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Today I called my house rep to tell her and her team how much I love public media. States like Illinois that have people living outside of the major cities need public funding to have public media that speaks for everyone who calls the state home

making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless

Is doing a presentation as a ten minute string of double dactyls (the poem style) a good idea or the best idea?

Broken records and good vibes as Northwestern advances to its 16th Final Four in women’s lacrosse Northwestern junior Madison Taylor broke the NCAA, Big Ten and school single-season scoring records as the Wildcats beat Penn 17-12 in the quarterfinals.

Love seeing NU's student athletes who work so hard in class succeed on the field. (Some of the lacrosse players have been in my classes) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/n...

I'm at PyCon! If you see me, say hi.

I'm at CHI today and around tomorrow. Come say hi! I have blue hair.

The bow of the Ever Given container ship, labeled “The crushing despair of everything from the past year”, run aground, while attempts are made to free it by machinery labeled “you, doing your best”.

Cool cool. @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov are looking to team up with MAGA to give Donald Trump the power to censor anything he wants on the Internet.

Do they not recognize what will happen?

Earth's orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse. By the end of the century, a shrinking atmosphere could create a minefield for satellites.

The steady accumulation of space junk makes me so sad.

Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.

Who wants some good news?

The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

Aww, love seeing my bestie standing up against tyranny. She's pawlitical.

My new favorite thing is going to the Lake and screaming into the void. I suggest trying it.

One of my greatest strengths as a (social) scientist is my training as a (moral) philosopher. The line between design research and art is flexible. Shout out to all my NEA and NEH funded arts and humanities friends who are worried about their futures. #StandUpForScience

just fyi for the food safety stans, USDA and FDA food safety inspections and enforcement were already wildly, radically understaffed

Did Google just remove the Jewish holy day calendar from Google Calendar?

Little joys: When you're grading assignments and you read a REALLY good one.

A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."

Nature valentines.
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Autism Isn’t To Blame For Bad Behavior | The Nib Autism is a developmental disability, not an attitude or personality.

Since more and more instances are popping up of terrible men using autism as a scapegoat for their behavior, I’d like to link an article I made for the Nib in 2018. I hate that its continued to be relevant today thenib.com/james-damore...

Rebecca Yarros's series the Empyrean is a nuanced parable of the climate crisis wrapped within a tapestry of love stories that remind the reader true love does not need to be romantic and meaningful relationships are living things that must be tended to as they grow. In this essay I will...

As a medical intern in Gaza, I have stepped out of the classroom and onto the front line As Gaza entered its fourth month of the escalation of violence by Israeli forces, I was just a few months into my medical intern year—treating children with bomb blast injuries. In one case, I conduct...

Dr. Hosam Shaikhkhail wrote about his medical intern year in Gaza -- everyone suffers in war, not just the dead and injured doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

I have no words.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s - Chicago History Museum In Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s, see more than 100 posters, fliers, signs, newspapers, and more from the era, expressing often radical ideas about race, war, gender equal...

If you're in Chicago, you should visit the Chicago History Museum. The Designing for Change exhibit on Chicago protest art is not only brilliant -- there's a really great playlist to go along with it www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/d...

Love this! 🫶🏾

Taking comfort in the little bits of humanity: today I asked a guy to stop smoking on the train AND HE DID.

I told my students to think of gen AI as another thing they need to fully cite if/when they use it -- otherwise it's plagiarism. I'm interested in hot takes on this

Unsurprisingly, with the quarter ending this week, finals due, and a tight turnaround time on grading, I am getting a lot of emails asking for extensions. I like to ask them to propose a new deadline. Other approaches?

I just realized that kids probably don't have a "Library" class in school anymore where they learn how to use a card catalogue and got incredibly sad.