Mary Feeney

I am doing a panel intro today. I really don't want to recite their bio - everyone already has the bio (from the program & website). I now do 1-2 lines from the bio & then note a recent, relevant publication. If the audience is really interested in the panelist, go read / cite their work!

We did a cute promo for library card month with Tempe Public Library and Arizona Roller Derby. Their head librarian is a former skater and our league boasts quite a few librarians (academic, public, & symphony based). Derby + library are a natural pairing!

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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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Excellent thread on doing the right thing / being an ethical and moral actor in complex times.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Each week I remind students that printing the readings & highlighting + taking notes on the page will help them learn, remember, and better engage in discussion. A few have taken this approach - hard to discern if their performance is better for it or high performers took my advice

I tried to order $35 in small fan parts today, the shipping was over $100

these people are just wildly unprofessional...

For years republicans have shut down government or held it hostage for months at a time w/continuing resolutions. Today GOP controls all three branches & Dems are lined up to take the blame for a "potential" shut down caused by GOP incompetence & self destruction. Dem leadership is so bad at this!

🚨 The White House's FY 2026 proposed budget cuts to NSF would lead to expected economic losses of ~$11 billion.

Learn more about this data from the Science and Community Impacts Mapping Project in Save NSF's most recent newsletter: mailchi.mp/savensf/prop...

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Because everyone knows the first place an immigrant goes in Chicago is the architectural boat tour!

@pengzell.bsky.social asks about the social sciences, which I haven't looked at in a while. Indexing these against 2008 rather than peak, and struck that economics has been on a downslope for 6 years now, while psychology, the worst discipline, continues to rise rapidly.
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Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.

The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

If Comey is the Radical Left, where does that leave the rest of us?

Brian Nosek, Executive Director of the Center for Open Science, delivered the keynote presentation at the BITSS 2025 Annual Meeting. His… BITSS AM 2025: The Evolution of Research Transparency - Brian Nosek

https://bit.ly/3Vvz4KN

Love Brian Nosek's response to my Q on "fear of negative public evaluations" @ Unjournal & Lifecyclejournal

"I certainly understand the fear. I shared it myself until I had the experience of realizing that's how people advance their careers." -->

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

"I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.”

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.

Economic loss from the White House's NSF FY 2026 Proposed Budget

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.

Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.

Report: osf.io/e8rnc

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Data theft, DOGE terrorizing civil servants, employees on paid leave for 7 months, 131 leases expired w/out the govn't vacating the properties, GSA unable to complete basic tasks...

the agency was left broken and understaffed - and we paid for all of it

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

WSJ - Federal economists and researchers responsible for measuring hunger in America are placed on indefinite paid leave. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/usda-puts-food-researchers-on-leave-ef287cd7

being ignorant of a thing, doesn't mean that thing doesn't exist.

They've been doing the same thing to trans people for the past decade, and immigrants for even longer...

Sarah Despres @sarahdespres X.com I see @SecKennedy was able to attend Charlie Kirk's memorial. It's unfortunate the Secretary of HHS was not able to attend the funeral of Officer David Rose who was killed in the senseless attack on the CDC, one of the agencies within @hhs. 6:56 PM • 9/21/25 • 808 Views

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

Their seats are not going red. If anyone could vote no, it’s them

Ansari and Stanton - both relatively liberal Democrats who represent two of the most solidly blue districts in Arizona - voted for this resolution.

It's so far from their reality to imagine a person could 1) have political views and 2) put aside their political preferences to do a job with professional integrity