Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

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I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.

She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.

The Trump administration planned to kick thousands of American seniors off of their disability benefits.

We pushed back — and now, they're backing off.

Public pressure works. Keep fighting back.

Asking questions during seminars is a great way to practice public speaking.

It helps you learn to be clear and concise and hopefully to think deeply about a subject and to be polite. People around you will notice and take note of your words - good or bad.

One Species -> Many IDs: Applying enterprise "Entity Resolution" to Biodiversity Data Here's a crazy idea. What if we treat species identifiers in the biodiversity data landscape the same way commercial organisations treat customers? Hear me out.

Love to hear your thought on this. @rdmpage.bsky.social @dshorthouse.bsky.social @debpaul.bsky.social 🦉 I wrote a post on treating species identifiers with the same rigour as enterprise entity resolution. Not a new idea but we have to think about the scale. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-sp...

Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2025) Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2025)

If you're going to be at #SC25 tomorrow (Sunday) and are interested in research software engineering #RSEng, you might come to the RSE-HPC-2025 workshop - us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2025/ - from 9:00 to 5:30 in room 267

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."

—FDR, 1936

The First Step: A Trip to Portland, Exploring the Heart of Garment Innovation at the Functional Fabric Fair Our mission at Surface Athletic is to create the ultimate water sport athletic wear using cutting edge fabrics and materials that align with our commitment t...

A year ago we started developing a bikini that's actually made for movement. In our inaugural SubSurface blog post see what a crash course in supply chain management courtesy of the Functional Fabric Fair looks like.
#surfaceathletic #MadeForMovement #fashiondesign #swimwear

A leafy path through green forest

The white, black and pink face of a baby Zanzibar Red Colobus monkey peeking through leaves.

A brown and rufous elephant shrew in vegetation

A brown elephant shrew in vegetation

Day #2 in Tanzania: The beautiful UNESCO & IUCN listed Jozani Forest (the only national park in Zanzibar): monkeys & elephant shrews #HomewardBound @inaturalist.bsky.social

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

Mandatory garden break: Crisp autumn morning

“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.”

-Zohran Mamdani

I went to see Shirley Valentine with C and a mate of hers. When he throws the dinner at her early in the film I've never forgotten that collective quiet groan that many women in the audience made. It was the groan of recognition and solidarity. That film had levels. RIP Pauline Collins.

Greetings from NFDI4Bioimage Task Area Leader Björn Grüning at the #EOSCSymposium2025, which is taking place from November 3 to 5 at Brussels. At the conference, Björn Grüning presents the #Galaxy use case, which is one of the first #EOSC candidate use cases.

👉 gxy.io/eosc25

Picture: Nicolas Lobet

Our article about #RegRed (an effort to collate data on species' Red List assessments at regional, national, and sub-national levels) is now available on @natureconservation.pensoft.net. Follow our GitHub project for news and updates 📣 github.com/RegRed-project

Trump says he's sending the National Guard to crime-ridden "hellholes," but homicide rates across major cities have been falling.

In Portland, murders were down 39%.

In Chicago, they were down 22%.

Trump's deployments are about authoritarian control, not "law and order."

We are delighted to announce that we have reached 1,000 followers on Bluesky 🎉

Many thanks to our growing @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social community for your interest in the topics that concern us as a consortium and for accompanying us on our journey towards FAIR-compliant research data management.

What cheese did you choose? (And yes, I wouldn’t use “American cheese” either). I’d use a tangy aged cheddar (Kerry Gold, for example). For a fancy version— you could use Gruyère 😋

Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...

At #LivingData2025 @rdmpage.bsky.social digs through @boldsystems.bsky.social data trying to improve x-refs to sequences and publications. Need to get data out of publications to be able to make these links.

‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy

‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America

Maga is painting Saturday’s protests as violent treason. Prove them wrong | Judith Levine Trump allies would love an excuse to step up their crackdown. Nonviolence, both disciplined and open-hearted, must define the day

No one needs to "prove" MAGA attacks on protests wrong; they are wrong. Nonviolence should be the chosen path in principle, not as an attempt to appease MAGA critics who will surely find another excuse to smear the protesters, regardless of what they do.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A collage of images from the GBIF global nodes training

💪Train today, mobilize data tomorrow ⚡

Delegates from around the world at the Global Nodes Training are participating in modules organized by the GBIF Community and Capacity team and led by subject-matter expert trainers.

#Bogotá #Colombia

Can you get your #biodiversitydata to @gbif.org sans #IPT direct from @taxonworks.bsky.social? Yes! with open extended specimen data too (resource relationships, biological associations, media)

#People #Networks. @vmshirey.bsky.social does this bring back memories? #TaxonName #Authors #dataviz #WoRMS #CatalogueOfLife look!

Imagine what you might see if you could visualize relationships across data object-entity relationships in your database. See #TaxonWorks #biologicalassociations #magic #Miridae. @entcollnet.bsky.social @gbif.org @dissco.bsky.social have a look-see

Database of fish fauna collected from river channels on alluvial fans in the Kofu Basin, central Japan Alluvial fans, located near mountainous regions, are characterised by substantial sediment supply, large variations in flow and significant disturbances. The river channels on alluvial fans support a ...

A fish survey was conducted at a total of 26 sites across four river channels on alluvial fans in the Kofu Basin, central Japan.

#ichthyofauna #watershed #rivers

doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

@nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social Task Area Leaders Josh Moore and Christian Tischer will introduce participants to the history and basics of OME-Zarr at the international 2025 OME-NGFF Symposium from November 10–11 in Zurich, SW.
Register here:
👉 www.ema.uzh.ch/de/register/...
Picture by BioVisionCenter

#microCT scan of the left palpal bulb (male copulatory organ) of a grass spider I found wandering Beckman's hallways last week! 😍(He was on his last legs when he was preserved for the scan). Taken in the Microscopy Suite of @beckmanillinois.bsky.social and rendered in the Visualization Lab.