I like how FIFA says "this is in line with Article 27 of our disciplinary code" and you expect it to be something about the specific reasons when they can undo improper VAR decisions or a review of the specific play but its just "we can undo suspensions if we decide to undo suspensions" lmao

let’s fucking go

Quetzalcōātl dijo ✨️ AQUÍ NO 😌✨️

saw a truck for a company called Absolute Chimneys and I can’t stop saying that to myself as if I’m an English soccer announcer calling a free kick that sailed over the crossbar

if I were Germany, I would simply score four goals against Paraguay, like the United States men's national team

Awww I just noticed the Algerian fans behind the goal have a big THANK YOU LAWRENCE banner because the people of Lawrence Kansas decided to ride so hard for them

Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo

I'm crying 😭😭😭 It's just Lisa Salters arm sticking up

Okay this is the kind of World Cup content I’ve been waiting for.

The Carolina Hurricanes whenever there are 10 minutes left in the game

I know we’ve all read 100 articles like this, but I do recommend this one, especially for the series of questions at the end about how universities (not individual instructors) could change our practice. I’d love to discuss those

A stunning fossil site full of fish uncovered in Egypt reveals how oceans began to bounce back after the devastating mass extinction that closed the Cretaceous. I’ll tell you more in my latest for National Geographic! 🐠 🧪

I love baseball players so much.

Happy Pride 🌈

Breathtakingly stupid

A cool paper (that I reviewed😎) by Rui Ying et al. modeling how global darkness impacted marine plankton (and thus ecosystems) after the Chicxulub impact. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.

That’s right. There are moments in Girl Talk albums that are like, the best music has ever made me feel

More AI Haters (me) should read this rule. I understand the position that making an AI policy is a kind of surrender, but I also think a general rule like this is another way of addressing the situation that doesn't turn the syllabus into a EULA.

BIG news: The proposed border wall through Big Bend National Park is off following months of bipartisan backlash.

Well, Ted Turner was a billionaire (which should not exist) who gave us 24-hour news (which also should not exist) but he put the Braves on TV across the country (too beautiful to exist) and he bankrolled my favorite wrestling company growing up (too stupid to exist). Multitudes. RIP.

I do think that “what is college actually for, as it currently exists” and “how and why has that changed over time” and “what SHOULD college be for, ideally” are all fascinating questions and it’s too bad that they are totally impossible to contemplate without being stricken with The Madness

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

The US National Science Foundation is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences go.nature.com/4vLQGTB

Where did the notion of an "infinitely patient" AI tutor being a good thing come from? Sal Khan uses this. I've seen Marc Andreessen use it. It makes no sense. Some of the most important moments in my learning life was a teacher losing patience with me.

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

NSF Grad Research Fellowship awardees were announced, & the total awards are back up to 2,599 this year after only 1,500 (1000 initially+500 later) last year! Congrats to all awardees, including 3 OSU astro undergrads and 6 UCSC Lamat REU participants!! 🎈🎉🔭🧪 www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

New study finds the "canary in the coal mine" for the #AMOC: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. 🌊 AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached.  When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?

Hey look at my alma mater!

Mary Washington wins the NCAA D3 men's basketball national title!

This is so, so well-articulated.

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

One thing that amazes me is that two of the three American astronauts on board Artemis II graduated from public universities: Christina Koch earned three degrees from NC State, and Victor Glover was a defensive back on the Cal Poly football team. We are not going anywhere without public education.

let’s get shaq and chuck on the next shuttle

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. So if somebody got their PhD in their 40s do they just start out as mid-career?

Until you change the incentive structure of academia you will continue to see people fear losing their status and use AI as a way to fast-track productivity bc academia doesn't currently value the meaningful production of knowledge, only the performance of producing it.

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

This is a Final Destination death sequence

The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings. www.wired.com/story/a-scho...

The situation (as far as I understand it) seems to be that OMB has approved the apportionment (unlike with NIH). See: openomb.org/file/11505250 So the money may even have landed at NSF... but it can't/won't be distributed down to the program level until a spending plan is approved by OMB.

I need this good news.

Hi there, Your AI flyer looks like shit

Happy Monday