Emily Parker

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

Still finding the joy in this effed up country.

Weekend trip to Central Oregon. So beautiful.

RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

Spending the last days of summer pondering the state of this world from the comfort of the bottom of a river.

I'm not on the east coast so not entirely familiar with your insects. But im a pretty good insect IDer. This is a leaf footed bug (Coreidae). Not a stink bug for sure. Some leaf footed bugs can also produce odor though just FYI.

Op-ed: ‘Even God cannot hear us here’: What I witnessed inside an ICE women’s prison - The Tufts Daily On a Tuesday in March, I had spent most of my day working on my dissertation proposal and started to feel exhausted and hungry. It was the holy month of Ramadan, and I was fasting. Once finished, I qu...

Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by ICE for her op-ed in the Tufts Daily.

Now, the student newspaper is sharing her first public account of her experiences of being forced to live in cramped, unsanitary conditions and having her medical and religious needs ignored.

Evening swim in the Columbia. Very fortunate to live in Oregon.

Fia says thanks!!

Sometimes.. she can be a big goof. Same spot different angle lol

Fia. My sanity in these dark times. Love her so much 🥰

Golden hued landscape of a bay with green rolling hills behind it. It's early morning and the sun rays ar just pushing through from the right side of the frame. Leaving glowing streaks across the landscape.

After a very long week I went through more New Zealand photos. Here is a landscape in the Northland I just love. Wish I could be there again now.

The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

This.

Wtf are we doing?? *bangs head against wall*

A moment of zen from my continuing trip in New Zealand

Escaped to Aotearoa/New Zealand for the month 😍

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Pallet cleanser. The beautiful oregon coast ☺️

This is so terribly fucked up. The racism is so blatant. Absolutely disgusting from this already abhorrent administration.

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

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A quick reminder: For every $1 of research funding, NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity. This includes funding jobs in all 50 states. This isn't a red/blue thing: 8.9 jobs per $1M in CA & 12 jobs per $1M in GA. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #MedSky #HealthSky #healthequity #SciComm
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A pic of one of my favorite groups of bees, the green metallic sweat bees (Agapostemon spp.). And a reminder that planting native flowering plants is a great way to affect positive change in your hyper local community. (Winter is a great time to seed on rainy day) The native bees will thank you.

Yet another from the birding experiment. Love the background here. This sparrow was lost in song, so I snapped a few 📸

AOC 🔥🔥🔥

Another from yesterday's outing. A ruby crowned kibglet. Not super sharp, got an action shot though.

In an attempt to keep finding joy in these dark times I'm trying my hand at bird photography. Here's a more arty shot from yesterday of a Northern Shoveler pair.