LS
@mechteach.bsky.social
Username pretty self-explanatory - I teach Mech. Not my whole identity but it informs it.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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The latest episode of John Oliver’s show is on higher ed and scientific research, so well worth watching if you’re in either space. My favorite moment was when he showed Trump saying he would “make Harvard great…again…probably”
If every university president watched, we would be better off
If every university president watched, we would be better off
John Oliver on Trump’s attack on higher education: ‘No capitulation will be enough’
Last Week Tonight host looks into the administration’s attacks on universities’ public funding in the name of ‘fighting antisemitism’
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The latest episode of John Oliver’s show is on higher ed and scientific research, so well worth watching if you’re in either space. My favorite moment was when he showed Trump saying he would “make Harvard great…again…probably”
If every university president watched, we would be better off
If every university president watched, we would be better off
This past week, I was able to visit the site of the FBI office burglary in Media PA where a group of ordinary citizens brought down the illegal FBI operation of CoIntelpro designed to intimidate Americans exercising their right to protest and free speech. Important to remember the impact they had.
July 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This past week, I was able to visit the site of the FBI office burglary in Media PA where a group of ordinary citizens brought down the illegal FBI operation of CoIntelpro designed to intimidate Americans exercising their right to protest and free speech. Important to remember the impact they had.
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Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.
May 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
From a thread discussing how civil servants can fight back against the fork in the road memo, I present to you OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual from 1944. Section 11 of chapter 5 is the most relevant for now. It’s also on the CIA webpage, but this is a clean link. www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Simple Sabotage Field Manual, by Office of Strategic Services
www.gutenberg.org
January 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
From a thread discussing how civil servants can fight back against the fork in the road memo, I present to you OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual from 1944. Section 11 of chapter 5 is the most relevant for now. It’s also on the CIA webpage, but this is a clean link. www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...
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The USAF removed Tuskegee Airmen & Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII from basic training curriculum. For 30 years I promised these women I would not let them ever be forgotten again. We worked for decades to have them remembered. The Airmen too. Knowledge is power. 🗃️ www.msn.com/en-us/societ...
January 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The USAF removed Tuskegee Airmen & Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII from basic training curriculum. For 30 years I promised these women I would not let them ever be forgotten again. We worked for decades to have them remembered. The Airmen too. Knowledge is power. 🗃️ www.msn.com/en-us/societ...
You've probably seen the stories that federal DEI offices have been directed to close. The NYT headline, for example, was "The administration ordered federal diversity efforts to shut down by Wednesday night." Two very important things are being omitted by that sort of headline. 1/
January 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You've probably seen the stories that federal DEI offices have been directed to close. The NYT headline, for example, was "The administration ordered federal diversity efforts to shut down by Wednesday night." Two very important things are being omitted by that sort of headline. 1/
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Reagan slashed the budget of the Solar Energy Research Institute, which is now the National Renewable Energy Lab, from $130M in 1980 under Carter to $30M in one year. This was bad for the US, then the leader in solar research, and bad for climate change. It was good for fossil fuel companies.
January 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Reagan slashed the budget of the Solar Energy Research Institute, which is now the National Renewable Energy Lab, from $130M in 1980 under Carter to $30M in one year. This was bad for the US, then the leader in solar research, and bad for climate change. It was good for fossil fuel companies.
Godspeed, President Carter. Thank you for all you have done for the U.S.A. and humanitarian causes around the world.
December 29, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Godspeed, President Carter. Thank you for all you have done for the U.S.A. and humanitarian causes around the world.