Nirupama Chandrasekhar

idk how anybody is even entertaining this idea as feasible after Defunctland basically exposed this whole part of Disney R&D as a hype cycle for the shareholders over a perennial vaporware. doubtful that this even makes it to the parks

Darkly comic, that Black people are talking about racism and how it affects them, are constantly accused of being grifters when people have been riding this gravy train to open whole universities, take over CBS News, etc. etc.

C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time

"Experts have called the possibility of losing elimination status for measles 'deeply embarrassing' for a wealthy country with the medical resources of the United States..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

Oracle is already underwater on its ‘astonishing’ $300bn OpenAI deal AI’s circular economy may have a reverse Midas at the centre

Well hey, the AI bubble’s bursting faster than I thought it would. Hold tight, everyone!

Screenshot of post by the US embassy in Tokyo warning Americans about bear activity in Japan, as if returning to the US didn’t pose a much greater risk to human health and wellbeing.

The US embassy is warning residents about increased bear activity in Japan, and just like that we have another social predicament in which a bear is the obvious choice.

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

Is the AI bubble the only thing preventing this from being an official recession?

People are roasting this lede, but NYM is actually correct to print it. Toilet paper is so scarce in prisons that it is sometimes used as a currency.

It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.

I think it’s not really recognized outside leftist circles just how utterly broken terror of the left makes some people’s brains

Like a genuine kind of derangement, a distortion of reality and how to engage with it that’s incomprehensible from the outside

Eddy Burback just posted an astonishing video about how far ChatGPT would egg on dangerously delusional thinking - funny, yes, but also very scary: youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q?...

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.

Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

Yes. One of the most powerful drivers of elite political discourse right now is wishful thinking: We don't want what's happening to be happening, so we make up a story in which it in less bad and more fixable than it is.

All very understandable but it is false and not helping!

I know this reinforces a narrative about condescending leftists calling all conservatives bigots but I'm sorry, every form of data — anecdotes, polling and public statements by conservatives — indicate that these are the main drivers.

It's a doomed quest to keep looking for good underneath evil.

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

The unspoken end of these statements being “therefore we need segregation” ought to be remembered.

They literally ruin everything they touch

Hunter's Point: "a type of plutonium called Pu-239 was detected in an air filter at the site when workers were grinding asphalt during field work operations last year. The plutonium levels were more than double the Environmental Protection Agency’s “action level"

That a federal judge had to block the Trump administration from pushing millions of Americans into hunger says everything about this President and the party he leads.

Grateful to our Attorney General for being on the frontlines of this fight.

rubella was SO around in the 60s that Gallaudet (probably the number one deaf/hoh university in the world)’s enrollment more than doubled between 1982 and 1985 www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/e...

not sure how this vote went but the rallies are ongoing for the next few days, there may be one in your area

How Do Scholars Take Notes? How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.

I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.

YouTube video by UC Santa Cruz UCSC 2025 Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Went back to Santa Cruz on October 17 and picked up the 2025 UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award! Back in September they sent a camera crew to @unhresearch.bsky.social to interview me. Here's the video they made about my journey as a physicist/astronomer and my time as a banana slug.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.

Some of the details may be disputed but this man’s cause of death was determined to be dehydration. It takes over a week without water for an adult to die of dehydration. One officer’s suggestion he needed medical attention was ignored. There’s no plausible situation where this wasn’t intentional.

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.

Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

Really well put! AI sucks, of course, but it is the latest of thousands of insidious ways that EdTech grifters have attempted to destroy labor within education. EdTech has been successfully destroying universities and K-12 education for at least 30 years, to the cheers of donors and idiots!

How is US activity in Okinawa documented & can it be accessed? Okinawa Times Correspondent Jon Mitchell shares his experiences/methods in "Documenting US Operations in Okinawa: The Jon Mitchell Collection at Okinawa International University & Beyond" #NCCSpotlight guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.