Dan Gates

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My dept is hiring in Evolutionary Genomics psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Evolutionary Genomics Tenure Track Faculty Position in Biology Departmentpsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

It sucks that the only news has been election coverage in fucken July so I’ll kick off a better topic: the manager of the Tour de France favorite who was last years big acquisition came out and suggested their superstar couldn’t be trusted to ride his bike without two teammate babysitters

it's officially election season.

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May be of interest: the new kickstarter for Uncanny Magazine's upcoming season is live! Various bonus content is available including some signed copies of Alien Clay at one tier (plus plenty more). www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

Uncanny Magazine Year 11: This One Goes to ELEVEN!www.kickstarter.com Funding to support Year 11 of Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

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Important essay by @bradvivian.bsky.social about the link between the attack on universities in the U.S. and international authoritarianism. A PDF version should be accessible through this link: acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?u...

Tracing the roots of anti-university rhetoric (opinion)www.insidehighered.com Bradford Vivian writes that growing anti-university sentiment can be traced to pro-authoritarian movements abroad.

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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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We’ve got a new phylogeny of the ants out as a preprint! It’s been an exciting collaboration with some awesome 🐜 people for the past few years, led by Marek Borowiec and @corriemoreau.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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it goes like this the fourth, the fifth -someone describing the end of this week

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Stage 6 Mâcon > Dijon - How long before the UCI find a problem with this #letourdepoupees #couchpeloton #letourdefrance #sbscycling #TDF2024

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Reposting before I go to bed because the 4th represents the best of what we aspire to.

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Sunak concedes election, says he's called Starmer to congratulate him

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One of the most distressing things about academia is the pervasive belief that changing the demographic make up of our fields always involves lowering the bar. Speak up about diversity? Get told we can’t lower the bar. Did I ask to lower the bar? No.

this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwww.washingtonpost.com The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

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the first, second and third most important news stories this week are about the SCOTUS decision, and every columnist spending their time talking about biden old is telling you what they value. we don’t have to indulge them, though, stop your subs, stop clicking, stop talking about them.

Omg cavendish ❤️❤️❤️

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Anyway I've just discovered (1) postcard stamps are more than 50 cents apiece, which is folding money when you're doing a couple hundred and (2) prices are going up in two weeks! So now's a good time to stock up on "Forever" stamps in nice calming sailboat prints store.usps.com/store/produc...

I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

Sailboats Postcard Stamps | USPS.comstore.usps.com “Let’s go sailing!” The U.S. Postal Service celebrates a favorite outdoor activity with two colorful postcard stamps.

Richard Carapaz is simply not allowed to retire from pro cycling. Sorry, I don’t make the rules

Kiddo inherited a tiger stripe muscle shirt and now he looks like he’s about to approach you at the gym and ask how he can get his Dokken cassette playing through the speakers

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As I’ve said before: GoT/ASOIAF is dangerous because it might as well have been designed in a lab to cater to 21st century ideas about what the medieval past was “really like,” even though it is no less of a fantasy than Lord of the Rings or Star Wars.

One of the worst things that Game of Thrones has enabled (involuntarily) in a particular kind of almost exclusively male nerd is a permission structure for going UMM WELL ACTUALLY at "unrealistic" depictions of medieval life (which aren't even unrealistic, you're just an undereducated twat)

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🚨NEW YETI CRAB SPECIES! 🚨 Welcome to Kiwa gemma, from hydrothermal vents near the Galapagos, the 5th described yeti crab species! (We know there are more species yet to be described) 🦀🧪🦑 academic.oup.com/jcb/article/...

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My favorite is the My Friend Went to Rome and All He Got Me Was This Stupid Pencil stylus discovered recently

This Ancient Roman Souvenir Stylus Is Inscribed With a Corny Jokewww.smithsonianmag.com Loosely translated, the message reads, ‘I went to Rome and all I got you was this stylus’

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one thing not taxing tips could do is make it easier to steal tips; the less you have to keep records the easier it is to steal

like, why is anyone treating this like a serious proposal? the trump department of labor wanted to make it easier for employers to steal tips for christssake! he has an actual record!

Trump is proposing to make tips tax-free. What would that mean for workers?apnews.com Former President Donald Trump’s proposal to exclude tips from federal taxes is getting strong reviews from some Republican lawmakers.

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“The Harvard decision has so transformed the legal landscape that some companies are abandoning diversity programs as a defensive measure even before any litigation is filed.” “defensive measure” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

DEI programs toppled amid a surge of conservative lawsuitswww.washingtonpost.com A year after the Supreme Court struck down race-based college admissions, a campaign by conservative legal groups is forcing public and private institutions to abandon diversity programs.

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toddler court rules, with crumbs spilling everywhere, that toddlers cannot be sent to their rooms for cookies already eaten from jar

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first stop: community cycles! there’s an advocacy table helping cyclists write letters to council in support of the iris avenue redesign

it's colorado's bike to work day! follow along!

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WE AIN'T FOUND SHIT

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“UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the ‘Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award’ — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials.”

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improvewww.washington.edu UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same...

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New lab preprint: GWAS on crossover dynamics in pigs led by Cathrine Brekke. Significant loci in ♀️🐷: 📈👯‍♀️ Rate & interference at RNF212 (+small rate effects at CTCF & REC114/REC8/CCNB1IP1) 📌 Positioning at MEI4, SYCP2, PRDM9 (+small effects at ZCWPW1 & ZCWPW2) #meiosis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Individual variation in meiotic crossover positioning, rate and interference are driven by distinct genetic processes in domestic pigs.www.biorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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POV: you were just told that you are not allowed to lay on the shawl your human JUST finished knitting which is, conveniently, white mohair, a color that will definitely not show black cat fur on it

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if we had caught wind of Saddam’s Republican Guard doing shit like this even once it would have been paraded across the evening news repeatedly as proof of the regime’s brutality and a justification for war

“Israeli army forces strapped a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military Jeep during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday. A video showed a Palestinian resident of Jenin, Mujahed Azmi, on the Jeep that passes two ambulances.”

Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian man to hood of military jeepapple.news Verified video shows Jenin resident Mujahed Azmi on vehicle that passes two ambulances during raid

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Richard Lynn was a pillar of 20th-century scientific racism. His magnum opus was a database of "national IQs", a menagerie of unrepresentative IQ studies with no explicit criteria for inclusion except that the results show a low IQ for Africans. This should be an open-and-shut case for retraction.

Journals that published Richard Lynn's racist 'research' articles should retract themwww.statnews.com Richard Lynn's work has been repeatedly condemned for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. It's past time to retract the studies.

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Contender for favorite chart of all time: Predictions vs. Reality for solar energy.