This f'ing department is regressing day by day. My brothers and sisters in Christ, being a boot-leaker would not save your asses from the other racist and sexist assholes. Grow a spine and f'ing protect the most vulnerable people in your vicinity. This is your responsibility as a faculty member.

"Hitler told the world around he would tear our union down But our union's gonna break them slavery chains"

I made it to Louisiana. 🥳 The journey was great! In 3 days I passed through ~10 states. I loved how what I was seeing was not just cars and highways, but farms and mountains and deers.

This glorious journey has started. I'm taking the Amtrak from LA to Chicago, and from Chicago to New Orleans. Then I'll take a taxi from there to Baton Rouge. It will be 3000+ miles in 3 days!

This is my alternative career path option. If academia at some point decided that it doesn't want me anymore, the alternative is public service.

Maybe unpopular opinion: Any service with a profit motive has no place in an academic setting.

Sorry for being such a killjoy, but I think every single one of these could be a possible academic misconduct investigation.

We're all the Barnard's star, existing at both extremes, minding our business at U kelvins. Too hot for a dwarf, Too cold for a giant. And the real question is that if there are any axolotls living on the planets orbiting Asptholol.

Multitasking in academia:

I will be going to the LIGO Livingston in less than a week from now, and I can not state how excited and terrified I am right now. The science that we do is so fantastically cool, and yet I am anxious and depressed all the time. I wish we humans had a switch to tune this thing down.

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

I am once again asking us to heavily regulate (ehem, ban!) this madness. It is one of the basic purposes of having any form of government to regulate misconducts like this. And for the rest of the mere mortal souls like you and me, please let's stop normalizing this.

Whatever—the big danger to humans is not raiders, angry human-eating fauna, or rogue SecUnits; it’s other humans.

This was such a painful and empowering interview to read.

I so much feel like I'm the worst graduate student, researcher, and friend ever. So here are the comments that I got this quarter from my students. Let's hope that bragging in public about how good a teacher I am will cheer me up a little bit.

This thread made my day. I want every single of the animal and fruit menorahs.

There is no legitimate use for guns in the modern civil society. Our goal should be to limit them, and hopefully, to completely get rid of them someday. The same goes for billionaires, for-profit healthcare and education, and borders.

Found the reviewer number 2!

What's happening to my mental health is not a decline anymore. It's a nosedive free-fall.

phones should be DESIGNED to be repairable and last a lifetime we have ALL the tech, skills, materials and energy we need to make this happen what we do NOT have on this planet is the materials, energy, or space for toxic trash to sustain the throwaway overconsumption that creates billionaires

Me: We should aim for free education, universal healthcare, sustainable environmental practices, and universal basic income if we plan to overcome the problems that we are facing today. The path there starts with intersectional feminism and... Hinge: Sir, this is just a dating profile.

Apparently UC has a contract with OpnenAI to provide access to ChatGPT and "cutting-edge AI tools" on its campuses with the goal of "enhanc[ing] learning, research, and operational efficiency". I can't even read the contract because they do not deem my browser worthy of their support.

Dear academics, please do not go around and tell the students to use LLMs for exam preparations. Especially not in response to someone who has concerns about the rules and regulations about that exam. That shouldn't be what we are teaching the kids.

Making phone calls is such an stressful task that I've been procrastinating on making some necessary doctor appointments for ages, one from more than a year and half ago. Made one appointment this morning. Three more to go! 🥲

Found my plan B in career paths, in case we continue the current shenanigans with destroying the whole society and the scientific infrastructure with it.

A tutorial for the academics on how to handle SA cases.

All the content, misogyny, sexism, classism, and bigotry aside, why are these people emailing each other like that? The coherence of their email text is what I expect of third-graders texting their friends.

Got my copy of @mskellymhayes.bsky.social 's new book. Take a look at the list of letters. They are much needed letters of hope and solidarity from virtual friends for the current (and any other) times.

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

There's no way that I can convince myself that "Operation Midway Blitz" is not the name of a Nazi Germany military operation during the invasion of Poland or France.

Today is a morning of hope with Mamdani's win, and the other local elections. Let this be a reminder for us to organize, to radicalize around human dignity, and to keep the good fight. Things are rough and the future is still dark. But on days like today the stars are shining bright in the dark.

I've been binge watching DS9 to escape the reality. And the result? Last night I had a nightmare about being held in a Cardassian ICE concentration camp. 😑

Shoot! I'll never be able to run for any offices if people figured out how many aunts and uncles I had growing up. I didn't even know how some of them were related to me. Too bad I never sexually assaulted anyone to look favorable to NY Post.

My lack of understanding of baseball is such that a while back someone was saying that the Bluejays are doing this and that, and I was genuinely baffled how any of those things could apply to a bird. :))

Riverside just blew the whole galaxy up, our sophisticated expert futuristic AI reports.

Tap water is something that I have strong political opinions about. Access to clean water is a human right. It bothers me so much when I see how many people use "commercial" bottled water in their everyday use. If our water quality is low, the solution is not to give money to some corporation, -->

There is no justification for using ChatGPT, or other "AI" products, in an academic setting. I'll heavily judge you if you're a "just ask ChatGPT" person.

The PhD student's constant existential crisis of being so excited about what you're doing, and at the same time, being too depressed to really do it.

Not niche at all, but serious and basic: - Profit in inherently immoral. Keeping the society away from it could help fixing a lot of problems. - Sexism, racism, and other forms of bigotry should be absolutely unacceptable and intolerable by every single one of us.

ICE is indeed our state-sponsored terrorist organization. Not only we must abolish ICE, but also should abolish our cruel prison system.

I know that it's too much to ask for this in the current full-fledged Fascist regime, but who the f*** decided that Amber alerts should be posted on Xitter? An official government-issued emergency communication is notified to people solely on a for-profit website that can not be viewed without ...

This is fantastic! 😍 Silly nerdy question for some nerdy astronomers out there: How many millisecond pulsars, with how much stability, do we need to encode our phone's GPS scale location on earth? How should we even encode all the dynamical parts?

This is the most important time to invest in love and community. This is the time to be expansive, even as so much in the world is pulling inwards. Joy is our rebellion. We take care of each other, and we stand up for each other.

Same thing here. Decided to keep my (almost civil) comments to myself, as I didn't want them to be the only things seen from me online. 🫣

The other day, someone introduced me to their friend as "This is Pooyan, he is in the Physics department and advocates for the gays and the under-represented". I haven't ever been so satisfied of an introduction. :)

Just so that we scientists have an idea of the scale of the bill that just passed in the congress, the money that is appropriated to ICE in the one BBB is more than the sum total of 2026 budget requests for NASA, NSF, NIH, CDC, NOAA, and the whole of DoE.

An audio recording of this town hall is available at bsky.app/profile/nasa...

This is the courage I expect from my fellow Americans. She seems to be afraid, and still stands up to these thugs.

This! We, the people, with our values, our loved ones, our communities, and our joy are all that we will have at the end of the day. We oppose Fascists, wars, racists, and the rapists because of this. Let us all make art, strengthen our communities, and beat the Fascists in solidarity.

You know your mental health status is rapidly tanking when one of the things that you're thinking about is that if/when ICE comes for you, would there be anyone out there who really cares or not. The fears of Fascism, loneliness, and the war are all combined in one huge amalgamation at the moment.