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Melinda Baldwin
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#histSTM studying scientific publishing, funding, and peer review. Associate prof @ UMD College Park. All opinions mine!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d
You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽

www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r
Me holding copy of the book

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 2d
Okay winter, we get it. Now would you PLEASE fuck off.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 3d
Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 4d
This is a person who has no business teaching 18-year-olds of any gender. "This is how men behave"? Only if you teach them that this behavior is OK and expected.
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4d
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.

Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
Screenshot of the article that includes a quote from the professor's explanation to the dean: “I was recommending her for a job I thought she'd like. When you do that--when you actually care about a rec letter--you keep the potential boss's habits in mind,” Gelernter wrote in the email to his colleagues, seemingly referring to Epstein. “This one was obsessed with girls (like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex male), and if I hadn't said what I did in that letter ten-odd years ago, he would certainly have called me & asked for a lot more aesthetic detail. (This is how men behave.)”

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4d
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.

Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
Screenshot of the article that includes a quote from the professor's explanation to the dean: “I was recommending her for a job I thought she'd like. When you do that--when you actually care about a rec letter--you keep the potential boss's habits in mind,” Gelernter wrote in the email to his colleagues, seemingly referring to Epstein. “This one was obsessed with girls (like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex male), and if I hadn't said what I did in that letter ten-odd years ago, he would certainly have called me & asked for a lot more aesthetic detail. (This is how men behave.)”

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The 51st @51st.news · 5d
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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 6d
God forbid a woman have hobbies.
meggardiner.bsky.social Meg Gardiner @meggardiner.bsky.social · 6d
Crime headline of the day.
Mugshot of a woman with the caption: A Florida woman has been accused of driving a motorized shopping cart through a Target while drinking wine from the bottle and eating sushi and cinnamon rolls.

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Jen Taub ❌👑 @jentaub.bsky.social · 6d
Total meltdown. Unbelievable, yet believable!

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Meg Gardiner @meggardiner.bsky.social · 6d
Crime headline of the day.
Mugshot of a woman with the caption: A Florida woman has been accused of driving a motorized shopping cart through a Target while drinking wine from the bottle and eating sushi and cinnamon rolls.

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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 8d
My kids’ art teacher did this on the school field! Brought his hockey skates and stick and waved to all the kids while skating around during dropoff. And yes, this stuff is that hard and frozen.
capitalweather.bsky.social Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · 8d
* Snowcrete ice skating -- you can do it! *

Where undisturbed and flat, the top layer of the Snowcrete is so slick, hard and uniform, you can ice skate on it. Here's a video from Meghan Meros in Hyattsville.

Have you tried skating on Snowcrete?

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 8d
Bravo, @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social, bravo.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8d
Larry Summers, seen here somehow managing to have the worst gender politics in the room while in a one on one conversation with JEFFREY FUCKING EPSTEIN.
A screenshot of a text-message exchange. At the top, a contact labeled “Larry Summers” sends: “I’d be happy to have a rational affair w yellow peril.” Below, the recipient replies: “A rational affair?! Did you have a stroke since we last spoke?” followed by: “I would suggest you are looking to her to fill too many of your needs. Without you being able to fill hers.” A later message from “Larry Summers” reads: “Possibly right which leaves the question of what I should do. Not sure that deciding I don’t need any attention affection is so viable.” He continues: “I’m not so sure that being mentored by me, having me support her child, being elevated to a leader on China in global economy by collaborating with me and getting to have me as partner if she can find courage to tell her parents is really so useless.” Time stamps appear next to each message, and the recipient’s messages are shown as sent and read.

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Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · 8d
* Snowcrete ice skating -- you can do it! *

Where undisturbed and flat, the top layer of the Snowcrete is so slick, hard and uniform, you can ice skate on it. Here's a video from Meghan Meros in Hyattsville.

Have you tried skating on Snowcrete?

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 8d
liam and his dad are home!

and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
rep omar, liam ramos and his dad, rep castro!

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 9d
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. 7um Jing FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35 There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 9d
* I needed a 2-course physics sequence for my chem major, non-calculus was the only one that fit into my schedule, and I am here to tell you that physics is SO MUCH HARDER without calculus 😭

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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 9d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Music of the United States
2. The New Testament
3. Differential Equations
4. The US in the 1950s
5. Physics Without Calculus*
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 9d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking

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Emperor J @emperorj.bsky.social · 9d
@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this
Opinion page of the Onion Jan-Feb 2026 issue with a piece titled "Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?" by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 9d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Introduction to Islamic Studies
2. Introduction to Rock Music
3. African Music
4. Arabic 101
5. Southern Politics

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 10d
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 10d
Doo do doo

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10d
Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 10d
The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution.

This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.

They must be released immediately.

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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 12d
Damn, our members look good on @usatoday.com's front page! www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
Article about the CFPB with a picture of a CFPB Union picket on the front page of USA TODAY Article about the CFPB with a picture of a CFPB Union picket on the front page of USA TODAY

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 14d
a phd

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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 14d
I dunno maybe they should have tried launching it into the sun.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 14d
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 14d
We used our soil turner to break up the top layer. The Claw was the MVP of this storm 😂

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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 14d
That stuff is SO HEAVY. It's like shovelling cement 🥶

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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 17d
It's not true activism unless you're on the Internet telling someone else they're doing it wrong. /s