sure it's a tool of social control and surveillance owned and operated by fascists, but it writes work emails for me. on balance who's to say it's good or bad

Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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The Faculty Are the Problem, Apparently | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Those who want to diminish the faculty’s decision-making authority, or who think universities should be run more like companies, should be careful what they wish for.

"our leadership has remained conspicuously silent when faculty members — disproportionately women and faculty of color — have had their scholarship and qualifications impugned by members of Congress and by right-wing outlets like Fox News..."

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Our system is so broken, when Sandy Hook families still haven’t seen a dime from the day they sued Alex Jones 8 yrs ago, & the first bit they’ll get is from Onion merch $.

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Report details tetanus in 4 unvaccinated US kids, including refusal of post-exposure prevention

Remember the unvaccinated boy who contracted tetanus in 2017, hospitalized for months at a cost of almost $1M? The boy who was a patient of (former) antivax doctor Paul Thomas?

He's not the only recent case. 4 kids, unvax'd, none received immunoglobulin when symptoms developed. Those poor kids.

Broad Coalition Files Suit to Stop Latest Unlawful Move in Trump-Vance Administration Crusade Against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Executive Order Targets Essential Federal Contractors with Unconstitutional Threats

My union @uam-umd.bsky.social did such a good job beating our bosses in the statehouse this year that we figured we'd go ahead and beat the White House too.

With allies from across higher ed and the good people at @democracyforward.org we're suing to stop the latest illegal anti-DEI order.

in general, & across the world, the political gender divide really opens up around 2016

wonder if something happened then?

8 children killed in Louisiana mass shooting The alleged gunman was killed after a police chase, according to police.

BREAKING: Eight children were killed in an "extensive" mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, police say. The suspected shooter is also dead.

🚗💕🚕🤝

thank you, wife

this rules

"My juiced excel spreadsheet, engineered to agree with me, is a living, conscious genius"

As noted earlier, Iran operates with two distinct power centers, and the one that truly matters is the faction that controls the military. The U.S. is almost certainly not talking to that group.

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Thyme Travellers 2 An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

79.9% as if this morning! I think… I think we can do this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Former law clerk at the Supreme Court here:

Can confirm.

Note to Democrats: Stop punching left. The left is fighting mad and the words we use are "Fuck ICE" and "IMPEACH" and "SHUT IT ALL DOWN." Maybe you'd get somewhere if you used those words, too.

Photo I took of these wonderful people (the faces of whom I’ve blacked out) singing happy Birthday to their lovely old dog at a bar I was at tonight in Portland

I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city

We all know Republican families consist of a man, his ex-wife, her new boyfriend, and the kids who live with mom.

I don't agree that gender is more fundamental to the fascist project generally than other categories, but actually I'm not even certain that *misogyny* is core to the fascist gender project.

Absolute patriarchy is, but my understanding is that contemporary US fascism is unusually misogynistic.

OMG Dr. MEL I love this so much

Did one of them steal her meth

Because also the union is going to do right instead of trying to image manage the whole thing.

UC Berkeley professor Kwabena Bediako under investigation for sexual harassment allegations Since the allegations were publicized, nearly every graduate and undergraduate student in the Bediako Lab has left the lab.

I'm struck by the bravery of this student and the fantastic way the union handled this allegation. What a model for all of us to follow in terms of how to show up for our members.

I know I have the ear of many people who fancy themselves sensible about AI, unlike the Luddites, etc.

But understand this: until you get this kind of nonsense under control, you will continue to court ample outrage from people who are disproportionately Very Online. I don't make the rules.

Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract Meta paused work with Sama last month after allegations about staff viewing private scenes filmed by smart glasses

I’m sure this is unrelated to the fact that last month data workers revealed they were asked by Meta to review video from Meta Ray Bans of user’s intimate moments like having sex or using the bathroom.

Lol I did this last week at Harvard and enjoyed myself so much more than if I'd tried to hold it in

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

It’s been 20 years since the NCAA banned Chief Illiniwek from championship games. Some students want U of I to move on - IPM Newsroom The University of Illinois retired Chief Illiniwek in 2007, without picking a new mascot. Native American faculty say the inaction is damaging.

U of I made $40,000 in licensing fees from Chief imagery. Our racist mascot was forced out by the NCAA twenty years ago and our leadership still refuses to choose a new mascot. #Kingfisher