Dr Lauren M Robinson

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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I really do wish people doing community-based, participatory science would call it Community Science instead of Citizen Science.

Black fluffy cat lying on her side and looking at the camera

#Caturday you say? 💜🐈‍⬛

ICE and Border Patrol's rampant racial profiling and blatant disregard for the Constitution puts us all in danger.

Tell Congress to hold them accountable at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-

Haha what can I say, with 27 chapters I think it's fair to say we were as thorough as we could be in one book

screenshot of a book on nonhuman primate welfare being accessed 50k times

There are days, particularly while job hunting, that I doubt that I've done anything meaningful in science and then there are days where I find out the book I edited has been accessed 50k times in 3 years and I feel pretty fucking good

We're in court today asking a judge to block a new Kansas law that invalidates the IDs of transgender people and allows anyone to sue a person they suspect of being trans for using public restrooms.

This law has been wreaking havoc on trans people and we're demanding an immediate end to it.

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?

Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.

Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?

Noem: My condolences to their families

Raskin: You lied about them.

Being a visiting professor, which is academic code for 'not permanent', is maddening because some days you finish lecturing and come back to an email rejecting you for a job doing the permanent version of the job you're already doing...

You'll be having a solid day and academia will hand you a loss that just wrecks it. All I want is a permanent job and to never apply to another one again

The Yeonmi Park on Joe Rogan meme, with the face replaced by the X logo, with the caption "I heard that on Bluesky if you make a joke they report you to the police and the army and God, no-one posts anything because they are afraid, if you have an opinion they make you eat a live kitten while reciting Injustices, also your pee turns blue"

Any posts from X about Bluesky are just this

He’s is gorgeous but then I think all the snow monkeys are so I’m biased

Is baby monkey Punch okay? We asked an animal expert : Short Wave If you’ve been on the internet in the past few weeks, chances are you’ve seen him: a tiny gray-brown monkey dragging a big, stuffed orangutan around Japan’s Ichikawa Zoo. His name? Punch-kun, or Punch...

Obsessed with Punch the snow monkey? Me too! I spoke to @npr.org for their Short Wave science podcast about what's going on and gave some insight into snow monkey culture 💜🐒

Is baby monkey Punch okay? We asked an animal expert : Short Wave If you’ve been on the internet in the past few weeks, chances are you’ve seen him: a tiny gray-brown monkey dragging a big, stuffed orangutan around Japan’s Ichikawa Zoo. His name? Punch-kun, or Punch...

Obsessed with Punch the snow monkey? Me too! I spoke to @npr.org for their Short Wave science podcast about what's going on and gave some insight into snow monkey culture 💜🐒

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

When I was a kid people turning 40 got cakes with their gravestones on it and it was supposed to be hilarious.

Oh how the times have changed, now you have to crowdfund the cake and the next 50 years of your life

Sports are for everyone — including trans youth.

No one knows the benefits of participating in sports better than Megan Rapinoe and other icons of women's sports. Add your name next to Megan’s and urge the Supreme Court to let kids play as their authentic selves: aclu.org/morethanagame-actionbsky

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

SecDef Hegseth Announces Trans Scouts In Scouting America Will Be Outed, Segregated The policy is the latest in a trend of organizations capitulating to Trump over transgender people.

1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender.

The policy is the latest cruel capitulation.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...

Indeed. New grants are not getting funded, already funded grants are not getting paid, and non-competitive renewals are being held up.

Focusing on the top line budget, instead of looking at what is really happening on “the ground” is deeply misguided.

Lots of people making fun of this, but as someone who showers a disabled person, this is a goddamn dream.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Strike out pigs and rats. Demonising language is used by people whenever people go head to head with wildlife. Language has consequences!

Flyer with QR code, titled "Exploring Public Motivations for Nature Reserve use in Wales". The flyer shows the University of South Wales local and photos of local birds. Text says: "Are you interested in your local Nature? My name is Luke, I study Animal Health & Welfare and I'm currently working on my dissertation. The aim of this Project is to understand the motivations and barriers for visiting Nature Reserves in Wales, where info is much ejected comared to the rest of the UK. Your Participation is Greatly Appreciated!!"

If you are in Wales, could you take a few minutes to help a student with data collection? Reposts appreciated. Diolch yn fawr iawn!

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These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.

the year is 2030. a doctor gravely informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people who felt bad for a monkey bought polyester plushies that shed millions of microplastics in the laundry that were were eventually consumed by the fish that you ate

This one hits hard.