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UMN ChemProf Emeritus. Army vet. MOOC vet. Cancer vet. Dad of 3(human)/2(feline). Chicagoan. Armed with a keyboard and eerily immune to shame! NOT speaking for UL Research Institutes here.
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submitted 2 hours ago • 12 comments

it's kinda trivial in the face of all that's going on, but gotta admit that an h=h+1 day is still kinda nice... 🤓

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Early #Caturday post. Because we can all use a cat picture, amirite? #CatSky

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

(sigh) reposted one of our job postings today on LinkedIn -- for a managerial position requiring at least 6 years post-PhD experience -- immediately got 50+ connection requests (80+% grad students and postdocs, so not eligible) and multiple CVs in DMs. Must be a lotta anxiety out there, no lie...

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 21 hours ago • 148 comments

Prestige is inherently cowardly.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

extremely delicious. best sliced with a sword while someone recites Burns' ode to the delicacy.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

From NSF EAR program director Raleigh Martin on LinkedIn #climatesky #greensky

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I posted a copy of the 3 minute version of my speech from yesterday (with citations) if anyone is interested. Feel free to steal from it if you want! (also, this is literally less than half of the Nazi shit they're currently pulling)

submitted 3 days ago • 148 comments

Re-upping this post this morning: Big Pharma CEOs are finally starting to speak out about the Trump administration. Unfortunately, they’re smiling and clapping.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 2 days ago • 474 comments

Minnesota kids still go play outside when school is canceled due to extreme cold

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 4 days ago • 628 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Best way to handle the single digit temps? Go to the pub where the beers are strong… Also, hats off to those who can manage a flight of 5! 🥴

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

(sigh) my competitive spirit had not actually extended to wanting to dominate in that last category...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

#Chicago sunrise over an icy Lake Michigan on a frigid (3 F) February morning

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

W is for #Wordle 1,338 5/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Getting the serious “Please never go away again” attention from Stella and Merlin today… #Caturday #CatSky

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

story from a DOE fed that was fired yesterday (for the sin of being promoted in the last year, making them probationary): >locked out of office >no termination notice >can't apply for unemployment without termination paperwork >no info on when health insurance will lapse fuck you for your service

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

#Wordle 1st objective: Pick a starting word chosen by less than 0.1% of players 2nd objective: Straight 99s by making the same choices as the bot after that But, most satisfying result? 👇

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment