Martha Fiehn

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This is where Columbia, Brown, Penn have gotten us. If this isn't stopped, it's just one institution after another paying tributes to the crown. Either it stops or we're done for and the "we" isn't just higher ed, it's everybody.

Do you have a syllabus you'd be willing to share?

Universities tend to have strict branding guidelines, including with respect to colors. I suspect that Columbia Blue would have been the appropriate color to use for official communications.

well I prefer unpolished over ChatGPT 100% of the time :)

I once read a piece of writing advice saying to avoid multiple directional changes in the same sentence. Had to read “increased lower elevation” like 3 times.

We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.

Super real. I've always liked em dashes (counted 39 in my master's thesis from 3 years) and now idk if I can keep using them.

Depends on what exactly the "update" is about. Did she have a surgery or are you just checking in?

I'd listen at 2x speed (I do this anyway for most voice memos)

I’m Californian lol

"bloviating." learned a new word today.

might also do good to enunciate "horror" a bit less ambiguously lol

For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.

The Republican Party has fully embraced fascism and destroyed American democracy. But some Democrats still say Latinx. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Econ (because we are such naughty imperialists) spans such a broad range. Some research is also closer to eg computer science

well, it’s a social science. Not a natural science. In German, we make this distinction more clearly whereas in the US, we usually use “science” to mean “natural science.”

In German it's also a blue eye. I think the color changes throughout different periods of healing. Sometimes it's also green-ish

haha well, my initial instinct was responding with something sassy like "why don't you leave some food in the fridge for a bit and find out?" or point out that my composting worms also eat fungus that I can't eat.

But as an officer in the UCSD Mycology Club, I was curious and googled.

It appears so

I guess the Eighth Amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment, not universal punishment

I’m not sure that these are immediately incompatible positions. iirc there’s good evidence that speed cameras reduce racial bias in policing, for instance.

fun fact that might explain the different pronounciations!

tag yourself, i'm dark red

No doubt, I never said otherwise! ICE’s actions are abhorrent one way or the other

Congratulations! That’s awesome

Beside the point, but Real IDs are indeed not proof of citizenship. They *are* proof of legal residence, but you can be a non-citizen and get them (I have one as a green card holder, for instance).

you might enjoy the guidebook "secret stairs of the east bay"

Redistribution or govt spending don’t make equality, unionization does

Pope Popsicle IV

I love it

Congratulations, that's great!