Melissa Bates

Why wouldn’t they? 🤣

Leafcutter ants are the DoorDashers of the animal kingdom. 🐜 🌱

Are College Professors Still Relevant In The Age Of AI? As new Artificial Intelligence tools are increasingly used to cut down on the rising cost of education, what are instructors to do when so much is stacked against them?

Oh, fuck off Forbes. Putting out an article that reads like AI to talk about the relevance of college professors without an attempt to understand how deeply moving digital has impacted student mental health. This one gives you a generous C- www.forbes.com/sites/sergei...

Institutions tying salary to funding success down to a brutal annual salary level, and NIH limiting submissions. I can't see how this will possibly go wrong.....

Duke School of Medicine plans salary cuts for tenured faculty who do not meet grant expectations Set to go in effect in 2026, the proposed policy would apply to the School’s basic sciences units. These units rely heavily on grants from the National Institutes of Health, which have been increasing...

I didn't realize The Onion was scooping up other domain names... www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

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How is TD just such a great kid? Everything she's dealt with as a kid with the loss of her brother, I couldn't blame her if she became a real hellion. But, she's just becoming such a gracious, classy young woman.

Ive been tracking these hilarious animals on my phone and was so emotionally invested in whether the polar bear would make it back to land for the summer and get enough time at sea. Whew, Barbara. You were giving me the vapors.

Pennyworth is checking every single box for me right now.

No, we cannot stand corrected.

I just learned that I am apparently three degrees from Kevin Bacon? 🤣

I love that when MHT told me about this, he said you made Tajín coffee and I thought you had finally lost it. Tajín is great on almost everything with the key word being almost 🤣 🤣

Same. Maybe he's building his chest for a presidential run? 🤞

In all the mess, there is a euphoria to remembering that I was born in & live in a city that has my family's back.

My parents were undocumented teenagers when they came to LA from Mexico. My mom had me at 17 in a hospital-turned-parking-lot in the San Fernando Valley.

I love you, Los Angeles.

It could almost be an onion article. “Los Angelenos surprised to learn their city was invaded and is on fire.” But that might be too wacky, even for the onion.

I wonder if, too often, the non-scientist folks writing about this stuff conflate belief and trust.

I also can’t help but laugh when I predicted to people around me exactly how this would go down. I don’t think they had a conceptual reference for what happens when a whole city takes its earrings off.

Current time in Los Angeles1:44 a.m. June 10 Live Updated June 10, 2025, 4:30 a.m. ET14 minutes ago Live Updates: 700 Marines Head to L.A. For Absolutely No Fucking Reason Whatsoever The Marines were heading to Los Angeles as police officers broke up demonstrations downtown late Monday. The California governor said sending in the Marines was “a blatant abuse of power.”

Los Angelenos are so predictable. We know there may issues in the family, but the family will work it out, although nothing will unify us faster than law enforcement (and now the military) trying to get involved in family affairs.

I mean, that’s literally where “Fuck Tha Police” came from…

There is so much in the world, I just need to think about something happy for a few. TD plays a game where she tries to get in the last “I love you” as she’s walking away from you. Tonight’s round on the way to her room went 20 min. Just us yelling “I love you” at each other. My heart could burst.

Major revisions!!!! I’m just going to focus on that bit of good today.

We can't fund the NIH but we can pay for a giant self-aggrandizing parade? No, thank you. I'll go to mass and check out the new pope.

The pope scheduling a live broadcast mass at 2:30 on 6/14 is exactly the pettiness I am ready to see come back to the church.

Oh, Joni….

Not being allowed to depreciate a capital investment is huge. Businesses depreciate just about everything and take it as a deduction.

Universities higher than corporations. Just let that sink in for a minute…

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Remember all the stuff Bob Jr said he wouldn’t do and the Senate bought it? How’s that going?