one academic view i hold is that declared helplessness surrounding administrative tasks is both rude and non-credible

Always liked this related joe heath take induecourse.utoronto.ca/absent-minde...

klein thoroughly misunderstands abortion as a political issue in red states: as a single issue, a solid majority of voters are in favor of making it legal or expanding access, but it's not enough of an animating issue to get voters who otherwise lean conservative to elect pro-choice candidates

Blue states vs red states oversimplifies. Vast majority of those who live in red states will not benefit from these "subsidies" which will mostly go to small group of corrupt elites in those states. Eg see Brett Favre and MS TANF fraud case.

WHEEWWWWWWWWWW: "When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers . . . We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Genuinely excited about the Reading Rainbow news! Thrilled that Mr. LeVar Burton is still involved and Mychal's an inspired choice for host. 🌈📚 Have I bragged lately that @readingspark.bsky.social & I met him at the very end of the 2023 National Book Awards? Nah, I don't think I've bragged enough!

📢How can APS be the society that is international, interdisciplinary, and interesting to you as a scientist? We want to hear from you. 🫵https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/aps-todays-world.html #PsychSciSky #DevPsych #PsychSci

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Rest in power, Dr. Jane Goodall

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

Things were so bad at school today I left early. If you know a teacher, please give them a kind word. It’s really hard out there doing this job right now.

Yall please go watch @merriam-webster.com’s new AI ad😅 youtu.be/RvQnl3O0D3c?...

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

Follow up. My wife just came out of surgery, a “microvascular decompression” to address her trigeminal neuralgia. She had a massive impingement of a vein on the nerve. She’s just waking up … and the pain (for now) is gone.

I’m surprised that Stephen King never wrote a story about trigeminal neuralgia, because my <loved one> is dealing with this condition and it’s an effing nightmare. Excruciating phantom pain in your face, triggered by talking, eating, a light wind… what the absolute f*** is this?

Stephanie and Najia started "Deafies for Zohran" to make this movement accessible to their community. They even created a signature hand sign for “Zohran.” Sign up for a shift and wave 👋🏻 the next time you’re canvassing in Jackson Heights!

you are singing my song.

👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications

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I remember reading that people who've fled corrupt authoritarian places, come to US are often most impressed by smooth, fair, bribery-free, functioning of everyday bureaucracy in US. DMV, post office, but many others. Many miracles we take for granted are made possible by 1000s of federal workers.

A message from our team to current and former federal workers ⬇️

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

One of the greatest shitposts I've seen in my entire life

One of the most important skills you can develop online is understanding when something is Not For You

at least i've never made the mistake of bringing an Ezra Klein to a Ta-Nehisi Coates fight

Someone could and maybe should write a paper on the developing lexicon for talking about This Moment, especially in higherEd and non-profit type spaces. Maybe that already exists? But it’s wild to me how I go to meetings full of people who say things like, “all of this” and “these times” etc.

I've been thinking about that Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates convo. Specifically, how Klein kept saying that Coate's pragmatism in positioning his work in line with those who came before him fighting for rights they knew were unlikely to come to fruition in their lifetimes was depressing /1

It’s both depressing and darkly hilarious how Lawfare posting has gone from “we got him on an Article 33, Clause 8, Subsection Alpha infraction, baby cannon time!” to *slams whisky bottle down* “the law is fake and I challenge John Roberts to a fistfight at the Walmart parking lot.”

It's very easy to submit a comment here, you can do it individually or anonymously and the deadline is today. For the sake of the international students and faculty who have enriched us all, please leave a comment opposing this rule change.

This is absolutely ridiculous, would devastate numerous academic fields, and would destroy the lives of people I love very much. Please, please join me in sending a comment in on this telling them so

I wonder if energy spent persuading public that science is valuable is too focused on transformative nature of scientific knowledge (cure disease! invent widget! discover elements!) that helps (but is outside of) American people and economy. But science IS an industry too!

There are more people employed by NIH than coal mining (though Trump et alia are working hard to reduce NIH-related employment...)

My God, this is a gift to Democrats. I would be such an obnoxious carnival barker in their position. "Once again the Republicans are carrying water for their pedophiles as they did with their disgusting boy-rapist speaker Dennis Hastert!" www.npr.org/2016/04/27/4...

People need to be able to wrap their heads around the fact that the below quote is true, but also that there will always exist unrepentant, proud and hateful racists, and that they have become less ashamed and more empowered in the past ten years even as they have shrunk in number.

Like there is a fundamental disconnect to reality in there, and if you show it to them, they bluescreen, reboot, and go right back to that un-seeing and now that I have finally seen it play over & over with many different isms, it's only just beginning to sink in how many people do it all the time.

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time Klein: "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic." They lynched a kid last week.

I am a well educated, pretty media literate person whose job it is to be professionally annoying. I cannot figure out if my cancer medication, which costs $17k a month (I do not pay anything thanks to a combo of insurance/access programs), is going to be tariffed 100%.

I don't post much on my local activities online, but I'm proud to serve on the board of our YMCA in Ashland, VA. I'm raising money today and would be thrilled if anyone in my online circle could contribute, or just read more about why this matters to me here give.ymcarichmond.org/fundraiser/6...

Yeah, this is sadly a universal thing for Black attorneys

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

This whole section really.

Pew Research Center has done many surveys about libraries. A consistent surprise to me is about 1 in 5 US adults have NEVER visited a public library. Here's a 2016 look at the never library crowd https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/09/a-portrait-of-those-who-have-never-been-to-libraries/

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

This was the most fascinating exchange to me. Coates asks whether a liberal going to Evangelical churches and selectively editing exchanges to mock Christians would be "doing politics the right way." Klein says it would if it were done completely differently.

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive enjoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...

I like this account and that is a good looking post office!

here are some examples of design work I've hired out 1: logo for our lab, which does large, global studies about music and sound, linking them to brain/behaviour 2: logo for an auditory perception game on themusiclab.org; 2 million participants so far 3: illustrations for methods fig in Science

I've worked with 3 graphic designers in my lab's first decade and am happy to put you in touch. they don't cost a lot and are great to work with not only will your lab's visual brand language being cool and unique to your lab but you won't be implicitly endorsing the replacement of artists with AI

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social gets it -- we don't need toxic shame, but neither do we need delusion and confusion. Our sense of shame should be instructively (maybe even inspirationally) felt. The alternatives are so much worse. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...