@ennui.org Heather Cox Richardson thinks the move to kill NCAR is an attempt to punish Colorado governor Jared Polis for not playing along when Trump gave a "full pardon" to election tamperer Tina Peters (which, of course, he cannot do). Pure pettiness over some personal beef.

@jaystephens I think Hank Green had it right when he said the administration hates science as a process because they see it as a rival source of power they don't control. But they can shut it down, to the extent that they fund it.

When I was in grad school for math the one day when I felt most like "I don't even belong here." was the day that my Complex Analysis prof suddenly wrote ∮ on the board and being mostly self-taught in Calculus having mostly passed test to skip various pre-recs I already felt like I didn't really […]

@offby1 I think a lot of this is turnabout trollery on the level of "if you can cancel me for using racial slurs I'm gonna try to cancel you for this"

@futurebird Pronouns in bio are a good way of accomplishing something similar online, and anyone can do it. When people give you shit for it, you can block/ignore them.

@futurebird I associate them with AirBnBs.

@futurebird I love and need to go on vacation but somewhere in the back of my mind, I know that all of those things I have to do are not going away, and it can be a source of angst.

@futurebird My experience as a tutor and a teaching assistant in math-heavy subjects was that, while it's not everyone, there are a lot of kids who basically get the material but who need someone to occasionally encourage them that they're on the right track when they seize up and second-guess […]

@llewelly If you asked me to guess what "griefbot" means it definitely would not be what's implied there. Would probably just be an automated trolling script designed to disrupt a discussion forum.