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Michigan PhD '18 and Michigan Tech BS '12 alumna. Passionate about optics, music, people, language, and Detroit City Football Club. Tweets are my own.
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Shout out to the USL clubs who have already made the move over here and off the nazi hellsite. To those who haven't, why not? Just dumb to ignore the huge segment of the soccer audience that moved over already.

📝 Our first Starting XI of the 2025 USL Championship season! ⚜️ #DCTID

Even dumber for the USL Super League teams considering there is a fairly significant WoSo and women’s sports audience and media base over here.

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

It’s Match Day 1 for @detroitcityfc.bsky.social DCFC @ The Miami FC 7:00pm ESPN+

Happy matchday 🎉🤩

From crosswinds to crosshairs, women in aviation put everything on the line whenever they ascend to the sky. They embody the proud spirit of their forebearers – the original rebels & daredevils that blazed the contrails for them to follow. As an aviation historian, thank you for everything. #IWD2025

6+3 = 9-0-0 A gritty win on the road in Kalamazoo tonight!

MOTHERFUCKING MEN’S SEASON OPENER MATCHDAY EVE.

Forecasts provided by the @nws.noaa.gov not only power virtually all weather apps and television weather forecasts, they also underlie much of the US economy and help it to function efficiently. Simply put: we can't operate the US as we know it without the NWS. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Oh my god how are we here already

At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent

The Trump administration backtracked on a move that would have forced Maine parents to visit an office to register their newborns for Social Security

The Matts and Noahs saying "DEI failed" and we need to abandon it should be forced to drill down. Which do they oppose? Diversity? Equity? Inclusion? All three? If diversity, who is it that should be removed? If equity, what inequities should be restored? If inclusion, who should be excluded?

There’s been zero explanation for this given but it seems exceedingly likely it’s pure retaliation for the Maine governor challenging Trump. Really sick. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...

It's MATCHDAY in the MASL W League! After finishing off the home slate of matches for 2025, the squad heads to Let's Play Portage this evening for a 7:30 kickoff against Kalamazoo United FC.

Scoop: ~33% of NWS offices no longer have sufficient staffing to safely keep 24/7 operations. Critically understaffed @nws.noaa.gov offices now include: Boston Miami Houston Omaha Wichita Kansas City Marquette, MI Sioux Falls, SD Rapid City, SD Cheyenne, WY www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It doesn’t matter how close the Social Security office is to you… new parents have enough to deal already. This is asinine.

IT'S MOTHER FUCKING DETROIT CITY FC MATCH DAY EVE

#measles #vaccineswork #getvaccinated #savelives

It's good news that these critical public health workers are being offered their jobs again—we need them—but it's unacceptable they were fired in the first place. You should never make huge changes if you don't understand how things work. It only puts lives at risk.

In today’s hellscape news, the Trump administration is planning to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA is already short-staffed and wait times are abhorrent. Veterans will die because of this move.

Scooplet: The NWS office in Boston is now down to just seven meteorologists, four fewer than are needed to run it around the clock with even minimal staffing. These seven meteorologists will now need to perform the duties of multiple staff members at once. www.fastcompany.com/91291167/ins...

Since the club's founding in 2012, 217 Men's First-Team players have worn the Detroit City Football Club badge. Each player has been assigned a unique number to mark their place in time in the history of Le Rouge. Introducing Le Rouge Legacy Numbers: www.detcityfc.com/le-rouge-leg...

Tariffs could coming off tomorrow. Either the most incompetent administration in history, or the most blatant stock market manipulation ever. Or both. Why not both?

These buildings provide data for virtually every weather forecast in the US. A recent study found that every $1 invested in weather forecasting provides $73 of value in return. Dismantling NWS infrastructure is one of the least efficient and most reckless things you can do.

Good morning. Today will be one of the most active weather days coast-to-coast in recent memory. Would be very nice to have a fully-staffed National Weather Service. Give thanks to your preferred omnipotent entity for the meteorologists sacrificing their personal health to bring you the forecast

Forty-seven scientific societies have signed a letter organized by the @ucsusa.bsky.social urging Congress to protect federally funded research and federal scientists: www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

We need to talk more about how DOGE is also harming the US private sector and free market, as Elon and his people are getting access to all kinds of intellectual property and proprietary information (e.g., FAA Verizon contract). Another way our conflict-of-interest discourse is too constrained.

After compiling historical data, Detroit City Football Club is proud to announce that Stephen Carroll is the first player in club history to appear in 200 competitive matches. Carroll made his competitive debut in 2017 and hit match number 200 in last year's USL Championship playoffs.

This year’s Detroit City FC keeper kits look inspired… 🧤 #DCTID

Love the new kits and we can’t wait for this season to get started! #DCTID

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Stephen Carroll — What a legend! 200 appearances #DCTID

It’s been fun joining the DCFC Owner’s Meeting this afternoon— learning about the future of the Club and meeting the players. The kit reveal is about to begin! #DCTID

I-696 is about to close for two years and cause major headaches for drivers. But you might want to rethinking using the "mile roads" to get around the closure.

The 2014 toxic Microcystis bloom cost the city of Toledo over $60mil to do extra water treatments, take care of people who got sick, and in list economic activities because the city was without water for over 3wks.

Every other season, DCFC creates a single kit for all of our teams, from pro to youth. We believe everyone deserves to rep their club in a jersey that fits and is affordable. Introducing the lowest cost replica top in USL Championship. Get yours tomorrow. 🔗: youtu.be/fLWwRWvyiX0?...

We’re here tonight and the atmosphere is absolutely electric. Arena soccer is so fast pace and so much fun. #DCTID

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

JD Vance is so staggeringly unqualified to be in this position. Just an absolute embarrassment. We are witnessing peak "I'm a white guy who read stuff on the internet so now I'm an expert on all things." Unreal.

Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)

Yesterday marked the start of Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak to everyone who commemorates this month of prayer & reflection. ☪️