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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 19m

Just got back from a COSTCO run where I bought food for 134 people and loaded it all into my tiny Smart EQ.

An electric SmartEQ inbetween two GMC pickup trucks.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25m

It’s been a coordinated approach at universities across the country.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27m

I looooove being able to vote early, by mail.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 31m

I mean I get that it’s like insurance for others, but wow. That was a bit of a shock.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 32m

Nope. I make too much money for that. If I were to retire now, I could make use of some of her benefits. But I’ve still got, like science to do.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 33m

It is part of the reason I am no longer there. It is important for me to feel proud of the people and institutions I work for.

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Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 3h

Good point, and more broadly, under stack ranking, sometimes the easiest way to get promoted is to make others look worse. Which is exactly the wrong incentive for teams that are supposed to be building things together.

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WmReddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

'Mr. Musk sent the money to Senate R's top super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, in donations of $75M on Sept. 9 and $83M on Sept. 23. Each time, the very next day, the super PAC cut a check of the same amount to Texas PAC, a group that the Senate Leadership Fund had set up to support Mr. Paxton.'

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 3h

Today is national mammography day. Some history: Mammography is rooted in the latin word "mamma" (breast) 1913: It was first invented in the German surgeon Albert Salomon, using X-rays. 1965: Charles Gross developed the first mammogram for occult tumors 2000 First digital mammogram approved 🧪

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 3h

You are more than welcome at Chez Jones.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 4h

Lemme know if you come through Pittsburgh, yo.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 4h

Satya Nadella has been a good leader in all the ways Ballmer was not.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 4h

Paid for by selling off the sports teams to private equity.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 4h

That leadership has decided that everything at the institution needs to be a profit center.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 4h

By working with that state legislature to literally and legally take the power away from the faculty on the academic senate, that business leadership now owns all of their mistakes. The president and the provost there are on the hook for all these policies and others that caused us/others to leave.

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Eugene Day, DSc @eugenedaydsc.bsky.social · 4h

Part of that admin cost is the price of regulatory compliance. The business/regulatory world has essentially invented an entire industry associated with the management of research/education funds. The cycle is either vicious or virtuous depending on your perspective.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 4h

They wanted to create policies that forced students into dorms by making it a rule that you had to live in student housing on site. Yet their occupancy rate was well below capacity this past year. Business people who don’t understand university systems or culture are in charge there.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 4h

No. At my prior institution, we pushed students who were married w/kids out of affordable housing and started charging them market rates for housing. The explanation I got when fighting it was that institution wanted a different kind of student. Faculty are no longer in charge of universities.

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 15h

Social Security is not going to be there for so many peeps. Hilari worked her entire adult life and the only monetary benefit from decades of her Social Security contributions is a $255 one time death payment. I flip the letter over and it threatens penalties if I am lying to receive this benefit.

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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 15h

Every apple has a story.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 15h

An hour later. Still here. But listen to that purr.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 15h

It’ll be fun she said!

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 15h

48 years ago today Alternative Ulster is the second single by punk rock band Stiff Little Fingers, released on this day in 1978, and later appeared on the band's 1979 debut studio album, Inflammable Material #punk #punkrock #stifflittlefingers #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 16h

Gonna binge that the last two weeks of the year.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 16h

Indistinguishable from a Russian agent.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 16h

Alice the Cat on a Friday night.

A tortoiseshell cat sits on her human’s lap.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18h

OK How anout this? bsky.app/profile/bwjo...

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18h

Suppose I should link to the phabulously phat Ruf. Sooooooo gorgeous. youtu.be/Mo_TpIIal9U?...

youtu.be

650hp, Twin Turbo, 7sp Manual: This is The Ruf EHRA

YouTube video by Larry Chen

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18h

Phabulously phat Ruf. OMG Do, want.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Portrait: Laura Campello In Valencia bryanwjones.com/2026/09/port... #Scientist #VisionScientist

Black and white image of vision scientist Laura Campello, smiling into the camera.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18h

A JEOL electron microscope. We need a new one to make faster progress in neuroscience research.

A man is standing on top o an electron microscope

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18h

I’d LOVE to commute in this, but where would I park it at work?

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Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 20h

Originated at GE under Jack Welsh, l think, and long known to cause retention issues and reduce productivity, as you said. People manage up instead of doing good work for the company because that's the easiest way to get promoted. www.fastcompany.com/90850190/sta...