Kennedy Owra, a PhD student at UW, and his 13 year old son were deported from Seattle, WA earlier today (4/8/26) after being detained and denied legal counsel.
Here is a GoFundMe to help their family with legal costs: www.gofundme.com/f/9wup9u-hel...
the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow
A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.
Giving up on work for today, the Moon/nuke combo is breaking my Cold War brain.
Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country
From reading the comments this seems to only happen to femmes… huh… (myself included)
There’s something here about the importance of paying attention that the study of aesthetics
Yes, live streaming this is pretty great
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
My brother studying physics calls it qm
Somebody told me writing a book is a main quest but you have many side quests. My current side quest is quantum theory so I can make one metaphor for the methodology section of my book.
The fact that humans are in space while the US rages war on other countries for ideologically dubious reasons 2026 is the new 1972
How does one put in a FOIA request for the $1.2 million investigation into this “school”? Asking for a friend.
“Sasha Widman said she had accepted the $3,000 residence scholarship, Still, she does not plan to declare a minor. ‘I don’t think that’s necessarily where I want our society to go, or where I want my education to go,’”
Gift link:
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Any good examples of a written methodology section that combines Jameson, Adorno, and Hayden White?
How do I put these in my tenure portfolio? 🥺 (the music sorority Tau Beta Sigma gave me my flowers!)
My student walked into my classroom, sat down, and said I should throw my hat in the ring. HMU Bubba!!!
C20. Embodying and Performing Gameworld Sonic Environments Siwssôtel, Gstaad/Zermatt, Lucerne Level Chair: Kate Galloway, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Kate Galloway (RPI), "A Walkie-Talkie, A Telephone, A Field Recorder: Embodied Environmental Knowledge and Sound Technologies of Placemaking" Oscar Moralde (Washington University in St. Louis), "'Wait, someone's singing now?!': The Performative Spectacle of Boss Fight Music in Final Fantasy XIV" Hyeonjin Park (University of California, Los Angeles), "Feels Bad to Suck: Dealing with Failure in Celeste and Its Music" Sponsored by Sound and Music Studies Scholarly Interest Group
Hi #SCMS26, if you're interested in game sound stuff, swing by our panel tomorrow (3/26) at 2:15–4:00pm 🫡 And thank you to @soundmusicscms.bsky.social for sponsoring us!
I love teaching Dr Strangelove
My outfit in all its glory I hope I make it on the big screen
If you’re catching the Met live stream of tristan today watch out for this un-caffeinated but drenched in Issey Miyake face
My department has never tenured a woman of color on the “academic” side of music studies
Spring break reading for writing
Every time I see a sans serif A+I I thinks it’s Al like “you can call me Al Czar”
What a cool class you get to teach!!!!
Love and theft!
Our neighbors who confronted ICE in Minnesota have taught us how grieving gives us the courage to continue our dissent.
What does it say about my current mental health that my vocal stim hyper fixations of the past few days have been Billie Eilish “SKINNY” and The Cranberries “Linger”
Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center
A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big
hmm
The Buddha