Mike Hill

This is legitimately insane. It's not an exaggeration to say this is actually a full on bathroom ban for trans people because they're banned from using spaces of their sex assigned at birth too!

U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain

Please share widely with friends, family, and foes. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

fuck homophobia

#FACTS

“Come and Cavort!" The first Gay-In at Griffith Park was held #OTD in 1968. #LGBTQhistory

Photos of the 1970 #GriffithPark Gay-in, via ONE Archives at @usclibraries.bsky.social:

A meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the top panel, one man labeled "literally every company" hands a plate labeled "AI" to a man labeled "me." In the bottom panel, the man labeled "me" nonchalantly tosses the plate down the hallway, discarding it with casual disdain while the first man watches.

Time to post it again.

A collection of biscuits painted in shades of brown, yellow, and red. The designs are medieval depictions of people, buildings, text, and symbols. Some designs are 3D, with shields, insignia, or symmetrical patterns raised above the royal icing base. Many of the biscuits look as though they are chipped or cracked. All appear old and dirty.

Almost done! I couldn’t leave out this edible assortment of medieval tiles from the British Museum.

The biscuit recipe was inspired by flavours from the same period: honey, ginger, and clove.

A square biscuit decorated with tiny rough squares of royal icing, creating a mosaic effect. In the centre of the design is a four-leaf flower in shades of red, yellow, and cream. Around the edge of the design is an intertwining strand motif, in shades of red, yellow, and grey. The surface of the biscuit is dirty to create the effect of an excavated mosaic.

Have you ever had the urge to eat a Roman mosaic? This one (the real one, not the biscuit) was found in London by MOLA archaeologists, and dates from the late 2nd to 3rd century CE.

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Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.

Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.

This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.

Take it here:

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 7!!

SAVE THE FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE! MAKE A COMMENT TODAY!!!

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Are YOU sitting around, reading the headlines, feeling powerless and scared?

Wish there was a way to just DO SOMETHING????

Boy, have I got the thing for you!

@standupforscience.bsky.social has an ambitious goal of hosting 1000 teach-ins across the nation between now and 9/30

#standupforscience

All this time spent arguing that you are entitled to compare the loss of your research funding with an ongoing genocide when you could just be talking about how the genocide is bad and your funding is important

Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash I have something you can do in five minutes or less that can help salvage the integrity of the federal civil service,...

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A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

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“But Hutchins had good reason to protect his data, based on a different principle of fairness: the right of Indigenous people to control how data about them, their lands, and their cultures are collected and used.”

YouTube video by Meet a Mathematician MEET a Mathematician! - Dr. Adriana Salerno

MEET Dr. Adriana Salerno! 🥰
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Alt text: this is an image of Dr. Adriana Salerno holding the Meet a Mathematician sign

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NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.

Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

partisans, not scientists, decide if science is partisan Last month, Audra Wolfe wrote a fantastic post about how science is and always has been political. In the post, she analyzes statements from Nature and Scientific American, both of which endorsed J…

if you teach, you are engaged in an inherently political--but not necessarily partisan--act

the political vs partisan distinction stays kicking people's ass

this old @asociologist.bsky.social is very helpful on this
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated.

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hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...

Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !

As someone who teaches CS Ethics in an engineering school, this op-ed was infuriating haha

NEW Blog Post: What does teaching look like in YOUR mathematics classroom? — We need your input!

A quick plug for a survey we're running.

Tell us what you think about explicit and inquiry teaching in Australian mathematics classrooms.

And please share widely!

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A list outlining policies for the use of public workplace facilities by trans individuals. Key points include that trans women (biological men) and trans men (biological women) should not use facilities designated for the opposite biological sex, as this would make them no longer single-sex. In some cases, trans individuals may also be restricted from using facilities of their own biological sex. It suggests the provision of mixed-sex facilities where possible and allows for gender-neutral use of lockable single-person rooms.

New interim guidance from the UK "Equality and Human Rights Commission." Trans people are effectively banned from all bathrooms.

www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

I think it is wildly unethical to hold important events in the United States expecting people from other countries to come here

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The Disordered Cosmos From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. Winner...

So on a much lighter note … this week’s New Scientist column (coming tomorrow!) is about . . . neutrinos!!!! 🥁

Can’t wait? Grab a copy of my book, which is available in hard/paper/audio/ebook #BookSky #scicomm

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In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know. A court order that would have delayed the deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh was issued while her plane was on the tarmac, but it took off anyway.

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