It isn’t “for no reason”. The tariffs allow Trump to hold large corporations hostage until they pay him massive bribes. The reason is to enrich Trump, whatever the cost. I’m tired of people thinking there’s some deep policy or something when it’s just mundane mob shakedown shit.

I clearly need to binge the gay hockey show ASAP

This is why I keep harping on about her. There are lots of shitty, unethical journalists. Plenty of people have had affairs with politicians. But this affair knocked over a set of dominoes that set public health back 50 years. Children will die of preventable diseases because of her.

McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...

100% this. If you find it “slow” or complain that nothing is happening I’m sorry but we can’t hang out anymore.

Should make her Time's Person of the Year every year

😡😡😡😡😡

“The university’s financial plight is not driven by poor teaching or professors’ compensation, said Sanjay Reddy, an economist at the New School who is fighting the plan. Instead, he cited mismanaged spending on real estate, expanding administrative costs, incompetent marketing”

This whole thread on what’s happening at the New School should terrify anyone with any vested interest in the survival of higher education in this country. I fear other schools aren’t far behind…

And everything they touch ends up looking half-assed too. That is the other thing that offends me so. The gross incompetence at everything they do. Lookit this: It's illegal. Grammar is wrong. Font is different. Of course his name is first. Goddamn I hate these people with every fiber of my being.

for those in my boat, the designation has changed on my grant from yesterday to this new pergatory

Friend saying “yeah” with his mickey mouse gloves

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

Just FYI, a year subscription to Vanity Fair is only $12 rn and you get a tote :)

I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines

Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal. Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.

Hi WTAF is going on www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Lyft driver: “Yeah my main day job is at the Department of War down in Newport” Me:

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

oh my god

1. Ron, our newest resident stray 2. I made a Milk Bar Grasshopper Pie. Something about the organization of Tosi’s cookbooks make even complicated recipes feel manageable.

*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...

Oh I have a comment: “Loss of promising talent supported by these [DEI] programmes will substantially weaken our research capacity, limit innovation and substantially reduce discoveries important for driving scientific advancements.” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41131402/

Absolutely baddie running around everywhere to get shit done, useless man lurching back and forth while everyone else struggles to protect him from the consequences of his actions. Name a more iconic couple.

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

The post I didn't know I needed

Protect these women at all costs

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

Great question! 1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.

Color of the year being a dull white is so incredibly on point www.thedailybeast.com/pantones-col...

All your top albums could be 2020s but you listen to one Lad Zeppelin song and Spotify decides you’re a Boomer. 😭

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

Only the administration that invented "concept of a plan" could come up with "permanent pause."

Only explanation is that the table on which this woman is sitting was built to have legs that look like human legs

Is the applicant a once-in-your-lifetime talent or a once-in-a-generation talent??! 🙃

I think this one I stumbled across still wins for its WTFness: neurodojo.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-...

Is it…perishable?

I also never get tired of MIT's conceit--"they might be good but are they **MIT** good--as if it's somehow harder to be a grad student at one of the most prestigious and best funded research universities in the world instead of 10 times easier.

My wife says these should be mad libs: "______ is the ______iest student I have known through _______ in ________ years"

My personal favorites (derogatory) are Chicago's 'are you the recommender an alum' and 'please rate the emotional stability of the applicant.' And asking me to rate english language skills, which, toefl exists?

Begging PhD programs to agree on a common app with only letters of rec that writers upload once. These inane likert scales when students are applying to 15-20 programs is destroying my soul

ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year be well

Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Folks they're just going to AI the "research" on the first AI. Not sure y'all understand the motivation college students have to avoid doing real coursework.

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

Sue Generous, you say.. <cigarette drag> now there's a name I haven't heard in a looooonnnggg time