*sexiest job of the 21st century* I whisper to myself as I move roadmap tiles, reschedule three meeting conflicts, and update the requirements document to reflect new governance standards
#dataBS
We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!
I profiled Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who pushed out roughly 70 percent of the Civil Rights Division's lawyers, turned DOJ's civil rights enforcement on its head, and is now reportedly in the running for attorney general
I had a book of them! In 70s NJ, it felt like they fell off quite a bit after John Paul II became pope and practically disappeared after the assassination attempt.
“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪
It's a relief that the Supreme Court appeared so skeptical of Trump's arguments on birthright citizenship. But it's still a scandal that the case got this far to begin with.
Representative LaMonica McIver argued in an appeal that the charges pressed against her by the Trump administration are an illegal infringement on the protections afforded to Congress—“but that may not be enough to protect her,” @qjurecic.bsky.social argues.
The foregoing considerations and authorities irresistibly lead us to these conclusions: the Fourteenth Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory, in the allegiance and under the protection of the country, including all children here born of resident aliens, with the exceptions or qualifications (as old as the rule itself) of children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships, or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our territory, and with the single additional exception of children of members of the Indian tribes owing direct allegiance to their several tribes. The Amendment, in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born, within the territory of the United States, of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States. Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States. His allegiance to the United States is direct and immediate, and, although but local and temporary, continuing only so long as he remains within our territory, is yet, in the words of Lord Coke in Calvin's Case, 7 Rep. 6a, "strong enough to make a natural subject, for if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject;" and his child, as said by Mr. Binney in his essay before quoted, "if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle." It can hardly be denied that an alien is completely subject to the political jurisdiction of the country in which he resides - seeing that, as said by Mr. Webster, when Secretary of State, in his Report to the President on Thrasher's Case in 1851, and since repeated by this court ...
One-hundred-and-twenty-eight years ago today.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649
Decided March 28, 1898
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reaching new levels of inflatable frog choreography
Princeton has been firmly No Kings since 1777.
I wrote this in advance of the last No Kings rally—on the power of cringe as a pro-democratic force, and how the opposition to Trump has learned and become more pragmatic (and more effective) since his first term
My take is that too many consider science similar to religion, including our saints, texts, & morality.
Science is an evolving tool tweaked by curious & flawed people trying to make sense of the world.
To treat it otherwise allows a distance that prevents effective action to better our world.
Congratulations to Rutgers faculty for being named fellows of the AAAS including our own Cheryl F. Dreyfus, PhD and Reynold Panettieri, Jr., MD.
www.rutgers.edu/news/eight-researchers-n...
@rutgershealth.org
@rwjbarnabashealth.bsky.social
Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
Okay so why was I the only one in the theater tonight who gasped when Ryan Gosling ran a centrifuge with two tubes in the whole thing, sitting right next to each other? Sorry was I the only scientist in the film society theater tonight??
A new contribution to @knightcolumbia.org's series on Reconstructing Free Expression--this one from @qjurecic.bsky.social on protecting the free speech rights of non-citizens. knightcolumbia.org/blog/free-ex...
New teaching neurosis drops.
Student: It's funny. When I listen to the lecture recording the microphone picks up you heart beating, and so I can hear when you get nervous.
<sees look on my face>
Oh don't worry, it's not very noticeable.
2nd Student: Oh yeah, I've totally noticed that too!
Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900.
Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago!
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Deep, well sourced, moving, and enraging story from the NYT
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
"Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses."
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time. www.tom-cox.com/why-reading-...
Scraped the data 🍝 Made a chart 📊
(Caveat: relies on one reddit user's definition of al dente...)
#RStats #DataViz
Two cool and modern cows from the big city who thought they could finally have some time alone, at the top of some steps, to talk about the possibility of making their relationship polyamorous, and are annoyed because I have disturbed them.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.
You will find the captions for the photos in the alt text.
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
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A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows.
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers.
I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
Katie Brennan, a white woman with long red hair, smiles widely and holds up a book titled THE PEOPLE OF JERSEY CITY AND HOBOKEN
Rather than a religious text, newly-minted New Jersey Assemblywoman Katie Brennan, a progressive who beat a million-dollar spending disadvantage and the full force of the Hudson County machine, was sworn in on a printout of her district's entire universe of registered voters
