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Terry McGlynn

@hormiga.bsky.social

Ecologist, entomologist, writer. Chair of Academic Senate and Professor at CSU Dominguez Hills. ScienceForEveryone.science and I'm the Small Pond Science guy. he/him Black Lives Matter. In favor of DEI, justice, access, opportunity. Abolish ICE.

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β€œTHIS is what we should be monitoring and protecting. The who and the how and the why of applying priorities beyond the study section evaluation.”

22.11.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as β€œpotentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

21.11.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 10622    πŸ” 2591    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 211

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

20.11.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 32360    πŸ” 10497    πŸ’¬ 603    πŸ“Œ 663

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21.11.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

lol they got us together once several months ago, but only because there was a fee increase proposal for campsites and apparently they were still following the law on that one, but when it comes to the big huge important stuff? Oh no they don't need to consult with us anymore at all.

21.11.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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California Desert District DAC | Bureau of Land Management The California Desert District Advisory Council (DAC) advises BLM officials for the Barstow, El Centro, Needles, Palm Springs, and Ridgecrest field offices.The DAC consists of 10 to 15 members who rep...

Meanwhile, I'm federally appointed to BLM's California Desert Advisory Council which features stakeholders of all kinds to make recommendations about planning and land use, but they're not holding our quarterly meetings anymore. www.blm.gov/get-involved...

21.11.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Walking into the Natural History Museum this morning, I walked past hundreds of field tripping middle schoolers, lined up waiting for the museum to open.

As I was wading through, I kept hearing 'six-seven, six-seven' quiet and loud, from all directions. I felt like David Attenborough.

20.11.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

And thank goodness no more red delicious

19.11.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(I hadn’t lost funded awards but I was preparing to submit to two separate programs that were cancelled. One was to build a network of collaborating researchers in an emerging area. Such a lost opportunity)

18.11.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Scientists (especially early career researchers): How has your career been impacted over the last year of policy changes and funding cuts? Contact me here or on Signal if you have a story to share.

18.11.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Somehow I've gotten all of the required thingeys done and I have a full hour available for generative work? Please help I don't remember what to do in this kind of situation.

18.11.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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DeFlock Spot, map, and resist automated license plate readers (ALPRs) near you.

Here's a site that maps out the 50,000+ Flock cameras, which both police and whomever pay to track us. It's wild and I don't know how many people don't realize that all of our driving is being tracked basically everywhere we drive? deflock.me

18.11.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's funny (not funny) how the all the headlines say "accused" sex trafficker, as if he didn't boastfully explain in step-by-step detail on his own podcast how he operated his own sex trafficking cartel.

18.11.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the second time in a few weeks on #lametro that I've had to hop off the train, out to hop on an emergency bus to shuttle past a station with "police activity" and then hop back on the train to keep going.

I love taking public transit across Los Angeles! but we need consistency, folks.

18.11.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So this morning I was taking the light rail to work, working semi-happily on my laptop, noise canceling headphones doing their thing.

And then after some extended period, I noticed the train was going the wrong direction?! Oops.

(I got on the train going the right way, and for a while, it did!)

18.11.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Resumption of Operations at NSF Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.

Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...

18.11.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 140    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

For about the millionth time, very grateful for the more tenured faculty who speak up for those of us who can't, especially for those who are teaching us HOW to speak up when we can.

18.11.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Disinformation presaging a coup: a metaphor from ants.

17.11.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats Dr. Turner!

17.11.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.

women are always saying β€œlord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

17.11.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 9811    πŸ” 1270    πŸ’¬ 270    πŸ“Œ 133
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Don't do any of this.

17.11.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2693    πŸ” 786    πŸ’¬ 192    πŸ“Œ 335
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How can we get students back to reading books? Not anthologies, not short stories, not textbooks. I mean whole fiction and nonfiction books.
17.11.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group

ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident πŸ”­

16.11.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1414    πŸ” 379    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 35

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

16.11.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4547    πŸ” 1185    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 50

β€œMany of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

15.11.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2353    πŸ” 1330    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 117
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

14.11.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2500    πŸ” 668    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 54
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2nd photo here, also by Vondruska

2/2

14.11.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1190    πŸ” 345    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 19
Possibly made pewter

Possibly made pewter

Part 10 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

Guillotine Earrings From France’s Reign of Terror

13.11.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 511    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 35

Pizzagate: If you replace the word β€œhot dog” with β€œlittle boy” and β€œpizza party” with β€œchild sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.

Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

12.11.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 27156    πŸ” 5591    πŸ’¬ 177    πŸ“Œ 112

I've been using this and it's been great! There are folks here who I go way back with from earlier twitter days and they post once in a while and I can keep up on them. Super great to have. Thanks for the reminder!

14.11.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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