Sara Gonzalez

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Anecdotally I can confirm this is true!

Every grad student should explore using Overleaf with LaTeX for their thesis/dissertation. It was a lifesaver for me.

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I think you are right. We see it in even the short term where people in Florida stop preparing for hurricanes when too much time elapses since the last major hit. Memories are short and critical thinking absent.

After Two Extraordinary Years, I’m Stepping Down as Chief Experience Officer of Murder House “After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏.” — Linda Yaccarino, in a X post announcing her resignation from the social medi...

"We at Murder House were thrilled to welcome back hordes of previously banished ghouls and blacklisted incubi. Their perspectives added a refreshing edge to our community."

why did this make me laugh

Fellow academics, if your work is on academia dot edu, the website now automatically creates "AI podcasts" and "AI reviews" of your papers. This is OPT-OUT, not opt-in.

They don't ask you for permission, but YOU can turn off this feature through the settings!

I feel this a lot these days when I see people angry that other folks are not focused on the same atrocity they are, with the same intensity they are. I regret to say there's more than one genuine atrocity in the world at the moment; it doesn't minimize the others if one chooses another to focus on.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Via Sam Stein on twitter

As they should but it’s quite bad for UF. The next candidate will be worse than Sasse.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article) The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.

@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?

Unsung Heroes of Motherhood Julie Owens, who bravely tugged on a tankini in mid-January in order to chaperone her twins to an indoor water park. After nearly swallowing a wet ...

"Lis Rodriguez, who spent a solid thirty minutes on a PTA Zoom listening to a woman wearing a BUT FIRST COFFEE sweatshirt ask long-winded questions about school carnival volunteers that had already been answered multiple times by multiple people."

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

“There is value in continued presence, in bearing witness, in working for reform from within. But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it. “

Alondra Nelson captures why I left UF 2 yrs ago.

Sometimes I get super interested in an activity, read everything I can, purchase lots of supplies, and then move on to the next one. I hope you actually make something!

The National Science Foundation has been ordered to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice”.

No new grants can be awarded. No current grants can be funded.

If they don’t reverse course, this “is going to destroy people's labs” according to Dr. Colin Carlson.

Link below.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A screengrab from Twitter. HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks: “Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism” David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply: “Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

My child just accepted Harvard’s admission offer and I’m not feeling quite as reluctant to write that tuition check now! 💪

My Colombian aunt felt right at home in Boston and just blared the horn as she went through traffic lights.

I however was white knuckled just going a few blocks to the grocery store.

Pretty simple rule of thumb when wondering why the Trump administration does anything is to ask two questions:

1) is it racist?

Or

2) are they stupid?

Tends to cover most Trump administration stuff.

Riley McCusker scoring a 10 for Florida on bars brings me so much joy! #secgym

Mine too but I’d completely forgotten this. Thank you for the memory because lately the bad news keep rolling in and I need this to help push through.

Thank you for this blog!!

How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Academia When You’re Six Raccoons Living in a Fjällräven Parka Imposter syndrome is real. In a competitive field like academia, everybody feels like a fraud sometimes, whether it’s a scathing peer review, a nas...

"The following tips will help you feel like you belong in the Ivory Tower, even when that little voice in your head says, 'I’m not good enough,' or 'Nobody likes me,' or 'I’m actually half a dozen raccoons nestled inside an abandoned upscale Swedish jacket.'"