An environmental and colonial disaster is unfolding in a U.S. colony in the Pacific. Right now, on Guam, hundreds of acres of forest are being destroyed by the U.S. military for a massive live-fire training complex. 🧵

UNC housekeepers met again today to continue to plan their campaign to win higher wages. They are now demanding a minimum wage of $20/hr and end to the practice of paying to park at work. Stay tuned for petition launch #SupportUNCHousekeepers #OrganizeTheSouth #UE150 #UNCWorkers

Last Friday, CBS cancelled a segment about our clients suing Amazon for selling suicide kits to their now deceased kids. CBS’ cowardice gave me renewed clarity about how urgent this litigation is. 🧵naomi leeds 1/

Tenemos a un bori-elfo! 🇵🇷 Arondir se lució en The Rings of Power, pa que tu lo sepas. Si sigues, como yo, pensando en esta serie, chequéate nuestra mogolla de pensamientos 🧙🏼‍♀️ open.spotify.com/episode/0ASzrq…

📢Are you a Colombian neuroscientist 🇨🇴 attending Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2022? "Tomémonos un tinto ☕️, seamos amigos" Let's talk about COLNE - Colegio Colombiano de Neurociencias 🧠🇨🇴, the diaspora, and the efforts to strengthen the scientific community in our country‼️ DM me or RT😀

#UNC Housekeepers Speak Out! (Part 2). The fight is just starting for fair wages and ending pay to park. End Pay for Parking Now! #SupportUNCHousekeepers #EndPayToWork #COLA #UNC #OrganizeTheSouth #UE150

BREAKING: 48,000 academic workers at the University of California have begun the largest higher education strike in U.S. history. The UC workers, represented by UAW, are picketing at all 10 UC campuses this morning.

On average, House members who voted to increase Pentagon spending by $80 billion took *seven times* more money from the weapons industry than those who voted against the increase: stephensemler.substack.com/p/comparing-vo…

Elle’s list of how to know a DEI initiative ain’t shit 1) If there is no specific allocation or budget 2) if there is no strategic plan@ 3) if it’s led by people with no expertise in equity 4) if it’s all white people 5) if it’s all Black and Latine people who are very junior

La celebramos todos! Vamonossssss👏👏👏🤩🤩

all of the reforms failed at the same damn time - black cops, body cameras, multiple cops on the scene, tasers instead of guns- so how is more reform the answer? #Blacker cops? Even non-deadlier non deadly weapons? ten cops instead of five? HD body cameras? harder convictions?

sometimes it feels physically impossible for me to imagine myself staying in science watching how rampant abuse is and how so many people either tacitly or explicitly support it

MISSOURI PLANS TO EXECUTE AN INNOCENT MAN, LEONARD TAYLOR, TOMORROW. Leonard has been incarcerated since 2004 on a quadruple murder charge evidence has never supported. Leonard helped free another innocent man, Lamont Campbell, last month

The lightest degree of punishment for scientific fraud is: no punishment at all. The fraudster goes on publishing scientific papers. They go on getting paid by their university. They go on speaking at conferences and teaching students. Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦 writes.

🙌🥳 At long last, our work on insula DYN/KOR is out! Big thanks to Dipa Pati 🧠🔬🏳️‍⚧️ Sofia Neira @LisaTaxier etc for their hard work and of course huge credit to @superkash and Montserrat Navarro. @um_mind Univ of Maryland School of Medicine Neuroscience Department of Neurobiology at UMSOM Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at UNC-CH

La Neurodiáspora🇨🇴 y COLNE - Colegio Colombiano de Neurociencias 🧠🇨🇴 tienen el gusto de invitar a nuestra comunidad al "1er Encuentro de Neurocientíficos Colombianos en el Exterior", evento que se realizará en Washington D.C. durante #SfN2023. 🗓️Noviembre 13, 2023 🕕6pm-8pm 🗒️Muy pronto abriremos inscripciones

Si van a estar en el área consideren este evento! Me encantaría ir, pero no puedo 😭

📢Are you a Colombian Neuroscientist attending #SfN23? "Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos" and let's celebrate the achievements of our community on Nov 13th at the Residence of the Colombian Embassy‼️ 👇👇👇

Renting a 2-bed, 2.5-bath townhouse in Carrboro, NC. 5 mins from UNC campus. raleigh.craigslist.org/apa/d/carrboro…