drgigglefactory
@drgigglefactory.bsky.social
Geology professor. Lover of bears, eagles, and sea otters.
Let’s be crystal clear: Donald Trump is going to try to steal ANOTHER election. All hands on deck for local registrars, state attorneys general, governors, local legal teams, and Congress. We need to be ALL IN on this fight.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.Breaking News: President Trump asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for an executive order to restrict voting by mail, as he pushes for more control over voting ahead of the midterms.
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As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."
the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.
June 3, 1726 birthday of Scottish farmer &"philosopher of Earth" James Hutton ⚒️ ...
🌈⚒️ (unfortunately I have no idea who originally came up with this meme)
About 40% of California’s community college courses are online now, redefining education. These courses are more accessible, college officials say, but they come with serious drawbacks. cal.news/4x0KMyD 📸 Larry Valenzuela
CSU is bad for doing this. Hope rebelling students, teachers, & staff make them reconsider. Also, while the amount spent on this isn't equal to the CSU cuts, it's got to be galling for professors to see a $17m (+$39 over three yeras!) no-bid contract for hallucinatory trash while being laid off.
This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren't all on board
The California State University system offers an early look at what happens when an administration commits to a technology that its own community isn't convinced will improve education.
npr.org
May 24, 1906, birthday of American naval officer and geologist Harry Hammond Hess. Best known for developing the theory of seafloor spreading, one of the foundations of modern plate tectonics ...
One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.
Cannot possibly get me to give a fuck about “low birth rates.” Not even if it were my own, which it also is.
It bothered me where have I seen this look before, and then I remembered
I don't want to read any more opinions about "how instructors should respond to AI" that don't engage at all with our working conditions: heavy teaching loads, large class sizes, adjunctification, etc.
Amazing to me that people keep screaming about security failures in a situation where security did not fail. Bad things didn't even happen to bad people, so you can stop pretending to be worried about that. Stop whining for a bigger, badder police state.
To me the craziest thing about what happened at the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight is that we still don’t have all the Epstein files that show that Donald Trump is a child rapist.
We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.
If in 2026, you are STILL saying 'why didn't X survivor/victim of sexual assault go to the cops or prosecutors?' then you cannot be trusted to drive a car or live by yourself because you are ignorant.
The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.
losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice
This is an ICE agent at TSA. Post their unmasked faces everywhere.
Imagine if "big tent" meant accepting trans people instead of transphobes.
Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5mo agoGod the Cesar Chavez stuff is just…men really should start out six feet under and work their way up.
God the Cesar Chavez stuff is just…men really should start out six feet under and work their way up.
In 1896, Florence Bascom became the first woman to work for USGS! She was also the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from @jhu.edu (in 1893) and created the geology program at Bryn Mawr College. She retired at age 74. #WomensHistoryMonth
Florence Bascom, Trailblazer of the U.S. Geological Survey
Each March, Women’s History Month commemorates the trailblazers, visionaries and notable women who have forever changed the world.
usgs.gov
