Stephen Thornquist

The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission.

Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?

It was heartwarming to join academic workers together in the fight against funding cuts, layoffs, and attacks to freedom of speech in our campuses. Scientists will not give up! @uaw.org

ACLU + UAW (one of the major plaintiffs)

Even if you think opposing genocide is somehow anti-Semitic, if disappearing permanent residents for protest doesn’t move the needle for you, it’s time for some real soul searching!

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

Like for sure these guys hate DEI, but they also love flaunting their association with places like Penn/Wharton and seem to love paying lip service to prestigious schools (Musk’s obsession with den-of-evil Stanford or Trump with his uncle at MIT). I think they want something more than that.

I dunno, this feels facile to me. A lot of the anti-DEI stuff strikes me as a way to channel bigots’ outrage at having to be inclusive into a way to exert control over institutions (just as the minor DEI concessions those institutions made was a way to diffuse BLM fury without enacting real change)

It feels like they’re laying a trap for universities. If they defend 70% indirects, that could justify an open audit of their spending/endowment, something that uni admins absolutely do not want — probably at the expense of almost any other priority (lest they lose tax-exempt status)…

These guys love NIH money going to research: taxes pay for tech development and then industry privatizes the discoveries. So why disincentivize it (and shutter basically all hospital departments, presumably to be replaced with fraud-peddling startups)?

I understand the shock and despair, the justification of indirects, the lamentations that we let them get so bloated, and the observation that this was proposed in 2017. But I feel like there must be some coherent goal beyond “make universities hurt”, and it’s not “spend less on research.”

Sooo what’s the goal here? “They’re stupid/cruel/ignorant” is not a valid answer. Is it to redirect NIH funds away from universities/hospitals so companies can skim off the top instead? Is it a class-war misdirect to paint research as the elites? Is it a negotiating tool to silence campus activism?

Especially, I’m sorry to say, nathan tankus. I had to unfollow just because my feed transformed into just a stream of self-promoting retweets..

And I’ve used these sensors for 60 Hz in vivo calcium measurements with FLIM no problem (not published in this study but hopefully on biorxiv soon)! I think the “FLIM is slow” issue is totally over.

Hoping I can see posts about papers here again instead of 10,000 ads to make real money playing solitaire