Happy Friday! 🍻🧬

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

Please enjoy this photo of our new kitten Bobby and our mostly confused dog Ralph

Family of five visiting outside my campus office. What a lovely way to prep for this morning’s genetics lecture 🥰

First sunflower bloom and other delights from the garden this morning before walking to campus #FlowerReport #MorningWalk

Still loving the Cattfirmations Calendar by Lim Heng Swee that @welnoan.bsky.social gave me in January. Good message for the crunch time of the last week of spring quarter www.ilovedoodle.com

Murderbot!

Last week the Calstate Northridge Faculty Senate passed a resolution I led, objecting to the CSU's adoption of ChatGPT Edu as undermining our educational goals and misusing scarce funds, calling for the CSU to drop the $16.9 million subscription live-csu-northridge.pantheonsite.io/sites/defaul...

Ah yes, Sunday, the day I beat myself up for not working & then beat myself up for not resting. *cries in Protestant work ethic* Anyway, if u get the vibe, I rly recommend Dr. Devon Price's "Laziness Does Not Exist." U can listen to the audio book on a walk or do a craft! Hey, maybe I'll do that...

Saturday morning recharge in my chaos garden admiring the flowers and watching the bees. #FlowerReport

I am “throw your back out pulling plates out of the incubator” years old.

Yes, this is true. Those who can, need to speak. Scientists, move the needle on public perception of the value of scientific research! #McClintockLetters #SciComm Write an op-ed for June 16 publication about how your work serves the public with fed dollars. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

“I’ve always loved to bake — I would probably be a baker if I wasn’t a scientist. It’s actually very scientific. I had an undergrad professor that told me never trust a scientist who can’t cook. And I actually think that’s true!”

The average American has 3 friends

This May gray is so deeply penetrating my soul that not even the silliest bops of Eurovision are cheering me up right now.

People don’t need to “learn to use AI”. They need to learn how to think and make connections themselves and thus will facilitate their efficient use of whatever technology comes along. Crafting the right prompt for AI doesn’t take AI training, it takes liberal arts training.

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Caffeine wasn't cutting it this morning, but this Cake parody is perking me up. Vibraslap 2028!

Putting a stamp on a letter fills me with more existential angst than it used to.

Everything is terrible, but I made some pretty and delicious dishes to celebrate spring.

Always inspired by fellow trainees like @fleabrained.bsky.social creating opportunities for the next generation. Feeling powerless lately in the context of national news but focusing on the power that I DO have to continue opening doors for undergrads www.thetransmitter.org/community/as...

Vincent is such a drama queen. Happy #Caturday!

Thinking of ways to fill the gaps for aspiring scientists… Lmk if you wanna tap in

Partial discussion of why I may not be posting as much as normal and when I do it's likely going to be funny/light content. We really *need* that now. Not to downplay the awfulness, but to combat the psychological terrorism being enacted. Subscribe -> redpenblackpen.substack.com/p/gestures-a...

Just saw someone biking up Grand Ave towards campus flying a fairly substantial upside-down US flag and I’m like same, dude, same.

Happy #Caturday from Vincent and Chowder!

We are excited to announce our official partnership with @indivisible.org for the National Day of Action on April 5th! Stand Up for Science says: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE! #standupforscience #handsoffourscience Find and register for an event near you: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...

This thread has convinced me I need to attend the annual Beaver Festival in April. www.slobeaverbrigade.com/beaver-festi...

Grateful for the floral products of the rainy season. Not quite a super bloom, but still pretty amazing. #FlowerReport

Get out there and support your posties!

Happy #Caturday from Chowder, who appears to be screaming what we’re all feeling, and Vincent, who is defiantly resting as resistance.

In this corner of the internet, hope and optimism abounds so here is your weekly round up of good things you may or may not have heard about. A thread/

Grading my creativity-based genetics assignment on the last day of finals is such a delight!

In #SnafuEdu I argue that mistakes, mess ups, & mishaps are “situation normal” for educators & for students alike, & offer advice on preparing a teaching go-bag to have at the ready when things go sideways. More info on my website: jessamynneuhaus.com/books

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

Life-Death-Life ~ Be quiet and still, and you will bear witness to life’s renewal and reemergence, even deep in the season of #dying. #MarchintoLandscapes #fineartphotography #landscapephotography #birdscape #murmuration #photographersofbluesky #naturephotography #winterintospring #almostspring

Happy #Caturday from Chowder and Vincent!

“To the crowd, Walz was encouraging, saying their anger is justified. ‘The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting,’ he said. ‘You’re not.’” www.yahoo.com/news/somethi...

#eurovision Malta is def in my top three.

Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.

AI in higher ed has had one major effect on me: it has made me love real humans, in all their messiness, so much more. Here’s to the the glorious inefficiency of teaching and learning!

Higher ed in the US has been calcified by an administrative-industrial complex that has systematically dismantled its own societal mandate, and ironically, it’s now being punished for it

The first rule of persuasion is this: whoever controls the topic of the debate controls the outcome of the debate never, ever cede the framing to someone else you do NOT need to accept the premise of a question the best storytellers can change the topic entirely and, by doing so, they win

Bluetorial: Women, courage, and leadership What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.

Pro-tip for university administrators: when the government illegally cancels your grants, your first response shouldn't be "you kind of have a point."

Today @smashfizzle.bsky.social shared that they want us SCARED AND ALONE, which means that to counter that strategy we must be BRAVE and IN COMMUNITY. Stop spending all of your energy keeping up with the madness, instead channel your rage into action. Do something. bsky.app/profile/itsa...

Trans women rights are women's rights are human rights.

2 rallies in 2 days requires a Saturday afternoon catnap #StandUpForScience #InternationalWomensDay #RestIsResistance #Caturday

Amazing @standupforscience.bsky.social at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo! Gratitude to the national organizers, to my joyfully determined local co-organizer Jean Davidson! And huge ups to our speakers, & especially the students who showed up! What a morale boost!! Science is for everyone!!!