So I did this debate on To the Contrary, an NPR debate show about the new International Olympic Committee rule banning trans women from competing in women's sports. I want to give a trigger warning: my opponent says offensive and hideous things about transwomen.
www.pbs.org/video/olympi...
Poster for the talk by Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), entitled "Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire". It will take place on Monday, 20 April 2026, at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.
Next Monday, we will kick off this semester's lecture series with the talk by Banu Subramaniam. Banu will talk about migrant ecologies, plants, and the afterlives of Empire.
Just register for the talk via the link and join us on Zoom!🤗 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
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My amazing advisor Jane Maienschein and the incomparable Betty Smocovitis featured in the HSS newsletter: hssonline.org/blogpost/198...
‘’Say what you will about threatening world-historic war crimes, it sure beats any symbolic recognition of trans people as human beings. I am not a crackpot”
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
I've really enjoyed this series on Philosophy of Biology from @closertotruth.bsky.social: closertotruth.com/project/phil...
Videos are 25min each, consist mainly of interviews with experts, and cover topics ranging from units of selection to biological information to evolution of cognition
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
Okay I think it's far enough past the original broadcast to say, no it's not surprising but it still drives me nuts that Nini ended up in the bottom because Michelle doesn't know what a monarch butterfly caterpillar looks like
I lost my jobs, my kids have measles, I can't afford steak, and gas is $5 a gallon. But at least now there's a statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House grounds.
please do something about it
There’s no money for your health care but they can afford to spend nearly a billion dollars a day on this war?
Every media outlet in the country should be loudly calling for Tuberville's immediate impeachment or resignation.
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
Iran being able to disrupt the world economy by closing a small channel feels like the Death Star having an exhaust port you can shoot that makes the whole thing explode
It was always a political appointment. What else could it be? Bari Weiss did not qualify for the job of running CBS News, except ideologically. Her appointment as Editor-in-Chief thus required conflict with the newsroom. Scott Macfarlane, I think, saw all of this, and drew the obvious conculsions.
Videos like this are utterly cathartic.
I want EVERY Dem to throw away decorum and politeness and start YELLING the truth, like Rep. McGovern.
First they came for the journalists.
We don't know what happened after that.
So I'm confused here. The issue for Nancy Mace is that Hillary Clinton had some communication with Howard Lutnick a while ago -- the same Howard Lutnick whom Trump made Commerce Secretary and is standing behind despite his close Epstein ties???
where’s that furious goose when you need it
Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators
Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.
I talked with podcaster Brad Carr recently, about genetic determinism, race and IQ, and James Watson. The title captures the gist, but the devil's in the details...
You can check out our conversation here:
YouTube: youtu.be/f8qiz1aCdno
Audio: bradcarr.transistor.fm/episodes/170...
There is no reforming this. There is only abolition, and then trials.
On every important vote that matters, Susan Collins votes with Trump.
Every time her vote could stop something he’s trying to do, she votes with him.
She is a fake moderate with a MAGA voting record.
A vote for Susan Collins is a vote to give Trump more power.
As a botanist, this isn’t funny. Plants are sessile and only do this when they’re in extreme distress
Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.
For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...
