Once again, we have completely lost the thread on how a college education is supposed to work. It’s not major=>job, it’s major=>opportunity to learn critical thinking and expression=>job. Double majors do not produce double opportunities. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

no pods, no casters.

Billie, I help lead an organization that would make outstanding use of your money. Anyone know how to connect me to her people?

I’m going to keep pointing out that outrage is the goal here. Bannon seeks to create a question about a third term, which will lessen Trump’s lame duck status. This rhetoric suggests his team is terrified. Reporting Bannon’s comments without pointing this out helps him drag out the admins power.

The goal here is to minimize his lame duck status after the midterms (particularly if, as seems likely, R’s lose the house). There is no other reason to give this attention.

Uh, I’m a sprinter deeply allergic to anything more than one lap, but 9:20 mile pace (for real, that is the passing pace for the 1.5 mile run) is *too slow* for my warmup cycle. I would pass you while stopping to do intermittent warmup exercises. A Team? This is the “D- but we’ll pass you” Team

The President lives and dies by the numbers. All his claims are about numbers. Suddenly, @nytimes.com is focused on content, not numbers? Seems like maybe the protest numbers are not things this administration wants us to hear. Sometimes you just have to report the numbers.

Slightly happier with my alma mater. I’d be happier if they displayed some spine back when Jim Ryan was forced out.

1) It's pretty straightforward: stop trying to cut the ACA subsidy (a cut that will harm a huge number of people) and the government reopens. 2) It is challenging to take GOP concerns about any federal workers seriously after the past 10 months.

As a former WGII LA, I endorse this.

C’mon, y’all - post your favorite “demonic sexual Superbowl Halftime performance” for MTG.

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Want to co-sign this as someone who works in philanthropy. Conservative donors and foundations have been willing to invest huge sums for general support, correctly assuming that it would produce long-term gains. The liberal approach to philanthropy has been pretty much the exact opposite.

So @dave.bzky.team, how’s #nyclimateweek fit #2? (I’ll find a pic of fit #1 later)

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Oh my goodness Vicari Swain

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So does this mean trump is a snitch or part of the deep state?

I don’t use a weighted vest for training. I just let myself get out of shape and about 10lbs above race weight in my offseason. Voila! Human weighted vest for most of the preseason.

Paging @radiofreetom.bsky.social because I just can’t anymore.

We need better headlines. Read the story: there is no legal pathway for the administration to take over South Station. The suggestion they might is just another example of spitballing ideas in public expecting to be taken seriously. That is the headline.

Few scientists get elected. Will Megan O'Rourke? She's selling an unusual story: Ph.D. ecologist, worked on climate change, also Mormon, with family members who voted for Trump, and roots in the rural working class. www.science.org/content/arti...

A great book on this subject - you might not think this would be a compelling read, but William Sargent tells a good story!

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I've been saying this to colleagues, over and over, for the past 7 months or so. I don't think we have crossed an inflection point yet, but I have difficulty imagining how the US maintains its predominance in research and innovation if the US research enterprise has to endure 3.3 more years of this.

Megan was part of my cohort of @aaas.org Science and Technology Policy Fellows - we connected over being two of the very few fellows with children. She’s talented, kind, and understands how government works - something bc we need badly in Congress. If I was in her district, I’d vote for her!

Working in an international organization: respond to a group email today, and literally every other person on the email, including the sender, has an out of office. Sender is at a conference, but the rest are on holidays. We do August wrong here.

I am reminded of an episode while I was working at USAID. I received a call from Legislative and Public Affairs (I think - I did not have the greatest relationship with them, but that is a different story) about the State Department needing some numbers. 🧵

Congrats to all the Chinese, Indian, and EU researchers who just received the gift of an entire transformational field. We’re doing just great.

It’s the boards. Sometimes it is the administration, but even when the administration screws up, it’s still the boards. Where you see capitulation, ask who is on the board and what motivates them… (As a fellow UVa alum, I share @ablum.bsky.social’s annoyance with the outcome there)

In a world where everything governmental is being broken...I put in a passport renewal online nine days ago and it arrived today. Not expedited. It just came right away. I am choosing not to take this as a hint to leave.

Agree these institutions should pay a price, but everything here just kicks the crap out of the faculty, not the administrators that made these deals. Most faculty have very limited mobility or ability to influence these decisions. Impact enrollments/donations and you will get change.

+1 (smaller pay cut, but still, same ethos and outcome)

Obviously there also is no such thing as drowning, since we know that we will die without enough water.

You know what's fun? Copyright trolls.

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I'd like us to stop "admiring the problem" that is our failure to achieve the SDGs and get to work on the policy barriers and knowledge gaps that have resulted in this situation. @sei.org is just the sort of institution to take on these issues and help guide us to a more just, sustainable future.

Great job, everybody. If the administration had any idea how international relations and organizations worked, they would not be withdrawing from and defunding them.

It is really exciting to see this in final laid-out form - a lot of people (including me!) put a lot of effort into this unique assessment. In a world that requires transformation if we are to achieve a just, sustainable future, this should be a foundational document...

I am, once again, asking the climate community to not rehash 20 year old debates. Addressing adaptation needs is necessary and must be coupled with adaptation. We covered this at length in the @ipcc.bsky.social AR6 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

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Hot garbage from the @nytimes.com today. Running this hed with no reference to the fact Congress should be in charge of tariffs and is derelict in its duty to rein in the lawlessness here is an appalling normalization of our disastrous governance situation.

Clearly someone has seen me with my kids in an airport

Since I am poking the bear this morning: We are going to need substantial CO2 removal technologies to address climate change even if we otherwise reach net zero. Once again, it is not either/or. We need net zero AND CDR on top of net zero. No matter what social/economic future on desires.

Also, air conditioning isn’t the problem. POWERING air conditioning in a way that doesn’t blow up needed mitigation is the challenge. ENSURING EQUITABLE ACCESS to air conditioning is the challenge. When you get specific about problems, solution pathways emerge!

Woke up to a “why we need more air conditioning in a changing climate” here & yep, I’m seeing people invoke the late 1990s “if we talk about adaption we are giving in/missing the root cause” arguments. Folks, we need to adapt & mitigate. There are other smarter, more pressing things to sort out.

I strongly agree with this, but with one edit: A lot of critical development studies work does not understand its object. There is a shocking amount of crit dev work out there that is empirically wrong - but neither the author, reviewers, or editors know this because they’ve never worked in dev!