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How science profs can be subversive under Trump while still staying in their lane, Part 2: include pictures of all scientists you reference in your PPTS (even including all those dead white men brings a focus to the past hegemony). Other examples welcomed!

How science profs can be subversive under Trump while still staying in their lane, Part 1: use examples that include the Gulf of MEXICO, Greenland, and Denali (don't call it Mt McKinley), call it the JWST (instead of James Webb, in support of the LGBTQ community)...

Luke is 100% right. More people need to read Dimitra Fimi's work on this.

J.R.R. Tolkien – Geologist? J.R.R. Tolkien circa World War I, when he was beginning his Middle-earth writings. Wikimedia Commons While Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien is best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of …

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Westmoot 2025 For the first time, fans can experience a Tolkien Society conference in person in the US! Westmoot will take place May 9th-11th in Kansas City, Missouri, at the National WWI Museum and Memorial. This ...

www.tolkiensociety.org/events/westm... Already registered and abstract submitted!

THANK YOU, Hannah! it was great!

Awesome weekend attending the Tolkien Society's Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference. Got my paper up on Journal of Tolkien Research already (in the conference papers section) - scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...

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Wow, that House report must have some really damning stuff in it. Glad it is keeping Gaetz out of Congress.

Cartoon of RFK, Jr sitting at a desk at tge CDC pitching aromatherapy as treatment.

How we have fallen. I miss Dr. Fauci. 😔

New report is out from the CDC on states with the highest rate of STD infections. The top 9 are all Republican states.

1. LA
2. MS
3. AK
4. SD
5. GA
6. AL
7. NC
8. SC
9. AR

Linda McMahon as Education Secretary? There isn't enough wine in France to make the next 4 years survivable

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I have only 8 more days of classes left to teach this semester. I can do this. Really, I can.

I relate to Dad

Appearing on a Christian nationalist podcast last night, Pete Hegseth said he's creating a system of "classical Christian schools" to provide recruits for an underground army that will eventually launch an "educational insurgency" across the nation. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

It's really about real a-holes.

Republican introduces anti-transgender bathroom resolution at Capitol after first transgender woman elected to Congress | CNN Politics A House Republican is pushing to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms at the US Capitol, two weeks after history was made with the election of America’s first out transgender person to Congres...

I know which one of them I'd rather be in any public space with. #transrightsarehumanrights www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/p...

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If you haven't used this one I definitely suggest you do. 👇💙👩‍🍳🏳️‍⚧️

Anything by Verlyn Flieger

The Sun We Share - McFarland The Sun We Share Our Star in Popular Media and Science Kristine Larsen 978-1-4766-9117-6 978-1-4766-5397-6

My 8th book is now available, from McFarland Books mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...

OK, I'm here now. whazzup peeps?