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Meredith Jones, Ph.D. @meredithjones.bsky.social · 24d

New pub alert ‼️Led by our doctoral students, we looked at different profiles of drinking motives among graduate student heavy drinkers: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Eagles Nation @phleaglesnation.bsky.social · Sep 4

Gameday ‼️

#FlyEaglesFly

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is what fascism looks like.

Axios @axios.com · Aug 7

NEW: The FBI has agreed to cooperate with Texas state law enforcement to locate the 50 Democratic legislators who left the state, Sen. John Cornyn said

FBI will help locate Texas Democrats who fled the state, Cornyn says

Texas GOP have been threatening the state legislators with "legal consequences" for breaking the quorum.

www.axios.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · Jul 27

Honestly I don’t really want to be there for that last half-hour anyway

Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Eating one hot dog and bun results in the loss of 27-36 minutes of healthy life.” www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/h...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 27

I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 25

i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 21

Damnit, Dave. Now we have to learn how to cite a skeet.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · Jul 21

Oh! You're right!

LLM as MLM.

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Meredith Jones, Ph.D. @meredithjones.bsky.social · Jul 20

Favorite film ever

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Jul 20

this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies

genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it

also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious

slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · Jul 20

“keep politics out of kids movies”

disney in 1973:

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · Jul 20

Phish knew this.

An Unlikely Friendship
Ocelots and opossums are usually predator and prey, but videos from the Amazon show the animals hanging out together.

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Meredith Jones, Ph.D. @meredithjones.bsky.social · Jul 16

Show #63 🐠 🩵 💃

Phish @phish.com · Jul 15

Two nights in Philadelphia start tonight 🔔 Stream the shows live starting tonight at 7:30PM ET → webcast.livephish.com.

📸: Rene Huemer

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Meredith Jones, Ph.D. @meredithjones.bsky.social · Jul 15

open.substack.com/pub/zawn/p/i...

Is your partner trying to turn you into a weaponized stepmother? 10 red flags

Weaponized stepmothers end up as victims--but not before they victimize another woman and her children, too.

open.substack.com

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Jul 7

A) people recoil in horror when I tell them the amount of reviewing I do in a year

B) sometimes I do service because, if I didn't, a person with less power would be harmed (e.g., tenure)

C) women are treated very differently when we say no to these types of requests

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 7

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

www.forbes.com

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · Jul 4

This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get better.

But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.

Vice President Harris and Douglas Emhoff watch fireworks at the White House on July 4, 2024.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Jul 4

A moment of silence please for #USAID, which is officially shuttered after months of dismantling.

Why a moment of silence? Not only for the employees. But also for the estimated 14 MILLION deaths by 2030 predicted without the agency.

@altusaid.altgov.info

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

www.thelancet.com

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PhishatMSG @phishatmsg.bsky.social · Jul 4

Governor Polis chiming in

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Jun 25

Another day testing the limits of resilience.

The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.

Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.

The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover

Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jun 23

The Republican platform for women is now just: "get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich."

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Jun 14

This lady put her sunglasses on like fuck around if you wanna

Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · Jun 14

Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jun 14

I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jun 14

So this week we’ve had a man impersonating an ICE agent tie up a woman and steal $1000; a man impersonating a police officer assassinate a top Democratic politician & her husband (and shoot another Democrat & his wife); and a man impersonating a king hold a military parade for his birthday

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · Jun 14

By 11 am, several hundred people were gathered in LOVE Park, including an Elvis impersonator and a man in colonial garb carrying a sign that read “Philly bows to nobody.” Protestors awaiting the noon rally sang karaoke to songs like “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” next to the LOVE sculpture.

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NPR @npr.org · Jun 11

A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.

Guns are the leading cause of death of kids and teens, and state laws matter

A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.

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Dr. Sarah Thomas @sarahathomasphd.bsky.social · Jun 4

I am hiring a clinical research assistant for a project on adolescent cannabis use that will use MRI 🧠 and behavioral tasks 🎮 More information is available in the link below, and applicants can send a CV and cover letter to me. Please share—thank you!

tinyurl.com/msn8h2ce

Thomas_TEDS Lab RA Position.pdf

tinyurl.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

NPR story about the #BethesdaDeclaration

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research

In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.

www.npr.org

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