Nicole Gottdenker

The Italian university professors’ oath of allegiance to fascism (1931) «I swear fidelity to the King, to his Royal successors and to the Fascist regime, and I swear to respect the [National Fascist Party’s] Statute and the other laws of the State, and to fulfil …

Sound familiar? Trump and Mussolini are two peas in a pod. "Only twelve out of some 1200 university professors refused to swear [their allegiance to Mussolini] in 1931." Who will bow down to fascism a century later? blognostrumuva.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/t...

He's simply the bestest

Threatening Vulnerable People Is No Way to Mourn Someone Who Was Murdered Those who had nothing to do with the violence against Charlie Kirk are being menaced—just like always.

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Students hanging with turtles outside the Odum School of Ecology Building

If you missed Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas at British Science Festival in Liverpool yesterday talking about her work to connect animals through tech, check this out! 🦜💻 #BSF25

Yesterday I wrote about how Turning Point put many of us on the Professor Watchlist

What I didn't write about was the years of harassment from the right, including rape, deportation & death fantasies that played out in my messages, comments in the stories about me & voice mails. That’s his legacy.

Do better, People magazine 🤣
that's a weevil not a kissing bug 😉

Former CDC immunizations chief: ‘I only see harm coming’ with RFK Jr. leading HHS Former CDC immunizations chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis said he’s concerned with the direction the agency is going and about people’s health care needs going forward.

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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below.

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The rich can build a prison in 24 hours, but just not homeless shelters.

Time to take a time out to watch '28 weeks later' online in preparation to take the family to the movies and watch '28 years later' on the big screen.

🧬Happy Transposon Day!

🎉Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992).

#TransposonDay2025 #MobileDNAjournal

Impressive! That is amazing mommying- what i normally do is take my son to walmart or publix bakery and ask him to pick out which cake he wants

The late, great Dr Richard Levins knew better about the National Academy of Sciences many years ago.

It’s just all so dark, so perverse, so sick.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

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Beautiful- do they bite?

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

Check out the great things @joshuasweitz.bsky.social has done with his colleagues!

Visualization of cuts to health research by house districts at scienceimpacts.org

Update via #SCIMaP now broken down by house districts

Our interdisciplinary team has expanded efforts to communicate the economic impacts of White House proposed cuts to health research.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

'O my Dog!'

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

Visited the Legacy Museum and Sculpture Garden in Montgomery, Alabama today. A critically important place and a must-see.

RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article) The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

The Great Barrington Declaration, but for chickens.

RFK Jr. is truly the stupidest motherfucker.

Toward the Cooperative University: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Membership in the AAUP In 1937, at the tender age of sixty-nine, W. E. B. Du Bois paid a $4 membership fee and joined the American Association of University Professors. Du Bois was several years into his second stint as a p...

Since I’ve now completely abandoned the other site and am still relatively new here, I’ll flag a few pieces I published this year.

For @aaup.bsky.social on Du Bois, higher ed labor, and the idea of the university as a member cooperative. 1/
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Thanks for saying this.

Trump’s Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda | MR Online The Trump-orchestrated blitzkrieg exposition of a Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda raises a series of questions, including: What are the internal contradictions within the US ruling cla...

Trump’s Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (authored By Deborah Veneziale, Senior Fellow): mronline.org/2025/02/28/t... (in Chinese: www.guancha.cn/DeborahVenez...).

Recuerden que el viernes se hace boycott económico. No compren nada. Ni echen gasolina. No usen tarjeta de crédito. Háganse sentir.

Congress is about to cut #Medicaid by $880 billion. CALL THESE REPS. They are vulnerable--close margins in their elections and with lots of people in Medicaid in their districts. You may call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. List below. Call now and all day tomorrow. 1/

Register for the Cell Press webinar #LandHealth: Preventing #Zoonoses #Spillover on March 5: hubs.li/Q036zpC80

Keynote: Kris Murray

Panelists: @clfaust.bsky.social @gottdenk.bsky.social Eric Lambin & Paula Prist

Moderators: Catherine Tait & @ryanperry404.bsky.social