It’s insane that a major university like UConn in 2025 still doesn’t offer paid family leave.
But the fact that grad students and admins have it but faculty don’t is a testament to just how spectacularly inept the UConn chapter of AAUP union is.
That's what the FTC's “Click-to-Cancel” rule tried to do, but consumer protection is dead now
Why is MAGA pushing its gender ideology?
The number of baseball caps worn to class increases markedly on exam days
This is the deadly price of electing anti-science clowns whose only real talent is being confidently wrong in the face of overwhelming knowledge.
Vaccines are some of the top achievements of human civilization—up there with clean water and antibiotics. Gutting CDC expertise and dismantling vaccine policy isn’t “health,” it’s medieval nonsense that will kill people.
Warning: Binary 101 is not an intro class
They have to create their own account and scan a QR code from my device to gain access
The Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022 that Commissioner Carr is choosing to violate was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and an overwhelming voice vote in the House.
Will legislators do anything about their bipartisan will being ignored? Of course not.
LOL
There is so much daily cruelty from this admin that I completely missed news of this
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The failure of democrats to achieve lasting policy wins is not drivel
It does, but I'm okay for anyone on earth who so desperately wants to see a hundred chickadees to hack in
My bird feeder app requires two-factor authentication.
Threat-modeling is now a creative writing class.
Considering where most of our ilk are politically, perhaps it’s for the best
Does anyone else write "Great! Thanks for your help!" to ChatGPT following a particularly good answer?
Seems rude not to, and yet I question everything
Remember that cottage industry detailing "the habits of very successful people"? Getting up at 5 am, focusing on what's important, not wasting time, avoiding conflict, etc.?
Now think of Trump and Musk
From 2013!
My first time in The Stacks of the library in a decade and I find myself in the Chomsky section. What’s the world telling me?
Greenland must be thinking they could take over the US right about now
He did write it on a Saturday, to be fair, and had to pretend to care about precedent
Yeah, one that puts pure partisanship above any actual knowledge of what an agency does, whether it is good or bad, or why you have those opinions. It's an answer, just a shallow, dumb one.
Not an answer. Why?
Why?
I discovered the same at UConn after being here for eight years
Department mailer congratulating Ana Karaban on defending her dissertation
🎓It’s a rare privilege to mentor someone like Ana—brilliant, curious, and kind. Ana’s research asks tough questions about gender, work, and family. Congrats, Dr. Karaban! 👏 #PhDone #EconSky @akaraban.bsky.social @remylevin.bsky.social @deliafurtado.bsky.social
Rubio holding dear to one of America's greatest values -- immigrants and refugees trying to shut the door behind them.
Someone quickly tell Trump that Chinese fentanyl shippers don’t pay tariffs