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Mike Urbancic
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teaching professor of economics, faculty unionist at the University of Oregon | pedagogy, astronomy, tabletop gaming, parodies, data visualization, maps, sundry | #TeachEcon #EconSky 📈📉 | alum UArizona & Berkeley Econ | he/him
Borders get tricky when the courses of rivers meander over time!

(Many such cases for state borders along the Mississippi River, for instance.)

I can certainly see how this might lead to misunderstandings. Hopefully nothing serious.
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
50th anniversary celebration at Prince Pückler's this afternoon!
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
BOOOOOO!!!!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
CNN, my sibling in cyberspace, put down the AI and run in the opposite direction
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Armus has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Barnaby's favorite night of the year!
November 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Amusingly, the Google search for "wooden barrel manufacturer" *wasn't* about Hundreds of Beavers, which I watched again tonight with ~20 college students.
October 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
sexy wooden barrel manufacturer
October 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
One of my exams today included a question with this statement as one of its possible responses:

"The atomic number of the element berkelium is 97."

The exam was in a room with two very large periodic tables.

Still, it was so validating when a student stopped me to take a closer look at my shirt!
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is Radiskull.

He and his buddy, Devil Doll, may kill you one by one--just for fun.

Or they might be in the mood to kick it and sing some tunes.

Neither of them are Nazis, nor are they doing Nazi things.
October 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Eugene #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Eugene #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Eugene #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Last night I *finally* watched the Finnish film SISU (think John Wick period piece with Nazis and a different outcome for a key character), and one of the first things I saw at #NoKings in Eugene was this hoodie.

🤯
October 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
October 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I *know* that I shouldn't lick the blade of the immersion blender.

But this chocolate frosting is SO. YUMMY.

😩
October 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
trickle-down economics explained
October 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Light rain is a very authentic way to start the new academic year at the University of Oregon.

Good luck, everyone!
September 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Duck is going to have to fly pretty damn fast to get from the UO campus to Happy Valley in the next two hours.
September 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
zodiacal light!
September 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
September 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Quite a crowd gathered to listen to @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social talk about the origins of elements!

(And the crowd is still growing.)
September 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
*Picard voice*

There are FOUR dryer balls!
September 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
idk, feels a bit personal after my layoff notification in June 🤔
September 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
UPDATE:
September 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM