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Kristi Hannam, PhD
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Professor-Teacher-Scholar at #GeneseoBiology #HannamLab interested in #bioacoustics #soundscapes #sustainability
#compassion
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On Friday,March 7 about 200 people gathered on the SUNYGeneseo campus to #StandUpForScience2025. We marched around the quad, chanted & connected, and spoke about the threats to science and how they threatening our health,communities, planet, safety and prosperity.
#ScienceForAll
#ScienceNotSilence
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Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Summers considered coercing the student into having sex with him by threatening her.

Right now, this semester, Summers is teaching three courses at Harvard.
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. There’s no vote required if he wants to release them!

The only reason the house was voting was because he refused.

This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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As my Inbox fills up with stupid Black Friday emails.

Here's a little reminder of our starter pack, celebrating #IrishDesign.

Lots of lovely things to buy, and you will feel all squishy inside for supporting small Irish business.

#spheirgorm

#SLATED

#Boycottamazon

go.bsky.app/9sh8HQq
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Also, why would the public be in a position to assess the causes of political violence? This is a question for experts with specialized knowledge.
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Trump, an image obsessed lifelong public figure who has proven he would say anything to defend himself, has never once condemned pedophilia, the abuse of young girls or even made a show of seeking justice for abused women. Rather, he defends and socializes with predators.
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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SUNY Geneseo seeks an Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology for Aug 2026. Candidates should excel in teaching and research. Apply by Nov 26, 2025: https://jobs.geneseo.edu/postings/5406 #job
Assistant Professor of Biology
The Department of Biology at SUNY Geneseo invites applications for a tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in August 2026. The department seeks a scientist with training in Bioinformatics or Computational Biology with a passion for teaching who will contribute to the broad education in biology we provide to our majors and to the college community. A strong applicant will demonstrate an ability to contribute to Geneseo’s growing expertise in the areas of data analytics, bioinformatics, and computational biology. This is an in-residence 3-3 teaching position that may require teaching in multiple modalities including in-person laboratories depending on the needs of the department and college.The duties of the position include:Teaching required courses in residence in the Biology programs and/or non-majors biology, and elective courses in bioinformatics or computational/data-intensive biologyDeveloping and maintaining a research program in Bioinformatics or Computational Biology that engages undergraduate students from all backgrounds and generates scholarly products appropriate to the field. Faculty are expected to apply for external funding for continuing appointment and promotion.Academic advising and service to the department, the college, the community, and profession, including contributing to curriculum development in Bioinformatics or Computational BiologyThe mission of the Department of Biology at SUNY Geneseo is to provide students from across New York State and beyond with a well-rounded background in biology, which can be used as a solid foundation for various careers in the biological sciences, health professions, and beyond. As a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI), we aspire to promote belonging among all our students, faculty and staff. This is achieved in part by having small class sizes ranging from 12 to 60 students per course, even in required and introductory courses in our popular and vibrant biology programs. Outside the classroom, undergraduate students work closely and directly with faculty to produce research and in other meaningful high-impact experiences, contributing to a high rate of students heading to graduate or professional school.Our campus has a growing cohort of faculty teaching and working in data science, analytics, and applied AI across multiple departments in the Arts and Sciences and the School of Business. Recent “cluster” hires offer the opportunity for collaborations within and across disciplines. Geneseo also has two shared, Lambda workstations accessible to faculty and students suitable for research computing tasks, a GIS lab, and multiple computer labs.
jobs.geneseo.edu
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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NEW @motherjones.com: When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Megyn Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him.

Now, with Epstein, she’s claiming it’s not quite fair to call him a a pedophile because he was “into the barely legal type” of minors. ⬇️

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Megyn Kelly suddenly finds pedophilia very hard to define
When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now she's splitting hairs about men "into the barely legal type."
www.motherjones.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Federal changes to Medicaid funding passed by Trump could result in hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers losing their coverage — including many enrolled in a program called the Essential Plan that has been key to the state’s success in near-universal coverage.

Here’s what you need to know.
In Brief: New York’s Essential Plan
Massive changes are coming to the state’s comprehensive, low-cost healthcare plan.
nysfocus.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
7. Residential customers - aka you and me, aka voters - pay 28% more (16.5 c/kWh, 2024 average) than commercial customers (12.9 c/kWh) and 201% more than industrial (8.2 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: Residential prices rose 27% from 2019-2023, vs. 21% for commercial and 19% for industrial.
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Biology Dept at SUNY Geneseo invites applications for a tenure track Asst Prof to begin August '26. We're seeking a scientist w/ training in Bioinformatics or Computational Biology & a passion for teaching. Applications Due Nov 26. For full details jobs.geneseo.edu/postings/5406
Please share widely
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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You know how you used to be extra nice to the weed guy bringing you an illegal thing, right?
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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In his new book ‘The Stuff that Stuff is Made of’, Jonathan Drori encourages young readers to be curious about our relationship with plants. 🏡🌍

🧪 Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stuff-made-jonathan-drori-cbe-qi0ne/?trackingId=2hPjjPZCTrCRUoGuV7IOTQ%3D%3D
The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of
My new book, just published in North America, UK/Ireland and Australasia, is an attempt to inspire young readers to enjoy and be curious about our relationships with plants. Having had such a sustained and positive reaction to Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World in 80 Plants, I wanted
www.linkedin.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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A far more important lesson to learn is that most genetic variation, including the capacity for genius in all domains of human endeavor, is shared across the whole of humanity.

How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
- Stephen Jay Gould.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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“In addition, the rules give HUD the right to reject applicants that “previously or currently” embraced policies that “facilitate racial preferences” or engaged in “activities that violate the sex binary in humans.” #homelessness

gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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More on the new internment camps here:
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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The cruelty and calculated degradation of this administration truly knows no limits.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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This is far worse than anyone expected.

Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.

All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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did you know that much of the rise in the price of electricity comes from utilities passing on the costs of repair after extreme weather to ratepayers?

and now this 👇

the climate crisis is intertwined with the affordability crisis – say it loud and often!

#EndClimateSilence
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 5d
Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices. n.pr/47QGKwH
It's harder to get home insurance. That's changing communities across the U.S.
Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices.
n.pr
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM