Terry McGlynn

people who are actually wrestling with the discomfort of uncertainty are not dumb or evil or corrupt or ignorant because they don't share your false clarity

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

On the brighter side, at the Entomology meeting a couple weeks ago, the absence of the federal scientists was definitely felt, but it was nonetheless a vibrant and well attended meeting (with lots of old friends as well).

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

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 “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.

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

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.

🤔

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.

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...

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.

And thank goodness no more red delicious

(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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!)

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...

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.

Disinformation presaging a coup: a metaphor from ants.

Congrats Dr. Turner!

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 “lord 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.

Don't do any of this.

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 🔭

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.

“Many 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”

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