My lil guy LOVES this thing.

You know, I've finally figured out why Newsom bothers me. "Be more culturally normal" means "don't rock the boat." It means "don't stand up for the poor, the racial and ethnic minorities, the queers, the people who make white middle class voters uncomfortable." 1/

Okay, I just finished Chilling Effect by @valerievaldes.bsky.social and I gotta burble about it for a moment. Swashbuckling space piracy? Yes. Will they/won't they romance? Found family? Yes. Psychic cats? Yes. 1/

All the college and university "leaders" who chose to surrender in advance on this, take a bow And then get in the fuckin sea

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

What country are you living in? Cause it ain't this one. ICE CANNOT BE REFORMED, IT MUST BE ABOLISHED.

I just wanna say that THESE BOOKS ARE SO MUCH FUN. Bad-ass women who are out to make their world a better place by any means necessary. Get them from your library!

The United States uses FORTY PERCENT of its corn crop for fuel ethanol.

Saturday mood.

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

My department informed me yesterday that next year will be my last year at Trinity. If anyone knows of a liberal arts college that needs a Genetics professor, let me know....

I think about this basically every day now.

Fascism does at home what imperialism does abroad and now's probably a great time to internalize the full implications of that.

A little bit of light in our cold, dark reality.

Antpoptosis.

I can't doom scroll any more, so here's Cooper living his very best life.

To every out trans person: Your visibility didn’t just show me who you are. It showed me that it’s possible to be exactly who I am too. Thank you for providing the roadmap that’s helping all of us find our way.

Went to a midnight opening of Serenity. Maybe half the audience was dressed up. The most raucous crowd too, cheering and hollering at Wash's flying and then.... Well. You could hear a pin drop.

Students, staff, faculty turning to ChatGPT? That means they are being asked to do things they don't have the time, resources, support, etc to do.

the meta-field we're all in is our shared survival truly

The most American shared value is looking at your neighbors doing something you've never seen before and going HEY THAT'S NEAT TELL ME ABOUT IT.

A student walked into my office, closed the door, and said "Dr. Teague, I want to tell you something that nobody else on this campus knows. I'm trans. And interacting with you at an admissions event is the reason I'm here."

"Everyone should smoke a little grass" has always been the Boomer mindset. Now we're trying to convince them to have a small edible instead, for their health. Just one. A small one. This ain't 70s weed, Barbara.

Someday, I will, breathe in. Not a gasp, or a prelude to some unrelenting scream… And it won’t be for you, it won’t be for anyone. It will fill my lungs, and fill them for me, and that’s it.

I agree with EVERY SINGLE ONE of these rules. I came to most of them on my own because I never had any mentorship for my mentorship. And despite being published in PLOS Comp Bio, they apply to EVERY undergraduate and masters student project.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Hey this post is about me!

I would be angry but I would still eat it.

I met Jim Watson once, at a Cold Spring Harbor conference in 2005. I gave a talk under a portrait of him that was at least 15 feet tall. He drove a big silver land-boat and parked it wherever he damn well pleased. In case you were wondering what he was like.

STOP having "conversations" with ChatGPT and START talking to your stuffed animals like a normal person

the reason you don't need dysphoria to be trans is because dysphoria can be impossible to realize without first accepting your own transness

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

New awareness campaign

A student of mine watched a friend get taken by ICE yesterday.

COOPER SAYS HI AND HAPPY FRIDAY

If you haven’t read A Girl and Her Fed webcomic, now’s a good time. Read it for its writing, its philosophy, its weirdo characters that you can’t help but love. Even its evolving art style. Just read it—you’ll enjoy it.

The kids are alright!

I just attended a Pedagogy of Kindness workshop with the fabulous Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social , and I'm really looking forward to reading her new book! www.oupress.com/978080619385...

PUPPY BREAK

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

I just learned that as of October 14, I will no longer be allowed to travel on a commercial airline out of the United States. Customs and Border Patrol uses a system called APIS to verify travelers' credentials. The airlines collect this data and it must match your passport exactly. 1/

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

Interested in joining the Biology faculty at selective liberal arts college with a rising national profile? Come be my colleague at Trinity University! We are searching for TWO positions this year! (1/3)

Y'all, Hades Calculus is SO GOOD. Absolutely a unique world -- I am SO looking forward to the next chapter of Persephone's story.

This is particularly difficult because the Gender Unicorn was INSTRUMENTAL in my coming to understand my own experience. And if you haven't met them, here they are in all their glory: transstudent.org/gender/

Just finished @emilystjams.bsky.social's Woodworking. This is one of those books that I'm going to need to enlarge my heart to carry, one whose characters' examples make me want to be the best version of myself.

Your daily dose of WTAF.

I remember very clearly the first time I asked myself "am I trans?" It was in the dark, on an interstate highway, with a dear and trusted friend, and that thought was almost intolerably scary. There was no way I could have faced that question alone the first time, and I'm forever grateful to her.

NO S*** SHERLOCK.