Extremely important. Having applied and been on admissions committees, it’s so clear to me that many VERY qualified people aren’t admitted for reasons that have nothing to do with their qualifications. # of spaces, advisor fit, committee makeup, and sheer dumb luck all play a role.

This is all of academia. I know of amazing candidates not hired bc they couldn’t teach the courses the department needed at the time. Yes, hard work puts you in the running but you have to apply at the right place right time. There are so many things that you can’t impact- luck is huge.

I’ve been critical of Kori for some of her commentary and actions in the past, but she’s exactly right here

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

100% the PEM is the WORST and dumbest symptom.

Solidarity. Fucking cognitive changes are terrible. PEM is worse, but I would not wish the brain fog on anyone

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The Lamentation of Christ, by Andrea Mantegna, 1470-74, 📸 by Rich Storry

This makes me want a kitten

Disappointing, of course, to lose in PA-193. But to swing this VERY very red* district in a special election from Trump +38 to R+18 is remarkable. Margin was just over 200 raw votes based on the initial count. *to wit: Adams County has ~43k registered GOP voters and ~18k Dems (2025)

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I’m in the middle of a brutal Long Covid PEM/MCAS/dysautonomia flare. I feel ok-ish if I’m lying down or reclining. Otherwise, I feel like 💩 My head hurts, my joints hurt, I’m nauseated, I’m lightheaded and dizzy, my muscles are weak, I’m SUPER sensitive to light, my memory is shit

none of us should have to spend this much time thinking about an elderly cognitively impaired person to whom we are not related

Well, this is amusing. And it explains why I’m *really* annoying when editing things that contain visuals, like websites and stuff. What's My JND? 0.0049 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

My therapist agrees this is not good for me.

SO much. I’m not even kidding that I’ve started to go to bed later — a thing my broken body and brain can hardly afford — just because I miss actual news by going to sleep at 8:30

Blaming Jesus when you bomb an elementary school is one hell of a take (and yes, pun intended). Did you perhaps forget about free will? You own your own evil.

I kept hearing a song on our work playlist and I kept thinking, wow this is kind of a bop, who dropped this Bollywood-ass beat? is this Punjabi? and nothing could have prepared me for the fact that it was Ed Sheeran

And people wonder why MAGA is in charge

Or TO Dear god. Stop giving this dude airtime. Just fucking stop. Make it stop.

Why are we still talking about the dude with the Nazi tattoo?

This is the kind of fact and data visualization that is just ENDLESSLY fascinating to me

December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. 🔥🔥🔥

I’ve just been coloring a lot this weekend

Reminds of the time I tried to help Caitlin Flanagan of the Atlantic understand that Khomeini and Khamenei were two separate supreme leaders and she absolutely refused to accept it and then blocked me

Melania cosplaying Edith Wilson was not on my bingo card

New poll: 42% of adults say they would spend a hypothetical $75 billion surplus on reducing housing, health care, & food costs, vs 5% who say immigration enforcement. Voters also say they'd want to pause Trump's deportations if they were causing inflation. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-v...

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Incredible 10/10 no notes

Gonna teach this in our media training. Works best on live Tv.

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This shit is 🍌🍌🍌

Safety and alignment staff at Meta watched as AI speedrun deleted her inbox despite her repeated and emphatic instructions that it not do so. When it was done, the AI responded: “You're right to be upset… OK. That was wrong - it directly broke the rule you'd set. I'm sorry. It won't happen again.”

“You're right to be upset… OK. That was wrong - it directly broke the rule you'd set. I'm sorry. It won't happen again.” Will be engraved in humanity’s gravestone.

Black women and femmes and black women and femmes only!!! PLEASE I beg you, I need help. I have MCAS which makes me have anaphylaxis basically from everything. But I’m at my wits end. Can you please drop me your favorite no fragrance hair care items? Especially edge control and leave in!!

Wanted to make zucchini muffins. Needed to make them gf/low histamine (in accordance with my current restriction list—histamine bs is hard. YMMV.) Started with a friend’s recipe, then made modifications — and it worked! I’m getting better at making things I can eat! Modifications in comments

Oh good grief

Lololololol

In just 25 hours, the U.S. has had four tariff regimes: 1. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) 2. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs 3. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs +10% 4. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs +10% + 5%

👇🎯💯 This is the inescapable conclusion that <everyone> in 🇺🇸 politics & the entire national media cannot bring themselves to make. There is nothing Trump can do at this point to un-disqualify himself, & there are no laws Congress can pass to fix it. The <only> mechanism is impeachment & removal.

Tl;dr: The institutions are not self-enforcing. Neither new laws nor Court rulings solve this problem, bc he is an authoritarian who simply keeps doing the things anyway, inventing new supposedly "legal" reasons to do them. This, like all the other problems, only has one solution in our system /end

This. This. This a million times this At my lowest point, I was working 40 hours a week, sleeping 12+ hours a day, going to PT five times a week, and basically dead on my feet. I zoned out every day, I couldn’t do ANYTHING else — laundry, cooking, dishes, errands, cleaning, etc. Forget socializing

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

Another crack I've discovered (by falling through it) is that disability only matters if it keeps you from doing your job. If instead the *only* thing you can do is your job, and the rest of your time is a desperate struggle to clean your work clothes and shower once a month, that's totally a-ok!

Hahahahahahaha lololololol Ok. The only people I know who have done this move have been at the war colleges for like a year or two— and they made the move for a variety of reasons. In reality: MANY civ profs come FROM prestigious civilian universities to PME and stay because it suits us.

It’s in my head, my joints, my gut, my skin, my muscles…

"Long Covid is still here. I know – my life came to a stop because of it" "With more than 200 possible symptoms, long Covid isn’t easy to treat and diagnose. Rolled-back federal funding has led longhaulers to ask: is this all in my head?" #LongCOVID

That last question. A lot of people don't know. "How much has actually disappeared due to recovery?” “How much of it has disappeared because people just stopped talking about it, tried to move on with their lives? "And then how many don’t even recognize what they have?" #LongCovid

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines