Danielle R. Snowflack, Ph.D.

Opinion: This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors UConn currently lets every pregnant/expecting individual reinvent the wheel, cobbling together a leave plan with whatever resources and departmental grace they can muster.

My colleague @sarahhird.bsky.social has been fighting for family care leave for over a year now. So impressed with her leadership!

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A gray brown tabby sits on a deck.

Here's leo!

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

What are your favorite science-related vacations? Here are some of mine.
(Every vacation can be a science vacation if you interpret "science" broadly, which we should, and look at it right.) www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/10/20/s...

If you're driving through NW New Jersey, you can visit the fluorescent mineral capital of the world!

www.sterlinghillminingmuseum.org

A nice stop for a few hours.

If this were almost anyone else I might think there was something juicy here, and it’s not like I know him super well or anything, but I honestly think Mr. Albornoz got tired of council life and saw an opportunity to go back to a job he liked a lot.

He’s a nice guy and I’m happy for him

Gabe Albornoz to lead Department of Recreation following council resignation Announcement follows decision to leave the council on Dec. 1

Breaking: Following his announcement that he plans to leave the Montgomery County Council, Gabe Albornoz has been nominated to take the helm of the county's recreation department -- a role he previously held for more than a decade: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

The White House is part of the National Park Service & protected by Section 106 of the Historic Preservation Act of 1966.

Don't get me wrong: I do not care about the building. I care that this act states he is above the law & the people. It has the same message as his AI fighter jet shitpost.

They can't pass a budget but they did ensure that my health insurance premiums as an NC state employee rose 300% (literally)

👇💯

Losses will be higher in states more enrolled in ACA:
Texas: 83,400
Florida: 57,500
Georgia: 33,600
California: 20,300
South Carolina: 13,100
Tennessee: 12,300
Alabama: 9,100
Louisiana: 7,000
North Carolina: 6,900
Mississippi: 6,700
These 10 states will lose 250,000 jobs, 3/4 of jobs lost across US

The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish).

He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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- a movie you love that might surprise others

-mango margarita w/tajin
- cheese, grilled onions and mushrooms, raw jalapeños
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Any recommendations for cool recent papers to use for Journal Club in a 300-level Molecular Biology class? Emphasis on more succinct studies that have topics that today's students will be interested in. TIA!

Delicate glass sculpture of lungs with red bronchial tubes

Kit Paulson, Lungs, glass, 2020. The alveoli are shaped like flowers

mRNA Covid shots may boost the effects of certain cancer treatments, study suggests The potential reasons that a Covid vaccine would help treat cancer are intriguing.

“A new study suggests that these vaccines might boost the effects of immunotherapy drugs, perhaps by alerting the immune system & helping direct immune cells to attack tumors. That’s in addition to helping protect against Covid, which can be particularly important for cancer patients”

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only....

I don't know I've seen this particular episode but I've definitely seen a few "divorce is imminent" episodes of tiny house hunters too...

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

YouTube video by Comedy Central UK Tom Holland Performs Rihanna's "Umbrella" | Lip Sync Battle

I just feel like we all deserve this this weekend.

Even if you don't regularly go to the library, go get a library card from your local branch! Show your local councils and committees there is an uptick in interest. Libraries take great care of their patrons who do utilize their resources. Its a small way to use your privilege!

💙📚 #booksky

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Defend medical research

Voters blame Republicans for the shutdown by a 53-37% margin lmao

A human hand, presumably regular sized, as in not some inhuman giant hand or anything, just a regular normal hand, and in it is held three baby turtles OMG they are so cute they aren't even as wide as a single finger! Just tiny little guys! Can you believe it??? They look very sincere and polite I wish I could feed them little leaves or other turtle food. They are adorable and you love them. 🔫👀 Say you love them. Say it.

Excuse me: bb turtles

Again, Mark Zuckerberg's kids go to a screen-free school with 14 students total and multiple specialized tutors

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Honestly kind of surprised it took this long to automate blackmail