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)

Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider

Dramatic increase in conflicts over #water in 2024 compared to previous years. pacinst.org/announcement...

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

🚨BREAKING: While Americans were distracted by shutdown chaos, Trump’s MAGA Senate just gutted food safety laws — after millions in donations from Big Food lobbyists. Buried in the new funding bill is a hidden clause that blocks the FDA from enforcing critical food traceability rules.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn

Bluesky banning kenzidor for quoting Johnny cash is too surreal for me, I need to log off tonight I think

Chuck Schumer is caving in on ACA extensions the right way. by Ezra Klein

The real reason the right opposes higher education is that if kids leave home and are exposed to more varieties of music they’ll realize that country music sucks. (I am at Tractor Supply.)

Apologies to anyone who thought they were flying out of Atlanta tonight.

Husbands with Grindr profiles?

Cat, bourbon, first fire of the season. Feeling very blessed (and I’m an atheist).

The simple, honest public health messaging we should’ve seen everywhere from early on in the pandemic. Instead—as with almost every other aspect of modern life—profits & politics were put before people & their health. Protect yourself from #COVID to preserve your long term health.

Startup idea: buy laptops, remove any hint of pre installed AI including the Copilot key that’s on all Windows laptops, and resell them as organic free-range grass-fed computers

pace @sarahkendzior.bsky.social a "we have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government" artsfuse.org/204467/book-...

#FungWong has turned out to be a very large typhoon with quite the broad core. This means previous guidance suggestions of a very strong storm did not come to pass, but it also means a larger region impacted as it comes ashore. Stay safe if you are in the path!

This is one of the coolest visualizations I've seen of waves moving throughout the country over 2 years. Note the seasonal patterns in various states. From Yale school of public health

Sometimes I wonder if my social media presence is professional enough, and then I see stuff like this and think I'm fine.

From 2019 onwards, you say. How mysterious.

ushering in an era of bold socialist leaders who support trans rights and make really great font choices

CDC Figures It Easier To Start Tracking People Without Measles

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

An atmospheric river takes aim at the west coast, driven by a large low-pressure system over the north Pacific Ocean.

OPINION | Dick Cheney Was Practicing Politics The Right Way By Ezra Klein

I wrote about the growing body of research showing how hurricanes continue to kill for a long time after they hit — and why it will be even worse in Jamaica.

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

There aren’t enough jobs at universities and research centres for PhD students and graduates in their own countries, what makes you think that they’ll have enough for everyone who wants to leave the US?!

"I’m not looking so bad now, huh? Absolute best case, the LLM-generated legal advice you get is merely plagiarizing, probably from me. But more likely, it’s a mish-mash of Reddit posts filtered through an algorithm coded by a Belarusian teen on the run from Interpol."

The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is officially open for enrollment for people with Long COVID in: Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut... 1/16

Just saw a Georgia license plate from a county called Effingham And I'm not going to look it up on a map, because in my mind Effingham neighbors the county of Effingcheese and they're both nestled between Effingbread

Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before

Family Revels In Height Difference Between Mother And Tall Son https://theonion.com/family-revels-in-height-difference-between-mother-and-t-1819577162/

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social nails is again, beautifully www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Does anyone know of 13C data for invertebrates at NEON sites? Thank you!

"Ninety percent of Iowa food is imported. It’s the same in Indiana. We grow all of this but for whom, who’s making the money here? It’s not the farmers, it’s multinational corporations. We’re used as pawns.”" prospect.org/2025/10/29/t...

#Melissa (#13L) is approaching landfall in western #Jamaica. An Air Force recon mission just arrived in the storm so we should have a good idea of what its actual intensity is very shortly. There's also a NOAA plane en route. CIMSS ADT is up to 8.5 (it actually goes up to 9).

#Melissa is close to maxing out all the CIMSS ADT parameters. They go up to 8.5.

Incredible shot inside the eye of Category 5 Melissa from the Hurricane Hunters! #stadiumeffect

We are witnessing some of the most jaw-dropping hurricane satellite imagery ever recorded in the Atlantic. Category 5 Hurricane Melissa (t.me/police_frequ...) is stalled off Jamaica with near-perfect structure and a crystal-clear eye. Colin McCarthy (x.com/i/status/198...)

A solid ring of -80°F cloud tops (pink) for hours while sitting nearly stationary. Remarkable. #Melissa

Stunning satellite imagery of Hurricane Melissa tonight.

Of the 45 Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes since 1924: - 3 have happened this season - 13 have happened the past 10 years - 17 have made a Cat5 landfall More about Cat 5s: 👇

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

My Sunday update on explosive intensification of #HurricaneMelissa and why I fear a generational disaster is emerging www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...