Does anyone know what happened to the New Century Schoolbook font?

I bet we spend less on food for events per year than just one upper admin spends on "new AI-enabled software to unify classroom learning metrics while enhancing competitiveness and instructional excellence" or whatever buzzwords they get sold

Also...TNR is the the only cool font. Unless Papyrus is available.

Fonts are fashion. Every statement about font X is good for Y will change a year or so later and be replaced with new dogma. Heck, when I was in grad school, serif fonts were the *only* acceptable choice for scientific posters b/c they were more readable. Until they weren't.

Hello and welcome to Assumptions Club. I think we all know why we’re here.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

When I was 8, my best friend stole my boomerang and we got into a big fight. The next day his parents died in a car accident and I never saw him again. Jeff, if you’re reading this, I want my boomerang

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today was my first drive through the completed 6–10 interchange traveling west in Providence. It has kind of an MC Escher vibe, no @jeffreymphd.bsky.social ?

Merriam quits the high-stakes world of lexicography to teach at a college in Springfield, MA…where Webster just became the head librarian. She shows him that ‘love’ isn’t that hard to find…if you know where to look it up. “A Merriam Little Christmas 2: Collegiate Edition.”

Those of us who live near the City of Manton think the AI takeover of everything is going great!

Sorry @nytimes.com , for those of us in the sciences, this is not a "quiet policy change". 🧪🦠💊🌍 It is however a disaster for society. The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Christmas songs are always better with fire and lasers and drones.

Christmas songs are always better with fire and lasers and drones.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: North Atlantic Right Whale Elfin-woods Warbler White-tailed Ptarmigan Bicknell's Thrush Long-wattled Umbrellabird

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Serval Caiman Grey wolves Whooping crane African rock python

Screw it let's just give a preview now. If you make things and you want to sell to retailers, here are a few tips: 1. Most retailers need wholesale discounts ~30-50% 2. If you want a small business to take a chance on your product, offer a low order minimum (at first). 1/?

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: California condor sea otter brown bear brown pelican (helped extract a fishhook from its mouth) black tailed deer (even touched one once, after my 3-year-old brother called it from surrounding forest)

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Melanochromis auratus Labeotropheus fuelleborni Alligator mississippiensis Fundulus heteroclitus Americamysis bahia

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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

Me: I think some people are just birds in disguise Friend: Haha, can I tweet that? Me: *narrows eyes* Can you what?

Thanksgiving is not real via @birdsarentreel.bsky.social

Researchers at @universityofri.bsky.social and the state Department of Environmental Management to spend five years on a comprehensive study of Rhode Island’s wild turkey population: www.oceanstatemedia.org/news-and-cul...

⏰ It's about that time! First Year Early Action applications are due one short week from today on Monday, December 1. 📆 It's free to apply: www.hampshire.edu/admissions/a...

This is why I am (relatively) decent at science.

You might not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

Paging our own Congressman - this is your moment!

Today is Primidi the 1st of Frimaire in the year 234. Frimaire is the month of frost. Today we celebrate rampion.#JacobinDay More information on rampion

The internet outages were probably engineered by M-W to remind us why we need a hard copy dictionary. 😏

🎙️Podcast: A more complex picture of Roger and Mary Williams. Roger Williams University history Professor Charlotte Carrington-Farmer talks about her new book about state founder Roger Williams, and a new exhibit about his wife, Mary Williams www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/m...

As per usual @ripta.com could the 22 just shift it's schedule 7 minutes earlier and then the met kids on it would be on time for school instead of just late enough to ding them on a tardy

can anyone recommend any texts on the ethics and poltics of cloning and/or genetic engineering - bonus points if they're particularly well suited for 2nd year law students So far I've ID'd Sandel's Case Against Perfection, Reiss' Improving Nature and Lemmens et al Regulating Creation

@kennyuong.bsky.social Did you know about these??

Trump's trollsuits are all garbage. Any company that settles is *choosing* to pay a bribe. When media outlets fight, they win. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cnn-...

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Dictionary day is finally here! The first new print M-W in more than 20 years

A chunk of Bsky users think I am terrible b/c: a) I bought a physical dictionary, therefore I am ridiculously behind the times and b) I bought it from a well known online retailer rather than firing up my car to drive across town to get it. {spoiler alert - I am waaay worse than that!}

Ok but what if this is a Greenland/Iceland situation?

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

This reminds me of writing scientific papers. It's satisfying. Your work is important. But also one of thousands of equally important papers to be published that week. (And of course there's zero renumeration for academic papers. often you need to find a way to pay to get it published 🙄.)

Exciting news! My @merriam-webster.com dictionary arrives tomorrow. What should I look up first?

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

The economics of the self-storage boom by @wendoverpro.bsky.social youtu.be/uEVv8SOJ6Is?...