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Academia pays the bills. Parent of a filmmaker and a judgy cat. "It's A Wonderful Life" is about radical disappointment, shattered dreams, and finding in community that the center still holds.
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if you ever feel an urge to hand it to elon musk, please visit this webpage before embarrassing yourself in front of your ancestors

A fairytale in Tuscany. Fun fact: Taken with my smartphone

Superhero pose. #birds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #photography #audubonsociety

#booksky

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

Kudos to the bird that managed to shit an image of itself onto this bloke's car.

True in higher ed as well ⬇️

I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

Perfect.

13-yr-old Camarria Williams made a remarkable discovery when she found a compound with potential cancer-fighting properties in goose poop from Garfield Park, Chicago. This surprising find happened while participating in the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab, a STEM program in collaboration with the

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Current mood:

Hiring a FEMA director who doesn't know there's a hurricane season is like hiring an NFL coach who doesn't know there's a football season.

Yes, he is irritated. How can you tell? #tabbies

“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”

Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

This mother #duck introduces her ducklings to society after making her nest in a #school building… 🦆🦆💜💜 #DuckSky #Reddit r\NextF***ingLevel

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

BREAKING NEWS:

Jake Tapper’s ratings set a 10 year ratings low on CNN.

Just in case it’s 1980 and you’re on the fence about grabbing McDonald’s for breakfast, here’s a free BIC RAZOR!

Jake Tapper's book is nothing more than the corporate media trying to shift the blame for 2024 off themselves. Unsure how people can't see this.

The argument “young white men turn to hate because they don’t get enough empathy for the barriers they face” needs to square itself with the reality that men and women of color — and many white women — faced generations of barriers without turning to hatred in the same numbers. 1/

When you make working conditions at a university worse the better faculty leave. Shocked face. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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This entitled schmuck, who thinks he’s too good to wear a suit and do the boring parts of his job.

this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."

Some quotes are too good to cut on.ft.com/4jkssZ0

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

My institution will not concede to the lawless and unwarranted retaliation of the Trump administration. In addition to terrorizing our students, this is just the latest in a string of actions meant to destroy Harvard and reshape all of US higher ed in Trump's image. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

CNN sucks.

Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.

Among the countless fucked-up things in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” it bans Medicaid and CHIP from covering any gender-affirming care — hormones, surgeries, puberty blockers, everything. It erases trans people from healthcare and enshrines hateful, state-backed violence.

If you engaged in COVID denialism the last few years by pretending the pandemic’s over, it’s still 2019, & you don’t have to mask, even on planes—then you bear some responsibility for having dangerous anti-vax people like RFK Jr. in charge of our health agencies. #HardTruths

I wrote about one of the most vindictive people I’ve ever met so, uh, if something happens to me… www.thenation.com/article/poli...