Heather Barnett

Oh wow, I didn't realize there's no update till Monday!

Thank you, this stuff has been making me nervous 🤞🤞

Mamdani decries anti-semitism and Islamophobia in the same sentence and it’s fine and good because normal people can handle that combo

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

RFK Jr. poses a danger to the health and safety of all Americans. From cutting critical cancer research to spreading lies about Tylenol, it’s very clear RFK Jr. is not fit to serve.

That’s why I’m drafting articles of impeachment to remove him from office.

Know what creates empathy? Books. Reading about people unlike ourselves and experiences we'll never have. Which is why some people want to remove those books and discourage reading. Kids and adults should read widely. Most spend their spare time online, which is where indoctrination often begins.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?

We simply do not have to live this way.

People whose #1 issue is Trans athletes are not winnable. 0% of these people are materially impacted by Trans people in sports. They are not voting because of a fundamental concern about fairness, they are voting because of bigotry. If you give up Trans people, they will find another scapegoat.

As @neillewisjr.bsky.social said (bsky.app/profile/neil...), this is not sustainable, & we will have to do less. Academia is already rife with unpaid labor.

Again, the same courses/labs/degree programs simply will not exist, & the quality of what's left will decline. You can't have it without $.

For the record, botox does not contain mRNA. It is a protein.

The best time to delete this is now.

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Georgia detainee with prosthetic legs who objected to flooded cell sent to solitary Rodney Taylor placed in ‘restrictive unit’ for refusing to enter flooded cell because his prosthetic legs can’t get wet

For ICE detainees w/disabilities, it's “mismanagement bordering on medical neglect” - Amy Zeidan, rschr at Emory University
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@juliametraux.bsky.social @tomaskenn.bsky.social @kathleenbush.bsky.social

Much appreciated. Give some of these folks a follow
go.bsky.app/LQZYUdE

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

I’ve been teaching the histories of eugenics for over a decade and I honestly never thought I would be able to use an American Eagle ad in a lecture to demonstrate how dangerously normalized eugenics has become in 2025. A lot of it is the global ascendancy of far right fascism but also the pandemic.

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

I’m obviously deeply worried and invested in the existential threat to science, but there won’t be any science if we don’t have a functioning federal government

WATCH: “I saw cowards— obeying to authoritarianism that was out of line, pissing on the constitution.”

NYC baseball coach who stood up to ICE was disappointed others didn’t step in to help protect the kids from Trump’s Gestapo.

"Reply all" really should require multi-factor authentication.

This is worth reading and I'm grateful for it

I don't think it's unreasonable to think that a vacancy in the position responsible for coordination with local agencies affected communication with local agencies. The forecast did not "fail" but that doesn't mean there weren't impacts of staffing shortages

There is much better coverage in local news that does give more information and at least answers some of these questions. One of the key vacancies in NWS was the warning coordination meteorologist, who took an early retirement offered by the Trump admin. www.kxan.com/investigatio...

Apparently Texas sends mass “Blue Alerts” to phones every time a cop is in danger.

And a lot of people are so understandably sick of it that they’ve *turned emergency alerts off entirely*, meaning that they aren’t getting actually-useful notifications.

www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/f...

Gift link: wapo.st/3IcNOLa

If you have limited internet access or phone service, here's a version of our guide that's easier to load: texastribune.org/text/hQ22z4et/

Traditionally it was radio alerts but likely now other emergency alert systems are also involved (phone text/app).