“phd candidate,” artist/museum scientist, and funny little guy. views n posts are harvested by me 🧑🌾 🇵🇷 🌸
unrelated but I am definitely using “son of a billionaire” as an insult now - brethren with “raised in a McMansion” (bc in a barn, you would have skills)
Don MoynihanGenuinely a choice to give the son of a billionaire column space to argue for him to further consolidate the media, especially given the pretty abysmal track record of on journalism he has already implemented at CBS
true for the paleos too - I LOVE field work, but I have not seen anyone (multiple crews, up to date with the lit for geo/paleo) fully escape the macho culture of digging a hole in the ground. Or the “weight” it holds for if you’re a real researcher or na..
Dr Alex Fitzpatrickanyway, the toxic vibes of academia and the weird culture of making it some sort of shitty rite of passage isn’t too dissimilar to some of the issues that persist in archaeology (specifically in excavation) which I wrote about ages ago 🏺 animalarchaeology.com/2022/04/27/y...
smh if the ceos would just stop buying lunch at work, this could be resolved 🥀
Timnit Gebru"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
This is so cool and encouraging !! I love seeing this !!!
Ashley Juavinett, PhDI am at @alleninstitute.org this week, helping neuroscience educators level up in their programming skills as well as their confidence in passing these skills onto their students. 💪 Many faculty have never had the space to learn how to code — we are making room for that here.
I can’t cook on this rn because I’m in dissertation jail, but I do have a hot take about taxonomy being underfunded + devaluation of natty history. and by “hot take,” I mean “well outlined narrative.” this is something I can talk about forever
Marc A. MilneIt may be surprising to some that there are thousands of undescribed species just sitting in museums awaiting description. One of the main reasons this problem exists is that taxonomy is undervalued and underfunded, a trend that coincides with the devaluing of studies on natural history.