Let's all use this occasion to take a look at the many ways Tennessee Republicans have shown how much they value and respect the Traditional Nuclear Family™

Our inspection missed a load-bearing wall with extensive historical termite damage, apparently held together by latex paint & hope 😬

Reality or mad libs, who can tell anymore

Oh hello sweetie!

No, I refuse this.

The CDC has delayed the publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter.

This is a clear example of putting politics over science at the cost of lives.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...

The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a CDC report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, @lenasun.bsky.social reports wapo.st/4ccudpF

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it:

International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

(A) I wish I wrote this and (B) someone give this horse cake NOW

Ok totally missed that Trivers died. Time to dust off all those “you won’t believe this one but” stories

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’
But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

That’s what I tell my students. My brain will be fine. I studied, got my PhD, got tenure. They are the ones whose brains will be at a disadvantage because they chose not to develop them.

So sorry, Madhu. They take such big pieces of us when they go.

Sweet Jesus I’m old

The Paranoid Style of Jeffrey Epstein Has Come for Us All The pedophile plutocrat had some peculiar predilections—especially for academics and thinkers who showed a potential to further his grand experiments in inhumanity.

Wrote a piece about many looking at the Epstein case all wrong: He's not the thing that connects a network of rich and powerful men; he's the lens that shows us how they were already connected.

newrepublic.com/article/2068...

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon (with apologies to @kcg.bsky.social)…

I’m sure the free speech, anti-cancel-culture warriors will be all over this /s

Whewww, indeed. Amazing how much of this rings true even from my small, identity-challenged institution

How seabird poop helped fuel ancient civilizations in Peru Ancient Peruvians used bird guano to fertilize maize and build a major civilization in the Chincha Valley in Peru.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Roses are Red Violets are Blue Defund ICE

Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff •18h I suspect these kind of cases are about to wildly increase in the EU. Greg Lukianoff & @gluk... 14/01/2026 A Norwegian lesbian artist posted that "men can't be lesbians." The police opened a hate-speech investigation with a possible 3-year sentence. The message is clear: disagree with state orthodoxy, risk prosecution

Every once in a while I check to see what outlandish stuff the ceo of @thefireorg.bsky.social posts on X. Yesterday, on the heels of a major decision in Europe supporting trans ppl, he had this old disinformation to spread

It was a great talk- looking forward to read the book!

Hey I didn’t know you were coming to town, now looking forward to it!

New band name just dropped

Dude took a nap in my grad lab also, because he was too bored to listen to the grad students who had invited him to speak.

Student (excited): Here’s what I’m working on!

Trivers: that sounds interesting. Is there someplace I could take a nap?

Same.

My “representative”

I think there are a lot of academics who were knowingly attended dinners and lunches where they knew Epstein would be in the 2010s that are telling themselves that actually it's cool because it's not like they're pedophiles but by the 2010s he was an unrepentant convicted pedophile, folks