Hey @gilcarvalhomdphd.bsky.social we had our end of semester meeting today and you're quite popular in our department! Haven't chatted with ya in awhile and was telling folks about the good ol days of scicomm on Twitter. Maybe we can get some funds to have you speak someday. Hope you're well!

Just learned @carlbergstrom.com will be talking to a group I’m involved in as Graduate Director. Plenty of past Twitter interactions make me excited to hear from someone fighting similar fights.

ICE tried to stopped my student from getting a degree, but I just got out of a series of meetings that will allow them to complete it from Mexico while they wait for all the legal processes to occur. Creating an individualized degree for them. This is my biggest win of this administration so far.

A student of mine, here since toddler, and currently of legal status, was removed from the country for 10 years due to coming here illegally. They were then told if they wrote a letter of of apology to homeland for coming here illegally they'd consider dropping it to 18 months. Done in our names

If you’ve ever been tempted to say “Hey, RFK Jr has a few good points” - just keep in mind, people who are not creepy eugenicist white supremacists also have those few good points, amplify them.

RFK Jr is an evil eugenicist. Don't ever let that be forgotten.

The “Take things out of context to get people they disagree with in trouble at work” brigade has apparently made it here.

28 million a year for PBS Kids is just an insane return on investment.

The “could have been” food budget increases by the passing hour.

We could have fed all the kids in this country with those sunken jets.

Imagine cheering for Partey.

More succinct and better states than I've been.

My daughter said she had to paint my nails for champions league.

I had to miss second half of Nuggets game, but a Westbrook assist to beat them in OKC is so incredible. Couldn’t have scripted it better.

I personally know of 3 local research grants that are cut. In-home mental health care being one of them, and I believe they were mid trial. Consider the ethics of in-home mental health care research being cut during a treatment. Doesn’t take much imagination to craft a disastrous scenario.

I know I’m doing something right when someone gives me a call back to clarifying deportation vs rendition from earlier in the term.

Who knew being born during COVID would end up also being the “last of the full childhood vaccination series” generations.

At this rate Kevin Bass has to be up for an executive branch position any day now.

For the record, this is the exact opposite. You can see some mortality data that shows despite the structural obstacles people persisted better. Suggesting, Mexico was sending abled bodied healthy individuals (to work and send money home). This also is supported by the workforce stats.

Kermit Ruffins is a true goat. His Skokiaan is one of the finest pieces of music ever written. My grandpa was a professional jazz bassist, I went to his shows a lot as a kid. Kermit remains among the greats.

Mikey Moore!!! #coys

All these teen boy talk brings me back to one major point- If straight dudes cared more about what women like than what other men think women like, we'd be a lot better off.

Major spring project trellis rebuild: complete

Let's pretend this is only a fraction of what is really out there. How much money is being spent on something both statistically and practically insignificant?

Woke up missing Pat Stay today.

My kid rules. At home science just because she's curious.

I hate propping up Black folks as saviors for our idiocy, but this woman is something very special.

The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely. This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal. This is bioterrorism.

I live in a no slander for Hero Fauci zone.

This guy knows ball.

Next up - RCT for cigarette smoking.

Thinking of all the "injuries can't explain this" people in this time. Who could have seen this coming?!??! @profspur.bsky.social ?

There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.

I don't use the word hate often. It's a real strong emotion, but I hate the child killing eugenicist who goes by RFK Jr.

I'm not religious but I could solve childhood hunger by taxing churches. Wouldn't that have been totally Jesus' thing?

Spurs 3 - Bodo - 1. Lets goooo #coys

This (and the responses to it) make me think we don’t understand just how rich we are in US. Rich enough to waste, and what he’s suggesting is we just won’t be so rich anymore. The wealth in this country could solve any problem it chose to, and “fewer dolls on shelves” really means less rich.

If you are sufficiently racist, or just bad at your job, or usually both, you can produce a dataset that tells you all sorts of nonsense in a quantitative manner. That doesn't make it true. Then you feed that dataset into a robot. Guess what, you made a racist robot.

" The racists got a PR firm Hired men in fancy shirts But have the same ideology … We've had to say a lot of stuff We thought was fucking obvious like Yes, it's okay to punch Nazis"

"Never thought that it would happen, but now look where we are We'd rather have a rapist than a woman in power When we got complacent in defending our rights The Nazis changed their names, and they're called the alt-right … Death to white supremacists Like Milo Yiannopoulos Homophobes...."

Punk music is good for the soul.

Fight song of the day youtu.be/j5arZGgyGSc?...

Tonight in class - why that John Oliver piece is more reliable than the federal government.

He won’t, but it would be professionally irresponsible if I didn’t regularly note that RFK Jr is a deeply dangerous man and he should be forced out of his position.

Any Food Justice experts out here? I ordered two books and am looking for thoughts. #nutrition #food #academia Food Justice (Gottlieb, Joshi, 2013) Cultivating Food Justice (Agyeman, Alkon, 2011) They both look good, but would love feedback if any have experience with them.

For most of human history the correct answer to "when was the best time to be born?" Was "now". We sadly are on the downturn of that curve and the answer is now "then".

Fight song of the day.

I do wish big-time media orgs would stop taking the bait of calling these cuts to "Brown" or "Harvard." These are cuts to alzheimers research, maternal health research, antiviral coronavirus innovations, not "insert school here." They are cuts to our medical future and scientific livelihood.

So actually, “they suck” DOES hold water. A lot of water, in fact. So much water… www.forbes.com/sites/cindyg...

Tonights topic in class - “The Federal Government is not a reliable source of information."