Anna Shusterman

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Just to underscore:

Trans people, we aren't "issues".

Me, I'm not an "ideology".

I'm a human, like anyone else.

The only "ideology" here is those bigots who use such rhetoric in their effort to dehumanize trans people — because they want us gone.

I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Dear God.

Hire and ICE: Reporter uncovers huge lapses in ICE hiring On this edition, we talk with Laura Jedeed, a reporter who fake-applied for a job with ICE only to discover the organization's shockingly lax hiring policies. Then we talk with Senator Ron Wyden on th...

A journalist recently decided to apply out of curiosity. She has critiqued ICE, did not fill out their background check questionnaire (self-report your crime history), failed the drug test, and still received an offer. So no, they’re not really vetted it seems. www.klcc.org/podcast/oreg...

Screenshot of title page of an article published in "Journal of Experimental Psychology: General" titled "Your Research Is Public Engagement: A Case for More Intentional Science Communication in Research With Human Subjects."

Very cool idea to view research studies as opportunities for science communication! A more thoughtful approach to debriefing and other aspects of research might help the public better understand how science works and why it is valuable. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/xge0...

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

Photo of a long horizontal fossil trunk that is partly broken up and laying in sandstone. A person in a bright red coat is standing at the other end of the trunk from the photographer. Photo by P Ryberg.

A doubly old 'Christmas tree' this #FossilFriday! This was taken on Dec. 23 2010 during my 1st trip to Antarctica & shows a large fossil tree from the Triassic, 240 million years ago. The locality is high in the Transantarctic Mountains, above the Antarctic icesheet 🌿⛏️🏔️ Happy holidays!
#paleobotany

Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones.

The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.

There's always one detail that will crack your heart entirely open.

2 dead, 9 wounded in shooting at Brown University; suspect still at large Brown professor says shooting happened in a study session for her economics class

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The TA leading the study session where the shooting occurred, and later the professor, went to the hospital to be with their students. This is the Brown I know and love. Heartbroken for everyone. 💔

“Most of us live off Hope”

Ever true 💔

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year.
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We’re searching for TWO tenure-track cognitive neuroscientists here in the Wesleyan University Psychology Department! Apply here wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers

Israeli protesters push harder for hostage deal as divide with Netanyahu deepens | CNN Worlds away from the public outrage and cries of protest echoing through Tel Aviv’s packed streets on Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu beamed from the podium in Jerusalem, his words ...

In Israel, hundred of thousands take to the street opposing Netanyahu's planned military campaign in Gaza City and demanding that he accept the hostage release deal already accepted by Hamas. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/m...

NSF STEM K-12 (STEM K-12)

🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed:

Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs.

Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.

Palestinians face Israeli gunfire for flour in north Gaza Desperate Palestinians are risking gunfire, looting or being crushed by moving trucks to get flour in northern Gaza.

Desperate Palestinians are risking gunfire, looting or being crushed by moving trucks to get flour in northern Gaza.

6-Year-Old NYC Elementary School Student and Her Mom Deported The mother's 19-year-old son remains in ICE custody in New Jersey, while her distraught teenage minor is now in the care of her 21-year-old brother.

Last week, ICE arrested a six-year-old Queens public school student at her family's scheduled check-in. This morning, she was deported along with her mother. One of her siblings remains in detention.

The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.

UCLA Rejects Trump Demands To Capitulate To Anti-Trans Policies—For Now The university has refused to bow to the President’s sweeping list of anti-transgender demands—bucking a growing trend of large universities that have caved to similar pressure.

1. Unlike other prestigious universities, UCLA appears to be rejecting Trump's demands to throw transgender people under the bus and enact draconian anti-trans policies.

The government is holding their funding hostage and threatening them with massive fines.

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Anas Al-Sharif أنس الشريف @ This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings. Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so l could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah's will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls. I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where l am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards. I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend-patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith. I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.

O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it. Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025 This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom. 3:25 PM • 8/10/25 • 675K Views

The final statement by Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, written months ago in anticipation of his likely death, posted on Twitter/X by a friend. Israel assassinated him tonight along with his reporting team in an airstrike in Gaza.

Florida AG Subpoenas Venue For A List Of Guests Who Attended A Drag Show Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wants to intimidate drag queens and gay bars. It’s not going as planned.

1. Florida has subpoenaed a drag bar for a list of attendees to a drag show, in what could be a new first for anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.

Their goal is to end drag in the state.

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Nora S. Newcombe and Robert Glushko stand together smiling on stage at CogSci 2025. Nora wears the Rumelhart Prize medal around her neck

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.