Carrot

Just checked this and pretty it’s an actual true fact: the last Republican President to serve a term that didn’t coincide with a recession was James Garfield, from March-September 1881. Wild.

Entering my dark academia phase (the lights in my office are broken)

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

When free speech is defined as the right to spread hate speech and disinformation, while making money from the societal disarray that results, it is not free speech at all.

"Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great? ... Why would we put at risk laboratories that are working to cure cancers or perfecting artificial limbs or exploring deep space or testing the limits of artificial intelligence?"

To Fight Misinformation, We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic Science is a social process, and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods

8. This has been a short and honestly rather peevish thread, so if you want read more that has been written in a more equanimous tone, here's a short piece that I coauthored a few years ago, precisely about how we deal with this kind of duplicity.

Sugar.
Spice.
And everything nice.
Only the Avatar, master of all three—

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Musk has adjusted Grok’s algorithm so it’s now a neo-Nazi.

Pretty cool that almost every progressive commentator, elected official and organization still uses Musk’s X algorithm to communicate with the public! Good job guys.

Norwegian researchers have completed successful trials of a revolutionary underwater energy storage system that uses deep-sea pressure to generate power on demand — offering a clean alternative to batteries in coastal grids

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

Polka-dot nudibranch - a sea slug known for its vibrant, speckled appearance 🔥

[📷 Elias Melul Fresco]

Upward-flowing waterfall due to winds, creates a surreal and gravity-defying spectacle

via: weirdterrifying

get it. it's a caret

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Another Jax canvas

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