this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme

cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster

This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality

Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

The rulings suck but I'm honestly glad the conservative justices are fully mask-off. Makes it that much easier to give them 100 new colleagues (1 from each new state)

THIS. Get the reps in. It ALWAYS helps. It might take you 2 tries to get a concept in, it might take you 20. But you'll always understand it better if you go over it again!

Somebody saw "Degrassi: the next generation", was very disappointed, and decided to do something about it

aging rock stars, prominent economists, theoretical physicists ...

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

Regarding accommodations, test timing, etc. I don't think I disagree much with anyone. But holy shit it has gotten so hard to do assessments. Nothing asynchronous because now it's all LLM-solvable. No time pressure for equity. Oh also exam period is shorter now because of classroom scheduling...

It’s really the opposite, if you only get one side of the history (and many of us do) it is completely shocking to realize much of what you “know” isn’t true or isn’t the whole story, and many young jews feel a sense of betrayal over that bsky.app/profile/prem...

All Ashkenazi Jews are distantly related to each other somehow, it's just a question of finding the records.

How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?

I named my fists Pat and Benetar because I'm about to hit you with my best shot

I named my fists Yoko and Ono because your ears are about to hurt

I named my fists Sister and Moire Lattice because you're about to get twisted

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

Saw Suffs with some family. It was really good! Not subtle but these aren't subtle times.

Hey, whoever decided to add Likert scales to every letter of rec submission form, can you come see me? I just wanna talk.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Andor doesn’t have an episode where someone joins the Taliban because they’re having relationship issues while on vacation at the Orgy Planet, advantage goes to DS9 there

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

Being vulgar isn’t the goal of roasting. EARNING CAMARADERIE IS THE POINT. You display the empathy to accurately asses others’ vulnerabilities, the craft to make fun at them without destroying underlying respect for their humanity, and you earn satisfaction of earning their esteem.

I still stand firm by a particular stance: We have so many phenomenal, talented, and good scientists. We don't need to platform and financially support those who use their positions and power as scientists to take advantage of and harm people, especially students and junior colleagues.

The entrance to the 3-storey bike parking garage at Utrecht Central holding 12,500 bicycles. It’s free for the first 24 hours, linked to the station, and used by tens of thousands every day. This is what happens when a country treats bikes as real transport infrastructure, not an afterthought.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

I can't believe this needs to be said, but yes, it is a fireable offense for a professor to brag about holding a student's career hostage to coerce her into sleeping with him

"In hindsight, I regret talking to Epstein in a durable medium about the students I was trying to bang."

Should these people be allowed to vote? Yes of course, voting tests are bad. Should they be allowed to use up valuable oxygen? Well,

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

Free speech is more than me being allowed to say what I want. Everyone also has to like it and tell me I'm a smart and handsome boy

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

Faculty discipline committees should really normalize de-tenuring/dismissal investigations for the sort of behavior described in the Summers case

Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!

Also, if Republicans say “Republicans don’t care about this,” perhaps, just perhaps, they are lying.

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

I don't know if I could come up with a better way to induce psychosis

Love to bike to work through the middle of the vehicular manslaughter arms race

This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

(Wokely) "The Jews are to blame."

By my rough estimate, 163% of US researchers meet at least one of these criteria.

The thing I'm learning from these abhorrent emails is that there are like 100 people who are responsible for 90% of the problems in America and they're all sex criminals. Put em all in the same courtroom, let's save time and money on the trial!

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

why the fuck didn’t any of this stuff come out when Biden was president

Checking in from a hotel in the middle of terrible light pollution

if you want good federal government you need good federal government workers, and if you want good federal government workers you need to compete for them in the labor market. apparently this is controversial now and i don't think it should be.