I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.
What the fuck is wrong with this country? How can so many people be more concerned about the almost completely imaginary dangers faced by campus Jews than they are about the unimaginably worse horrors that are actually happening every day to people in Gaza????
because of vaccine mandates we’re losing teachers who don’t believe in science, healthcare workers who don’t believe in medicine, and police who don’t believe in public safety…
Not to be a crankypuss, but awarding a Nobel for work that suffered from not being taken seriously for decades only *after* it proved to be of incredible value is not a triumph of prizemaking - it's a complete condemnation of it and the entire culture of modern academic science.
Ladies, if he:
* Solicits opinion of 3 strangers before agreeing to a date
* Takes months to reply
* Nitpicks about your appearance
* Demands you make major changes
* Won’t let you see friends unless they pay
He’s not the one. He’s a scientific journal.
as a lifelong die-hard @RedSox who spent a freezing cold night in Fenway watching Curt Schilling help deliver the 2004 World Series to my beloved team, I can say it is a privilege and an honor that this racist fuckhead blocked me
The Onion speaks with more courage, insight and moral clarity than the leaders of every academic institution put together. I wish there were a @TheOnion university.
What the fuck does David Brooks - the child of academics who grew up in a tony suburb, went to the University of Chicago and, after graduation worked at the National Review, Hoover Institute, WSJ and NYT - know about hardship?
Everyone says “Today’s PhD students are so accomplished I wouldn’t have gotten in today” as if it’s a good thing. It’s not. There are amazing young scientists out there today. But grad admissions is ignoring wide swaths of them because it’s been infected with the same
I still believe deeply in the need for a radical restructuring of science publishing to create an open and fair system that works well for science, for all scientists everywhere, and the public that supports us, and am proud of the steps we have taken to begin to get us there.
Every sane person on Earth is horrified and traumatized by what Hamas did and wants it to never happen again. All the more so as a Jew with Israeli family. But I am also horrified by the collective punishment already being meted out on Gazans, and the worse that is about to come.
The Onion speaks with more courage, insight and moral clarity than the leaders of every academic institution put together. I wish there were a @TheOnion university.
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