How many contact hours you get in GenChem? We have 2.5 of lecture and this semester we finally created 1 hour recitations run by TAs. 3 hour labs. And here I am wondering if the reason other places seem to be able to cover more: 1) Lab is complementary rather than repetitive 2) More contact hours

The mega churches and their parishioners are now pushing back online, claiming they don’t offer aid because they’re afraid of being scammed. If you would rather keep your $20 and risk letting a baby starve than stump up for a tin of formula for someone not in need then you’re no follower of Christ.

And frankly, celebrating dining with "the wealthy" of LI, while not seeing this was the very donor connection which was directly used as a silencing threat against the marginalized grad students and postdocs of the institution, starkly shows the limit of your analysis. bsky.app/profile/anal...

We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.

And in fact, there are very visible and extremely influential movements happening *right now* directly making our colleagues less safe, and people like my wife and I less safe in science, because of this man bsky.app/profile/mich...

His comments were not going out to nowhere. He directly told the brilliant and incredible grad students, postdocs, particularly people he had no reason to fear because they were in vulnerable and low power positions -- that they did not belong in science bsky.app/profile/anal...

Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm

Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

This is Rosalind Franklin. The real discoverer of the DNA structure.

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.

Yes lol They want to do that to me sometimes, too. They are just scared to. I will say, I think the Luddites will win this one in the near future.

Fluorine just spent 10min trying to catch the moon. We finally convinced her that maybe catching a ray of moonlight would be easier. She did. Then decided to give it back to the moon 😭😭😭

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

I am really trying to get people to understand how much what is happening to our children in Chicago with regard to ICE abductions is like school shootings/gun violence: the random and massive exposure to this particular violence will imprint on a generation and no privilege can fully shield you.

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.

I hope than in some years when we look back at tonight we see it as the night change started happening. Change in all of the US. I hope his actions live to that speech. I have to hope because hope is the last thing they can take away from me.

Zohran Mamdani wins with >50% of the vote. Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia. Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices. California passes prop 50. This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.

Mamdani: "New York City, breathe this moment in. We have held our breath for longer than we know. We have held it in anticipation of defeat, held it because the air has been knocked out of our lungs too many times to count, held it because we cannot afford to exhale."

Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

“To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us” amen.

Flip 11 for VA Dems: HD-66. That's a 30+ year GOP incumbent that just lost btw

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Same 🤣

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

What we know so far, 9:30pm —Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani up —Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy. —Dems sweep Orlando council —PA: Dem justices up big —Maine anti-mail vote measure down —Krasner wins

A thread about keeping one’s head above water under the current conditions and not being incapacitated by rage, fear, despair or some mixture of those (1/11)

lol. lmao.

Spanbergers’s daughter in the background doing THE MOST. 😂🥹🥇

Fellow bitter southerners, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote

We took out the LAST Republican on the Orlando City Council!!! Congrats to Commisioner-Elect Tom Keen! And thanks to all of our volunteers and Organizers that knocked hella doors and spent all day today on the phone to Get Out The Vote!

I’m going to keep mentioning how heavily people leaned on the “actually, poor Black people don’t go to elite schools, we need more investment at the community level” argument when affirmative action was before the court, and how fucking silent they are now.

They called it! Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia gubernatorial race!

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

☠️

mamdani is going to break 50% and centrist pundits are going to convolute themselves in new ways to say he doesn’t have a mandate

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

I really really need today’s results across the nation to give me some hope

This is never clearer than in fierce conservative opposition to feeding children at school. There is zero chance that money is going to something other than food. They are providing food. So the children can eat. In school. And they still angrily oppose. Because they don't want poor children to eat.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families. You don’t have to launder their legacies. Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.

They want cultural victory and a Brown man winning the Mayor’s race in a culturally important city is a way bigger blow to cultural victory than a governor’s race

Teen Vogue has shown that you can do courageous, accountability political journalism *and* get huge engagement while doing so. And they've just decided to throw that all away. This is an unbelievably grim day for journalism.

“What if I told you shapeland is actually the animal kingdom” #iykyk

Teen Vogue did some great journalism around immigration detention and enforcement. Sounds like corporate has now killed that off. The media landscape shrinks even further.