Martha Lincoln

Just your daily reminder that Trump voters don't deserve measles or cancer or to lose their health insurance. We all deserve a government that protects and promotes our health. Shaming and blaming, pushes people away, pushes away the people we most need to reach.

I spent all of Monday and Tuesday watching capstone presentations from students in our program. Media, Medicine and Health at Harvard Medical School.

These people (doctors and future doctors) want to save the world. So many of them are international students. They deserve the wind at their backs.

Interesting and inspiring intervention, and possibly of interest to those (such as South Africans) exploring ways of thinking about civil war and its aftermaths.

I dunno, man, the "you guys are being too mean to the plagiarism machines that stole all your work and were created to try to replace you so rich people don't pay you a tiny fraction of their wealth for it" posters popping up are pretty funny

The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

Trying to think of any previous technology that needed this many people out there telling everyone that they're wrong about how it stinks and it is very good and helpfully actually

Proud to have worked on this issue of JVS—commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, April 30 1975—with so many wonderful scholars and colleagues. Thread below rounding up the contents of the issue.

Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of Knowledge The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.

The Trump Administration is trying to get rid of an entire set of people and institutions. This is more than an attack on individual agencies. All autocracies do this. And the effects of this purge will be profound and long lasting. My latest for the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Salvador Zárate (UC Irvine) isn't on Bsky, but just want to shout out his work on wildfires too

Oh yes of course!

it's also the 4 year anniversary of the PNW heat dome and who knows how many smoketobers at this point

!! This was indeed a subtweet of amazing folks including you, @ericklinenberg.bsky.social, and @johnvaillant.bsky.social—hope your schedules might permit this kind of work!

Just a heads up that this summer, folks with climate expertise should be pitching and publishing op-eds for the 30th anniversary of the Chicago heat wave, 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and 5th anniversary of the August Complex fire in California

Headline: This Instability May Be WOrth It. Here's Why. Image: A profoundly sad man whose soul is dead

People are mad but you have to admit this is a genuinely hilarious headline/image combo

Let's be clear here: If you mumble "people should get the measles vaccine" but then spend the rest of the interview saying "many vaccines aren’t safety tested," your position is still dangerously anti-vax.

Do not normalize RFK's deadly lies just because he'll say the bare minimum to keep his job.

Thank you for nailing this so precisely

Cackling glee over literally condemning millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable to death due to eliminating USAID; on the verge of tears over his falling stock price. This is Elon Musk in a nutshell.

RIP USAID — all remaining 900 employees will be fired.

I’ll have a lot more to say on this, but eliminating USAID while a dozen officers were responding to the earthquake in Myanmar is so on brand for this nightmare of an administration.

can't remember who I saw say this, but..."antisemitism" is currently being used the way "communist" was during the red scare—as a slur against disfavored opinions and groups and as a justification for the revocation of all right. it's really bad. 1

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed for coronavirus vaccines, warned that a measles outbreak shows how confidence in science is being “undermined.”

Peter Marks has been a constant force for good at FDA and this is beyond worrisome. It’s devastating news. wapo.st/4j31DJa

another student was disappeared at the University of Minnesota

My husband has had two Fulbrights, and he’s also taught several scholars with Fulbright. He has connections all over the world, in part because of Fulbright. How this can be happening is such an affront to the very principles that have underpinned the extraordinary Fulbright program from the start.

Congratulations—that is really exciting. I hope she does receive the award and that her work goes forward without incident. It is such a shame to have mixed feelings about what would normally be an honor

I've mentioned how I came to the US on a Fulbright, and met my wife-to-be, then years later was seated at dinner beside Fulbright's widow, who said this kind of connection was why he had wanted the program. Trump is building an America that no-one will want to come to or have anything to do with.

Yeah! I do. I’m sure they feel their hands are tied. If I were a Fulbright officer I’d still want to speak about this.

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

Screenshot of first page of the decision. Relevant portion highlighted: "FURTHER ORDERED that the emergency motions for stay be denied. Separate concurring statements of Judge Henderson and Judge Millett and a dissenting statement of Judge Walker are attached. "

NEW: The DC Circuit has DENIED the Trump administration's request to stay Judge Boasberg's halt on the use of the Alien Enemies Act! The decision is 2-1, with Trump appointee Judge Walker dissenting on jurisdictional grounds, arguing the lawsuit should have been brought in Texas.

Even the most staid State Department functionary should be able to see the irony of a young Turkish PhD student being the one to teach Americans about freedom of speech and opinion—but in their absence, illustrated by her forcible extrajudicial detention for writing an essay