Charlie Alison
@besonst.bsky.social
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A New York Times headline today: “Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation.”
It is a rare thing for faculty to agree with their president, but a federal offense? Best evidence yet that everyone in the current administration is doing ketamine the same day each week.
It is a rare thing for faculty to agree with their president, but a federal offense? Best evidence yet that everyone in the current administration is doing ketamine the same day each week.
July 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A New York Times headline today: “Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation.”
It is a rare thing for faculty to agree with their president, but a federal offense? Best evidence yet that everyone in the current administration is doing ketamine the same day each week.
It is a rare thing for faculty to agree with their president, but a federal offense? Best evidence yet that everyone in the current administration is doing ketamine the same day each week.
On average, we have four plane crashes in America per day, which seems crazy. This research looks at how to reduce that number.
Inflight loss of control is a leading cause of plane crashes. New research from @uarkansas.bsky.social surveyed pilots on the causes of these dangerous incidents and how to avoid them in the future. #UArk
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Research Explores Human Factors in General Aviation Plane Crashes
U of A research surveyed pilots to find out why they experienced inflight loss of control, a leading cause of crashes.
arkansasresearch.uark.edu
July 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
On average, we have four plane crashes in America per day, which seems crazy. This research looks at how to reduce that number.
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Research @UArkansas identifies diet driven differences in how canary immune systems respond to infection while revealing how a protein diet primes the birds to resist infection @uarkansas.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social @clstacy.bsky.social
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Study Finds High Protein Diet Improves Birds' Ability to Tolerate Infection
Research identifies diet-driven differences in how canary immune systems respond to infection while revealing how a protein diet primes the birds to resist infection.
news.uark.edu
June 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Research @UArkansas identifies diet driven differences in how canary immune systems respond to infection while revealing how a protein diet primes the birds to resist infection @uarkansas.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social @clstacy.bsky.social
news.uark.edu/articles/786...
news.uark.edu/articles/786...
Nicholas Kristoff calls out Rubio, the guy who put the demon in demonstrably false.
Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
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May 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Nicholas Kristoff calls out Rubio, the guy who put the demon in demonstrably false.
59 years ago, I rode a bicycle along this stretch of highway. I was 8 and headed to grade school. Every kid walked or bicycled via the highway. It was a different time. This spring, Fayetteville, Ark., added a side trail to the highway so that kids today can do the same thing, albeit more safely.
May 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
59 years ago, I rode a bicycle along this stretch of highway. I was 8 and headed to grade school. Every kid walked or bicycled via the highway. It was a different time. This spring, Fayetteville, Ark., added a side trail to the highway so that kids today can do the same thing, albeit more safely.
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families will hold a town hall May 13 at the Jones Center in Springdale. Learn how proposed federal budget cuts will affect services for families in NWA.
More information and registration is here. All are welcome.
www.aradvocates.org/events/town-...
More information and registration is here. All are welcome.
www.aradvocates.org/events/town-...
Town Hall: Federal Budget Cuts Threaten Critical Services
The mission of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is to ensure that all children and their families have the resources and opportunities to lead healthy and productive lives and to realize t...
www.aradvocates.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families will hold a town hall May 13 at the Jones Center in Springdale. Learn how proposed federal budget cuts will affect services for families in NWA.
More information and registration is here. All are welcome.
www.aradvocates.org/events/town-...
More information and registration is here. All are welcome.
www.aradvocates.org/events/town-...
Harvard should watch out. When a Trump appointee makes a stupid mistake, someone usually winds up in a foreign gulag. But, best case scenario, your top secret conversation is published in The Atlantic.
April 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Harvard should watch out. When a Trump appointee makes a stupid mistake, someone usually winds up in a foreign gulag. But, best case scenario, your top secret conversation is published in The Atlantic.
A calming few moments for the morning.
April 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A calming few moments for the morning.
If you were a seller of domestic automobiles and knew your competitors selling foreign-built automobiles would have to charge customers 25% to cover tariffs, might you be apt to raise your own prices 10%, knowing you can still undersell the competition but boost your own profits at the same time?
March 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If you were a seller of domestic automobiles and knew your competitors selling foreign-built automobiles would have to charge customers 25% to cover tariffs, might you be apt to raise your own prices 10%, knowing you can still undersell the competition but boost your own profits at the same time?
Hanging out with the moon and Venus tonight.
March 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Hanging out with the moon and Venus tonight.
During our walk tonight, the dog got tired of waiting for its shadow.
February 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
During our walk tonight, the dog got tired of waiting for its shadow.
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Breaking News: President Trump fired 17 inspectors general in a late-night purge of the internal government watchdogs, people with knowledge of the move said.
Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge
The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.
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January 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Breaking News: President Trump fired 17 inspectors general in a late-night purge of the internal government watchdogs, people with knowledge of the move said.
Well, we’ve had snow on the ground for two weeks now, which says more about how cold it has been than how much snow we got.
January 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Well, we’ve had snow on the ground for two weeks now, which says more about how cold it has been than how much snow we got.
Moonrise on Monday and moonset this morning, both in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The moonset includes the University of Arkansas’s Old Main framed by pine trees.
January 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Moonrise on Monday and moonset this morning, both in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The moonset includes the University of Arkansas’s Old Main framed by pine trees.
Taking a Schrödinger’s cat photograph: The full moon outside and a china cabinet inside, both at the same time. Maybe there’s more to this quantum superposition thing than I realized. Or didn’t.
January 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Taking a Schrödinger’s cat photograph: The full moon outside and a china cabinet inside, both at the same time. Maybe there’s more to this quantum superposition thing than I realized. Or didn’t.
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public media funding is always under threat — but now Elon Musk is targeting NPR and PBS for budget cuts. @benmullin.bsky.social and I found out how stations are preparing: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/b...
NPR and PBS Stations Brace for Funding Battle Under Trump
Republicans in Congress have tried to defund public media for decades. With the help of Elon Musk, could they finally make good on their threat?
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:36 PM
public media funding is always under threat — but now Elon Musk is targeting NPR and PBS for budget cuts. @benmullin.bsky.social and I found out how stations are preparing: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/b...
Four houses in nearby neighborhoods.
December 24, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Four houses in nearby neighborhoods.
Charles King, perhaps the first person I interviewed after starting work at The Springdale News back in the late 1980s, has a new book out about a guy whose handle is Handel and whose song is titled “Messiah.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Unsettled by the future? This is the moment for the ‘Messiah.’
Handel’s beloved oratorio was born out of turmoil. It’s fitting for today.
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December 24, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Charles King, perhaps the first person I interviewed after starting work at The Springdale News back in the late 1980s, has a new book out about a guy whose handle is Handel and whose song is titled “Messiah.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social Really enjoyed the conversation between you and Jonathan Rauch today. Lots to think about there. Good things to think about. Keep it up.
December 19, 2024 at 3:22 AM
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social Really enjoyed the conversation between you and Jonathan Rauch today. Lots to think about there. Good things to think about. Keep it up.
The moon and the North Tower of Old Main on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
December 13, 2024 at 12:44 PM
The moon and the North Tower of Old Main on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
The ginkgo biloba trees in town dropped their canopies to the carpet. One shy leaf found the sidewalk.
December 10, 2024 at 11:13 PM
The ginkgo biloba trees in town dropped their canopies to the carpet. One shy leaf found the sidewalk.
Weather forecast for the moon today is partly cloudy with an occasional gusting surface boundary exosphere.
December 8, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Weather forecast for the moon today is partly cloudy with an occasional gusting surface boundary exosphere.
We stopped at the Little Free Dog Library. Take a stick; leave a stick. #Fateville
December 8, 2024 at 12:57 AM
We stopped at the Little Free Dog Library. Take a stick; leave a stick. #Fateville
A bed of roses at the entrance to Khana Grill, Fayettenam. I had the Bengali shrimp skewers. Two senses overwhelmed.
December 7, 2024 at 2:39 AM
A bed of roses at the entrance to Khana Grill, Fayettenam. I had the Bengali shrimp skewers. Two senses overwhelmed.