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If Trump declares an "emergency" and rigs the midterms so the GOP wins, there will likely be kinetic civil war.

Americans are armed to the teeth, and there is only so much they can take before the anger reaches a critical mass.

📌 The draft order, which Trump has reviewed, would mandate the use of voter ID and hand-counted ballots, and ban mail-in ballots ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

BUT

📌 Article I of the Constitution assigns power to regulate elections to state legislatures and Congress, not the executive.

DANGER ⚠️ DANGER

Pro-Trump lawyers are circulating a draft executive order.

The bogus claim: China interfered in 2020 and justifies a national emergency declaration that would give Trump sweeping power over U.S. elections.
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The SAVE Act is built to trip women up. About 69 million married women have names that do not match their birth certificates, and this bill turns that paperwork into a weapon against their voice.

Screw the patriarchy. #SaveActTaxesYourVote
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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Can confirm that although #NASA's SDO mission was given a small budget boost by #Congress in the Jan Minibus, we've been told to expect btw a 12.5% and 18% cut. Haven't been able to track down where cuts are coming from (OMB?). This is actively going against Congress.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🍀 Competition 🍀

💸 Design the logo for next year's International Advances in Plant Virology IAPV 2027
📆 6 - 8th April
📍Cambridge, UK

📧 Send your logo design to jordan@aab.org.uk by 1st May 2026 for your chance to win free registration!

At ever stage of my career, undergrad to Professor, I (unknowingly) had to work with harassers and misogynists that were known to others to be awful. The harm caused to young female scientists continues without consequence or accountability. Turns out it’s not a “leaky pipe” it’s a damn fire hose.

We Fact Checked Trump’s State of the Union So You Don’t Have To Last night, Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address, which was nothing short of one long fabrication.

We Fact Checked Trump’s State of the Union So You Don’t Have To:

CHRIST this was a bitch to alt text (my phone camera is allergic to this font) but it was worth it so we could enjoy this scorching hot Catholic tea together

they just flat out said the SCOTUS Catholics are going to hell. which we knew, but maybe they’ll hear it from the bishops!

DHS abducts Columbia student from college housing Agents lied about looking for a missing child to enter the building, officials said.

Federal immigration agents detained a Columbia University student on Thursday morning after reportedly gaining access to university housing by falsely claiming they were looking for a missing person, according to Claire Shipman, Columbia’s acting president.

Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying.

Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free.

So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.

Meme of Trump looking terrified. It reads: You’re next, asshole!

RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES

RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES

RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES

RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES

RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES

RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES

RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES

#TrumpIsGuilty #LockHimUpAlready

Inspired and amazed by the interesting and thought-provoking sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting, the 40+ members of the @snapcoalition.bsky.social I had the honor to meet in person (finally!), and the ideas and conversations that took place.

Jordan and I hope you enjoy this AAAS reflection!

I can’t say it better than @disha-patel3.bsky.social already did. The opportunity to meet 40+ SNAPpers at #AAASmtg and then reflect on a year of @snapcoalition.bsky.social? Priceless!

Please enjoy our new blog post on Medium: medium.com/science-poli...

Happy Birthday, SNAP! Reflecting on an Eventful First Year at the AAAS Annual Meeting Written by SNAP members Disha Patel and Jordan Williams

New blog post just dropped!

Read to learn about the #SNAPcoalition experience at the @aaas.org conference in #Phoenix and to hear more about some of the work SNAP is doing.

#AAASmtg #AAAS2026

medium.com/p/eea4fcbf7de7

"As a #WomanInSTEM researching #AMR, I explore 🍄 antifungal resistance in soil & compost, and 💊multidrug resistance in wastewater. My work focuses on understanding how resistance spreads in the environment to help protect public health & shape sustainable solutions. 🌍🔬" - @rachelapayne.bsky.social

Whoa, very cool! I feel like this is something @epiplantpath.bsky.social would find very interesting.

(PDS) Targeting Septal Plugging to Disrupt the Evolution of Antifungal Resistance in Hyphal Networks at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - (PDS) Targeting Septal Plugging to Disrupt the Evolution of Antifungal Resistance in Hyphal Networks at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD Opportunity: Are you interested in evolutionary biology and the global challenge of antifungal resistance?
We are seeking a motivated candidate for a President’s Doctoral Scholar Award
📅Deadline: March 16 2026
📍Location: @manchester.ac.uk @fbmh-uom.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Elizabeth Warren: "This one is to me not even open or arguable. How would the US government keep money that the Supreme Court said it did not legally collect from American businesses, that it did not legally take away from American families that ultimately paid this?"

Yes ‼️👍🏻👇🏼

A person snow blowing their driveway except they have a giant hand for a head. Having a hand for a head has not impaired their vision or prevented them from using a snow blower safely. Hand Person says, "I love my life." The text reads" Think about hands. In 2021, there were 4200 snow blower injuries treated in ERs across the US. Over 40% of injuries were to the wrist, hand, or finger. Turn your snow blower off and use a cleanout tool or a long stick, NOT your hands, to unclog wet snow and debris from the machine.

Think about hands.

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

The ICE surge in Minnesota isn’t over — it just moved outside of the Metro.

ICE agents are still terrorizing innocent people in the suburbs. They’re targeting bus stops and hospitals and parks and being more deceptive than ever.

This isn’t over until ICE is out of the ENTIRE state.

New Hampshire judge announces formal end to Trump policy against DEI in schools • New Hampshire Bulletin A New Hampshire federal judge formally dismissed a yearlong lawsuit against the Trump administration’s “anti-DEI” directive to public schools — weeks after both sides agreed it is no longer necessary. 

When the Department of Education issued vague threats to defund schools that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, we sued and now they're backing down.

This is a win for students' right to a full and honest education.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. This was the headline and lede from The Daily Mirror: Nobel prize for a wife from Oxford A HOUSEWIFE and mother of three yesterday won the €18,750 Nobel chemistry prize for a lifetime devotion to science.

🧪We have come a long way

For some context, Dr. Dorothy Hodgkin received her PhD from Newnham College Cambridge (1937). Her research was on X-ray crystallography

She was:
1. A professor at Oxford

2. The first British woman scientist to win a Nobel

Trump claimed his big EPA climate rollback will save Americans money. That's very unlikely. The agency's own analysis shows that the costs will probably overwhelm any savings.

The Trump administration claims its latest move to gut climate regulations and end all greenhouse gas standards for vehicles will save Americans money.

But its own analysis indicates that the new rule will push up gas prices, and that the benefits of the rollback are unlikely to outweigh the costs.

We’re happy to share that we’ve been selected to continue as the communication and marketing agency for Fundación la Caixa. After three years working side by side, being trusted again by a client we admire means a lot to us. A demanding tender, an inspiring project, and a partnership we truly value!

When half of the gaze is missing, science loses depth.

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. And beyond celebration, it’s a good moment to reflect.

#11F #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

Wisconsin passes expanded Medicaid for moms, would leave Arkansas as only state without it Women in Wisconsin will soon be eligible to receive expanded Medicaid coverage for up to a year after giving birth following passage of a measure by the Wisconsin Assembly.

Women in Wisconsin will soon be eligible to receive expanded Medicaid coverage for up to a year after giving birth following near-unanimous passage of a measure Thursday by the Wisconsin Assembly that would leave Arkansas as the only state yet to expand such benefits.
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