Rhys Allen

ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool ShellCheck finds bugs in your shell scripts

Also this: it's like having that more experienced programmer sit at your shoulder and tell you exactly what you need to know, whenever you need to know it. No AI needed.

www.shellcheck.net

50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement Join the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.

4/n @50501movement.bsky.social
A grassroots national org since Feb of this year, with ongoing actions including #LaborDay #workersoverbillionaires

Subscribe to their newsletter to stay up to date and get involved in upcoming events! www.fiftyfifty.one

Join our 31 Days of Action for science now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Help add to the pressure on Congress to ensure ZERO CUTS TO SCIENCE in the 2026 Budget Battle this fall.

3/n @standupforscience.bsky.social

www.standupforscience.net/31-days-of-a...

Info and opps! Global and local scope! Check out the 31 Days of Action, running up to the September Budget Battle in Congress. 💪

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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@5calls.org

It helps ppl stay organized and up-to-date about who / how to call our reps, and scripts to use for urgent issues. 5calls.org

They are currently fundraising to expand from national to statewide for all 50 states! A hopefully impactful donation opp.

Fired But Fighting Fired But Fighting is a network of former CDC professionals, including scientists, communicators, policy analysts, public health experts, who are standing together to demand transparency, accountabili...

@firedbutfighting.bsky.social
is a coalition and mutual aid society of the many thousands of federal HHS workers that have been RIF'd (fired) since January.

They are organized, and are helping themselves and others. Subscribe to their newsletter, and check out ways to join! 👀 firedbutfighting.org

Happy #LaborDay! Here are some orgs that are fighting to protect our #democracy, today and every day.

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44 experts from 15 countries issued a stark warning about the dangers of crossing an ocean circulation tipping point. I had the honor to present it to the Icelandic 🇮🇸 climate minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson yesterday. #AMOC
Full letter with signatories: en.vedur.is/media/ads_in...

Green banner saying, "we stand with EPA workers"

Wondering why #altgovs are changing their banners to show support for EPA?
EPA civil servants drafted a public Declaration of Dissent to their Administrator, Lee Zeldin, imploring he recommits to protecting Americans people and environment. Read here: www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...

Stop the Anti-Vaccine Takeover of the CDC ⭑ 5 Calls The Trump administration is continuing to undermine public health and scientific integrity by firing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …

Yesterday, I DM'd people an embarrassing secret about myself if they called Congress about RFK. (It quickly got overwhelming.) Today, I ask you to do the same, but I'm going to make this way wilder: for every 25 call screenshots, I'll post one embarrassing fact on main 5calls.org/issue/center...

I just got added to the neighborhood email listserv and it's full of so many excellent events bringing people together. I'm inspired and excited! #LaborDay #Protest

"The arc of moral history is long and it bends towards justice, right? But it doesn't bend by itself. It's not fucking gravity. People have to bend it. You have to bend it. And there's gonna be other people trying to bend it the other fucking way. And we're not gonna let that happen!" -Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show and advocate for protections for nine eleven first responders

If you're not sure what events are happening, try walking/biking around the neighborhood to look for posters, stop in the local coffeeshop or tacoshop. The public library or independent bookstore are also good places to find events. 🌱

Monday is Labor Day -- ask your friends what events are happening in support of #Democracy 💪🇺🇸 #unions #labormovement #workingclass

This looks like a super useful framework. 👀

Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense “Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

If you need another reason to check:

Important to keep in mind that these are *voluntary* resignations made by people who have been fighting tooth and nail to protect public health from HHS leadership & have ultimately found that impossible. Not a purge – the last choice left to dedicated, incredibly capable public servants.

Staying Code Visualization Platform Real-time visualization platform for Python, JS, and C++. Features include: Execution flow animation, Variable tracing, Memory allocation monitoring, and Code optimization suggestions.

This is so good: visualizing computer algorithms.

staying.fun/en

#compsci

#MicroSky #mevoSky

Structure-informed microbial population genetics elucidate selective pressures that shape protein evolution An integrated analysis framework shows a strong association between within-population genetic variation and protein structure.

It's like you can see the interaction between ecology and evolution happening right in front of you. 💚🦠🧬
#mevosky #bluesci

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thank you Brooke! I would like to be added too if possible.
🦠🧬🧪

Photo of the supreme court and the text: The current administration illegally terminated thousands of NIH projects. A Reagan appointed judge reversed the terminations, calling them “breathtakingly arbitrary and capricious.” Yet in a 5-4 shadow docket decision, the Supreme Court sided with Trump and ruled to re-terminate these projects

A scientist at a microscope with the text: This is impactful research & re-terminations will harm all of us. Careers may be lost. Cures may be lost. Knowledge will be lost. Lives will be lost.

A quote from Ketanji Brown Jackson saying: This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.

Image of the US Capitol with the text: It is up to Congress to protect democracy. Tell them to write protections against terminations into the 2026 budget.

Yesterday, SCOTUS sided with Trump to re-terminate hundreds of NIH grants.

SCOTUS
chose partisan politics over rule of law.
It's clear they will roll over for Trump every time.

It is up to Congress
to protect
democracy. Tell them to
write protections
against terminations
into the 2026 budget.

16% loss at NIH
22% loss at NIDA;
22% loss at NIMH, 18% NIA, 17% NIAID.
17% loss at NIAAA, finally answering the question about unusually huge losses of POs causing their funding slowness in the negative.

🧪

Opinion | Concentration camps are not just part of our past, but our present and future From David M. Perry: From Minnesota’s Fort Snelling to Japanese internment camps to Florida's Alligator Alcatraz, these camps have become an American tradition.

“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”

The vicious cycle for transit agencies. Source: https://www.urban.org/research/publication/surmounting-fiscal-cliff

Today, Philadelphia’s transit system SEPTA is cutting service by 20% & eliminating 32 bus routes, since GOP state legislators failed to agree to fund the agency www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

What’s going to happen? A death spiral: Worse service ➡️ fewer riders ➡️ less revenue ➡️ worse service

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

"In the past, I was content to leave the broader political debate and activism to others... The luxury of disengagement is no longer an option." -- Terrence Tao

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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAPF)

Hi astro 🔭 sky, I heard that the NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowship (AAPF) is not being offered this year. Is that correct? I know it was cut in the PBR, but I wasn't sure what that meant in practice. Typically app would have opened Aug 15. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi.

This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.

We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.

And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.

I don't know what we'll do next.

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