"For the first time in more than 100 years, evidence of cougars reproducing in Minnesota was documented in video captured by the University of MN's Voyageurs Wolf Project (youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU). The videos, shared with the MN DNR by the project researchers, show a female cougar with 3 large kittens"

I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure

It’s a disastrous day for democracy. The Voting Rights Act made the U.S. an actually functioning democracy. And civil rights activists face impossible odds to gifting it to us. The Supreme Court‘s decision is vile.

@mincingmockingbird.com comes to mind.

Husband and Wife xkcd.com/3237/

I say a lot of things that my coworkers (rightly) think are crazy, so sometimes I drop something like “ethidium bromide is actually not that bad” and have to back it up with a Derek Lowe column www.science.org/content/blog...

"It is fun to just learn for the sake of learning." - @heydebigale.bsky.social YEEEESSSSSS!!!

As someone who did similar "woke" work via an NSF grant the past 10 years, I'm just now seeing the results. Students completing MD degrees and starting residencies. Successful careers in public health and engineering are beginning to blossom. Students being accepted to grad school in science.

Fellow #Iowa #Democrats, is anyone able to directly connect me with Chris Jones or his campaign team (by phone)? I submitted an application for a role with them thru November; want to request a confirmation of receipt, and inquire about their hiring timeframe. I urgently need a job, and a purpose.

The call is coming from inside the house.

I was happy to contribute to @deandad.bsky.social's timely question about how we can adapt in the current era of higher education. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Evergreen.

Important read by @victorerikray.bsky.social about the anti-intellectualism centers popping up at universities across the US. Also critical to point out universities are hypocritically & simultaneously shutting down departments born from ‘movements for broader inclusion in mainstream American life.’

We’re about to experience the largest loss of health insurance coverage in U.S. history. The Pitt helps explain how it will happen—in the mundane morass of undone paperwork. But this is exactly as Trumps One Big Beautiful Bill planned it.

Brandolini's Law applies to the new "Ghost Murmur" technology claim.

@garrettbucks.bsky.social Potlucks!

Hire more teachers/instructors/professors to make class sizes smaller. That's it. That's the skeet that will improve education.

Apply this to any type of thinking process one often finds in any college classroom. I enjoy deriving the equations I use in my chemistry courses to show students where they come from. That way the can see how to potentially apply them in the future. The process of thinking is the point.

They think the purpose of college is to get a degree and the purpose of a degree is to get a job. They can't imagine someone wanting to be educated.

With #Artemis II blasting off to the Moon, here's a look at the different fuels used to get rockets off of the ground in this edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/physical-che...

Evergreen.

I'm a big fan of process over just looking for the right answer. I want to see the work, the logic, and the thinking going into pulling a problem apart and solving it.

hello what did i miss tell me every thing

TLC | abbreviation | tender loving care

Anyone noticing a trend in the 5 scientists featured here ??

If I know Minnesotans -- and I do -- they'll come up with a system where everybody gets to keep the award for an hour before passing it to the next person.

Well this is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

They say the only constant is change, but the pain of the process is rarely so elegantly described as it is here. As a long time follower/reader, it’s heartbreakingly beautiful to read.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone

I think about this quote from Dune a lot these days. “Oppression is a relative thing,” Hawat said. “Your fighting men are much better off than those around them, heh? They see unpleasant alternatives to being soldiers of the Baron, heh?”

My spouse has been singing in a local LGBTQ+ choir for over 10 years now, and spending time with that group opened my eyes. They would sing at the Transgender Day of Visibility events locally and I would go to watch her perform and realized that it's important for me to be an ally.

Yesterday, I met with a student looking to improve and I drew on my experiences in college – I really started to excell when I started working with my peers. Working on problem sets together and late night study groups in the library were some of the best parts of school.

I can’t imagine how demoralizing this is to read if you work in public health.

I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.

Not sure if this will help spur an education revolution or cause folks to move away from online based education. Either way, sign me up for the Butlerian Jihad.

February - 2026. Trump has shut down TSA Precheck. Airports are now battlefields.

There’s always a place for you on Solidarity Street. Solidarity with our union siblings at @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social #UnionsForAll #UnionMemes

Today is a great day to sign up for my newsletter (free is wonderful! you get a podcast and two newsletters a week for nothing!) also, its not on Substack www.patreon.com/cw/lyzlenz

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

prof: here comes the knowledge in the airplane heeeeeerrrrreeee it comes student: (mouth closed)

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

This song is 30 years old.

I remember when the Iowa quarter came out, and prominently featured a schoolhouse and the phrase "Foundations in Education." It's part of the reason I moved here and decided to work in education here. Those reasons have been evaporating over the past 10 years.

Guessing the sulfur and heavy metals are just the extra frosting on this particular cake.