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Teacher of applied entomology. Rural Minnesota born and raised. Jew against Christian nationalism. You can pry my he/him from my cold, dead hands.
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these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

Remeber, the real villains are graduate students who say this is morally wrong.

Pretty amazing graphic to go with the @financialtimes.com article about the cost of Trump's attack on US science NIH is HUGE! www.ft.com/content/67fd...

i think it is bad that among the most influential people in government are the monomaniacal adherents of a millenarian tech cult

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

As part of the GOP effort to heat up the world beyond survivability, the US Commerce Department has announced plans to impose tariffs of up to 3,521% on imports of solar panels from Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.

1. I study how science works as a collective endeavor to make sense of the physical world. I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society. There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.

“Asteroid heading for Earth but ICE detained the one person who knows how to shoot the asteroid laser”

Mourning cloaks have always been my favorite insect, for this exact reason! I remember growing up I'd always see them flying around even when there was still snow on the ground.

The second image here is incredible framing: "One side makes bigoted claims. The other identifies that as bigotry. No one is extending each other the benefit of the doubt"

What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates

patty morin is notable for having stolen all of the money in her daughter's gofundme from her grandchildren, leaving them destitute

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

It's been a big week in farm news everyone! I've got a couple pieces I'm really excited about. Just finished a response video for that MSNBC farmer interview. And I'm scripting up on a video on botanical sexism; how it's a scam; & what its popularity has to do with MAHA and Trump.

donald trump and the entire rights reaction to this moment has shown they were unprepared for any of the backlash they’re receiving and that’s why it has to be kept up

I've never been happier to be proven wrong.

I want to teach an honors course called “Every Regulation is Written in Blood” and just teach the young everything that had to be put in place to make the safe, clean American life they take for granted

yeah man let’s give the internet poisoned white supremacist fertility cultist his own missile network, what could possibly go wrong

Trump orders all critics sent to Salvadoran gulag. Critics say "no, don't!"

I was in Head Start. Fuck these people.

🧪The WH declares April as Cancer Control Month, affirming its commitment to cancer research. We see this BS while funding cuts hit home. Wayne State University lost 18 grants, worth $10m. Some impact cancer research. Bigger institutions are getting attention.This is nationwide. #science #cancer 🧫🧬

1. This is a thread about Horticultural Extrapolation. Not something you're likely to have thought about, but it's time some people did. What is it? It's projecting the mechanics of fruit and veg growing onto the entire food system. It's surprisingly common, and frequently leads people astray. 🧵

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Populism!

Also completely beside the point but there already is a queer Harry Potter and it’s a hundred times better and it’s called The Owl House

❣️ Community ❣️ I need your help! Does your department do "intro" videos where each faculty has a short video on who they are and what their research/teaching is? Or have you seen something like this? If so, can you share it here? THANK YOU!

I don’t care if conservative college students still feel like everyone hates them. They’re directly responsible for (and reveling in) grievous material harm done to countless members of their campus communities. That they thought people would like them more now just shows how out of touch they are.

Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...

fox and the gop have sold latino migrants as all being scary af ms-13 members. its the same thing nazis did with jewish people. repeat: it is the same thing nazis did with jewish people. the. same. thing.

To understand how the US plans to target activists and dissent, one needs just to read Project Esther, the document the administration is likely using to justify its deportations of student activists. It literally claims all supporters of Palestinians are terrorists. This is the blueprint.

He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.