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Professor, Historian, ultrarunner, photographer, dad. Writing about bike messengers in SF. San Francisco is my adopted city. #firstgen
Remarkable footage shows planets circling a star 133 light-years from Earth

An astronomer just created a time-lapse video showcasing planetary motion of a system thousands of light years away that you have to see.

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@geravitywave ooh. Cool. Where can I find that info?
@cvvhrn Simpson’s was better than Nostradamus
These are the dumbest people. Awfully gullible too. https://news.yahoo.com/damar-hamlin-body-double-conspiracy-214838259.html
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@tdrummon yes. My department (I’m a former chair) has always enjoyed the freedom of individualistic course design. The surveys are roughly the same with varied teaching methods. But new upper level courses are not strictly controlled

This simple but powerful statement from a law school applicant explains why diversity is so important in higher education. The applicant is describing leaving home and attending college:

"Nothing had forced me to look at what I believed until I was no longer surrounded by people who believed the same."

#lawprofs #lawfedi #diversity #highered

@gedeonm omg. He did. Recently I’ve been getting so many notifications that I never toggled. That bastard (this is happening in the native app for me)
@TimVantilborgh especially in a time where what we do is increasingly questioned and threatened by administrators and politicians. Our writing should be more accessible to non-academic readers without compromising academic standards.
Yeah I’ll be even more extreme and say if you’re subscribing to Ivory and /not/ paying your instance admins at least as much, you need to fix that right fucking now.
It did teach me that a bunch of libertarian men are all in favour of lower regulation until you use that lack of regulation to behave cooperatively to help each other.