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.

Turns out Parisians don’t hate bike lanes as much as CNN thinks.

Hell of a story from Julie Brown and The Miami Herald showing lots of suspicious document shredding at the prison where Epstein died in the days after.

#Epstein

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article315131144.html

Teens Tackle Waste From Old Pickleballs, Aiming for Guinness Record for Recycling Them–And You Can Help

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/teens-tackle-waste-from-old-pickleballs-aiming-for-guinness-record-for-recycling-them-and-you-can-help/

After midnight is when I tend to have the most important and useful aimless thoughts
Sums up my experience growing up

Happy 97th birthday to the incomparable Yayoi Kusama, born #OTD 22 March 1929! Amongst her massive catalog of works are some cool animals, including lots of butterflies...
Papillon (I), 2000
Screenprint, 38 × 45.5 cm
https://artsy.net/artwork/yayoi-kusama-papillon-i

#WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth

Wow. Respect.

"65 years after the assassination of Congo's 1st PM, a Belgian diplomat will face trial"

"More than six decades after Congo's beloved first prime minister Patrice Lumumba was abducted and murdered by Belgium-backed secessionists, a former Belgian diplomat will stand trial for war crimes in connection to the assassination."

I hope the current US gov cosplayers are paying attention. Justice will be waiting.

This man is 93.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/yema-lumumba-assassination-trial-9.7136710

65 years after the assassination of Congo's 1st PM, a Belgian diplomat will face trial | CBC Radio

More than six decades after Congo's beloved first prime minister Patrice Lumumba was abducted and murdered by Belgium-backed secessionists, a former Belgian diplomat will stand trial for war crimes in connection to the assassination.

CBC

I just proofread the American Astronomical Society response to SpaceX's response to AAS's petition to deny on SpaceX's million sat filing. It's a great document, but the fact that we need to say any of this (and spend volunteer time fighting SpaceX's highly paid lawyers) is completely infuriating.

I need to go outside now, really tough that I'm in a city and don't have a hay field available for easy rage-screaming.

I am 82 years old.
I have lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK assassination, the Vietnam War, the Turmoil of 1968, Watergate, the Hostage Crisis, two oil crisis, disco, Reaganomics, 9/11.
The covid pandemic....
These past 11 months have been easily the most miserable era in America in my lifetime.
The hatred, the bigotry, the lies, the racketeering and pedophilia are beyond anything I have ever seen.
We are not going to hell as a nation.
We are IN hell.
The “goal” of the Iran war is now reportedly to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war began