Ethan White

I am sorry to inform you that "That's not how we've done it in the past" is not a good reason not to try something new.

There's nuance here about "how do we use platforms owned by the fascists". You *have to understand the political purpose of the platforms* in order to use them to subvert authoritarians. For the most part, Americans simply do not. Centrists (including DNC consultants) do not. Major media does not.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Start spreading the news- early voting starts TODAY! Find your poll site at vote.nyc

And don’t forget to flip your ballot to vote on 5 questions about making government run faster.

Currently, Hasbro’s guidelines keep us from having total ownership over the work we make in our free time. Our union aims to change that and ensure we own what we make in our free time. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

📢 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧! Election Nominees for the 2027 Board of Directors. Check out the latest from The Carpentries. Read more:

If our votes didn't matter, they wouldn't work so hard to suppress them or spend so much to buy them. #VOTE

"They attack higher ed because they're afraid of us. And they should be." - @aaup.org's @proftwolf.bsky.social

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

“Raises like this one don’t just happen; they’re not a gift from the boss. They’re the direct result of years of tough fights and difficult, painstaking negotiations!” - @uffuf.bsky.social www.alligator.org/article/2026...

These are students from HBCU North Carolina A&T marching back to their campus after voting early together The Guilford County Board of Elections removed their on-campus polling site ❤️❤️

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

Account now restored but 90 min of censorship, & who knows how much algorithmic suppression, is proof positive that letting a few billionaires control what we see/say/know is - perhaps - not the best plan. California - these fuckers are trying to keep you from passing Prop 40 & tanking 41 & 42.

I am a type 1 diabetic, and last night Dexcom forced me to agree to a new terms of use in order to continuing using the app and view my blood glucose data. Glad I had the foresight to "view agreements" and then copy the entire document. Because there appears to be NO WAY TO VIEW IT AGAIN. And...

This company used the ad system to locate targeted individuals and serve "zero-click malware" that took over their computers and phones without them having to take *any* action: citizenlab.ca/research/how...

That's the inescapable conclusion of Citizen Lab's latest blockbuster investigative report, "Exposing AdFection," which reveals how the largest ad-tech companies in the world, including Google and Facebook, allowed themselves to be hijacked by a "mercenary spyware" company.

As large as that boycott is, everyone - yes, *everyone* - should block *every* "programmatic" ad, because the entire system is so insecure that failing to do so could result in the total compromise of any or all of your digital devices.

Glad to have had the opportunity to serve as editor for this paper making it easy for less technical users to conduct dynamic material flow analysis for wood

Just published in JOSS: 'aiphoria: A Python package for dynamic wood material flow and carbon stock analysis' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.11039

"one of your most important tasks will be to mend the UF administration’s broken relationship with faculty. For too long, we’ve been treated like a problem rather than a partner — an unruly adversary to be silenced, sidelined or disciplined rather than a core part of the university community."

Problem: University sends too much email so some gets missed Solution: 1. Important email from President to everyone 2. Dean forwards email from President to everyone in college to "make sure they see it" 3. Dept Chair forwards email from Dean to everyone in department "make sure they see it"

A haunted house where every room has an assistant dean for teaching excellence and vice chancellor for finance

It’s amazing how after 40+ years of working, a retired person immediately forgets that other people are still working and cannot answer the phone at odd times of the day. “What are you doing?!” Well, it’s 10:04 am on a Thursday so I’m doing about what you used to do at this day & time.

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

does anyone use a kanban app that runs offline? lab heads especially 🧪 my lab used trello for years before it began to cost $$, now use basecamp which is pretty good but it's a bit overkill for our use case (just nice-looking and reliable kanban and nothing else) and it doesn't run offline

There's a long discussion going on in my mentions about whether or not "LLMs" (quotes explained in a sec) apparently getting mostly* correct answers to arithmetic questions is "inconsistent" with the stochastic parrots metaphor. >>

anti-homeless sweeps of encampments, tent cities, and individual squats result in the systematic theft of everything the targeted people hold dear. don't fucking call the cops on your neighbors. www.tumblr.com/westernsunri...

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

Seriously, just do not use muse

“A students opportunity to pursue an education should be determined by their dreams, not by their family’s bank account.” - @neatoday.bsky.social’s Noel Candelaria #AffordableCollegeNow @apscuf.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Class solidarity.

Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.

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From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

The more we buy into the logic that academia needs to be more like "the real world"--the more we buy into the idea that all we're doing is training students to go out and be good workers--the less we are fulfilling any sort of distinct mission, and the less exciting our work is our students.