Ray Mel

Poseidón y su sirena

“La niñez trans existe”: madres piden a Jenniffer González que vete medida que prohibiría tratamientos de afirmación de género El Proyecto del Senado 350 fue aprobado –en ambos cuerpos– sin vistas públicas y, ante la posibilidad de que la gobernadora lo convierta en ley, familias piden empatía y respeto hacia sus hijos, que p...

Éstas son las experiencias que hay que escuchar cuando se habla de este tema: simple y sencillamente gente que ha vivido la experiencia, no gente que le teme o la imagina www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/gob...

Column | The Smithsonian could be the beginning of Trump’s plan to edit history. Or the end. The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do.

If the Smithsonian stands up, this could be a turning point in Trump's assault on the cultural infrastructure of America. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Exclusive: US NIH scientists barred from attending conferences on their own time and dime Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off, three current and former NIH scientists told Reuters.

Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT

Map of the continental USA in orange with black dots at the locations of all universities where visas have been revoked.

This @insidehighered.com website is tracking visa revocations of students across the US, >600 at >100 colleges as of today, April 10. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

New York Times headline reading "New York says it does not intend to comply with D.E.I. order on schools"

Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

🚨🚨🚨

Muertos a los que nadie llora: la mayoría de los cadáveres sin reclamar que son cremados son adultos mayores El 52% de los casi 400 cuerpos de los que el ICF dispuso entre 2023 y 2024 eran personas de más de 65 años

Durante los últimos dos años, la mayoría de cadáveres nos reclamados en el Instituto de Ciencias Forenses son de adultos mayores, otra desgarradora manifestación del abandono de este sector de la población. Mi reportaje especial de hoy www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/loc...

No Esencia!!!!

How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.

After ICE came knocking at her door, a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University fled to Canada. “The atmosphere seemed so volatile and dangerous. So I just made a quick decision.”

Turmoil rocks Columbia University as Trump administration demands changes — or else The Trump administration delivered an ultimatum to leaders of Columbia University: Make a series of major changes or lose out on billions in federal aid.

The Trump administration delivered an ultimatum to leaders of Columbia University: Make a series of major changes or lose out on billions in federal aid.

Microplastics could be reducing photosynthesis, study finds It’s a new sign of how the tiny plastic particles are affecting the natural world.

Microplastics are floating in the air around us, surging through rivers and streams and burrowing deep into soils.

And now, a new study suggests that all those tiny pieces of plastics are also disrupting the growth of plants.

Musk is actively working to discredit our movement. We raised legitimate concerns about the threat of SSA phone line cancellations—yet now they’re dismissing it as misinformation. This follows a clear pattern of deception.

Yale Scholar Banned After A.I. News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.

The deputy director of a left-leaning project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she's linked to a group the U.S. government says funds terrorists — a claim that surfaced three days ago on a news site that's powered at least in part by A.I., and one she denies.

La hora del Plan B: Trump y una orden ejecutiva de descolonización La reciente noticia publicada en el periódico inglés Daily Mail sobre la posibilidad de que Donald Trump considere firmar una orden ejecutiva para conceder la independencia a Puerto Rico ha causado un...

El abogado Rolando Emmanueli, uno de los proponentes de la independencia por orden ejecutiva, explica aquí sus razones y cómo el cree que esto podría ocurrir www.periodicolaperla.com/perspectiva/...

USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal bureaucracy and slash costs.

USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula

ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism

Can you #FindThatLizard (reveal at the end of the thread)
Ps bonus points if you can tell me who that is in the 2nd to last post! 🦎

#science #game #scicomm

However, there is one additional area, not mentioned in the article, in which I have experienced a sort of ease and indeed joy. I really love defending the institution of the liberal arts college in general and the UNO College of Arts and Sciences in particular. Never in my professional life have I been so sure I am right and felt so committed to an idea and an enterprise. It is easy to justify the cost of something that is priceless. It is easy to defend the necessity of an institution that, in addition to being able to assert its importance to the economics and culture of our metropolitan region, can also take significant credit for Western Civilization, the moral progress of human kind over the past 200 years, the advances of science, the functioning of our democracy, the increase in compassion and tolerance in our society, and the development of the information age in which we live.

I often think about something my dad wrote during a time of budget cuts and crisis. He was about as hard-nosed a reductionist science guy as they come.

Anyway, I hope uni leaders decide knowledge, progress, the liberal arts, and democracy are worthy of full-throated defense in the public sphere.

Thousands “Stand Up for Science” across the country Including Nobel laureates, climate researchers, and parents of kids saved by groundbreaking drugs.

Thousands “Stand Up for Science” Across the Country

Including Nobel laureates, climate researchers, and parents of kids saved by groundbreaking drugs.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

8M: las manifestaciones del día internacional de la mujer, en directo | El Gobierno aumentará un 50% el número de jueces especializados en violencia contra la mujer El feminismo marcha contra la oleada global de la extrema derecha y para reivindicar el fin de la violencia contra las mujeres o el freno | Las protestas se dividen por cuarto año consecutivo en una v...

🔴 El Gobierno aumentará un 50% el número de jueces especializados en violencia contra la mujer buff.ly/54Iso6s

Cancellation of NIH summer internships disrupts ‘vital’ training program for U.S. scientists The NIH cancelled an internship program that gave more than 1,000 college students hands-on research training each summer

NEW: In every way, shape, form, actions being taken say ‘don’t go into science,’ Donna Ginther told me as NIH forced to cancel programs to train future researchers. More than 1,000 students, including one who emailed 60 PIs, now scrambling to find positions. www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/t...

Graph between 1/20 and 2/28 of fiscal year 2024 and 2025 new awards in the EDU directorate.

🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day.

Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience

Thread👇🧵

LGBTQ+ researchers face unique challenges in the field. One key finding from our last project, creating resources for safe, inclusive and equitable fieldwork more generally, was that individual groups also needed bespoke guidance to support specific issues. inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/guidelines/

This past weekend, @washingtonpost.com published our 16-page special section on the Sahel — a region of the world that over the past decade has been transformed by conflict.

A thread below of reporting highlights from 12+ trips to the region & each of the stories in 📰

The Most Common COVID Symptoms Doctors Are Seeing In Winter 2025 In many parts of the country, COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the rise.

In many parts of the country, COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the rise.

Scientists troubled after analyzing waters of catastrophic off-shore oil spill decade later: 'There has been this massive quieting' The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 was the largest marine oil spill in the petroleum industry.

Deep. Water Horizon
Ten Years On

www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...

‘We’re Sitting Ducks’: Abortion Providers Brace For Violence After Trump Limits Clinic Protections The president has limited enforcement of the FACE Act — created to safeguard abortion providers and patients — and pardoned 23 people who were convicted of the federal charge.

NEW: Abortion providers brace for violence after Trump limits clinic protections.

"It’s signaling to people who oppose abortion that they can take the law into their own hands and there won’t be consequences for that.”