Christina Wolbrecht

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain. Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

She is being tested, but Dolly always prevails.

We simply cannot lose Jane Goodall and Dolly Parton in such a short interval. No timeline should be that dark.

well no invitation to carpool karaoke for you then

I think of advances in rights as just one kind of advancement for women...

A great thread. Note how often the advancement of women into roles previously limited to men is held responsible for men's failures to be sufficiently manly.

(Ruining men is obviously the true goal of any advance for women so it's good to see it's working).

Men Are Becoming Less Manly, Scientist Thinks Men today are not as roughly masculine as they used to be, according to Dr. Edward K. Strong, of Palo Alto, California, noted psychology professor at Stanford University. He set forth this conclusion in an article in the current issue of the Journal of Social Psychology. The only he-men are engineers and farmers, he stated in an account of a survey of divisions of interest among the sexes. But if you are a minster, a lawyer, a doctor, a writer or a newspaperman, you have feminine interests, which have become stronger with each generation. --The Bonne Terre Register, 7 Feb 1936

1936

The absolute best.

a woman singing into a microphone with the words was i such a fool ALT: a woman singing into a microphone with the words was i such a fool

hard to beat stevie:

I know I could have loved you but you would not let me, was I just a fool?
I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you, give me just a chance
You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you, was I just a fool?

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Bump out here telling DT to invade my state of residence like we don't have enough problems already.

Francis and Kathleen Rooney make transformative gift for Notre Dame institute focused on democracy research and education Francis and Kathleen Rooney of Washington, D.C., and Naples, Florida, have made a gift to the University of Notre Dame to endow an institute in the Coll...

Notre Dame is investing in the study and advancement of democracy in a big way.

al.nd.edu/news/latest-...

Victor, no.

It was a joke; NYT excerpt going around is misleading

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Wow what a legend. Truly, if there's one thing you watch/listen to today, make it this.

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

History Lessons | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame Author details 1920s rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the clash with Notre Dame students.

“Notre Dame plays a significant role in this extraordinary chapter in our history. It's one of the good guys."

--Timothy Egan, author of "A Fever in the Heartland," about the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana in the 1920s

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Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025

Judge's house on fire

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Possible but also recall that the 2008 election occurred in the middle of a financial crisis. Lots of inconsistent voters (which many lower income whites would be) swung to the non-incumbent party that year.

The data don’t lie, David.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

Who asked for these? Who?

I know everything is terrible rn, but we agree barrel pants are on that list, right?

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

History repeats.

Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields.

But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating