Emily Heydon

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

TIL that chickens can get lice

went from being super excited about this pair of jeans I thrifted for $15 to immediately understanding why the last owner decided to get rid of them (they’re dryer shrunk) 😑

it’s always “how you can you opine on x when you have a degree in y” when in reality the person they’re talking to has degrees in x and y

Me: I did a bio degree and then a philosophy degree and now I’m doing an interdisciplinary degree, does that make sense??

**seriously,,, does the concept of multiple degrees that are not in a single discipline just not make sense to some people??

why do all the worst people online not understand that it’s possible for someone to have more degrees than fit in their bio? Just had this convo on FB:

Me: I have a bio degree

Him: your profile says you do PHILOSOPHY of biology, so not real bio, ha!

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

(Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)

With housing complexes right next to the huge blaze

“…and that’s why, on Susan Wolf’s view, hitler lived a meaningful life but Olympic athletes cannot.” — a kid who’s definitely getting a C

lord have mercy…I am grading some *very* bad papers

apparently we have a studio photographer on campus and if you give him $100 he will take several professional pics of you?? Excited to take advantage of this

reviewer 2 I sincerely apologize for my impatience and thank you for your service. It’s a bummer I don’t know who you are and so can’t thank you personally and also that the editor didn’t listen to you!!

well damn guess which reviewer wrote a lengthy and supportive review that both recommended the paper for publication and was extremely helpful, and which one wrote an overly quick and dismissive one

a new comedy of errors entitled Small Girl Tries to Style Big Shirt

me: you think somewhere there's a taxidermist who uses a stuffed pig as a piggy bank?

wife: we don't actually have to talk about every thought you have

the poli sci guy jumps in to defend the philosophers and even manages to use the word ‘ontology’ correctly. A third person begins their comment with “I’m not good at math, but…”. All that is learned is that everyone fundamentally disagrees about everything and then they all amicably go out to dinner

you gotta love those classic meetings between economists and philosophers where the philosophers are like hey we really should accept a preference view of utilities in order to make our modeling decisions make sense & the economists are like why would we equate people’s utilities with what they want

“I haven’t seen you in forever!” — the mean person I’ve been trying to avoid for four months

am I right to think that if somebody makes a joke about wanting to shove me on the ground that is not actually a funny joke and probably a red flag??

circling back on this, they did it

Waiting for the administration to say the spike in gas prices isn't actually a big deal because so many Americans are losing their jobs and won't have to drive to work anymore.

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

When the US govt terminated the National Nature Asst, @phillevin.bsky.social + the author team were determined not to let that stop them.

They re-organized, set up an advisory committee, found funding…and now the brand new Nature Record is open for public comment. 👏🌳👏🌲

Check it out (link below)!

“You’re a U.S. senator!”

Bernie stops Noem’s replacement from literally trying to fight someone👇🏽

This should go great

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

someone was saying they thought maple syrup just came out of the tree, and it’s funny because we have a story about this in ojibwe

like, the syrup used to come out that way but people got lazy and fat so the creator thinned it out into sap so we wouldn’t take it for granted

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

ahh yes, the unicorn for which each of these men is perpetually searching: a woman who can make enough money to at least partially support his lifestyle, but with none of the personality traits required for her to make that money in the first place

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

It's easy to think of Boomer men as the guardians of "tradition." Yet surveys show GenZ men have more "traditional" ideas about gender roles. 59% of GenZ men, for ex, say men are expected to do too much to support gender equality, compared to 45% of Boomer men.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

don’t let anyone rob you of your joy about kristi noem getting fired. we get to have a day.

these people are just living in a different universe