Universities will be like “I know we have a preferred internal candidate, but wouldn’t it be funny if we got 450 people’s hopes up?”

I may tone down the the Public Impact section of my next grant application (source: Sept 2024 issue of _Isis_)

if you want to hear how important james earl jones’s voice was to making this movie work, here’s what darth vader actually sounded like on the set lol

Many of us measure altruism and selfishness in dollars and cents. If you want to know how selfless someone is—the logic goes—add up how much money they give to strangers or charity. New work w/ M.J. Crockett complicates this picture: osf.io/preprints/psya… 🧵

Look, I can’t stand Boris Johnson, but this bit from his autobiography is objectively funny.

NEW: THREAD: A new ruling from Judge McBurney in Georgia overturning the abortion ban and allowing the procedure to continue has some REMARKABLE quotes. Let's take a look at just a few. 1/

Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.” Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?” Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.” Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”

Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch

The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals. This is a genocide of Palestinians. The US must stop enabling it. Arms embargo now.

Here’s an insider report on what’s going on behind the scenes to bring Internet Archive services online: reddit.com/r/internetarch…

i bet academics who publish a lot while also teaching and raising children have failed to watch as many shows as i have

( descartes, setting out to critically examine the foundations of all knowledge and science) how can i make this about me

I will say this: I'm old enough to have voted in 2004, and I can't describe how hard I would have laughed if you told me that America was four years from electing a Black guy named Hussein in a landslide.

Maybe we were too hard on JJ Abrams for "Somehow Palpatine returned."

is the left “obsessed” with gender, sexuality, race, etc, or are they just constantly having to defend people in marginalized groups against a right wing that’s ACTUALLY obsessed with gender, sexuality, race, etc

okay but imagine how incredible it must have been to live in the "our products need to get better every year to keep our customers loyal" part of capitalism instead of the "you'll pay more money for worse garbage every year and like it" part of capitalism