Cathie Klapperich
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Scientist. Women’s health. Figuring out how to protect reproductive rights without getting hacked. If you make me laugh out loud, I’ll follow you. https://www.cathieklapperich.com/ The painting is by David Gonville https://www.gonville.com/
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Aww thanks John! Your last point is so crucial. The Ted Talk scene selects for people who are overconfident in their conclusions and good at telling simple, sellable stories — not remotely the same thing as people who are diligent about finding out the truth!
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Aww thanks John! Your last point is so crucial. The Ted Talk scene selects for people who are overconfident in their conclusions and good at telling simple, sellable stories — not remotely the same thing as people who are diligent about finding out the truth!
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Reading between the lines, it sounds like the captains of Boston University's cross country team want the ICE snitch off their team, and they're upset that the Dept of Athletics won't make it happen
dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...
dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...
OP-ED: An open letter to the Boston University community from the captains of the BU Cross Country team
Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Tucker Bowerfind (CAS ‘26), Adrienne Buettner-Cable (CAS ‘27), Caroline Collins (COM ‘28...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the captains of Boston University's cross country team want the ICE snitch off their team, and they're upset that the Dept of Athletics won't make it happen
dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...
dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...
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Humans enjoy gossip. It's funny to me when some pretend they are above that. You aren't. One particular kind of gossip might not interest you but you do enjoy other kinds.
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Humans enjoy gossip. It's funny to me when some pretend they are above that. You aren't. One particular kind of gossip might not interest you but you do enjoy other kinds.
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Larry Summers, former president of Harvard and former US secretary of the treasury, is stepping back from everything (OpenAI, NYT, CAP) but the role in which he poses the most harm: teaching.
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Larry Summers, former president of Harvard and former US secretary of the treasury, is stepping back from everything (OpenAI, NYT, CAP) but the role in which he poses the most harm: teaching.
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Okay, @harvard.edu students, do your thing. Time to walk out of this guy's classes. Thanks to the Crimson for their hard work on these stories. #studentjournalism
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Okay, @harvard.edu students, do your thing. Time to walk out of this guy's classes. Thanks to the Crimson for their hard work on these stories. #studentjournalism
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The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org
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A perfect example of a lede that doesn't embellish. No adverbs or adjectives or anything other than a plain recitation of what it says.
This lede is an entire article on its own. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A perfect example of a lede that doesn't embellish. No adverbs or adjectives or anything other than a plain recitation of what it says.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
I'm glad the Boston alligator found warmer waters.
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I'm glad the Boston alligator found warmer waters.
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
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hasn't been enough reporting on his creepy science funding, tbh.
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
hasn't been enough reporting on his creepy science funding, tbh.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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I don’t know who to backchannel…but before you, uh, go public with how hard it was to be, uh, in the Obama White House because so many demands…maybe, uh, read the room. People are trying to hold a whole ass republic together at the moment. Kvetch after.
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I don’t know who to backchannel…but before you, uh, go public with how hard it was to be, uh, in the Obama White House because so many demands…maybe, uh, read the room. People are trying to hold a whole ass republic together at the moment. Kvetch after.
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Wife and I are self employed over 60 with one son still on our insurance. Our monthly will go from around $800 to over $2500 for a bronze plan.
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Wife and I are self employed over 60 with one son still on our insurance. Our monthly will go from around $800 to over $2500 for a bronze plan.
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Doing a classroom observation of a colleague today. I tried explaining the academic promotion process to a friend and he thought I was joking.
#academicsky
#academicsky
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Doing a classroom observation of a colleague today. I tried explaining the academic promotion process to a friend and he thought I was joking.
#academicsky
#academicsky
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Well that got intense - you can see CBP threatening to mace someone and also threatening to teargas them on 22nd and Sawyer.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Well that got intense - you can see CBP threatening to mace someone and also threatening to teargas them on 22nd and Sawyer.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
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It’s literally so easy to boycott Starbucks
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It’s literally so easy to boycott Starbucks
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Authoritarian tactic #1: Control information and suppress dissent. An authoritarian regime works to control the public narrative—and to suppress facts, evidence, and information that threaten its power or agenda.
Attacks on Science
Disappearing data. Silenced scientists. We've tracked threats to the federal scientific enterprise for decades.
www.ucs.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Authoritarian tactic #1: Control information and suppress dissent. An authoritarian regime works to control the public narrative—and to suppress facts, evidence, and information that threaten its power or agenda.
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As expected, unfortunately.
If ever you needed a reason for never using GISAID ever again (as a data producer or data user - we're both), look no further.
Time to move on to more trusted and transparent solutions.
If ever you needed a reason for never using GISAID ever again (as a data producer or data user - we're both), look no further.
Time to move on to more trusted and transparent solutions.
October 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
As expected, unfortunately.
If ever you needed a reason for never using GISAID ever again (as a data producer or data user - we're both), look no further.
Time to move on to more trusted and transparent solutions.
If ever you needed a reason for never using GISAID ever again (as a data producer or data user - we're both), look no further.
Time to move on to more trusted and transparent solutions.
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Hundreds of residents of Oxford, Mississippi, turned out at a No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Here are some photos of those who showed up and the protest signs they carried.
Photos: No Kings Protest in Oxford, Mississippi
Hundreds of residents of Oxford, Mississippi, turned out at a No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hundreds of residents of Oxford, Mississippi, turned out at a No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Here are some photos of those who showed up and the protest signs they carried.
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We are taking legal action to ensure Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We are taking legal action to ensure Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
Still on Facebook? If so, why?
At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.
Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request
The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.
trib.al
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Still on Facebook? If so, why?
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Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats
A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.
www.dispatch.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.