I love that nobody that brings this shit up as a news story will ever bring up the Why She Was Fired. She was fired for being trans in Oklahoma so that a white woman that wears a foundation two shades darker than her skin can have a job as a hatefluencer. Malpractice from the chicken shit media

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

All I want for Christmas is a university administrator with an actual spine.

Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists: If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.

Someone ask for a snowball? ❄️🥶 These little floofs (𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴) hibernate in the snow! Snow provides good insulation and protection from predators -- which is important when you weigh just 4-8 grams. 😮 🦇 Ussuri tube-nosed bat 📸 Yushi & Keiko Osawa

this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.

A quantified explanation for why women make up more than 50% of biomedical graduate student cohorts but occupy only about 1/3 of faculty positions 🧪

Is this good? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Right whales got the moniker not because they were good at trivia night. It was a way of saying "hunt this one right here" in whaler speak. They swam slowly, surfaced often, floated after death & had large fat deposits for oil. 80% of the global population were killed between 1835-1855.

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

The AI summary appears where the abstract should be and you actually have to notice it and click a different tab to read the author-written abstract. It says "This content is AI-generated" at the bottom, but just "✨Summary" before you read. I guess ✨ has become the official emoji of AI but still.

yes! i am a bit of a broken record on this but among elite male commentators there is such obvious gender anxiety

JFC. UNC’s Centers for: European Studies African Studies Middle East & Islamic Studies Slavic, Eurasian & East European Studies. The Asia Center. The Institute for the Study of the Americas All prestigious National Resource Centers. Incomprehensible from an institution of UNC’s caliber.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

oh that's interesting. usually when adult children break contact with their abusive parents, the parents are quiet, demure, and reflective. i've never heard of them cajoling/bribing corrupt or impressionable journal editors to slander their own flesh and blood in the press out of callow spite

Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

delusional idiots all the way down

Universities are signing contracts with Anthropic despite the fact that the company is run by people who don’t understand concepts like emotions.

This also happened during Trump’s first term. That 2024 dip? That’s when Democrats went on the defensive, and let Trump and MAGA dictate the immigration narrative. Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.

I am losing my mind DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP

this is an experience that I understand deeply, as I imagine many other people who are not white men can as well, and in the hands of a different writer it might serve as a foundation for solidarity rather than bitterness and implicit permission to participate in a reactionary political project

“the lowest ‘feels like’ temp will be at 1pm” no, sorry, you don’t understand, that’s actually the part of the day when it’s meant to be warmest. 1pm is when it gets hot. entire cultures are built around this.

We are (re-)learning that intelligence is a much more complicated and multi-dimensional concept than just "can solve problems"

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

"I am open with my sexuality to anyone who asks in the hallways of Merrimack Valley, which leads me to wonder: Should I be removed from the school if parents find the topics I speak about inappropriate?" Whew, this teen's editorial is GREAT. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/12/12/m...

Say CHEESE 😁😬 🦇 Greater horseshoe bat 📸 Yushi & Keiko Osawa

The Sandy Hook shooting was 13 years ago today. Yesterday, there was a shooting at Brown University. There have been at least 75 school shootings this year. The US has a gun problem, and it seems we're never going to do anything about it. www.cnn.com/us/school-sh...

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

Bison zoomies, activated! 🦬💨 This stormy weather blew down some tasty snacks in the Free-Roaming Area, so the herd got a little extra frisky, charging toward a freshly fallen tree and some alfalfa just put out. Wind-powered enrichment at its finest! 📹: Keeper Stephanie

4 bats that are ✨ serving ✨ to bless your timeline ♡

Look, the keyboard people need to just accept that I never want to turn off numlock. I don't even know what the buttons do when it is off. No one does. Big Keyboard is pushing numlock on the entire population against their will. To what end? We can only speculate.

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

Thinking about going to a World Cup match? Ticket prices jumped yet again after the draw.

Day 10 #BatMas: Rafinesque's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii)🦇🌎🧪 This species is found only in the southeastern US & prefers to roost in mature forests. Bats have ears that are over 2.5 cm (1 inch long)! Although they eat a range of insects, they primarily feed on moths. 📸: Michael Durham

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

Gallego: "This administration, since they started striking these boats illegally, has been very happy to show their snuff films . Now suddenly they're willing to show the first hit but not the second. Why? ... they're afraid the public is going to see the military killed 2 men that had surrendered."

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail

the united states is currently being led by a bunch of little david dukes with a senescent outer-borough grand dragon at the top

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

Who has made this 🤣

This has been true in higher ed as long as I've been in it: claims that programs need to be close or reduced due to "budgets" but the details show that the programs in question actually bring in money, meaning the actual reason is ideological.