Stephanie

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.

It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

Toronto, too. Streetcar from the Leafs’ Scotiabank Arena to the Marlies’ Coca-Cola Coliseum.

We have that in Montreal. You can take the Metro from the AHL rink in Laval to the Bell Centre in downtown Montreal - and don't even need to switch lines.

I can’t blame you!

Oooh I hadn’t thought of that! Timing feels precarious if there’s a long wait at the border

I find it so fascinating that you can take public transit between the AAA and the MLB stadiums. When a player gets called up to the bigs, they could just hop on the light rail. Does that make call ups less exciting?

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Someone checked the schedules for the Twins and the St. Paul Saints and found nine potential Twins/Saints double header days www.reddit.com/r/minnesotat...

Debora Kamin Mukaz | The University of Vermont Debora Kamin Mukaz is a social and molecular epidemiologist whose main research investigates cardiovascular and cardiometabolic conditions, with a particular emphasis on the biological embodiment of t...

Asking because you never know. I really want to give a talk about my research at HBCUs. So, if you know people in high places ask them to invite me.

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‘Fascism is here now’: the US athletes pushing back on Trump’s America World Series winner Sean Doolittle, Super Bowl champion Doug Baldwin and college star McKenzie Forbes have strong opinions on a troubled era

Sean Doolittle is the best... and I wish more athletes would speak up www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

I am still annoyed that this only includes PhDs - not only is it insulting to scientists who don’t have PhDs, it fails to capture the extent of the damage!

Dislocations of trained workers in sciences matter a lot too. It’s not as if labs and other employers can just magically conjure up workers to run it, Zoom can’t do that yet.

Further, a geographic breakdown would help reveal to key folks like Sen Britt (R-AL) just how much of a hit their state took

Next time, can you all look at OPM occupational series to include those of us who don’t have PhDs? bsky.app/profile/step...

General Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences Series 0401 Welcome to opm.gov

Another way to parse this would have been to look by OPM occupational series, since those have an education component.

For example, I was an 0401, and you can look at the category 0400 - 0499 - Biological Sciences more generally: www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

I guess I don’t count since I don’t have a PhD 🙃

The ass kissing of Trump by execs of Apple and Amazon and others coupled with ongoing silence from many in the tech and biotech and science areas about ICE and related evil activities is extremely disappointing.

Which does not mean backing off, but pushing harder.

All these people need to go to prison, at the least. We learned from Jan 6 that we need to jail everyone right up to the top, or they just come back after being pardoned by the worst president in American history.

Week of action in honor of Alex Pretti, RN and all others killed by ice Join National Nurses United RN members in a week-long series of actions to honor Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE, as well as demand that Congress vote to immediately abolish this violent,...

National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE

www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...

Two cities under siege Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.

New at The Watch:

I dug into archival witness accounts of the British siege of Boston prior to the American Revolution.

They are remarkably similar to what we're seeing in Minneapolis.

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The one on the left would live with you all summer while dating your best friend, then leave when the weather gets cold, borrowing money for the train ticket. But he'd paint you. The one on the right would pay you a bit of attention and you'd spend years trying to get another scrap.

Photo of an exceedingly chocolatey hedgehog cake covered in chocolate button spines with chocolate buttercream and chocolate drop eyes.

Made my own birthday cake. Full 1990s retro. #ChemistsWhoCook

They finally relaxed the RTO policy this weekend, because of...... events

The 14” of snow we got today was the first time I had second thoughts about moving to MN

Herman Yau, the Sunnyvale-based CEO of a facial-recognition smart door-lock startup, has taken the opposite approach. His company Durin (opens in new tab) (named for the riddle on the Doors of Durin in — you guessed it — Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”), hopes to make smart doors affordable for non-mansion-havers, too. “We [want] to enable a new entry price point for security markets,” he said. Durin’s “door manager” costs $129 and is designed to retrofit to existing locks. “It’s much less friction to upgrade a lock than a door,” he said.

I swear these guys only read one book.

Goddamn this is a jeremiad

Souhan: What good are sports in times like these? Local owners should be making a statement. Better yet, they should be taking action.

"Shut it all down until it’s safe for every Minnesotan to drive to a sports venue without being rammed, beaten, abducted or killed."

Damn, Jim Souhan.

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This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

better late than never, even for a tepid nothingburger

Keeping a running list of baseball players who are speaking out (via social media or comments to reporters) against the ICE occupation of Minneapolis or related topics. So far we've got Bailey Ober (Twins pitcher) and Spencer Strider (Braves pitcher). Any others?

no matter what else is happening, if feasible, please share photos of your dogs playing in the snow tomorrow

ozzy, a very pretty red and white husky, gazes from a yard coated in a smattering of texas snow, as though she has discovered her purpose.

them: if you’re cold, she’s cold, bring her inside

her: like fuck you will