ProfWhatsHerName

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Professor teaching GenBio, Marine Biology, Oceanography, Microbiology, and Zoology at a Community College in Southern California.

My research speciality is marine microbiology, focusing on harmful algal bloom ecology. I still manage a HAB monitoring citizen science project in SoCal, but my day to day life is currently devoted to working on increasing STEM student success with active learning pedagogy.

I don't create original posts often, but I read every day, and boost what I enjoy.

Honestly, you shouldn’t have to web search to fact check badly quoted bible references to figure out what the hell your government is talking about.
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#linux #fediverse #photography #ClimateAction #hunger #biodiversity #ecology #nature #economics #gardening #sustainability

Yet again the Associated Press normalizes the most corrupt presidency, by far, in American history. This story about Trump's kabuki-theater shakedown of the government he controls barely mentions that until the very end.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-treasury-irs-lawsuit-tax-whistleblower-c710244db618b066f3070a65e75820a5

All corruption in Trump world, all the time.

Trump's lawyers in talks with IRS to resolve his $10B lawsuit

The Trump administration says it’s in talks with the IRS to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax information. Tax and ethics experts say the lawsuit raises legal and ethical questions. In a Friday federal court filing, President Donald Trump requests an extension to potentially resolve or narrow the dispute. Trump filed the lawsuit in a Florida federal court earlier this year, alleging reputational and financial harm from the leak. Former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison in 2024 for leaking tax information about Trump and others.

AP News
My sister in Rockton IL sent this photo of hail from earlier this evening.
#ilwx #storm #hail #spring #severweather

Dear Media:

Blindly quoting the President without fact-checking or context is just misinformation with a press pass.

We don’t need stenographers; we need journalists. Do your job.

"We are being asked to drain our reservoirs so a chatbot can write a poem." --Will Hollingsworth

See council room video below.

https://futurism.com/future-society/city-council-meeting-case-against-data-center

Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center

A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.

Futurism
Forecast is warning of “potato-sized hail” here in Kansas, because Americans really will do anything to avoid learning the metric system.

Spain announces it will not broadcast Eurovision due to Israel’s participation

The Eurovision Fun website reported that Spain’s public broadcaster, RTVE, had announced it would not air the song contest for the first time since the country began participating in 1961

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-893343

Spain announces it will not broadcast Eurovision due to Israel’s participation

The Eurovision Fun website reported that Spain’s public broadcaster, RTVE, had announced it would not air the song contest for the first time since the country began participating in 1961.

The Jerusalem Post

"I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me."

"6 years later, COVID-19 continues spreading, killing, and disabling people, but many of my colleagues ignore it. Last December, a colleague said, “We can’t keep doing this. COVID is basically over.”

"Medical institutions must educate staff that Long COVID is a disabling condition affecting up to 40% of healthcare workers who contracted and continue to contract COVID-19 while working in hospitals that have failed to control the spread of the virus and other pathogens."

#COVID19 #LongCOVID

Source: https://archive.md/CLP40