Rolando Valdés Aguilar
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Rolando Valdés Aguilar
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Dad, husband, physicist, educator. Research on quantum materials, mostly topological magnets. THz and Raman spectroscopist.
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Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.

Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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As Bovino and masked DHS officers sweep another Home Depot looking to round up day laborers, a reminder of the meeting in May when Stephen Miller screamed at ICE to stop doing targeted enforcement, start hitting Home Depots and 7/11s and “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.

The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.

“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”

current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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A reminder of what their campaign ads looked like:
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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How. Does. This. Story. Keep. Getting. Worse.

Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Epstein’s War
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
what a creep.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Trump is grooming and preparing his private terrorist militia. Hitler and Mussolini did exactly the same thing, using the pardon power as a recruitment tool. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
NEWS: President Trump has issued a *second* pardon for Jan. 6 defendant Dan Wilson.

Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It is important to note that OSU let all this antisemitism happen on campus while punishing students who peacefully demonstrated last year against the genocide in Gaza. It was never about antisemitism and now the bad-faith right-wing capture of the university is complete.
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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This is not an exaggeration by the way - note the university's response to Myron Gaines's Nazi salute on the left (condemn but allow) and their policy restricting land acknowledgements on the right (prohibited from event programs, meeting agendas, etc)
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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At Ohio State University today, your campus event is allowed to have a Nazi salute but not a land acknowledgment
Uncensored America comes to Ohio State, spreads anti-semitic, sexist rhetoric
Anti-semitism, controversial statements about women and debates on the Israel-Gaza conflict filled the Browning Amphitheater during an Uncensored America event on Wednesday.  Over 200 people, mostly m...
www.thelantern.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Under the definition of research collaborator there are many loopholes possible that may cover grad students. E.g. if a grad student goes to China (located in) for a conference, would that suffice? Also if a Chinese grad student gets a job in China postPHd, that would make the advisor ineligible.
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I deleted my top post because the Science article I learned about this act from (www.science.org/content/arti...) says the the Act bans US scientists from training Chinese students, but as I am reading the bill I don't know that it does

Though the language is vague which is really bad.

The act:
amendments-rules.house.gov
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A deep dive on how Mr. Populism himself, Steve Bannon, was Epstein’s legal and media coach — “devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history.”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Yikes. Banning people for activities such as co-authorship and advising a graduate student is completely unreasonable in a modern research environment. And a retroactive 5 year ban is wildly unfair.
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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so trump just out there getting standard MRI scans as a standard part of the standard multiple annual check ups a president gets in the first ten months
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge blocks Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California over discrimination claims.
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Federal commitment to special education collapses. For 50 years, Congress failed to pay its promised 40% share. Now, the Trump administration is using the shutdown to fire federal oversight staff. This abandons 8 million students, leaving their education rights entirely up to individual states.
The Slow Death of Special Education
The government has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children—if it ever had one.
www.theatlantic.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Although many people are saying it, I do not believe our current president sucked off former president Bill Clinton on camera. I have not seen sufficient evidence that our current president gave the former president a blowie in a way that was memorialized in a photo. That's not something I believe.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Spanberger should remove Sheridan ASAP. The bar to do so is legally is really low and she, as governor, is the sole judge. Call an investigation, put all these people under oath, and get them out of here.
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM