highly recommend having the best co-authors who will pick up the slack when you become basically useless because of life. Feeling professionally #blessed lol

Is Western European food so bland because they all smoke and can’t taste anything anyway?

The only thing I miss about Twitter is my lukewarm hot takes getting traction when I was bored enough to post them.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

It really is wild how we’re to be respectful of the trauma they supposedly experience and not that of the actual victims. They are cowards and wimps. And should be reminded at every opportunity

Controversial opinion but a loaf of sourdough from just about any halfway decent US bakery or home baker beats any European bread out of the water.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

Once again, Trump’s foreign policy isn’t really realist, or imperialist, or neoroyalist, or about spheres of influence, etc. Its sexual predation/abuse elevated the level of the state

Never feel dumber than when I’m trying to interpret escalator signs in airports

Also, the thing that is must be at the same time entirely novel, coherent with the prior intuitions of the reviewers, and not controversial whatsoever (even if you intentionally rearrange the words to make the paper into the most outlandish argument possible). Yay!

deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright

Have we considered the likelihood that ICE's knuckle-dragging goons were simply illiterate?

If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.

More of this please!!!! Please!!!!

Other class form sent back for 'editorializing'. But the conservatives aren't participating in this in good faith - so why (and more importantly how) can I?

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

Can't wait to see if TTU bans me from teaching JUST a week on environmental justice, and thus environmental racism, in my US Environmental Policy class.

Anyone want to meet up in Switzerland for COPPR 26?

Some anonymous survey respondent in my data used the platform provided open ended feedback to tell me: "To the human reading this: I'm glad you're here. Keep breathing; stay hydrated!" And wow I needed that, and maybe you do too. So there it is!

Maybe there is such a thing as too much urbanism YouTube as the joy of learning about cool urban spaces and revitalization has circled around to sad.

Apparently American Airlines has a “Wrapped” email now. Mine said I’m in the top 10% of travelers from an airport I’ve never been to though so I don’t think it’s at any other company’s level yet.

The first person to mix mayo into tuna really was onto something

Why do I have to keep explaining that being empowered is a sign of respect and that disenfranchisement is a sign of disrespect?

Yup it's part of why he loves tariffs. To him, it's just revenues or literal income he can spend.

Again, Mark Zuckerberg's kids go to a screen-free school with 14 students total and multiple specialized tutors

Ma 2 is gonna slap so hard. What will Sue Ann get up to this time?

It really is this easy. Every single Democrat politician needs to be reposting this video or creating their own version.

You know, I am glad to see the annual cybersecurity training from the state of Texas emphasizing to not put pretty much ANY information into generative AI programs - correct. Cannot be trusted.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I am, as the kids would say, crashing out.

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

The sheer capital behind generative AI is another reason I'm skeptical. It feels very "Chevron knew about climate change all along" but we're in the present of that before the reveal that OpenAI knew its tools were expensive, useless, and unsustainable all along.

Look this isn’t that insightful. But the only reason Trump wants to have state owned lithium mines and IBM (etc.) is because he views the assets and revenues of the state as uniquely his.

Fiddling while Rome burns but an article I'm really proud of came out: doi.org/10.1002/rhc3...

Just in: #July 2025 was planet’s 3rd warmest on record --> Find our monthly temperature & precip analysis + downloadable map images at: ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit... via NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #climate

one of the biggest arguments against AI dependence is that the strongest proponents of its use have become visibly *dumber* in the last few years.

Oh hey I know those people! I even taught some of them?! www.ttu.edu/now/posts/20...

Sometimes reviewers make papers so much better that you want to unsubmit it and aim 'higher' So anyways thanks anonymous reviewer for that I guess

So, uh, you all with more power than me: what are you doing to make sure tenure isn't just a protection for unequal and/or bad behavior?

Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!

Pushback from the left feels like quashing debate to conservatives because they can't win an honest one.

Maybe don’t grant them absolute immunity.

This explains at least two people I work with!

The reasoning in Skrmetti is just repackaged “every race is punished equally, so nothing to see here” logic that Loving v. Virginia emphatically rejected.

A study published in #WeaClimateSoc by @sean-ernst-wx.bsky.social & co (incl @mjkrocak.bsky.social & @wwwehde.bsky.social) found that survey respondents who described their feelings about extreme weather in positive terms rated significantly higher on tornado preparedness. Read more: bit.ly/442d1Rp

This is a mostly meaningless statistic that SENT ME FOR A LOOP JUST NOW.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Van Hollen: And it's also important that people understand this case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.

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