J. Dylan Rees

open source and open data as an ethos is largely anti capital and anti authority and is inherently political in ways we need more of

We spent a generation telling students the humanities are moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest advances in STEM in recent years to raise fundamental questions about the nature of personhood and identity that require the humanities to answer. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

my message to the GOP on trans rights is basically "dread it, run from it, Gender Equality arrives all the same" and i encourage other cis feminists to embrace this as well

Faculty deserve an administration that bargains seriously, respects their union, and invests in the people who make Ohio University work. Share to show your support for United Academics of Ohio University as they fight for a stronger OU for all!

hadn't seen this yet (though assuredly it's been done)

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

The AAUP is proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary. Dr. El-Sayed is a fierce champion for debt-free & tuition-free higher education & will be an invaluable ally for academic freedom & higher education as a public good in Washington.

I would appreciate it if academic leadership (at many places, not at my law school) would stop acting as though they have to bow to the absolute power of AI and instead stand up for their increasingly distinctive and scarce human and social value.

Taking part in left politics means to some degree placing yourself in the service of a holistic perspective of care and solidarity, it means putting the work before the ego, and it means stepping aside when you're revealed to be incapable of credibly honoring that obligation.

leftist content creators that don’t actually organize drive me crazy. politics aren’t something you talk about, they’re something you do. discourse without action is just noise.

Reminder that this man (Russell Vought) has a child with a disease (cystic fibrosis) where research has more than doubled the life expectancy in their lifetime. He has personally received enormous benefit from the science he is trying to kill 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

My colleagues and I have been thinking about how making technologies with microbes has implications for how we THINK about technological development, the future, and our relationship with the environment. And now we have a paper out about it! #sts journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

🌔 👋 The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission had some nice words for Earth as they regained communications with Mission Control. Watch with us: spklr.io/6001EyN07

If you're concerned about Bluesky being better, then I'd encourage you to Repost things you like and want others to see. Hitting Like doesn't do much here. Low effort PSA.

Trans rights, ending ICE, and freeing Palestine all got huge cheers at my local No Kings protest. These are mainstream positions for the Democratic electorate. The party needs to fucking catch up.

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

We are all the Oberlin Luddites

WHY ARE THERE STILL PEOPLE ON X literally they have nazis posing as leftists regurgitating their talking points in their U shaped packaging so it looks edgy I do not know why people do not see it it happens on all the socials but there it's like -- sure have a stroll w/no gas mask on NO PROB

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

Great way to support Minneapolis tomorrow--donate to one of these organizations >

The Internet Archive has rolled out an extremely effective new tool for searching for old Geocities GIFs. I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all gifcities.org

a few things I want people to get from this: -how tense it is here. I was death-gripping the steering wheel during this, even watching it makes me tense up -how organized the community is. the rapid response networks are ENORMOUS and highly effective -how completely the city is united against ICE

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

New analysis: 0.25% of 2025 Bluesky posts contained citations to research...while only 0.000006% of X/Twitter posts did. In raw numbers, X still has 2x the research-based posts that Bluesky does (though they are harder to find): but it took Twitter 10 years to get there vs just 2 years for Bluesky

I have finally finished divesting myself from the hellsite after finding my follows on other platforms. Feels good. #leaveX