"Iran is facing its worst water crisis in decades. With no end in sight and authorities warning they may even have to evacuate the capital of 10 million people, residents like Ensani are scrambling to respond." www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

granted, we were more Catholic than evangelical, but this stuff about “women and men have different brains” and “committing suicide is just as bad as committing murder” and “the separation of church and state was a mistake and our ultimate goal is to establish a theocracy” was in our textbooks

maybe the scariest part is that I’m not appalled by most of the stuff he says. Most of it feels very familiar, similar to the expressed thoughts and feelings of the adults around me when I was a child bsky.app/profile/holl...

America can't be fascist because I'm not doing anything about it

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

Climate change is already making it dangerous to work outdoors and in factories in India — and we’re not even st 1.5C yet. “Summers have gotten so much worse in the past five years that…she ends up losing a week’s worth of work each month because of dehydration and vomiting.”

and you might think sexual harassment at work is about desire, or maybe a lack of boundaries let me tell you it is about shrinking the pool of competitors if it's a boys' club you only have to be better than the other boys to look good

Look at the studies of why women and POC leave academia mid-way through thus creating a "leaky pipeline. " A recurring reason is harassment and bullying of a sexual OR non-sexual variety while their institutions stood by and did nothing claiming it's too hard to discipline tenured faculty.

Some fun with lady Belted Kingfisher today. I found a good spot for them. Thinking about actually dragging a tripod with me next time out. 🪶

In the lab I was in 100 years ago, the major prof stripped an assistantship from one of the female PhD students who made a big discovery. She presented at a major conference & the room was a buzz around her at the end. My prof was not amused. She ended up having to transfer to another lab to finish.

Oh my god can you imagine??? Holy shit.

It makes a mockery of those of us who were taught that hard work is what yields the greatest rewards, whose parents sacrificed everything so we could go to school... to be told to look up to people like *this.*

Oh I'm pretty sure this scenario is more or less why my sister doesn't have her PhD in theoretical astrophysics. She stopped at a masters because her mentor was harrassing her and when she said no he dropped her.

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

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

god help me, I’m discovering the teachings of Doug Wilson for the first time

ngl as a non-drinker I don’t understand expensive alc culture. If I had $500 to blow on a single bottle I’d rather use that money to idk buy clothes or something that will actually last

got something similar this week from a “Vernon Press” trying to solicit an edited volume. I don’t know who thinks I have the credentials to edit a volume

graded four (4) papers and am trying to convince myself to grade more

hate it when people on FB marketplace intentionally sell you appliances that don’t work

I know the same disability can affect ppl differently + I also try to be as accommodating as possible as an instructor. I was once an undergrad who needed disability accommodations! But I am getting tired of men using “but I have [same disability Emily has]” as a reason why they can’t meet deadlines

I need to know why other white women are so invested in conspiracy theories and “the SA survivor is lying”-style conspiracy theories in particular

waiting for it to stop being cloudy and rainy AF so that I can actually see this aurora 😑

Me, daily: this place is a mess. A MESS. This place, occassionally: what about an aurora borealis in these troubling times?

the audacity of a random person on Reddit messaging me to ask me to create for them an illegal pdf of a textbook that they suspect I could own based on one of my posts but that I do not in fact own

Our handsome, patient oaf of a cat Titus has passed on. He enjoyed finding heat sources, joining us in the bathroom, falling gracelessly off of things, and looking like he was dead until one day, he was. We will always remember you Mr. Titus.

This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

glad it wasn’t that though

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

The first snow flurries of the year.

‘The presence of two words — “equity” and “inclusion” — on page 50 of a 5-year-old grant application just killed a program at UC Berkeley that for half a century helped thousands of East Bay teens recognize that they could go to college and even pay for it.’

it just started snowing for the first time this year and I have no idea where my ice scraper is, which is why I’m eating ice cream for breakfast at 1pm while reading about nuclear weapons

I will also add: I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Plainsboro Preserve, Plainsboro, NJ. #DSLR #Sunset #EastCoastKin #NaturePreserve #Plainsboro #NJ #NewJersey #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky

Pope Leo XIV is infuriating MAGA Catholics Concern for the poor and the planet rubs some the wrong way Pope Leo XIV blessing a piece of the 20,000-year-old Greenland Ice Sheet at the International Conference Raising Hope for Climate Justice Tenth Anniversary

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

It happens to me...

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

for anyone who hasn’t seen this yet: the SAFE Act would prohibit any faculty who have *ever* worked with Chinese international graduate students (including retroactively, in the past five years) from receiving federal funding in the future: www.science.org/content/arti...

this is incredibly interesting and fantastic news if true but part of me has to wonder whether this is due to covid tests not being updated to reflect rapidly evolving new strains

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

becoming convinced that the average non-academic has completely lost the plot with respect to basic nutrition and health education. The fact that there are tons of unlicensed tiktok “diet influencers” running around doesn’t help

I feel badly bc I bought this giant jar of organic “vanilla, cream on top” yogurt from Whole Foods and I can’t even get a single bite down. Tastes like someone dumped half a bag of powdered sugar into a quart of half and half, let it bake in the sun for an hour, then put it in the freezer for 5mins

Interesting question! I actually think the offices of the Economist should be subjected to intense artillery bombardment

Nope. Noooooooope. I am riding the Nope Train to Nopeville with my good friend the Nopetopus. Absolutely the fuck not, we're not bringing 19th century "race science" back. I don't know if I have enough sedatives or heartburn meds to read this, folks.

forgot how sore caffeine makes my muscles

"every time you hear a piece of good news about the explosive growth of clean energy, it’s worth remembering that the benchmark in question likely could have been met in 2005, rather than 2025, if not for Big Oil’s climate deception" @aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>

Dear Canada, can someone explain why we are not doing this?? electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...

Allegedly it's also a crown that you only wear when you were dead