add this to my list of papers to beef with…

Seeing Tech/Business folks lean into eugenics, phrenology, & other stupid ideas. It shows the lack of training they are getting in regards to genetics/evolution, stats, ethics, & history of science. They have locked down a good # of craven assholes. 1-Point for you there, I guess. #Calipers

The nature of policing is to avoid accountability and responsibility. That is how it works, in the past, today, and in the future. (I’m not allowing responses because I don’t want to keep explaining. At this point if you tell me the police need to be more professional, I’ll just tap this.)

bro are you fucking kidding me

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Posted this elsewhere: Patriarchy ruins the workplace every day. No universal healthcare nor reproductive care, no affordable childcare, no paid time off for pregnancy, maternity leave nor family support, because the template for ‘employee’ is a male, unattached worker paid as little as possible.

mamdani 💯 captured the living in multiple worlds with multiple cultures and heritages ive felt my whole life & yk what, I’m taking “others will take time catching up” to heart. exactly what ive need to hear for a very long time.

"Others will take time in catching up to that." whew

I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

“If I do not file a complaint, where does that leave all Mexican women?” Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday. www.jezebel.com/one-of-the-w...

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

this seems to be a bit premature, no? www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

"This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about." - Zohran Mamdani, leader of the Democratic Party

Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of couch fiend JD Vance. Cory lost the election immediately after being endorsed by JD Vance.

I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

He won with joy and strong principles. Even when they used who he was as an attack, he smiled and stood for what he knew was right. This is the way.

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

My goal for the next ten years is to build the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory (@giflab.bsky.social) into one of the leading Geography research groups in the world.

“The symbolism of the moment is hard to beat. At a time when Trump is not just demonising immigrants, but harassing them and sending masked goons to kidnap them from the street, America’s greatest city – and Trump’s hometown – has elected a Muslim immigrant to run it.”

This looks like it was the first dinosaur to see the meteor coming

📜 This is also happening in about two weeks as well! I’ll be chatting about my previous museum collections work with local communities. www.tickettailor.com/events/museu...

I also dont want to be too hashtag real but just staying alive to do science is my major accomplishment from the past few years. hard to believe our higher Ed jester could have problems, ik, but life is full of complexity and narrative.

just the funniest week of presentations and performance every day … and to end on a grand finale, the wedding of a beloved friend I met as a teen at the public library.

When I was young and the economy was in the midst of a recession, one of the more attractive features of DC for me was that I wouldn’t need a car to move around. I also have a degree in Government, so it lined up, but people shouldn’t have to move across the country for that.

public transportation was one major reason I went to grad school in San Francisco over some other choices. I knew I couldn't afford a car on my stipend. It was also a potent lesson on where accessible public transportation, like BART, is allowed to go (SF and the Easy Bay) and where it isn't (Marin)

Submissions for the WAC Student Grant program are open now until Dec 1. We anticipate making up to three $1,000 awards to support student (graduate or undergraduate) research on copepods. See details👇 www.monoculus.org/student-gran...

hot take: Autistic people who take to leadership roles often engage w/ their position w/ the “servant leadership” approach, viewing their duty as being to the people that report to them, raising up peoples’ strengths to create successful autonomous teams & the few of us skilled at that get promoted

An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

Local. Elections. Matter. In my city we have a vote today to push back against overreach by the state into local governance. There are just over 75,000 eligible voters. Gainesville folks - take time today to tell the state to stay out of local governance. Vote Yes for Local Public Utilities.

"It's past time to recognize that university administrators aren't going to lead the way out of this, [setting] the stage for leadership... from faculty, staff, & students, [where] most if not all progress in higher ed over the past 100 yrs has occurred." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #AcademicSky

please support these folks now and hopefully when they end up in better circumstances

obviously ik voting will not change the entire fabric of the universe but damn, 1) harm reduction, 2) school boards are on the ballot and have y’all seen the schools …

This essay is on point and so well-deserved. Prof. McMillan Cottom has led me to think so much harder and more creatively about things, by generously laying out the trail that leads to where she’d already gotten to, and inviting us to try and catch up.

Today is #ElectionDay in 39 states across the country. Know your voting rights! Images: When We All Vote

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Goodness. Closing beautifully with Vito Marcantonio: “If it be radicalism to believe that our natural resources should be used for the benefit of all, and not for the purpose of enriching just a few, then I plead guilty to the charge.”

Like c'mon. In order for anyone to do anything further with the tips on that tree they need names, descriptions, *information* ... stopping with the tree is like pouring a concrete slab and announcing you built a house

Generating a molecular tree =/= doing systematics, and definitely =/= doing taxonomy

Citizen-led pollution monitoring persists in Louisiana, despite law that limits its use - LA Illuminator lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

I note that the university cut-backs haven’t yet extended as far as leaf-blowers 🍃 🍂

"While loneliness and virtual life still reign supreme, the people I spoke to described the thrill of connecting with strangers, watching their toddlers play with canvassers, and coming home to find unexpected guests."

Grateful to @amayor.bsky.social for sending me a copy of her new book "Mythopedia," a fascinating A-to-Z explainer of multicultural lore inspired by geology, paleontology & other facets of natural history. A fun & mind-expanding read! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... 🧪📚🪨⚒️🦣🦖

I would not be me without libraries. An inspiring and devastating read—with helpful action ideas.

Austin’s Black cultural center faces staffing woes, fading momentum www.statesman.com/news/article...

Breaking News from @theathletic.com: The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays in seven games to become the first repeat World Series winners in 25 years.

✨ Day Three at #NDiSTEM2025 started out with an unforgettable plenary, then symposia, now queue the awards + the Pachanga to finish out a conference full of science, culture, and community!💫 #STEMCommunity #SACNAS #STEM #STEMWorkforce #Networking #STEMinspiration #Mentorship