Dr. Katharine Dickson

Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back.

You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

My rogues gallery just encourages me, I am either doing something wrong or right

this is so out of left field I need a date and time and preferably video

the sole great thing about people who aggressively deny reality to soothe a fragile ego is that they are easy to blindside

Anyway, I’m deeply familiar with the psychology of people like this because I had the misfortune of being raised by someone just like her - people who are willing to deny reality to soothe a fragile ego are also people who are easily taken advantage of and blindsided.

Beth is in the find out phase.

Negotiating With Terrorists, Unsuccessfully How to lose ideological battles by believing in nothing.

“What will Brown do if Trump sees something on Fox News about some class at Brown that pisses him off, and orders the funding turned off again?”

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white idi amin is fucking killing me

Who at Columbia fucked up so badly that they are beholden to a company that’s been around for less than half the time they have

lol you guys are bad at like everything?

He is literally going to kill us all just to distract us from the Epstein list

he can’t deal with reality so he wants to substitute his own

there is an “Ohio gozaimasu” joke in here but I’ll let it percolate

the “the left needs to stop shaming masculinity!!!” talking point is always so funny to me bc it isnt the left who is telling men theyre inherently violent lust-driven creatures enslaved to their own biology who need to cruelly dominate everyone and everything or else theyre worthless

The quality of your hope is directly proportional to how much motivation you’ll put behind your help.

We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.

oh they will definitely hold that the 14th and 15th amendments dictate that nothing can be done to ameliorate racial inequality or past racial discrimination, even in voting and representation, despite the fact that the text of both amendments clearly allows for such.

Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner

Page 1 in the Axis II Cluster B (narcissistic/borderline/histrionic/antisocial) playbook: When you don't like reality, make up your own, & *immediately* move to discredit & silence everyone speaking truth.

I wonder: is a class-action defamation suit a thing? ...

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

National Science Foundation Suspends Grants at UCLA (This article has been updated with comment from UCLA.) The National Science Foundation said Thursday that it’s suspending grant awards at the University of California, Los Angeles.

UC is now on the chopping block at NSF.

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Feminism, which is a range of liberal to radical theories of sex, gender, and sexual relations, has existed for a while

For anyone who was looking for a “leftist version of this sex stuff”

Feminism, which conservatives are counternarrating

Like L O L

Yeah, it really shouldn’t be about helping men get laid - it’s about encouraging people to be decent and non-misogynist (among other things) humans, which goes a LONG way toward being a person that people will want to date and mate with!

Periodic post: My postdoc position is over in October and I’m making the big leap into policy - so I’m on the job market!

I’m open to connections with nonprofits, state and local governments, and businesses! If you are someone who can help, please send me a DM - my DMs are open!

note: men should not interpret this as “women are not at all lonely by themselves”

women are lonelier in bad relationships than we are by ourselves

Instead of repackaging it and reinventing the wheel maybe they should have just listened to women in the first place.

There are decades of feminist discourse that already said what he’s said, but he feels the need to repackage it and reinvent the wheel for some reason.

I suspect Jonathan Pruitt is probably too old to be the creepy spider guy in question.

do not approach me with “male loneliness epidemic” discourse, you will not win

This labor market is in trouble. Healthcare are social assistance are pretty much the only sectors hiring. This is NOT healthy. **Just +73,000 job gains in July** Healthcare +55,000 Social assistance +18,000 Retail +16,000 Finance +15,000 Hospitality +5,000 State gov't +5,000 Transport/warehouse +4,000 Construction +2,000 Professional and biz services -14,000 Federal gov't -12,000 (down -84,000 since January) Manufacturing -11,000 Local gov't -3,000 Information -2,000

the just out July jobs report is not good news for the economy

Men who want to get laid and be partnered with should be people women want to participate in that with.

Which means listening to women.

And lab culture is primarily a factor of the PI’s own project and overwhelm management as well as their empathy and social skills

Publish or perish culture and constant begging for soft money that can be taken away from us at any time is probably part of it, and also not everyone steps into a perfect mentoring environment. I’ve dealt with professors that ran the gamut from incredibly kind to outright abusive.