Dr. Paulette Vincent-Ruz
@stemxicaned.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. in Chem at @NMSU!
Researcher on the intersection of STEM Ed and HSIs
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Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer
https://vincentruzlab.nmsu.edu/
Researcher on the intersection of STEM Ed and HSIs
#ChemEdResearch #CASFutureLeaders19
she/ella #ProfLife #AcademicMom #ChaosMuppet
Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer
https://vincentruzlab.nmsu.edu/
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Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
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I've added this update to my story about the ongoing torture of SNAP recipients:
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I've added this update to my story about the ongoing torture of SNAP recipients:
How many contact hours you get in GenChem?
We have 2.5 of lecture and this semester we finally created 1 hour recitations run by TAs. 3 hour labs. And here I am wondering if the reason other places seem to be able to cover more:
1) Lab is complementary rather than repetitive
2) More contact hours
We have 2.5 of lecture and this semester we finally created 1 hour recitations run by TAs. 3 hour labs. And here I am wondering if the reason other places seem to be able to cover more:
1) Lab is complementary rather than repetitive
2) More contact hours
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
How many contact hours you get in GenChem?
We have 2.5 of lecture and this semester we finally created 1 hour recitations run by TAs. 3 hour labs. And here I am wondering if the reason other places seem to be able to cover more:
1) Lab is complementary rather than repetitive
2) More contact hours
We have 2.5 of lecture and this semester we finally created 1 hour recitations run by TAs. 3 hour labs. And here I am wondering if the reason other places seem to be able to cover more:
1) Lab is complementary rather than repetitive
2) More contact hours
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The mega churches and their parishioners are now pushing back online, claiming they don’t offer aid because they’re afraid of being scammed.
If you would rather keep your $20 and risk letting a baby starve than stump up for a tin of formula for someone not in need then you’re no follower of Christ.
If you would rather keep your $20 and risk letting a baby starve than stump up for a tin of formula for someone not in need then you’re no follower of Christ.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
Islamic Center of Charlotte in Charlotte NC. Would help feed a starving baby no hesitation 🥰🥰🥰 #fyp #fypシ #fypシ゚viral #testingyourchurch #church #faith #religion #baby #hungrybabytest #viral #viralvid...
TikTok video by Nikalie 🌈
www.tiktok.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The mega churches and their parishioners are now pushing back online, claiming they don’t offer aid because they’re afraid of being scammed.
If you would rather keep your $20 and risk letting a baby starve than stump up for a tin of formula for someone not in need then you’re no follower of Christ.
If you would rather keep your $20 and risk letting a baby starve than stump up for a tin of formula for someone not in need then you’re no follower of Christ.
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And frankly, celebrating dining with "the wealthy" of LI, while not seeing this was the very donor connection which was directly used as a silencing threat against the marginalized grad students and postdocs of the institution, starkly shows the limit of your analysis.
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Maaaaaany graduate students at CSHL have stories. I'll send them your way.
I tweeted once about him and was immediately called out by our PR. They sat me down and told me they knew he was problematic but that he brought in too much donor money for us to say anything bad about him.
I tweeted once about him and was immediately called out by our PR. They sat me down and told me they knew he was problematic but that he brought in too much donor money for us to say anything bad about him.
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
And frankly, celebrating dining with "the wealthy" of LI, while not seeing this was the very donor connection which was directly used as a silencing threat against the marginalized grad students and postdocs of the institution, starkly shows the limit of your analysis.
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We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.
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And in fact, there are very visible and extremely influential movements happening *right now* directly making our colleagues less safe, and people like my wife and I less safe in science, because of this man
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It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.
James D. Watson died on Thursday in East Northport, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 97.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
And in fact, there are very visible and extremely influential movements happening *right now* directly making our colleagues less safe, and people like my wife and I less safe in science, because of this man
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His comments were not going out to nowhere. He directly told the brilliant and incredible grad students, postdocs, particularly people he had no reason to fear because they were in vulnerable and low power positions -- that they did not belong in science
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When I was a postdoc, CSHL held a Burns poetry night, which Watson attended.
I did a dramatic reading of Ice Ice Baby.
I hope he found it deeply offensive, and that the graduate students (many of whom he told didn't belong there) found it at least mildly entertaining.
This is a good day for CSHL.
I did a dramatic reading of Ice Ice Baby.
I hope he found it deeply offensive, and that the graduate students (many of whom he told didn't belong there) found it at least mildly entertaining.
This is a good day for CSHL.
Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
His comments were not going out to nowhere. He directly told the brilliant and incredible grad students, postdocs, particularly people he had no reason to fear because they were in vulnerable and low power positions -- that they did not belong in science
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Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
On one evening, the speakers were divided up and went to dinner parties hosted by some of the wealthy folks who lived around Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. My dinner was delightful, with good conversation with our host (the mayor of a nearby village), his friends, and some other speakers.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
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Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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This is Rosalind Franklin.
The real discoverer of the DNA structure.
The real discoverer of the DNA structure.
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is Rosalind Franklin.
The real discoverer of the DNA structure.
The real discoverer of the DNA structure.
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
What people do not do, they often lose the ability to do. Which is sometimes fine! In my own life, I don’t have any great need to know how to do some of the math I once learned. But I don’t want to forget how to write.
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
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Yes lol
They want to do that to me sometimes, too. They are just scared to.
I will say, I think the Luddites will win this one in the near future.
They want to do that to me sometimes, too. They are just scared to.
I will say, I think the Luddites will win this one in the near future.
I would add that there are some, upon hearing that “no, no I don’t us Chat gpt” respond with a condescending smile while looking at me like I’m denying that the earth is round
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Yes lol
They want to do that to me sometimes, too. They are just scared to.
I will say, I think the Luddites will win this one in the near future.
They want to do that to me sometimes, too. They are just scared to.
I will say, I think the Luddites will win this one in the near future.
Fluorine just spent 10min trying to catch the moon. We finally convinced her that maybe catching a ray of moonlight would be easier. She did. Then decided to give it back to the moon 😭😭😭
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Fluorine just spent 10min trying to catch the moon. We finally convinced her that maybe catching a ray of moonlight would be easier. She did. Then decided to give it back to the moon 😭😭😭
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this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
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I am really trying to get people to understand how much what is happening to our children in Chicago with regard to ICE abductions is like school shootings/gun violence: the random and massive exposure to this particular violence will imprint on a generation and no privilege can fully shield you.
This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I am really trying to get people to understand how much what is happening to our children in Chicago with regard to ICE abductions is like school shootings/gun violence: the random and massive exposure to this particular violence will imprint on a generation and no privilege can fully shield you.
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there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics
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really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt
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"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.
I hope than in some years when we look back at tonight we see it as the night change started happening. Change in all of the US. I hope his actions live to that speech. I have to hope because hope is the last thing they can take away from me.
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I hope than in some years when we look back at tonight we see it as the night change started happening. Change in all of the US. I hope his actions live to that speech. I have to hope because hope is the last thing they can take away from me.
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Zohran Mamdani wins with >50% of the vote.
Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices.
California passes prop 50.
This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.
Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices.
California passes prop 50.
This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Zohran Mamdani wins with >50% of the vote.
Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices.
California passes prop 50.
This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.
Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices.
California passes prop 50.
This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.
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Mamdani: "New York City, breathe this moment in. We have held our breath for longer than we know. We have held it in anticipation of defeat, held it because the air has been knocked out of our lungs too many times to count, held it because we cannot afford to exhale."
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Mamdani: "New York City, breathe this moment in. We have held our breath for longer than we know. We have held it in anticipation of defeat, held it because the air has been knocked out of our lungs too many times to count, held it because we cannot afford to exhale."