I was just listening to the @headintheoffice.bsky.social guys pointing out that I C E is making Minneapolis PD look "good", you know, the same cops who killed George Floyd... That's just bonkers

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

The way this man talks makes me feel I've forgotten to take my meds and I can't process what he's trying to say. We need to get off this ride. Expeditiously 😩

Hmm, question: who is awake in the middle of the night making random AI images for DJT so he can randomly post them at 3AM on a school night? Stephen Miller?

And now the tweet is gone 🤡

I hate that students are now too young to get the "dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow" reference ☹️

Oh heck no, immediately blocked 🙄

Block instantly.

People are sharing photos from their best 2016 moments. 2016 is the year I found out I was very allergic to Anopheles stephensi saliva...

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Man... Fetterman's tongue should burst into flames every time he fixes his mouth to say "As a Democrat..."

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

Neighbors standing guard over churches so that parents can have secret meetings about how to keep daycares safe. This is what's happening in the Twin Cities right now.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

My dog makes it very clear he's not to be disturbed once he's sent himself to bed.

To my fellow French people who are asking why every single American isn't in the streets fighting all the armed forces deployed across the US: Macron would likely not even risk sending our military to face US military, but you can't comprehend why regular citizens are terrified?

I genuinely feel like we're all asleep and he's our sleep paralysis demon.

I just heard the orange creature say that the US has to take control of Greenland because, otherwise, Russia might take it and become our neighbor... ... Is basic knowledge of US geography not a requirement to serve in the highest office in the country?

And now I just found out that a colleague who is not an entomologist took it upon himself to email someone from another institution to ask for their help in evaluating my protocols. Without mentioning it to me. I only found out because the other PI found it weird and told me.

Also announced it on LinkedIn and some guy private messaged me to say "Congratulations to your PI" lol. Maybe one day Academia will take its foot off my neck. Not today apparently 😅

Fieldwork is so random. One moment things are going according to plan. The next, you're collecting ticks from a very polite cemetery-roaming sweet baby.

I'm having one of the most important work meetings of my life tomorrow. Please sacrifice a metaphorical chicken to the Academia gods for me thank youuuu

Very proud to announce that my baby is finally here! This new program at UTMB will support a variety of training opportunities in medical and veterinary entomology. It will also focus on developing a broad network of partners interested in vector biology and ecology across the state of Texas.

Let's not even talk about those who call it "liberation" 🥴

Journalists calling the invasion of a sovereign country an ‘acquisition’ or ‘taking control of’ is extremely problematic.

When people ask if Galveston is really that humid...

PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use. So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/

My very insomniac brain is clearly aware that I'm going back to work tomorrow 🫩

Relaxed and oblivious to the state of the world. Only worried about whether his dinner will be topped with rotisserie chicken or not.

It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.

A reminder that Venezuela is a signatory to the Rome Statute. So crimes committed on its soil are subject to jurisdiction of ICC, including 👇 www.internationalcrimesdatabase.org/Crimes/Crime...

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

I'm sure they're going to tell us that without Congress making it so, it is not really "a war". Just an act of something . It's only a war if from the War region of France . For now it's just a sparkling conflict 🙄

One thing we have to admit is that these demons have stamina. How have they managed to make every day worse than the one before for a year now? We're exhausted and they always find a way to make it worse.

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

I know productivity is radically opposed (in the mind of some) to any sort of rest but someone is going to have to explain to me the logic of expecting exhausted people to yield high productivity. I'm bitter. Just as last year. Because these academic deadlines on 12/31 and 1/2 are dumb.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

Some personal in/out suggestions for 2026: IN: - more regulated use of AI in higher ed - rebuilding trust in science - vaccines - more balanced life for public health academics. We nearly lost our minds this year. OUT: - measles - internal grant deadlines on January 2 - deadlines at 9 or 12AM

Now friend, your movies are visually beautiful, there's no denying it... but there's no substance there. People are reading, but what you have to say could fit as a paragraph of a food menu.

Janvier, Jean-Marie. Décembre, Brigitte. Sale année pour extrême droite.

I've never seen anything as damaging for students as AI. In such a short amount of time, it completely annihilated so much of their critical thinking skill(s). I'm not an AI hater, but kids have become 100% reliant... And then it helps them kill themselves. Like, hello? Are we asleep at the wheel?

Looking for a Christmas miracle for a kitty (aging parent situation) for Baltimore pals: (1/2) ""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."

My students gifted me a personalized 2026 calendar with 12 original photos and it's the sweetest Christmas gift ever.

Do people realize that this is also happening with case law? Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???

Someone needs to study why -80°C freezers always choose to die after 6pm and between 12/15 and 1/2.

The layers of unethical behavior here are just mind blowing...

Hum... Can't he just ask his buddy Hegseth? Like, is it supposed to be some sort of shadow ops with no documentation? And mainly targeting blue states?

Hollow Knight: Silksong's first big expansion has been revealed by developer Team Cherry. https://bit.ly/49ddthM

Never forget the time in 2020 Charlie Kirk (dead now) pretended to be a black guy on Twitter but forgot to switch accounts when giving himself a nice compliment.