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An important thing to note in this period of fascism is that fascists are historically not good at government. Their entire shtick is "oh yeah? Well that's so-and-so's fault." Actual governance requires you to have a solution that is not "well let's fuck those marginalized guys up."

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 6h

My kids have always made jokes about unfinished freeway ramps, which AFAICT would be the only place on the road where such a car would be useful. (Traffic barriers also work though.)

An unfinished freeway overpass in Portland, Oregon. The ramp just stops with the end of the roadway a good 40 feet above the ground below.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 6h

The site abovewas shared with me yesterday by this dedicated protestor who was out in the rain in a terrifying inflatable costume depicting Elon pulling the strings of Mike Rogers.

An inflatable of Elon Musk. "Strings" (actually metal poles) run down to a big check made out to Mike Rogers and signed by Elon Musk, along with the memo line: "You owe me." The protestor with the inflatable Musk is wearing a mask with the face of Mike Rogers.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 6h

This site tracks how much the founder of Tesla etc. has donated to various candidates. At the time I'm posting, the top three are: $23.7 M to Paxton (TX), $7.7 M to Husted (OH), and $6.2 M to Rogers (MI). muskmoneywatch.com

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Musk Money Watch

Where is Elon Musk trying to influence elections?

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not afraid that scientists are going to Phobos, and I'm not dreading that they're going to Deimos. (Exciting mission!)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

Ok so when I was falling asleep last night and worrying about things, the thing I worried about this time was: HOW CAN WE LECTURE STUDENTS ABOUT HOW CHEATING IS BAD BECAUSE WHAT MATTERS IS WHAT YOU LEARN ALONG THE WAY AND THEN BE LIKE ACTUALLY GENAI IS GOOD

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

Stop making disabled speakers justify why they have a guest attending events with them

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 18h

Damn, I hate that there's no edit button. That should say, "Abdul laughs"

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 18h

At 0:36 you can hear someone in the crowd yelling. Abdul has laughs and has to take a drink of water... That's a friend of mine yelling something like, "JD, go back to your couch"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly not even the best joke he cracked tonight, though it definitely got a good reaction from the crowd

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 18h

Abdul is an absolutely EXCEPTIONAL speaker. He really knows how to hold a crowd, while also getting across important points. Vote Abdul!! (My ballot already went in a couple of days ago, and yes, I voted for him.)

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 18h

The only thing I didn't like about the @abdulelsayed.bsky.social rally tonight is that I almost lost my voice screaming... Got a great seat in row 3 (by standing in line more than an hour before the doors opened). Great view of AOC & Abdul speaking!

Looking at a stage with an American flag backdrop from stage left. In the middle of the stage, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands at a podium.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

My classes are designed to have collaborative bits. Think about this; check in with a neighbor. OR, get together in small groups and brainstorm how you can apply past skills we've covered to the new topic. Or...you get the picture. These activities are so much more difficult in a lecture hall.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I teach the same lecture every semester. For some reason, in the first semester it's scheduled in a collaborative learning classroom, while in the second semester it's scheduled in a lecture hall. (Class is capped at 36; the lecture hall holds 120.)

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don't teach gen chem labs. There are genuine analytical issues that pop up from time to time that I only learn b/c I've taught the same lab a gazillion times. A grad student could not do what I do with the same level of helpfulness to students.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I have been told (by someone in a department with grad students): "Your problem is that you guys don't have a grad program. You'd have more time if you could offload your labs onto grad students."

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One fun thing about being in the faculty union is you get to hear what administration tells the STEM faculty and what they tell the humanities faculty. Turns out we're both too expensive and costing the university money and can't be afforded. Just for completely opposite and contradictory reasons.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Reminder that the mission of public universities is not to be profitable.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Good on Cincinnati for doing this (disclaimer: my cousin is legal council for Cincinnati Public Schools). But what the fuck are we doing as a society where this is necessary???

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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

FIVE DAYS UNTIL LAUNCH 🚀 My friends, it’s time we went to Phobos. #MMXLIFTOFF 10.20 at 04:41:03 JST 🚀🛰️ (That is the Tanegashima launch pad behind me. It is indeed one of the most beautiful in the world. No notes.)

A photograph of me standing on a lookout spot at JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center. Behind me, by the sea, is the launch pad.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Also, while it was the financial situation at my last school that pushed me over the edge, I'd been considering leaving for years prior to that--specifically because I felt devalued on a regular basis. So this all rings very true to me.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I am tired and really should go home now (the rest of the work I have to do today can absolutely be done in a more comfortable environment). But I am too exhausted to get out of my chair. So instead, I will post a couple of pictures of my dog from yesterday's walk.

A happy dog runs along a pathway covered in dead leaves. His floppy ears have flopped up, his mouth is open in a wide smile, and his tongue is sticking out.

A dog runs along a leaf-covered pathway in an autumn forest. His mouth is open in a doggy grin.

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is a new one. Just resubmitted a manuscript & it got kicked back for having an "iThenticate score higher than the acceptable limit". i.e. accusing us of plagiarism. Want to know what it flagged? The fucking bioRxiv preprint. Do humans not review this bullshit before it's sent out? I hate AI

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I don't like heat at all! And given where I live now, Detroit sounds like a much more appealing climate.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have never been anywhere in Detroit other than the airport and its immediate environs. I should probably fix that some time. (To anyone who doesn't know Michigan: I may live in the same state, but I am an 8-hour drive from Detroit. I really live out in the sticks.)

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I've only lived two places in Europe. I was very young when I was in England and didn't go anywhere by myself. The place I lived in Germany beat everywhere in the U.S. I've lived, hands down.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If I lived there permanently I would have sold my car and saved the $. (I was there as a term prof and knew I'd be out in a year or two.) I can't think of anywhere else where I could have gotten away without a car. I could *almost* do it in Denver, but not quite.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

NGL, NYC is expensive as FUCK. I was a single mom when I lived there and WHEW. OTOH, I didn't have to worry about taking Youngest to his extracurriculars b/c he could take transit. We could walk to groceries/restaurants/etc. We had a big park within a few blocks. Quick transit to work + airports.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Speaking of which: New York. I went back over spring break. Stayed in Manhattan (at the same hotel as a friend). Took the E-train out to have lunch with my former colleagues in Queens and couldn't stop grinning because the U.S. needs MOAR TRAINS.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Denver beats Seattle (for now) because of better public transit. I may feel differently after Seattle finishes expanding their light rail. (I don't care how many amenities a city has if you can't get to them easily.)

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Obviously my rankings are slightly colored based on where I lived in those metro areas. In San Jose, I was within walking distance of Caltrain, which certainly helped.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Of the metro areas on the chart, I've lived in Los Angeles, San Jose, Denver, and New York, and "close enough to know" to San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, and Oakland. My rankings of those 6: (1) Denver (2) Seattle (3) New York (4) San Jose (5) Oakland (6) San Francisco (7) San Diego (8) LA

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Oakland and San Jose have separate entries on the chart so no

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AAUP @aaup.org · 13/10/2026

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Today, the AAUP announced a slate of 12 national political endorsements for the 2026 midterm elections. These candidates will champion higher education as a public good, protect academic freedom, advance debt-free education, & protect the collective bargaining rights of workers. 1/

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AAUP Endorses Midterm Election Candidates

Today, the AAUP announced a slate of twelve national political endorsements for the 2026 midterm elections. The endorsed candidates for Senate and congressional races will champion higher education as...

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This has been on my wish list for almost 2 decades now

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Breaking news: study suggests what the majority of people already knew, and were trying to tell everyone, for years* *their concerns were dismissed as “anxiety”

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Not naming names but... Me: That's a bad idea. Dude: No, it's actually good, and here's why. Me: Really, it's terrible. Dude: No, it's good, so get used to the way things are going to be. Also Dude: "Robin said this was a good idea." (Don't be that dude.)

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) is at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For allies—I also take today to ask you to consider two things: One, while "when did you come out" usually means "when did you start telling people?" understand that it never ends. Every single time we meet someone new, we have to do the same math: Is this person/situation/place safe? Every time.

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We are about 6 months away from my book, RESONANCE & RADIANCE, being released into the world. (April 13th, 2027!) RESONANCE & RADIANCE is a narrative nonfiction book about spectroscopy—the field of science that studies how light interacts with molecules. I want to share this book’s origin story 🧵:

A picture of the cover of the book: RESONANCE & RADIANCE: HOW LIGHT REVEALS THE CHEMISTRY OF OUR WORLD by Debbie Gale Mitchell

The book cover is a selfie of a woman (me) using an infrared camera

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

On my LMS, students can click on a PDF and see it there in the browser. But if they click on a Word doc they have to download it... Why would anyone not upload PDFs?

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

lol, never change Ivies, never change (see Penn tooting its horn a couple of years ago about Katalin Karikó's Nobel win, when they never supported her or her research on mRNAs)

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 08/10/2026

I am once again *begging* university HR goons to STOP making their system require letters of reference up front for faculty candidates.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

See you in Marquette! And I am thrilled that AOC will be there too.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Breaks my heart. These kids (and those in the US) deserve amazing schools. Not this police brutality shit.

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Dr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Police tactics are the same around the world. Minors or adults, they don't care.

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