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November 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Interested in pursuing a PhD in Astrophysics?

The Centre for Astrophysics Research @herts.ac.uk is advertising many projects, including some I'm supervising on Galaxies, Black Holes and Cosmology!

Deadline: February 2nd 2026

www.herts.ac.uk/research/cen...

#astro #cosmology #PhD #uniofherts
Research degrees and studentships
Postgraduate Research Opportunities
www.herts.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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My book and a bunch of my articles are in this data base. If you write, yours are likely here, too.

Link to register for the settlement is in Kevin’s thread.
If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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UC-Davis is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor in the sociology of gender. See more details here: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311028/...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender - Davis, California job with UC Davis | 1311028
Tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level for scholars conducting theoretically-driven, empirical research in the sociology of gender.
careercenter.asanet.org
September 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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With Michigan Medicine abandoning trans patients 18 and under, please consider donating to Corner Health in Ypsi. They are getting a lot of referrals and will put whatever you can spare to excellent use.

cornerhealth.org/make-an-impa...
Donate – Corner Health Center
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cornerhealth.org
September 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
April 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Penn State has halted submission and *acceptance* of NIH grants pending the resolution of the overhead rate cut.

This lost time will never be recovered. The economic cost to Pennsylvania is enormous and the cost to humanity immeasurable.
Text of email I received:
February 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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"For the Army now, it's 'Blacks need not apply' and it breaks my heart."

that's a quote from an ACTIVE DUTY U.S. ARMY GENERAL.
February 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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This cartoon is from 1930.

It could have been today.
December 12, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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House Republicans have tucked a provision into a must-pass defense authorization bill that would strip health care from military families' trans kids. www.huffpost.com/entry/republ...
House GOP Uses Must-Pass Defense Bill To Strip Care From Military Families’ Trans Kids
A provision tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act forces parents in the military to weigh their careers against providing health care for loved ones.
www.huffpost.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2024 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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University of New Hampshire is among these rural universities that is shedding majors — and this is especially bad since we are the state’s flagship.

When states gut public higher ed funding it’s especially a “fuck you” to rural folks #giftlink

wapo.st/3ZyU5ap
Rural students’ options shrink as colleges slash majors
As enrollments fall, rural-serving universities are shedding degree programs ranging from music to chemistry.
wapo.st
November 26, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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Fresh words✨

Bans on DEI programs are “part of a concerted effort to destroy the bridges that facilitated black success.”

allyfromnola.medium.com/why-some-see...
Why Some See Successful Black People as an Existential Threat
The success of Black people violates racist presumptions
allyfromnola.medium.com
November 25, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
Opinion | Enough
To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 PM