ah, well, apparently areas of the country are experiencing extreme weather I grew up preparing for!
Tornado safety: yes, bring your patio furniture in. High winds makes it more likely it'll be blown somewhere and break a window.
If you hear sirens (does VA have sirens? ooh) or get an alert...
Princeton Community Democratic Organization meeting to select primary candidates to endorse for Council and County Commissioner positions. At least 200 people here at the Unitarian church for the session.
ALRIGHT just submitted book draft to publisher. I am very brave and capable of doing things?? Sometimes??? I ate a whole bag of chocolate chips this week to assist in this endeavor??
AMAZING!!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉
friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus
CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED
can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?
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Our work on understanding how Staphylococcus aureus mode of cell division contributes to pathogenesis is now available in bioRxiv
So. Fucking. Weird.
like I was pretty well calibrated to anticipate the level of evil, but I just can never get ahead of the level of weird
there's this episode of 30 Rock where Larry King keeps interviewing Tracey Jordan during a financial crisis that he keeps confidently having bananas incorrect opinions about and anyway that was a lot less ridiculous than this picture
Accurate. I pretty much immediately ran through worst case scenarios in terms of the economy, foreign affairs, personal information security, civil rights (ha!), voting rights, science funding, etc
But I never could have anticipated the shoe thing and other truly startling levels of weirdness
spotted a river wizard
Meanwhile, in Chicago.
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I had a good 1 year stretch for both kids when I could sing "I like to brush it brush it" to the tune of "I like to move it" instead of yelling with much success. But prime age for that was like 4yo.... Otherwise, yeah. Same.
We recently shared a booklist for adults about rivers and how they shape our lives. And here's a booklist for kids! These books and more will help you learn more about water habitats and the creatures who live there. Link in bio.
fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.
Not to imply that his concerns are not valid. I just think it’s important to mention that most who get degrees in astrophysics don’t ultimately use those degrees only for astrophysics research & this isn’t necessarily bad. Studying the cosmos for a while & then going to industry can be a great life
For what it’s worth, a degree in physics or astrophysics is INCREDIBLY versatile; I hope that he’s aware that even if there doesn’t end up being much federal funding for academic research (and even if he doesn’t want to go abroad) that training would make him incredibly employable in many sectors
I get messages from high schoolers regularly asking about the future of science.
My mom was not able to help at all but paid for a postpartum doula so I had help a few hours a few days a week which was HUGE. What an immense privilege!! But there were still long days where it was just me hobbling around trying to care for this beautiful baby & not pull my stitches & hurt myself
I am still so angry about it. He had to take vacation days and more than a week was "frowned upon" (and would have left us with no time for an actual vacation later in the year). And I know that's still better than so many
Even though the race started in 1973, the first Inupiaq musher to win the race did so in 2011, when John Baker, Inupiaq from my hometown and friend of the family, won. I like this clip because that might be one of my family members cheering Uuuuii at the end :)
youtu.be/2qScEyDF--c?...
For those who don't know the history of the Iditarod, it was started in 1973 to honor the dogs and mushers who brought diphtheria antitoxin to Nome by dogsled in 1925. The great serum run saved untold numbers of people, the last of whom died just this year.
youtu.be/hVZi20mP6IU?...
5 days & 15 hours into the Iditarod, Jody Potts-Joseph is currently in last place, but winning isn't necessarily the goal for most people running the Iditarod. This 975 mile race is the ultimate endurance test for many of the mushers, & many use it to highlight causes.
iditarod.com/race/2026/st...
If you aren't keeping up with the Iditarod this year, here is a good reason to: Four mushers are Alaskan Native: Kevin Hansen, Inupiaq; Ryan Redington, Inupiaq; Kaiser, Yup’ik; and Jody Potts-Joseph. Another, Jesse Terry, Anishinabe, is Indigenous from Canada. #Uglydogs
ictnews.org/news/iditaro...
The idea that a judge was making this decision is abhorrent
I had to have 2 c-sections for reasons & I stayed in the hospital as long as was covered by insurance b/c it was not physically possible for me to care for my child on my own
Then I came home & just hurt a LOT while I did what had to be done b/c spouse didn't have paternity leave. It was brutal
I recall signing my c-section consent after I’d been pushing and stalled for three hours and some corner of my brain laughing hysterically (pun intended) that I was considered legally competent to consent when I was so strung out I couldn’t even read
And yet these women, in better shape, weren’t..?
US researchers are advising students not to enter academia.
"More than two-thirds of the researchers in Massachusetts... who responded to a survey conducted by The Boston Globe recommend their students consider careers outside academia."
#AcademicSky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-rese...
Seriously! I learned this stuff the hard way and as an adult. What a wonderful gift to learn these tools as kiddos!!
