Karl Vaden

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

So many simply refuse to learn this simple truth: “sorry if you were offended” IS NOT an apology, and never will be.

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting.

She had some things she needed to get off her chest

How do you feel about passkeys?

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.

Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.

Consumers don’t know if their medications came from factories that used dirty water, were infested by insects or birds, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S.

Our new app provides answers that the FDA won’t.

This is ridiculous. The author has provided a summary. But instead readers are being given a probabilistically generated summary by a machine that often makes things up. And the authors have no say in it.

🤣 did he touch her hair too?

Love this!!

YouTube video by Janelle Monáe Janelle Monae - Cold War [Official Music Video]

youtu.be/lqmORiHNtN4

Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied.

You have a right to see this file.

(Published May 2023)

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

Shutdown ends.

I drop my daughter off early bc she wants xtra time for studying & ACT practice … which means I’m at work early too.

My center director is outside the guards station waving “welcome back” to everyone… in 35 degree weather.

Yeah, small gestures matter.

NASA confirms what astronomers suspected for a century about the star Betelgeuse Astronomers directly imaged a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, solving a decades-old mystery about its strange brightness changes.

www.earth.com/news/red-sup...

Red

Addition to my spice/condiment hall of fame

Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk.

Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/3LsPthh

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This discussion spurred a lot of conversation across the board. Click thru for more (incl links to @spacenewsinc.bsky.social , @spaceflightnow.com, @arstechnica.com ), a video from a prior Symposium with @smartereveryday.bsky.social, and our video of the full talk. Continue the conversation!

Former NASA Administrators Charlie Bolden and Jim Bridenstine sat down at the AAS von Braun Symposium for a candid conversation about space policy, leadership, and the future of Artemis.

Link in bio for the article and full video on this discussion. 💫

post traumatic sandwich disorder

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I could smell the onions and mustard. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

“Was it intentional, Agent Lairmore?”
“Pardon me?”
“You heard me. Do you think he condiment to do it?”

Makes sense & thx for that article!

Am I off base for thinking a 50 to 75 percent voting rate could overcome gerrymandering?

I think we barely hit 30%

a man wearing a beanie and headphones is holding a cell phone and says `` thanks for asking . '' Alt: NFL running back Marshawn Lynch repeatedly and solely answering ``thanks for asking” to every question in order keep from getting fined for missing or ignoring media sessions.

Older than older…

Didn’t know that the 1st assembly language was developed by Kathleen Booth.

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero