Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
@pearlbear.com
Black, Trans, Queer, mulit-genre writer. Ph.D. Neuroscience. MFA student Antioch University. Cazadero, CA & Seattle, WA
https://maxwellpearl.com
https://overlappingmagisteria.com
https://maxwellpearl.com
https://overlappingmagisteria.com
Pinned
Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
@pearlbear.com
· Jan 6
A 🧵on my books, in order:
The Casitian Universe Omnibus
📚 3 Novels
👽Good aliens
🌈Queer characters
💖Love stories
🌼Optimistic
🚀Space travel (a little)
🪐Planet colonization
⚠️ Culture clash
Soon to be out in paper!
author.maxwellpearl.com/pages/the-ca...
The Casitian Universe Omnibus
📚 3 Novels
👽Good aliens
🌈Queer characters
💖Love stories
🌼Optimistic
🚀Space travel (a little)
🪐Planet colonization
⚠️ Culture clash
Soon to be out in paper!
author.maxwellpearl.com/pages/the-ca...
Speaking as an ex-scientist who hasn't published in a long time, but has some benefit of distance. A start:
- make employment/tenure review about quality, not quantity of papers
- focus on open-access journals and move away from for-profit journal model
- have more robust peer-review systems
- make employment/tenure review about quality, not quantity of papers
- focus on open-access journals and move away from for-profit journal model
- have more robust peer-review systems
How do we make sense of scientific literature that is growing explosively to the point where no-one could read all the relevant papers, and is contaminated with fraudulent and LLM-generated papers? I think that science isn't currently equipped to deal with this, and we need to. #science #metascience
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Speaking as an ex-scientist who hasn't published in a long time, but has some benefit of distance. A start:
- make employment/tenure review about quality, not quantity of papers
- focus on open-access journals and move away from for-profit journal model
- have more robust peer-review systems
- make employment/tenure review about quality, not quantity of papers
- focus on open-access journals and move away from for-profit journal model
- have more robust peer-review systems
Important details about the bill.
Very important for people to read this portion of the Epstein Files Transparency Act so you understand 1) why Mike Johnson was so upset today, and 2) what is NOT permitted to be redacted by the DOJ.
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Important details about the bill.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
billboard seen in London.
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
billboard seen in London.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
It’s pretty simple.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
November 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It’s pretty simple.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
Who’s putting it at risk, @sfn.org ?
This passive voice stuff has got to stop. We have to name the people destroying US leadership in science.
(Hint: Trump. Vought. Bhattacharya. RFK. Say their names.)
This passive voice stuff has got to stop. We have to name the people destroying US leadership in science.
(Hint: Trump. Vought. Bhattacharya. RFK. Say their names.)
"The U.S. has been a world leader in research for decades, and that leadership position is now at risk," said SfN President John H. Morrison in a new NPR article.
Read more SfN member perspectives: vist.ly/4eqvy
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Read more SfN member perspectives: vist.ly/4eqvy
#neurosky #neuroskyence
As funding falters, young brain scientists rethink careers in research
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants.
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Who’s putting it at risk, @sfn.org ?
This passive voice stuff has got to stop. We have to name the people destroying US leadership in science.
(Hint: Trump. Vought. Bhattacharya. RFK. Say their names.)
This passive voice stuff has got to stop. We have to name the people destroying US leadership in science.
(Hint: Trump. Vought. Bhattacharya. RFK. Say their names.)
Dancing that "I got a piece accepted to a literary journal" happy dance today!
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Dancing that "I got a piece accepted to a literary journal" happy dance today!
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
Hearing this, remembering people I knew, this rings so true. Hits hard.
A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Hearing this, remembering people I knew, this rings so true. Hits hard.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
We should bring back the old idea that *every* young adult American manditorially do some kind of service. It's pretty clear to me that a stinking, gangrenous rot grows when people with power and money have no sense of service to society. This has to be cured. Oh, also eliminate billionaires.
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We should bring back the old idea that *every* young adult American manditorially do some kind of service. It's pretty clear to me that a stinking, gangrenous rot grows when people with power and money have no sense of service to society. This has to be cured. Oh, also eliminate billionaires.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
Jeffrey Epstein justified his evil actions with "science"
Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women
Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically
Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women
Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Jeffrey Epstein justified his evil actions with "science"
Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women
Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically
Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women
Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically
I have actually read both of these...
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I have actually read both of these...
Most woke opinion: Everyone, no matter who they are or how they got here, deserves a solid roof over their head, a full pantry and fridge, free health care, free child care, and a free pre-K->college education.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Most woke opinion: Everyone, no matter who they are or how they got here, deserves a solid roof over their head, a full pantry and fridge, free health care, free child care, and a free pre-K->college education.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
Just lies and disingenuity all the way down. This is the feds revoking, not California, with the duel goal of punishing CA and continuing the path of ethnic cleansing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
California will revoke 17,000 commercial drivers licences given to immigrants
The Trump administration is working to keep those in the US illegally from driving trucks and buses.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Just lies and disingenuity all the way down. This is the feds revoking, not California, with the duel goal of punishing CA and continuing the path of ethnic cleansing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
I am deliriously laughing at the image of Boebert facing dawning revelation that she's actually found the pedophile elite conspiracy ring and that she's standing right in the middle of it
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I am deliriously laughing at the image of Boebert facing dawning revelation that she's actually found the pedophile elite conspiracy ring and that she's standing right in the middle of it
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
I began to thought New Atheism was terrible because it cheerled wars, denigrated whole populations of Muslims, and spearheaded transphobia, but turned out it was also best mates with Jeffrey Epstein.
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I began to thought New Atheism was terrible because it cheerled wars, denigrated whole populations of Muslims, and spearheaded transphobia, but turned out it was also best mates with Jeffrey Epstein.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
Reposted by Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far