nothing is a bigger tell on a male academic's sins than his efforts to isolate / sideline / professionally disappear a mentee. villain shit.

Sometimes you have an experience like this and years later see the man thanked for his mentorship by another man in the preface to the latter’s book, and it really burns

see also: the men who can’t let their female mentee outshine them, which results in a need to constantly talk her down, talk over her, slander her reputation, and minimize her in every way, with the hope that the woman will eventually either give up and leave academia or accept her “lesser” status

I left an asshole’s lab who treated me like garbage once I got my NSF GRF award. I wrote the proposal by myself while I was his tech. He told me to stop acting like I was smarter than everyone else. He wasn’t hitting on me but turned on me when he realized I was, in fact, possibly smarter than him.

Maybe, just maybe, don't treat women in your profession, especially women in a mentor/protege or supervisor/employee relationship, as part of your potential dating pool?

*Man creeps woman out of STEM* “Huh, I guess women just aren’t that into… science”

This is such a common dynamic and it absolutely does immense harm to women’s careers. We do not need to tolerate this shit anymore.

this is also true in the humanities, publishing, and non-profit management even though those are numerically majority-female fields, men wield disproportionate power

Well, this is timely.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Meanwhile, MAGA is still pretending that trans women are the real bathroom threat.

When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.

Apparently, the local beaver has big construction plans--plans that involve taking down this entire stand of creek-side trees.

5/🧵 Race divides the Democratic Party more than it does Republicans. Young Republicans remain almost as racially resentful as older Republicans. But among Democrats and independents, massive shifts. White Gen Z independents have lower racial resentment than Boomer Democrats.

4/🧵 The generational shift isn't just among white Americans. Young Asian and Hispanic Americans show the same pattern: dramatic declines in racial resentment across education, gender, geography, and religion. This is a broad, multi-racial generational transformation.

2/🧵 New piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in @NewRepublic: We analyzed 60,000+ respondents in the 2024 Cooperative Election Study. Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation. The generational shift overwhelms the education divide that supposedly defines modern politics.

EVERYONE: IMPEACHMENT IS NOT JAIL. It is a civil remedy; you just get fired. That means President Trump can’t pardon anyone. What would be hard about this is impeachment has never been used against more than one official at at time; but nothing prevents that in the Constitution.

Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible

Remind me again which party says we should all be terrified of politicians who put criminals back on the streets?

We don’t have enough money to give schoolchildren lunches or seniors prescriptions. But we do have 2 billion to give dude bro Pete Hegseth a more edgy calling card.

For those keeping score, my 11-year-old won her first Seven Wonders game 67-64-54 (with a good bit of help from mom and dad).

This is such a central milestone in parenting. Maybe not on a level with first words, but it's up there.

As a very particular kind of nerd, one of the things I've looked forward to most as a parent is having an in-house third for board game nights.

there is a very specific kind of nerd jd vance is uniquely well-suited to drive to aneurysm — and about 90% of my best friends fit the type. if vance becomes president all my loved ones are either going to die or become ayahuasca addicts.

crazy IG em_clarkson

Amazingly, both of these numbers are about an order of magnitude off from the real early warning system.

In a sophomore meteo class the prof made clear our weather forecasts would be much more accurate with more upper-air observations, but we aren't willing to spend the $$$ to launch more weather balloons to do so. Many competing priorities in a government budget...

I appreciate that the main takeaway from this lesson is that science can't ever really be "apolitical."

11-year-old: Our new science project is so frustrating! Me: How so? 11: We're designing an earthquake warning system, and we could only get it to 59 minutes and 2 false alarms, and it still cost $123M, which means cutting road and school budgets. It's impossible! Me: Sounds like that's the point.

Then maybe businesses shouldn't have backed an individual who made clear that he planned to make policy on personal whims.

I was a faculty member at IU in 2016, and after the election that year, I had to change the way I taught my 200+ student Intro Sociology class, because a handful of students started flooding the class whiteboard app by posting "MAGA" over and over again.

As a former IU faculty member, this doesn't shock me. But it does make me so angry and so, so sad.

If only there was some news this week to be shocked by...

Stumbled across this old picture of my now 11-year-old daughter, and I think I'll be using this (with her permission) as my go-to shocked face from now on : )

This week, my "impostor syndrome" died forreal. Except it means foregrounding the reality that the playing field is NOT level. I really do have to be twice as good to get half as much.

Once again, the party of personal responsibility having *none* of it.

I’m thinking about all of the pushback and anger I’ve encountered in academia when I’ve tried to talk about gendered violence and harassment. I’ve spent decades being I treated like I’m prudish, paranoid, and overreaching for calling out male behavior. This stuff is legitimately triggering.

If they can open the Overton Window wide enough to fit Epstein, then the (unstated) implication is that Trump must fit, too.

"don't worry, he's just into 15-year-olds" perhaps not as exculpatory as you think Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.

Cruel & stupid. they forget that Housing First was developed because treatment first failed!!! HF cut veteran homelessness in half; nearly eliminated it in Utah! If coerced "care" was the most effective approach, HF would never have been invented.

He wants to push us back to the 1930s, and then trap us there, by preventing us from electing another FDR.

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

Rather than let them escape, conservative policymakers are trying to trap women in marriage and motherhood. Because caregiving responsibilities make it harder for women to get themselves out.

This makes 1000% sense to me.

Anyone wondering why so many of us believe that the climate regime is fatally flawed, here’s the evidence: 30 years in (and in the middle of the COP30 meetings), and we are still nowhere near where we need to go! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #COPOut

Also reinforces the point that "elite" institutions aren't great just by virtue of their prestige. And that such institutions aren't bastions of "radical leftism." And that maybe Trump went after Harvard early because it was even lower-hanging fruit than we could have imagined.

I agree, malpractice on part of both the reporter and the publication ...

And yet The NY Times falsely perverted and perseverated on HER emails. The rot is deep.

Grad Students: The Larry Summers news should shed any shred of imposter syndrome you've felt in academia. Clearly, academics* can be far from perfect (at everything from spelling to relationships to human decency) and still make it all the way to the top of ivory tower.

It’s almost like the administration doesn’t want the October jobs numbers to be released. It’s like they’re hiding something. I can’t imagine what! 🤷🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏾‍♀️