Alright, so after many many drafts, my NEPC education “policy review” covering Year I of Trump II is out.
A “Not great, Bob!” gif might have served as well. I end up arguing that doing the life-giving work of good education requires intensely local effort in a newly obvious kind of way.
Same roach on different structure now holding a sign that states: “Humans are Disgusting, Roaches”
The NOLA roaches have more opinions to share.
Wall art showing black and green and cockroach (ventral side) on blue background with white clouds. Cockroach is holding brown sign that reads: “making the best of a super bad situation, cockroaches.”
Feeling the #Entomology art in New Orleans.
Ohhhh tomorrow you can listen to Lee Davies and myself talking flies and fungi with Sue Perkins & Sara Pascoe
Nature Table - Tuesday April 14th - 6.30pm on BBC Radio 4 🪰🍄
Much fun was had recording this 😎
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"Not a single brochosome or leafhopper was shown".
Lesson learned.
Let the writers do their job and explain the science in words. No need to link it to absolute slop.
Rather than linking to the article, I took a screenshot of the article thumbnail. It says: Tech - Backyard leafhoppers inspire next-generation cloacking tech. By Pragathi Ravi. 11 hours ago. And shows a picture of agreen and red leafhopper on a green leaf.
A grad student (Univ of Illinois UC) was kind enough to take the time to answer some questions about a new study out of Penn State.
Then that news outlet (ScienceNews) turns around and puts her quote RIGHT NEXT to an absolutely AWFUL AI-video.
In the student's words: "it's booty cheeks & cringe".
But be careful.
Wit recent Dutch elections & coalition gov.
NL ended up w/ much of the same.
Voters were promised something different by the surging center-left, voters bet on them rather than labor & greens.
Result: Center-right still over-powering progressives & extreme right still substantial.
If you are around New Haven on Wed, April 22 come see my public Yale University Peabody Museum talk in O.C. Marsh Hall at 5pm!
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I have very similar experiences, except the Nobel prize bit, and such feelings of sadness and dread.
“I looked to this country as a beacon all those years ago, and I made the affirmative decision to create a life for myself here.”
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
I still have some Halloween candy that we could hand out along the route.
Raffle off some 3D printed moons?
Just let me know when to report at the staging area.
Can we throw them a parade? We should throw a parade.
It’s nice that they celebrate you too by giving you a picture of your boyfriend.
Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...
It would be so cool if a whale also showed up to this welcome-home party.
#artemis
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As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII
Most immigrants to the US work extremely hard. Trying to perform at expected levels or better…
…for YEARS after first arrival. This is my experience.
So I really don’t understand why a rich person w/out a “real” job can’t practice a 5min written speech 20 times so words are pronounced correctly 🤷🏻♀️
An in-progress mural on the side of HA brown school. Nick stands on a ladder adding white lines, a locust borer beetle is zigzagged in yellow
It’s a beautiful day to paint some bugs
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these things existing at all sticks it to fascists!
And this happened 20 minutes after a jar of Nutella floated by (I think it escaped from a bag the astronauts were reorganizing). Which I thought was hilarious. Being a modern human is a roller coaster of emotions.
I was so moved when watching live, didn't even know the story behind the name.
It was just clear that this man was overcome, and that his friends were sharing his pain & wanted to give support. Such a basic human emotion. True feelings shared at the greatest distance from "all that they hold dear"
I-N-I!
Picture of the Chicago sky line at night from the south. Against a cloudy sky. The Sears tower’s spires are lit up in blue and orange - the colors of the University of Illinois.
Chicago is ready for the Men’s Final Four!
I-L-L
Linocut portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian in gradient of green to brown with pomegranate branch, caterpillar and butterflies
Happy birthday #entomologist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)! 🧪👩🏼🔬🐡🦋 #histsci Her stepdad Jacob Marrel & students trained her as an artist. She began painting insects & plants by 13. She wrote, “I spent my time investigating insects. [...] I realized that other caterpillars 🧵
The Illini Football team is hard at work helping to make Final Four shirts.
That's not how they do things on Matlock.
And my favorite Springsteen song involves a Road.
⛈️
