Future voice: Even if I watch it once it's part of my Criterion Collection

Don't care if it's grocery store music Fleetwood Mac actually is the best band of all time

Just came out to my PI, about wanting to pursue a full-time organizing job post-PhD

Next-level.

"It is clear the strategy of American higher education is to sort of mimic the private sector and reduce their labor costs, all the while shooting tuition through the roof and then claiming they don’t have money for our salaries." 📰 jacobin.com/2026/02/nyu-...

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

ICYMI: Colleagues & I successfully negotiated a 1st contract for UPenn's grad workers after 16 months of bargaining and 5 years of organizing. Proud of us for mounting a credible strike threat in order to massively improve pay and benefits for thousands of academics ✊️🟧🆙️ www.thedp.com/article/2026...

one week out from the strike deadline GETUP-UAW is turning my apartment into the house where they cooked the soap in fight club

the Bring Back Shame Popular Front is expanding

so funny that the same facial hair I was so desperate to have at 18 that I had a terrible goatee for years I am now haggling with my health insurance to get burned off my face permanently. life comes at you fast!

on the final episode of Heated Rivalry which is when I can only assume they are finally going to break the silence on Russiagate and the annexation of Crimea

the notion of a settlement that gives the sitting president billions is… unprecedented is the only word i am letting myself use

I rarely post about my actual work here, but I'm happy to share that I have a new paper out in RSC Soft Matter. In this work we used molecular dynamics to study small penetrant dynamics in model polymer glasses and connected them to existing theory. Check it out: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

I'm a No Limit soldier for Jerome Powell and the United Auto Workers

If she wasn't already dead, they killed her by preventing medical assistance. All the ICE/CBP officers involved should be prosecuted.

so awesome how the biblical context for the Christmas story is that Augustus was conducting the first census of the ancient world. data guys celebrating the miracle of accurately capturing the demographics of the Roman Empire

when it's New Years Eve on Pandora they sing Auld Varang Syne

All so-called "coastal elites" WILL be subjected to family viewing of the Christmas episode of The Dukes of Hazzard

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Bari Weiss has only failed upwards propped up by the oligarchs she sucks up to. The reality is that her politics are odious and people can't stand her. The political class giving her clout have their heads up their asses. No one likes this stuff. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak I fought with him, the Balrog of Morgoth, until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside

How it feels knowing that Avatar 3 will gross 2 billion dollars while the least interesting critics in the world are spending all their time writing about how it has zero cultural impact

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

It's not great that a student can turn in a bad essay but vaguely point to the Bible and religious beliefs as an excuse for not following the actual assignment and terrible writing. That's not what college is supposed to be. The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.

#NowWatching filling in a blind spot in my tour of Cameron's filmography

Last week our graduate union at Penn accomplished something amazing. In GETUP's first ever strike authorization vote, two-thirds of all grad workers at Penn turned out in favor of striking to settle the contract we've been negotiating for over a year. Back in the bargaining room next week!

NKRC was extra special this year, even though it's always the best part of my summer. racked up 202mi of running and 23,000ft of climbing in the last two weeks and solo summitted two mountains I've wanted to do for years. can't wait to do it again next year and also every other year forever

going to force all my kids at running camp this year to sing Love Takes Miles in perfect orchestral harmony

🚨WE WON OUR UNION 🚨

The money is about to get touched in ways we've never seen

We work side by side with our graduate colleagues, and we know that through unionizing we can improve the conditions of ALL academic workers! Check out more dual testimonials with our union siblings in GETUP-UAW

UPDATE — An Israeli reserve soldier was questioned for suspected involvement in the Israeli settler killing of an American and another Palestinian, per the Times of Israel.

Guess someone at Harvard heard me positively comparing them to Penn one too many times this week

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

OH MY GOD

Meanwhile a former NY governor who wasn't even elected to that office is trying to tell the world that this is somehow unelectable

A solemn reminder that Israel's tolerance of LGBTQ+ people, laundered through "pinkwashing" as a reason it's so great, is extended only to those who are bought into their government's colonial project.

Blow Out by Brian de Palma rules what a great movie

LL Cool J, the hip-hop legend who was scheduled to co-headline the Wawa Welcome America concert Friday on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, announced Thursday night that he would not perform while the municipal workers’ strike was ongoing.

it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act

I'm still mad about this. Here's my question: if federal or NCAA guidelines change in the future, will Penn reinstate Lia's records and issue her an apology for doing this? At what point do the retroactive changes stop?

we must dismantle this and throw everyone involved with creating concentration camps away for a long time

the president's email to the university ended with: "We have now brought to a close an investigation that, if unresolved, could have had significant and lasting implications for [Penn]." Glad to know the lasting implications for J. Larry Jameson personally have been fully resolved. lmfao

had a dream that they tabulated the NYC votes tonight and Zohran ended up winning by 20 points and Cuomo just started disappearing Back To The Future style

it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"

Dark Knight Rises lovers vindicated yet again

it's so amazing how all of Zohran's highest-visibility endorsements are from people who are good and cool and all of Cuomo's are from people with documented personal and financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Zohran might win tomorrow, but even if he does, the job won't be finished. He needs to trick Andrew Cuomo into saying his own name backwards on camera in order to finally put an end to all of this