leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽‍🏫 🇳🇮

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

I am so fucking normie coded, but anytime I suggest on here that people do things that are not illegal, not violent, simply IMPOLITE, the PUSH BACK is unhinged.

IDK what to tell you.

My ancestors didn't earn their freedom by being polite.

There's this quote from the graffiti from the 1968 protests in France that goes, "you will die of comfort" and in my 20s I thought that quote was so true, but lately I've been thinking what's more accurate is, "you will die from politeness"

Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn Scientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans

Major thanks to @melodyschreiber.com for interviewing me about what biology actually says about sex & gender

Unscientific attacks on trans rights are fueled by fascism, not science, and harm all of us - cis or trans

Excellent reporting 🧬🏳️‍⚧️

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Silence is not neutrality; it is permission. The record that university chancellors, presidents and trustees create in this moment — who spoke, who acted and who stayed silent — will be studied long after today’s political actors are gone.”

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

The military obsession with AI is in large part about being able to command something to kill, with instant compliance, no rebuttal nor compunction

I should always add: my most comprehensive piece incorporates ableism alongside racism, (hetero)sexism, Islamophobia, etc.

"Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Form of Self-Care"
muse.jhu.edu/article/715439
(Journals have to survive in this anti-intellectual world)

Mamdani getting a kidnapped kid released from ICE in less than a day kinda lays bare the full depravity of the Democrats' "we can't just DO things" mentality for the last year.

Randomly looked back at this 2021 piece. I be telling the truth!

"I’ve spent my career watching white people use job-performance standards to judge everyone but themselves and each other."

time.com/5958844/blac...

It is completely reasonable to email your dean and/or Provost to ask what is being done at your university to stop this from happening to your students

Dolly Parton Is 'So Excited' That East Tennessee Children's Hospital Is Being Renamed in Her Honor Dolly Parton's philanthropic efforts are taking another huge step as the singer announced on Thursday, Feb. 26, that the East Tennessee Children's Hospital has officially been renamed the Dolly Parton...

Musical genius and humanitarian Dolly Parton announces that the East Tennessee Children's Hospital has officially been renamed the Dolly Parton Children's Hospital 🦋 people.com/dolly-parton...

One of the misinformation talking points from centrists on Covid is that Covid activists and anti-vaxxers are the same.

I want you to think of any other rights movement where the centrist position has been “ugh, these people on the far ends are both so noisy, they’re the same.”

Is it all of them?

I think Harvard's plan to respond to the every-decade moral panic about grade inflation by capping A's is pedagogically obscene.

Grades should be a measure of learning, not competition.

Grade caps engender competition and anxiety where we should be teaching collaboration and a love of learning.

How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.

Explicitly capitalist media is telling you that getting/continuing to get COVID is really bad for you and is, mortifyingly, still doing more to warn you than most public health leaders are.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

🎁 Link below

A happy magic frog that says poof. You are now untired and very happy.

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

This is like trying to convince us that AI can exercise on our behalf. That... defeats the whole entire purpose of the activity.

I'm sorry that these AI scammers are this disconnected from their own humanity, but can they please stop making it our problem

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

I would like to thank Companion AI for helping promote my latest in @mcsweeneys.net. I had worried my satire was too dark. This Einstein product reassures me that it was optimistic sunshine.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

As a woman in academia, the latter half of this translates to, "we gleefully bullied her out of academia".

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

Good to see journalists scrutinizing “The Edge Network,” an intellectual circle of academic men who think that women are inherently inferior to men.
(and great interview by @laurenaulet.bsky.social)
19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

I cannot be more serious, please start organising

Non-disabled people saying disabled people shouldn't apologize for harmful actions comes across as a bit infantalizing.

Center Black disabled people. That’s all I got right now.

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

what even is the fucking point