichoices.org writes on the deadly reality of abortion bans in the US
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Example of table presenting the impact of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir on outcomes in patients with non-severe covid-19, with links to tools for shared decision making

Summary of findings tables present the key results of a systematic review.

The latest article in the the Core GRADE series outlines how you should approach these summary of findings tables
www.bmj.com/content/389/...