and then finding out people were abducted two blocks from where we live; man does it take you right out of the moment

my spouse just finished their swearing in ceremony to become a citizen and the judge was so lovely and kind and it did bring a tear to my eye until the other 50% of the ceremony which tells people that when required they may need to take up arms against people domestically or abroad

As access to contraception spread it changed our world – making it newly possible for more women to build prestigious careers and civic lives. I've spent my career carefully contributing to the evidence of this amazing, messy process. So I know that it has done a lot of good and this will hurt many.

this is also true of graduate school applications to this day

@nlgchicago.bsky.social is trying to raise $10k to fund ongoing legal support for protesters. They've had to cover long shifts at Broadview, and their volunteers have been repeatedly assaulted by police in the process. More info with ways to donate here: instagram.com/p/DP36ITJja-W/

i have straight up skipped the “i should drop and start a bakery” part of the PhD and circled back to “i should go to law school”

air mattress maybe? easier to pack up

Paid sick leave laws help workers access health care, with the strongest positive effects for employees in construction, retail, and service jobs (industries that have historically lacked this basic benefit). #WorkersRights #PaidSickDays

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3KQ5IVg

NEW: The federal health office that runs the Title X family planning program was wiped out on Friday, but workers there remained in the dark until today because layoff notices were sent to email accounts they had already been locked out of.
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Remember when the Trump administration pledged to increase federal support for IVF and reduce costs? Well, as @notus.com reports, the administration "appears to have fired all but one person" from the office that oversees all federal family-planning initiatives. www.notus.org/health-scien...

i know they’re probably printing money as is but if reese’s wanted even more, they should make a fluffernutter reese’s cup

Faculty unions fighting back.

"At Cal State, a faculty union filed suit Friday in state court after learning the personal phone numbers and email addresses of 2,600 Los Angeles campus employees were turned over to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission..."

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Wow. NHANES js incredibly for population health surveillance, and is nationally representative as well. What a loss.

my emotional support video game is dropping a new game this week and i gotta make an amendment to my IRB instead of ripping through it 😢

AMEN

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

Very sad to have published this obituary tonight, but tried to do her legacy justice

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

www.them.us/story/miss-m...

My quarterly bill is due for accessing federal court documents. These docs *should* be free but aren’t—though I do share my uploads via the great @free.law project. Support @autonomynews.co with a paid membership or tip jar offering to cover these costs
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controlled demolition of your society is a great time to go to grad school

The first Pregnancy Loss Support Policy for staff in an Irish university has been launched by UCC, marking a significant step forward in workplace wellbeing and inclusion.

www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

for what will be the fifth time, a project i contributed to will not be submitted for publication and i cannot stress how much this sucks as i am going on to the job market :)

“Among those wrongly dismissed were the top 2 leaders of the federal measles response team, those working to contain Ebola in DRC, members of the EIS, &…the MMWR [team].

After NYT reported the dismissals, 2 federal health officials said on Sat that many of those workers were being brought back.”🧪🛟

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)