Casey terHorst

Governmental support for “quantum biology” writ large in this way is what you get when people use words that sound smart but are ultimately undefined and meaningless when talking to government officials

It can literally mean everything (or nothing), but it sounds “smart”

Colleges quietly cut ties with organizations that help people of color Under pressure from the Trump administration, 31 schools have signed agreements to end links with organizations that “restrict participation based on race.”

Certainly any consequences of this would be overturned by courts (or maybe already have, as of last week), but GrEaT job of complying in advance, CSU (and others)
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Students are taking their midterm and as per usual, I am the one with the anxiety sweats

My weekend read!

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With #bem2026 our amazing new student committee has created an instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DU9ef50jCC... - and is now on here at @benthicsmeeting.bsky.social - marine ecology folk, go give them a follow and forward this post! 🌍🧪🌊

Oh, we're going on Thursday! Glad to know it will be worth it. But also, wow they are such a consistently great little theater!

a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy ! Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.

I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Yes all of this, but you also have to tell us what was on stage so that I can go to there :)

We're hiring at CSUN. Vertebrate Functional Morphologist. Please apply!
We still allow DEI, which I horribly need to specify.
(I'm also not on the committee, but happy to answer any questions!)

What an Olympics

Alyssa Liu wins gold with the superpower of not caring what other people think

Lots of out queer American athletes winning medals and deciding to marry each other

A dog joins a cross country skiing race

I sort of learn how curling works

Just A+++ all around

It's a better-than-average week for news

Thousands of union members from Teamsters Local 2010, CFA, CSUEU, APC, UAW Local 4123, as well as community members rallied across the rainy state to picket at all 22 CSU campuses in hopes of helping the Teamsters secure a fair contract.

Read more: https://ow.ly/UgAV50YiBpR

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

So everything is not, in fact, absolutely terrible

Oh yeah, I'm not totally blaming students for this. LA can't handle rain on many levels

wtf

"I can't come to class because it's raining" is the most LA thing ever

I just walked by a lab with a doorstop engraved with "HODOR"

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Our latest.

My quote of the day to a student reporter:
Death by a thousand cuts can't necessarily be reversed by a thousand band-aids

Good. Great. Love to see it.
Now do government

Even the dog guy knows this thing is terrible

No YOU'RE crying!!

They’re pretty f’ing good tacos…

Trump complaining not enough players are getting CTE. Make America Great Again

Might have actual nightmares about Matthew Broderick doing a Jonathan Pruitt by like asking a bot to “do the spreadsheet”

The advertising during the game stood out for a high number of celebrity cameos and advertisements for futuristic technology, particularly for products like electric vehicles, virtual reality and cryptocurrency.[136][137][138][139] There were many cryptocurrency-related ads drawing comparisons to dot-com commercials during Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000,[140][141] leading some to refer to the game as the "Crypto Bowl".[142][143]

does anyone else remember when the 2022 Super Bowl had so many crypto ads people were calling it the Crypto Bowl and then crypto just absolutely fucking tanked?

anyway

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