Henry Suárez 😷💚🇻🇪

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent. - The Boston Globe The disaster that struck John Quackenbush and his lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health began when the Trump administration started rapidly slashing funds that fueled research programs ...

I never reported on Quackenbush's lab, but I've reported on someone else modeling the transcriptome. This type of research is incredibly important as we try to deeply understand-and combat-diseases. This story is powerful, the loss is far bigger than just one lab. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/05/b...

Saturday Opinion cartoon Flu Sarah Akinterinwa on surviving sickness season - cartoon THE 4 STAGES OF SURVIVING SICKNESS SEASON WHAT? A VIRUS CAN'T INFECT WHO IT CAN'T REACH STAGE 3: DENIAL IT'S JUST ALLERGIES IT'S JUST ALLERGIES IT'S JUST ALLERGIES. STAGE 1: PREPARE STAGE 2: DEFENCE STAGE 4: SURRENDER "COUGH COUGH* * HOLOS BREATH* "GASP!" I FOUGHT BRAVELY

Cartoon full of misinformation in the Guardian.

We have the tools to prevent sickness. The real denial is ignoring that high quality masks and vaccines reduce infections. This isn’t hard.

DEPARTMENT Homeland Security @DHSgov The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear: Remigration now.

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

For those of you who do not listen to political AM radio talk shows, I want to let you know that this has been the discourse there for 30+ years. Specifically, that culture is genetic, immutable, immalleable. That non-white immigrants will kill us all.

It is blatant white supremacist propaganda.

You guys on my TL talking about Venezuela and I, who lives there, can't really talk about it freely.

It sucks because there are many narratives here that don't really take us Venezuelans into account and just paint us as noble savages who have zero agency.

fuck you

the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased

i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh

Screenshot of the new STEM Teaching Tool #106 linked in the post. The title is Defending and Leveraging Public Climate & Environmental Justice Data (DRAFT). The image is a black computer error screen that reads: Hmm. We're having trouble finding that site. We can't connect to the server at nca2023.globalchange.gov. If you entered the right address, you can: • Try again later • Check your network connection • Check that Firefox has permission to access the web (you might be connected but behind a firewall) With a button that reads Try Again

NEW RESOURCE: The current administration took down many federal #EnvironmentalJustice & #ClimateJustice databases.

Our new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social lifts up various efforts that have republished those vital data & visualization tools:

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/106

#SciEd #TeachClimate

Whoa didn’t realize this was an option. These firms seem to charge an arm and a leg, which is why I thought univs/colleges/depts were not willing to pay that fee. Also, after interfacing with one of those firms for a hire… 👀

So cool! Are you familiar with @nhrl.bsky.social? My wife and I love watching their competitions, especially because of the collaborative and supportive culture amongst builders.

1/ Today the Department of Education said that it’s transferring a variety of programs to other agencies, making good on Trump’s promise to dismantle ED.

The most important thing to understand is that this is a Potemkin reorganization. It’s fugazi, it’s fairy dust. It’s not real.

😵‍💫😤😒 ugh so sorry. Do you have recourse?

😂😂😂

Unterstützung von Donald Trump: Die Irrtümer über Donald Trumps Rückhalt Rechtsruck, multiethnische Koalition, Held einfacher Leute: Trump gilt als fest verankert. Doch diese Überzeugung beruht auf drei großen Missverständnissen.

What is really going on in this society that elected Donald Trump president a second time?
 
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
 
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:

This is one of the most recent things Alice did. It was, as ever, a clear, trenchant, messy, and powerful exploration of not just her own experiences but also society's expectations around disability.

It was such a pleasure to do this one. If folks want to listen, please do. This podcast was a fantastic glimpse into life at our Tribal College, especially in a time of rapid and sweeping changes: www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...

@indigenia.bsky.social so great to hear your voice on this week’s CodeSwitch. You gotta put “manufacturing hope” on a tshirt :)

In my professional experience, authors are always happy to share a copy/pre-print with teachers who reach out. I know it doesn’t solve the structural issue, which I agree is BS, but it may be a work around.

I just stopped doomscrolling to (a) organize grocery gift card donations for families at my kid's school, (b) make plans to fold zines about ICE through @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and (c) call Chuck Schumer to tell him what I think of his leadership. Highly recommend, way less infuriating.

Healthcare is a human right.

Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.

Wonderful thread. And yeah it wasn’t until you spelled it all out that I went “oh crap, no wonder why we’re all fried” 😩

Things were already bad and we were being asked to turn water into wine. But as (public) univs are having their funds restricted/illegally terminated, these pressures and demands are only going to get worse, especially as univs try to make up for those funding gaps by increasing enrollment 😵‍💫🥴

LK?!?! 🫠🫠🫠 I’d hoped his career had stalled by now… woof

STEM Teaching Tool #104 Watch Your Language! Because Words Help Create Socio-Ecological Worlds Background image includes a range of words of varying sizes and colors including: Rights of Nature, Regenerate, Climate Crisis, Relationally, Just Transition, Degrowth, Indigenous Language Revitalization, Overburden, Kin, and others.

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS

The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104

100% accurate. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting will be in retrospect a clear moment when the rise in Islamophobia spilled over into antisemitism.

There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

It’s a tradition that I ask my “Physics III” class to create some memes about our class material. It’s *also* a tradition that they’re super good at this. Please enjoy, like and share! 🧪

(I promised my students extra game points if this goes nano-viral!)

(Front pic is my own entry.)

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☝️☝️☝️ amazing how in ~10yrs we went from “millennials can’t afford houses because they eat too many avo toasts” to “gen z is barely surviving because the drink too many coffees.” Idk maybe it isn’t the treat?! 😵‍💫😑

Just learned about this story from “you’re wrong about” and yes 😅