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Dr. CSP

@drcsp.bsky.social

Retired scientist. Clinician. Artist. Mom. I hope something good happens to you today.

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Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.

Screenshot of article which reads: This is how you end up with an elite university where the president can drive his car into a group of students and be lauded by the board. The president and the trustees are on the same team. The students are on the other team. The trustees know Kotlikoff will reliably enforce their agenda, including cracking down on protests that might be bad for cashflow. It almost doesn’t matter what he does; if there’s any conceivable defense, they’ll keep him in place. (If not, they’ll replace him with someone else who can talk about loving free speech while moving to crush it in practice.) Kotlikoff, after all, has already proved his worth: It was on his watch that Cornell agreed to pay $60 million to the U.S. government to get Trump to unfreeze its research grants.
Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 3mo ago

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo ago

"An email from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to research-center grantees, seen by Science, requires their institutions to promise that U.S. authors of papers NIH has flagged because of foreign co-authors will not collaborate with them in the future."

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo ago

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

Tina Smith@smith.senate.gov · 3mo ago

Nothing makes someone look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find

Loukas Christodoulou@loukas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Now would be a great time for a social-economic historian of WW1 and/or WW2 to drop a thread about how wartime production of food and logistics shaped what we nowadays think of as 'British' or 'American' food. This is BlueSky. I know you must be out there.

TDr. Linda Maepa (born at 325ppm)@lmaepa.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

After turning off predictive text on my keyboard, the typos were wayyyyy up and the typing speed in the gutter. I was committed to my path. 3/4 days, turns out it was mostly bad habits reinforced by predictive text. Everything's good now 💅🏾 What other "habits" has tech formed in me? In others?

Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I just can't get past "What do you mean I have to check AAALLLLLLLL my citations?" Like, dude, what? My PhD advisor would have hung me by my toenails on the quad if I didn't know what one of my citations was for.

Daniel Summers@danielrsummers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Highly encourage folks to listen to Dr. Topol's conversation with @donmilton.bsky.social and read that NYT piece. Spillover events will continue happening with increasing frequency, public health must adapt and adopt maximally cautious approaches to transmission to contain future outbreaks.

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great NYT essay by @linseymarr.bsky.social, framing the hantavirus story. Independently, the same key points and perspective from @donmilton.bsky.social in our conversation that day erictopol.substack.com/p/assessment...

Brant Reeves@bireeves95.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This Needs to Happen…. Idea: a law that says if you’re going to build a data center, you have to also build enough solar panels to power it. We can call it the Bring Your Own Damn Grid Act.

Emma Mitchell@silverpebble2.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:

A spiral of crinoid ossicles from the Jurassic arranged in a spiral according to size on a white glazed plate
Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Seems to me that this is a great time for all of the 'vote or die' white people to be at the forefront of fighting for voting rights. Perfect time not to fantasize about what you would have done during the mid-century Black freedom struggle but to enact a 21st century version of it. Let's stay tuned

Miiriya@miiriya.com · 3mo ago

Really wish I could go viral on BlueSky. I created an app that merges Mutual Aid with Black Businesses: on the app, you can shop Black Businesses on 1 app, all Black Owned conveniently under 1 roof. On the same app you can see people struggling with overdue bills/rent/evictions etc & give them aid.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 3mo ago

… we have lost much of the civil rights act, most of roe v wade, most of the EPA, any remnants of a progressive tax code, the voting rights act. I’ll be shocked if the ADA makes it through the next two years. I want to vote for candidates who recognize the scope and are ready to try new things.

Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 3mo ago

The president of Cornell hit some students with his car, lied about what happened, and cast himself as the victim. Cornell's trustees, palpably aghast at the idea that a powerful man could be held accountable for his actions, have issued an official statement saying fuck the students

Dan Hirschman@asociologist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cornell just released this statement from its committee of Trustees investigating the incident where the President ran over a student's foot with his car. The statement extols the President and blames the students.

"The Ad Hoc Special Committee of the Board of Trustees, composed of the Chair and Vice Chairs of the Board of Trustees, has completed its review of the events of April 30, 2026, involving Cornell President Michael I. Kotlikoff and a group of individuals. In concluding its review, the Committee considered evidence gathered by the Cornell University Police Department (CUPD), which included information gathered at the scene of the incident, verified video footage, and a sworn statement provided by President Kotlikoff to CUPD. The individuals at the scene who reported that the vehicle made contact refused medical treatment from the EMS team and refused to provide sworn statements as to their account of the incident. None of the individuals at the scene have provided sworn statements to CUPD, despite CUPD’s repeated attempts to collect sworn statements in the days following the incident. Consistent with its commitment to ensuring a fair and thorough process, the Committee also engaged independent legal counsel to evaluate the independence and integrity of CUPD’s investigation into these events. The Committee has determined that the investigation conducted by CUPD was done pursuant to existing policies without any bias or undue influence. The Committee thanks CUPD for its professionalism and diligence in its independent investigation."