This is all department stuff so I’m not sure what I’m licensed to pitch. 🥲 (lots of our gear is communally purchased and managed as a service role —me this year). which is a good idea when finances are tight but also lends itself to entropy
Other contents of mystery gear cabinet:
-a couple nice things not on the inventory
-several well-organized bins of equipment!
-a backup of the keys to the cabinet (iykyk)
-about twenty moldy camera/recorder bags
Clear plastic bins with labels that say ‘cables’ and ‘defunct??’
Lab cleanup today. Found the label maker and also suppressed the urge to label the inside box with ’probably useless shit’.
Empty city street with houses and apartment building in the background. Pothole in the road filled with pink flower petals
Pothole full of petals
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co
I'm just a PI, standing in front of his lab, asking them once again to please label things more specifically than "Abstract.docx" or "Grant.docx"
My youngest child has had an extra front tooth for like 1.5 years and we didn’t notice till the dentist pointed it out today. not winning any parenting awards today.
Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less
via sethackerman.substack.com
my first book (2020) was about online neonazis and my second book (2024) was about christian theocrats. they gained strength, voltronned and became a government. my third book (2027) is going to be a history of notable sandwiches so i hope this means we will be governed by sandwichocracy
My group is hiring a full time research coordinator to work with our collaborators in Houston on understanding speech and language development in children with epilepsy. Great for folks looking to get direct experience with clinical/translational research. Please repost! jobs.bcm.edu/job/Research...
A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy
A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image
Now it's March I can say "applications close next month!"
Still lots of time to finesse your idea for a cool linguistics communication project!
really says something when the only positive news in America is that the president has a rash that looks like a Men in Black alien is almost ready to split from his skin
This is a great awards program for science communication. Enter now (before April 3) and/or please encourage others to do so. Categories include researchers (early, mid- & late career), journalists, independent & institutional. From @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social
Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.
You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.
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A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a
We should never forget that these "studies" programs -- Women and Gender; African Diaspora; Latinx; Asian and Pacific -- emerged from the demands of politicized students, and that therefore administrators _as a class_ have always resented them and their successes.
Had our first group meeting yesterday with the H.A. Brown Principal & Nick (the artist!)
The school is psyched. I'm going to talk about pollinators next week, & have the kids vote on their favorite bug!
We have a wall!
We have a plan!
We just need a little more funding 😅
givebutter.com/KenzoMural
My youngest kid's classmate couldn't come to school yesterday because of reported ICE by the busses in South Minneapolis. If you want to know how the drawdown is going.
The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.
How do we make new friends after moving? Primarily through work/classes or through friends of friends….and making friends via “friends of friends” predicts greater happiness, meaning, and psychological richness
@chriswelker.bsky.social #SPSP2026
Philosophy #FAQ Ontology: what the fuck? Causality: why the fuck? Epistemology: how the why the fuck? Phenomenology: the fuck.
If you’re cold, they’re cold, etc
The media should cover this as murder because it is.
Underrated cat mood: when they’re like “where we goin?” And follow you from room to room
Starting a job posting thread in the survey industry. First, off Pew on their methods group
