Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan
@jmgilligan.org
Integrating social & natural sciences & modeling to study climate change & society | Behavioral approaches to climate policy | Nashville TN | They/them 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ genderqueer | Jew | Friends call me Maggie | My words aren't my employer's | magnoliagilligan.org
"Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom. A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom
A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university.
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It's not enough to keep trans women out of women's sports. It turns out that playing sports transes cis women: "WNBA is a hot bed of androgyny and homosexuality that inevitably leads to transgenderism." So the only way to protect cis women athletes is to shut down women's sports altogether.
Right-wing pastor says women's basketball causes 'transgenderism'
A right-wing Christian pastor has said that the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) causes “transgenderism”.
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PinkNews@pinknews.bsky.social · 14h agoRight-wing pastor claims women's basketball causes ‘transgenderism' ➡️ https://bit.ly/4wA8zop
Faculty at colleges and universities in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, please fill out this survey before Sept. 4.
AAUP Alabama@alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 22h agoPlease fill out this survey and share your experience as a faculty member in the South.
This summer is a (new) normal summer. It’s called a 1.5°C rise in temperature.
Mario Sixtus@sixtus.net · 2d agoDamit das mal klar ist:
Get in, losers, we're going to the marketplace of ideas.
"Well, if it wasn't Vandals, it must have been Goths. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
Here's some of what I said to @espn.com at the transphobia rally outside the Fire-Fever game on Friday espn.com/wnba/story/_...
By politicizing the federal grant process, the OMB Grant Proposal will substantially weaken our scientific enterprise that has made the United States a global leader in innovation. Take action against the proposal the link: zurl.co/Au4wk Article: zurl.co/dGIrM
How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.
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Downplay a book or Movie: The Texas String Trimmer Kerfuffle.
Lexi Darling@lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 3d agoDownplay a book or movie: Light Drizzle Man
From the story about how the Paul Weiss decided to cave in to Trump: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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The application for the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, which places scientists & engineers into roles in Congress and in the Executive Branch, opened today. This program is essential for building technical policy capacity in the US. If interested, apply: fellowshipapp.aaas.org/app/main
STPF Application - AAAS
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NASHVILLE: “A 58-year-old man from Australia died and three other pedestrians were injured after police say an 87-year-old driver ran a red light and struck them in a Broadway crosswalk Saturday afternoon…” www.newschannel5.com/news/state/t...
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro dropped vandalism charges against the former Olympic athlete who was arrested at the Reflecting Pool. Pirro admitted that “the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
A long while ago, I wrote a pretty good piece on O Brother, Where Are Thou?, lies, & Oz. It was rejected on the explicit grounds that Real Classicists had no interest in engaging with "low-brow shallow comedy". Anyhow, at this moment of #Odyssey reception, here it is. medium.com/@anisestrong...
All Coens Are Liars: O Brother, Where art Thou? and Homer’s Odyssey
All Coens are Liars:
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Trump: "Affordability" isn't a real word. Also Trump: Who knew that "dumb" is spelled with a "b"? Get thee to a dictionary.
If elected, I will hold a Squid Games with every member of DOGE and Trump's cabinet as contestants.
1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators. But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances. It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"
The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much.
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Orange mango despot Creeping in the Epstein files Pedophile procurer, patronage purveyor Ooh, you sold your country out, You took emoluments. House should impeach him! Senate convict him! Just eighty-six him Goo goo g'joob!
Ugh! I sound like a Billy Joel song. A-go-go Hair gel New wave Wigged-out Yeesh I feel like the scene from Sid and Nancy, where Nancy catches her reflection in a shop window and screams, "AAAGH! I look like fuckin' Stevie Nicks in hippie clothes!"
Le Cagle@lecagle.bsky.social · 5d agoI am gender and word processing: Bi-curious Desktop publishing Emailer Phone tag Womanism
Audit results: 20 flex posts down or missing, right after NDOT went through and replaced a bunch recently. We should save everyone a lot of work and just replace all of these with concrete.
Katherine McDonell@kemcdonell.bsky.social · last wk.Doing a thorough flex post audit on Davidson this morning
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
There's a direct line between this and attacks on academic freedom. Because academic freedom empowers professors to participate in activism by reducing the risk that they'll lose their jobs because of their views.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last wk."Davis, the government says, has attended and facilitated meetings about protests and discussed his anti-authoritarian ideology with other activists. He is not accused of violent acts, taking any specific actions at protests nor having any encounters with ICE agents. He is facing 6 years in prison."
Red meat production accounts for 30% of global food-related emissions but generates only 5% of dietary calories or 2% of the global protein supply. That's why Project Drawdown researcher @enviroem.bsky.social calls it the coal of the food system: https://bit.ly/4x2yGnz
