Ben Sharkey
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astronomer, archivist at U. Maryland (Small Bodies Node). aspiring killjoy.
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kat
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heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit
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Benjamin Balthaser
28 days ago
The problem is not that older faculty are sticking around - it’s that they are not being replaced. The argument of this piece is quite pernicious as it substitutes a class war btw workers and a neoliberal administration w an age war btw different ranks of workers
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book editor apparently 🇯🇲
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Sophie Brauer
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Dylan Roth
2 months ago
A thing that must be wild about believing in a casually interventionist god who cares about things like baseball is, when you lose, you have to believe God liked the other team better and wanted you to lose.
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Namya Baijal
2 months ago
Many thanks to my PhD advisor Erik Asphaug and mentor
@spacewhalerider.com
for their help and support! Associated press release here!
news.arizona.edu/news/large-c...
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Large craters offer clues to the origin of asteroid 16 Psyche
Using computer simulations, researchers at the University of Arizona model the formation of giant impact basins, or craters, on 16 Psyche in preparation for the arrival of NASA's Psyche mission in 202...
https://news.arizona.edu/news/large-craters-offer-clues-origin-asteroid-16-psyche
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Dr. Adeene Denton
2 months ago
Very excited for my mentee
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's first paper, out today!! We've been hard at work doing high-resolution impact simulations of asteroid (16) Psyche prior to the NASA mission's arrival in 2029:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Exploring the Interior Structure of (16) Psyche Through Basin‐Scale Collisions
We simulate the formation of impact basins on asteroid (16) Psyche using 3D collisional models Psyche's shape, interior structure, porosity, and crushing strength influence the depth of excavatio...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009231
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Stella Sacco
over 2 years ago
*to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic* battle hymn of the republic
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Dr. Adeene Denton
3 months ago
Everyone,
@namyab.bsky.social
just had her first grad school paper accepted and I am so proud!!!!! Everyone tune in to a JGR: Planets issue near you to see my Umbriel paper AND her upcoming paper about cratering on Psyche!
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Dr. Adeene Denton
3 months ago
I can point to the exact moment when my faith in academia died, and it was when my MS advisor had a friend/collaborator get busted for sexually harassing women during Antarctic fieldwork. He defended it to us (his students, majority-women) by saying that in Antarctica, "men turn into animals."
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LOL almost drove through it this morning, shoutout to the county employee flagging everyone down to tell us to turn around. water main break AND a gas leak?? hachi machi
takomaparkmd.gov/AlertCenter....
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Water Main Break/Gas Leak: MD 410/Ethan Allen Ave closed between Carroll Ave and New Hampshire Ave.
The State Highway Administration (SHA) and/or WSSC will be closing MD 410 / Ethan Allen Avenue between Carroll Avenue and New Hampshire Avenue due to a water main break and gas leak.
https://takomaparkmd.gov/AlertCenter.aspx?AID=Water-Main-Break-Gas-Leak-MD-410Ethan-Al-60
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gwen howerton
4 months ago
who is this diva
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
4 months ago
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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Mel Andrews
4 months ago
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
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David M. Perry
4 months ago
Kids taken yesterday Journalists already arrested today ICE patrolling around Falwell Hall and Dinkytown this week Nothing has changed.
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Norm Charlatan
4 months ago
Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.
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Prof. Brittany Miles
4 months ago
wildcat.arizona.edu/163681/news/...
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UA student detained by ICE, speaks out on treatment
A University of Arizona international student named Yassine Halhoul was detained in an ICE detention facility for a month during the fall 2025 semester, despite his student visa being valid. Halhoul s...
https://wildcat.arizona.edu/163681/news/ua-student-detained-by-ice-speaks-out-on-treatment/
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Nicole Bedera
4 months ago
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Evan Urquhart
4 months ago
Legacy media are sending war correspondants to Minneapolis now, but I can't forget that the first impulse of the paper of record was to send four reporters and a photographer out to find some elderly ICE supporters day drinking.
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David Brauer
4 months ago
Just like clear skies in early September make me think of 9/11, deep cold will make me think of ICE murdering us
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austin_walker
4 months ago
Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
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Jessica Kant
4 months ago
Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution
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Jay Kirell
4 months ago
They were eventually allowed one phone call as a thanks for saving the agent’s life. They used it to call their lawyer, who called their state representative, who ultimately got them released on the condition they tell people they were “treated kindly.”
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Anu Li
4 months ago
What finally broke me is seeing that Curry Corner, which closed indefinitely this week because of concerns for employee safety, handed out free samosas at the protest today. They are unable to open the restaurant but they went out and fed the community
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Lizzie O'Leary
4 months ago
genuinely stunning image
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David Brauer
4 months ago
Anyway, ICE wants the discussion to be about churches not kidnapping 5-year-olds or facewashing defenseless protestors with chemical weapons so
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CJ Fogler
4 months ago
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Andrew Lawrence
4 months ago
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
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David Berman Bot
4 months ago
I was so far gone in Fargo South Dakota got annoyed
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post malone ergo propter malone
4 months ago
i have watched the shooter's video. it's going to make you way the fuck madder.
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Dave Mazella
4 months ago
The democratic collapse of my country is making it hard to focus on the collapse of my profession
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Puff the Magic Hater
4 months ago
Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.
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The Cost of Staying Human
Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good
https://organizingmythoughts.org/the-cost-of-staying-human/
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thinking about that time last year i sat behind some ice freaks on a flight, and watched them read an email from their boss about a recent dui in their unit and how important it is that they stop drinking and driving
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jamelle
4 months ago
a few thoughts
youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8
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Abolish ICE
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
https://youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8
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Mia Sato
4 months ago
A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead
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Jared Holt
4 months ago
If officials can’t bring themselves to arrest someone who is captured on camera from multiple angles killing someone in cold blood, they should just step aside so someone with a backbone can lead
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Tim Onion
4 months ago
Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.
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Minnesotan Kaiju
4 months ago
It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
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austin_walker
5 months ago
One thing I keep thinking about is the Rubio interview towards the start of last year. Whether he actually believes this fully or if it’s rhetorical positioning, it’s an argument that lays the groundwork for this and possibly future acts of global banditry. (
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
5 months ago
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)
6 months ago
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
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Nicole Bedera
6 months ago
In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile. It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵
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Belle J'Étranger
over 2 years ago
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL
6 months ago
Me: [drinks straight from OJ carton] Troy Aikman, appearing from behind the fridge door: That’s why he struggles, Joe, and it’s not getting better
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Silver Spring / Takoma Park Mutual Aid
7 months ago
Please help an Afghan refugee family of 5 with 3 children under 7! They have been affected by the SNAP defending and need help with their rent. They need help with their rent. They need $1,350 and every little bit helps! Wahabk94 on PayPal.
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Michael Hobbes
7 months ago
Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.
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Margaret Landis
7 months ago
I’m looking for a post doc! Come join us at ASU!
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