This entire weekend

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Every grad student should explore using Overleaf with LaTeX for their thesis/dissertation. It was a lifesaver for me. #AcademicSky

Free webinar tomorrow for new researchers offering guidance on how to secure grant funding. #AcademicSky

Come join me in this free webinar series designed to introduce new researchers to important concepts and resources! #academicsky

"We at Murder House were thrilled to welcome back hordes of previously banished ghouls and blacklisted incubi. Their perspectives added a refreshing edge to our community."

why did this make me laugh

Fellow academics, if your work is on academia dot edu, the website now automatically creates "AI podcasts" and "AI reviews" of your papers. This is OPT-OUT, not opt-in. They don't ask you for permission, but YOU can turn off this feature through the settings!

I feel this a lot these days when I see people angry that other folks are not focused on the same atrocity they are, with the same intensity they are. I regret to say there's more than one genuine atrocity in the world at the moment; it doesn't minimize the others if one chooses another to focus on.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not. @chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?

"Lis Rodriguez, who spent a solid thirty minutes on a PTA Zoom listening to a woman wearing a BUT FIRST COFFEE sweatshirt ask long-winded questions about school carnival volunteers that had already been answered multiple times by multiple people."

“There is value in continued presence, in bearing witness, in working for reform from within. But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it. “ Alondra Nelson captures why I left UF 2 yrs ago.

The National Science Foundation has been ordered to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice”. No new grants can be awarded. No current grants can be funded. If they don’t reverse course, this “is going to destroy people's labs” according to Dr. Colin Carlson. Link below.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

Pretty simple rule of thumb when wondering why the Trump administration does anything is to ask two questions: 1) is it racist? Or 2) are they stupid? Tends to cover most Trump administration stuff.

Riley McCusker scoring a 10 for Florida on bars brings me so much joy! #secgym

"The following tips will help you feel like you belong in the Ivory Tower, even when that little voice in your head says, 'I’m not good enough,' or 'Nobody likes me,' or 'I’m actually half a dozen raccoons nestled inside an abandoned upscale Swedish jacket.'"

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Could we just change the name on Google Maps and call it done? www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Will NSF be next? This will be a massive blow to universities who have already budgeted these funds for existing grants.

Peer review by charlatans doesn't advance science.

What you won't see on Jan 6th 2025 A violent mob of Democrats trying to put Kamala Harris in power over the will of the voters The last 4 years Trump & his supporters denied the legitimacy of 2020 election Trump invited & incited them on Jan 6th to keep him in power Never forget Jan 6th

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

Fantastic interview with Tori Amos and I’m off to search if she’s touring anywhere close to me.

So much truth. Half of science is about finding someone to enthusiastically disagree with 😅

Good morning Skywalkers, Today we look at celebs who also published research. Naturally a large chunk of the attention these items receive is related to the fame of their authors. Hence we will be accusing every single one of these stars of gaming their Altmetric Attention Score. Here we go 1/11

Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪

I just held the first day of a week-long series of workshops to introduce students to research skills. It was the largest zoom class I've ever taught and there were attendees from around the world. The best part was the chat & learning about new to me resources. 3 more: papersapp.com/events