Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K

TIME Magazine (!!!) asked me to explain what the wider world should know about Catherine Connolly: time.com/7333194/irel...

Reminder that in Minnesota, you have the right to vote on the same day you register. We are not a voter ID state. You can vote if you've lived in Minnesota for 20 days and are old enough: www.sos.mn.gov/elections-vo... Your neighbor/friend can also vouch for you.

Annual plug for the fabulous phylopic.org website with tens of thousands of easily searchable silhouette images for almost every life form imaginable. They make nice additions to your biology plots!

The Clash Virginia Turbett

ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline. Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job Assistant Prof job code: 364920 Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just so good

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Food insecurity among U students is no joke and food deserts don't make for good learning environments. Join me in supporting the University of Minnesota food shelf, now and after the election. boynton.umn.edu/food-pantry

Now accepting applications! PhD in Health Services Research, Policy & Administration at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Zoom info sessions: Oct 30, Nov 7, Nov 20 Learn more & apply here: z.umn.edu/hspraphd

Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion. More details here: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

A reminder: 40% of US Nobel prize winners since 2000 have been immigrants.

A landmark new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the HPV vaccine is doing exactly what it promised & more. 17yrs after rollout, adolescent vaccination has slashed HPV infxns not only among those vaccinated but also those unvaccinated, showing powerful herd protection. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Happy Final Local Replacements Show Day to all who observe

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $436.3 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $244.2 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $257.8 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

“It’s not even a matter of coming in and letting your hair down. We don’t ever really have to have our guard up. This is where the freaks hang out. Here, we don’t think you’re freaky. You’re just one of us.”

Born on this day, Joe Strummer. 📸 Pennie Smith

"The tenure process is harrowing, punitive, predatory, and generally demoralizing — if you’re successful. If you don’t get tenure, your academic career is over, and you will be publicly stoned to death in the quad between the library and the student union."

An all-time great album and band!

Well worth reading, completely agree.

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

Straight talk from Dr. Francis Collins on the devastating - and politically motivated - cuts to science and public health in the United States. Anybody who cares about their health or the future or science, technology, and innovation in this country should watch this. www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/T...

Next Saturday 12-3pm at Minneapolis' Midtown Global Market: The Authors & Illustrators Book Fair fills the market with books, authors, and literary fun with a focus on Picture Books through Young Adult:

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Happy Birthday Mick!

Interview with The Clash 1982 #TheClash

This story on the shootings in Brooklyn Park and Champlin is outside the paywall. Our reporters are working to confirm details as quickly as possible. www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...

Very much this. We will not just pick up where we left off five years from now. It will take much longer to recover

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world. The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use. Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

State Theatre Waseca, Minn. 1935 Image: Liebenberg and Kaplan papers, University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives; umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll106:611

Great Magnetic Fields show tonight at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. 69 Love Songs a fantastic album

This book is *psychotic*. Revisionist, fact-free propaganda from the very first page. I know I shouldn’t be at this point, but it’s shocking that the authors were featured on The Daily

A wide-angle look at the ugly principles behind the current attacks on US science:

“Appeasement will not work. You will never win if you politely ask your opponent to stop rushing the ball down your throat. Put your head down and stuff the goddamn run.” B1G senates did their part. Now sports fans must stand up for college independence. www.offtackleempire.com/2025/4/29/24...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

We’re proud to spotlight the U’s groundbreaking Vaccine Integrity Project—a visionary initiative designed to protect the integrity, trust, and science behind vaccines in the U.S. 💉 #IDSky

Alarming new study in JAMA modeling measles in the US: If we stay at CURRENT vaccination rates, measles will become endemic again over roughly 20 years. If rates drop by even 10 percent (and they're sliding), there would be 11 MILLION cases over the next 25 years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

This may be the most perfect summary ever written about a car. From this week's @channel6.bsky.social newsletter, which you should already be subscribed to because it's free and excellent, and which also contains: °Reckless levels of charitable generosity °SPIES! °homemade nilla wafers And more!