Abby Polter

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.”

Awful reading about concentration camp conditions. It’s currently closed to visitors due to a measles outbreak—WaPo has reported it may close completely but it hasn’t yet. Starvation, suicide, restricted healthcare, but also “detainees only see sunlight during brief outings once or twice a week”

both WWII vets, both worked full time or more in factories (one making locks, one making candy), both also somehow were farmers, an additional full time job.
I evidently come from people who enjoy toil.

YouTube video by ark571 Josh Ritter - The Temptation of Adam

for my money Josh Ritter's "The Temptation of Adam" is the best atomic love song www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9M...

do it, RFK! pick a fight with Boston about Dunkin!

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

look you* are the ones who called us "professor"

*society, broadly

my favorite thing is learning something new. my second favorite thing is telling everyone in earshot about it.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

it's the best

congrats to blackberry the hen!

one thing that helped me with this was to analyze my writing and make a list of specific ways that I tended to hedge- the words and constructions I tended to lean on. I then use that as a checklist while editing to search and destroy those.

daShareZ0ne "just walk out" meme with the text changed to: Room with sex criminal donor in it Even if he smiles at you Even if his publicist says he thinks you’re smart Even if he shares your passion for evopsych Even if it’s Jim Watson’s birthday

Let's empower each other.

no such thing as other people's children

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news.

These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

Meet the neuroscientist running for Congress Sam Wang, a neuroscientist running for the U.S. House of Representatives, has been interested in “fixing bugs in democracy” for decades.

I spoke with Laura Schenkman at The Transmitter about my candidacy for the House!

Going from the lab to public life is a huge transition. From a lifetime of research to biotech to democracy to running for office, here’s the story of one scientist: www.thetransmitter.org/policy/is-th...

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Occasionally reminded that Georgia added a “post tenure review” process bc they were so certain that professors became deadweight once they had job security, and all the outcomes have proven JUST THE OPPOSITE! People work harder and in more complex ways when they feel secure in their employment.

Velveeta + Rotel

ok my question was more about the fish part than the dead part

...among other activities
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Keri are those...dead fish?!?!

TGIF Kurt. TGIF.

good morning the pest control guys for my building just appeared in the flower beds in front of my window and one of them rummaged around and said "aww yeah a big dude today" before triumphantly holding up a giant dead rat and tossing it over the bushes into a bucket the other one was holding.

my first PhD student defended today (and did an outstanding job) and one thing I didn't realize before is that one of the real joys of being a mentor to graduate students is getting to meet their proud happy family at their defense.

I loved The Antidote!

Ok obviously this is very bad but everyone who has ever been to an academic conference is currently doing the arrested development "but maybe it would work for us" meme in their head

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.