Ivan Aprahamian

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Where’s the CBS News town hall focused on the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota?

We are hiring! We are looking for a Postdoc in Catalytic Approaches toward Bio-Based Peptide Surfactants. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Application deadline is January 12th 2026

For more information please check out the link 👇
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Opinion | Dartmouth’s Bottom-Up Approach to Institutional Neutrality Our principles of restraint apply to academic departments as well as the administration. Other schools should follow suit.

We cannot continue to devote time and energy to committees whose work is ultimately used to “whitewash” predetermined agendas and then presented as a “bottom-up, faculty-led” effort. www.wsj.com/opinion/dart...

and yet it was dismissed for unclear reasons. Had I been asked to serve on this new committee, my first question would have been why that earlier report was disregarded and what assurances we have that this committee’s work will not meet the same fate.

I appreciate all the effort you and others are putting into this. Having served on committees myself, I know how complicated these processes can become. The issue, however, is that there was already a report prepared by Dobson which, to my understanding, took a fairly neutral approach 1/n

but we have a faculty leadership group on AI to pretend they did ask faculty, right @roopikarisam.bsky.social 😅

And it begins

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$400 shipping charge by Fedex for LC cells from Japan that cost $600 #ThankYouTariffs 😒

It is incredibly strange that these schools seem to factor in zero reputational, enrollment, or recruitment damage to their “settling with Trump” equation, when clearly there’s a major hit to all three.

A tweet by journalist Kenneth P. Vogel stating that David Gentile reported to prison on November 14 to begin a 7-year sentence for a $1.6B fraud scheme, and that former President Donald Trump commuted his sentence 12 days later. Below the text is a photo of Trump seated at a desk in an ornate white-and-gold room, with U.S. flags behind him.

He’s letting white collar criminals walk free:
More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses…‘hardworking, everyday people,’ including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.
“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, “I am living from check to check.”

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"

Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status...

I was one of those immigrants, and we commit fewer crimes than people born here.

“Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the US by revoking their legal status.”

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Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old

A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.

Tonight he’s finally free.

Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.

He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.

He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies

Indeed they did.

UNCW's Dept of Chem and Biochem is looking for four (4!) new members this cycle including:

Asst Professor Analytical Chem
Asst Professor Physical Chem
Lecturer - Bio- and general Chem
Lecturer - General Chem

Our dept is a great place to work and Wilmington's a blast!
#ChemSky #ChemJobs
Links ⬇️

Not only biologists unfortunately, there are chemists now who think the same 🙄

#fakechemfacts

they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.

I think @brendannyhan.bsky.social is exactly right in this piece, but I’d go one step further here. Elites very explicitly told young people to sit down and shut up. Society punished them for standing up for their beliefs, and targeted and vilified the organizers. Now we need need them.

Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash

New York Times coverage of lawsuit requesting names of Jewish employees at Penn.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

These same folks extremely committed to fighting antisemitism in universities

Congrats!

It does, to nitrogen 😁

So many great options to choose from...

If only there were some sort of marketplace, perhaps online, where people could compare insurance plans and choose one for themselves. Perhaps with some financial assistance for those who need it….

Yale, Harvard alumni hosting tailgate for academic freedom at The Game Alumni groups Stand Up for Yale and Crimson Courage will host a joint tailgate to gather signatures for a letter they plan to send to their universities’ presidents about protecting academic freedom.

Going to The Game? #Harvard and #Yale are rivals on the field but off the field, we’re working together with alumni from other schools around the country to defend academic freedom against the Trump administration’s authoritarianism. Come join us. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...

Ruin them! From @mollycrabapple.bsky.social:
“Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim”
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/