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My friend @mathyadriana.bsky.social lost her job last week, and I want you to know the story: buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Per the rules, Canada gets Minnesota.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

And this is why the boos rain down during the anthem.

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

Fascinating to see real numbers on this. Basically everyone I know, otherwise largely apolitical people included, is trying to avoid buying American products or crossing into the States.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

After 3 years as a rotator at NSF, i became permanent last august (and suddenly on probation despite years of good work). I quit my academic job in January. Today i was unceremoniously fired for “poor performance” (a lie) along with 167 other amazing folks (like Courtney). So unfair & insulting.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Breaking: In a ‘first round’ of cuts, every ‘probationary’ employee at NSF was just terminated. They received no severance. Insurance cuts off at 1 pm edt. Program Officers were given two hours to turn over their programs and clear the building. 1/2 #OpenAsResistance #StandUp4Science

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

I had the privilege of serving as a part-time federal expert for the National Science Foundation, until today. www.linkedin.com/posts/courtn...

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

And every such ad I see has a long list of "thanks but no thanks" comments.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Remember how people were saying that the impeachment in South Korea worked so much better because it's a small country, easy to travel around? Yeah. Along similar lines: when martial law was declared in Poland in 1981, one of their first decrees was a travel ban.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Well, Tesla finally removed the “Incel Camino” graffiti but someone kindly replaced it with this. #swasticars #vancouver

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

A really good article that has a strong academic understanding of not only Canada, but Canadians, and I think a lot of my American followers would appreciate reading it. As someone else said: "Canada doesn't start wars, Canada finishes them."

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Hope that everyone understands that, yes, that's how it would go.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 240 comments

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

submitted 11 days ago • 235 comments

In case anyone wants to know why communism never delivered the prosperity it promised - yeah, that’s why.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.

submitted 12 days ago • 63 comments

Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk, and stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. The stakes couldn't be higher and no one is coming to fix this- not our politicians and not our media. It's up to collective effort.

submitted 13 days ago • 274 comments

If this were Putin talking about Latvia, or Xi talking about Vietnam, there would be statements of condemnation from international organizations… at this point, the silence is more than awkward…

submitted 14 days ago • 80 comments

Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

submitted 14 days ago • 67 comments

Divest.

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University peeps, especially in Canada: how about if we got our uni pension funds divested from Tesla?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

“The left” in online discourse is always a metonym for “three guys on Twitter I hate”

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Today's #MGB honoree Is Trajan Hammonds, a PhD Student at Princeton University. Read about his story and celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/tra...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Y’all they cancelled the NSF MPS Ascend Program after encouraging underrepresented folks to only apply to it and not both the Ascend and the MSPRF. This is astronomically fucked up for many grad students and postdocs of color in math. #MathSky

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

Just had an !!!ACTION REQUIRED!!! email re-sent to me because I did not respond to it for ... checks notes ... a whole two days. From a journal where every part of the editorial process on their side takes weeks or months. Could you please just chill out for a bit?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The North remembers.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Trudeau warns that the threat of taking Canada by force as the "51st state" is deadly serious, not bluster, and not a joke.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

You never know what will "work" because no one thing makes the difference in complex situations. It's why we always need diverse strategies and actions. The problem is that complexity makes good storytelling difficult and there's nothing humans like more than a good story.

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

Excellent thread.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I refuse to click to find out what this is about but the physical reaction I got you this... Y'all gotta stop. Somehow. Allistics get your shit together and stop doing this.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Academic scientist friends who are members-ideally leaders- of scientific professional societies, I need your help. 🚨 There is a sign-letter being prepared that will speak out against recent politicization of scientific funding and demonization of scientific researchers. 🧪🌎🦑

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

I've been told that The Left is McCarthyist because - shockingly - they might delete your comments from their personal blog or something like that.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Any time is a good time to point out how ridiculous this list is, but let’s not forget that it’s also dangerous, and not equally to everyone.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is following an old Chinese proverb: “Kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.” @crof.bsky.social on how Canada can push back hard against Trump. 🐓

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

I know y'all sometimes think, "but her emails," and fair enough, but this is the one that I keep coming back to.

submitted 19 days ago • 62 comments

Administrators will be able to use it to assign more administrative tasks for faculty. Students will be asking faculty to explain the nonsense they got from the chatbot. Win-win, clearly.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

When we go to our next election, what I want to hear is the candidates' plan to transition our economy and other interests away from such a close interconnection with the United States. I want to hear about more trade with Europe, with Asia, with everyone else really.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment