Daniel Burkey

NSF is cancelling panels, as are other funding agencies. Every R1 university in the country has no idea about the status of any federal grant funding. There needs to be clarity on what is happening, and the illegal impoundment of appropriated funds needs to be released!

It's crushing. Trying to bring light and good hyper-locally.

You know when there’s only like 15 pages left in a book and nothing’s been solved and you get that weird closure anxiety like “okay there’s no way any of this is gonna be wrapped up in a way that makes any sense to me”…that’s what everything feels like all the time now

All of this is a feature, not a bug.

some ways to generate electricity

A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons

B) use sunlight to make electrons

Over three days we watched the extended editions of all Hobbit and LoTR, per tradition.

A super fun time at Fenway today to see UConn get a bowl win!

In fact I read it as a library book and went and bought the book I liked it so much.

I read the book a few years ago and it was instant classic. One of my favorite things I’ve ever read.

Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

@mikemcmahan.bsky.social All I can say is thanks. The best Trek of the modern era. I will miss it, but a great send-off.

College of Engineering Offers New Ph.D. Program in Engineering Education - UConn Today The interdisciplinary program explores connections between engineering and the social sciences and helps students think expansively about learning to inform ...

Let's see if we can rebuild a professional academic network over here! Excited over the new Engineering Education PhD program we've developed! Give a follow if you are interested in Engineering Ed!

I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it

Uppsala Sweden. An hour to Stockholm by train. Fully walkable. Beautiful.

It does feel very nostalgic in a not-real kind of way.

Professors. You can procrastinate on grading by writing reference letters, you can procrastinate on reference letters with admin and procrastinate on admin with grading.

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Taylor Tomlinson @ The Bushnell!

In an extractive economy you can only extract so much...

It's going! Two more days in the semester...

I've missed Twitter; Bluesky seems to have hit critical mass, so maybe I'll start spending some more time here!

Seems like more and more of my former twitter folks are ending up here. Nice. After today's Muskian pronouncement of potentially charging all users, I hope he does as that will finally drive me from there completely...

LOL Bernhardt! There's a blast from the past...

Well, I think I'm finally done with Twitter/X. I hope one of these new sites catches on...LOL

Sky Follower Bridge is apparently an extension for Chrome that tries to do this...