Should we be going to all the faculty meetings to share the good news about the library or ???

After someone extolls the virtues of LLMs do you read their emails?

I mean, like, I’m just giving you the hard data. A UC college degree is one of the best investments you can make in your life. What, you prefer to bet your professional career on corporate training? 🤔 Investing in a UC degree IS an investment in yourself and in the CA public.

Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.

i applaud this image, courtesy of the esteemed editorial staff of The Philosophers' Magazine, which plainly insinuates that the pursuit of social justice keeps scholars resolutely focused on inquiry

Looking anything but "normal" is equivalent to being dangerous is its own kind of saying the quiet part out loud.

New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

You know what’s never killed anybody? Collard greens.

"contemporary understandings of Open Science, as both an epistemological orientation and a set of practical tools, may be strengthened by more clearly connecting them to the scholarship and practices developed by women throughout the history of the social sciences." — @maddipow.bsky.social

As a reminder, repro orgs including Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, and ACLU initially opposed a Comstock repeal under Biden. When a bill was finally introduced, it was only a partial repeal because Biden's DOJ claimed it needed Comstock for CSAM cases. My reporting from 2024:

"It's only rape if the person doing it thinks it is," is a lot like "It's only racism if the person doing it says it is."

If you use the word “rurals” I’ll probably be mean. This is prompted by the use of the word to disparage rural residents. But it holds even especially if you’re referring to several different senses of the word rural.

This is so silly. US birthrates have overwhelmingly been falling since 1800. The exceptions: rapid increase 1940-1957 and slow increase/mostly stability 1998-2008.

“The project offers a stark reminder of how scientific institutions are often the first victims of dictatorships: ‘We must be aware of what these totalitarian processes entail, and that no society is safe from the possibility of these things happening.’” www.science.org/content/arti...

What a lede: Newport Hospital and Health Services terminated ... after it came to light that the hospital’s doctors would be required to sign a statement of faith that they are committed to “sexual purity,” aren’t in a gay marriage and that they “know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.”

I went on vacation for two weeks and Heritage is already calling title nine inhumane? Truly speeding through told you sos just all the time.

I guess having kids early isn’t the panacea it’s cracked up to be???

Some men die at ebb tide; some at low water; some at the full of the flood

Lets start with bringing back shame for public figures on the left.

PSA from by broken AC life: If you hate cars, rolling the windows down kinda helps.

It’s my professional opinion that economists are best at measuring the estimands they care most about. Maybe we all are.

I'll tell you what was a mistake

Let me tell you bad it is when people don't have control over their reproductive autonomy, and the state does: mitpress.mit.edu/978026253842...

Very genuinely shocking, like a horror show trip through a village with terrifying menacing figures around each corner.

I clicked the anti-contraception NYT bait and you guys it's worse than I even expected. You'd learn more from Mark Regnerus blaming loose women for the decline of the American family here.

My long distance driving was definitely like this before I had a phone with gps, even when I had maps.

Faculty in the Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) program received letters late last month which essentially said: prepare to lose your jobs. GWSS is one of nine programs at Eastern Washington University that may be cut during a June 25 Board of Trustees meeting.

What’s happening to Title X and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program? Same as it ever was.

what is it with fascists and hormones... is it the virility...

”body illiteracy” what

Dobbs sucked up a lot of time, energy, and resources that were desperately scarce. And it brought the boys (economists, feminist pundits) to the yard, for better and for worse. It also revealed how crap our ways of talking about abortion are.

Back on my bullshit (ranting about estimands)

The illustrations (and the words) are supposed to make you hate Kurt Vonnegut. That’s how I read it anyway.

As a kid I was so excited when Scientific American arrived in the mail. I was so looking forward to sharing it with my kid. We need science reporting for so many reasons 💔

Making "scientific American" an obsolete term

Photosynthesis is antifa.

just thought i'd share the observation that dipping your feet in the ocean is very much like touching grass, but even better

If they ever stopped targeting PP I bet the repro rights movement would take it down themselves. But as it stands, the constant pressure maintains solidarity.

I feel like my mom when she couldn't believe she was going to see Dave Brubeck at a bluegrass festival in 2006.

If you're only entitled to safety while you're pregnant if you want to remain pregnant really tells us something about women's worth, doesn't it?

There's a sad story of life-threatening pregnancy complications being nonconsensual shared. It reminded me of something I learned this by revisiting the mathematics of reproduction from the midcentury: Miscarriage and abortion used to both just be "abortion." 1/2

You know how you can avoid going to fascist conferences? Just pretend every single email you receive is spam. Highly recommend.

"Be beige, not rainbow" is a hell of a way to say you don't believe professional ethics and best practices exist. Timberland was my library as a kid. They had "monthly displays" in the 80s. The old loggers named Flett in their Danners and greasy hats didn't care.

Having had a great dad convinced me that we owe each other everything.

The DOJ tested this out in Spokane with the recent federal conspiracy convictions of 3 protesters. www.rangemedia.co/spokane-3-ve...

Let’s just decide that “critics say” means like theatre critics, professional assessors of quality and merit.

I should have been grateful it was six and not seven.

Skip the stupid nyt panic-mongering about phones and babies and read something smart by @lesja.bsky.social instead.

Best thing I’ve heard on the chronicle: “Tabloids should be entertaining and it isn’t.”

I didn't know to be grateful for all the time I didn’t have six skunks living under my garden shed!