Bob Patalano

That’s because it’ll be easier for them to suspend elections now.

For what it’s worth, my uni president makes about 11x more than the average salary of lecturers.

Here’s How Much Private-College Presidents Make Base pay, bonuses, and benefits for 223 chief executives at the private colleges with the largest expenditures in 2023.

Has a high school student ever decided on which college or university to attend based on the school’s president (or any administrator for that matter)?

1,200-year-old Communion bread unearthed in Turkey Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered five carbonized loaves of bread dating to the 7th–8th centuries AD, offering a rare glimpse into early medieval Christian life and worship.

Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered five carbonized loaves of bread dating to the 7th–8th centuries AD. 🏺🥖

That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Things don’t ever really change…

(From 1986’s The Dark Knight Returns written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Klaus Janson, and colored Lynn Varley.)

MAGA called me pro-war for saying we should give Ukraine weapons to help them defend their sovereignty.

This morning, they're cheering as America bombs Iran.

They stand for nothing.

Nothing whatsoever.

A never ending cycle of violence to bring about world peace.

The US has bombed countries in the Middle East infinite times during my life.

This is Brave’s Leo AI summary of the never ending bombing campaigns over the last 40 years.

Then it should be incredibly concerning that the military is carrying out illegal orders.

What branch of the US military is carrying out these attacks? We have a much bigger constitutional crisis on our hands if the US armed forces is willingly starting wars with other nations without congressional approval.

Never mind Congress, what branch of the military is carrying out these illegal strikes? We have a much bigger problem on our hands than congressional approval.

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

Really looking forward to Superman becoming a Zionist 🫤

Cool! I recommend Heated to all my students so I’m sure they’ll appreciate the podcast.

A good day is when it all comes together for the students. It may take students weeks or months to hone their lab skills and learn protocols but still not quite grasp the ‘why’ of it all. Then, something just clicks and the entire process becomes clear to them and they take ownership of the work.

Substack doesn’t want writing or journalism – they just want profit Polymarket and the contentification of the entire platform

“One feature of late-capitalism is apparently everything becoming a casino. The house always wins and, in the long-run, the 99% lose. Capitalism has already done massive damage to journalism, writing, the arts and more.”

Will self-driving ‘robot labs’ replace biologists? Paper sparks debate AI-driven autonomous robots are coming to biology laboratories, but researchers insist that human skills remain essential.

This will certainly free up time for other tasks like writing papers and grant applications, but so many students could lose hands-on laboratory experience.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Automated solid phase extraction of environmental lipid biomarkers Lipids produced by different organisms are preserved as fossils in sediments and soils. These so-called lipid biomarkers and related organic proxies r…

To all molecular biomarker lovers:
Have you seen this new paper led by Jérôme Kaiser about automated solid phase extraction of environmental lipid biomarkers—n-alkanes, alkenones, and tetraether lipids?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪
#ChemSky
With implications for ⚒️ and #PaleoSky

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.

JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Trump is wiping out all climate regulation. Big Oil may regret it. For decades, oil majors fought climate regulation. Now, they’re afraid Trump’s extreme rollbacks could leave them on the hook to pay for what they’ve done.

This is a very interesting perspective on the repeal of the Endangerment Finding. If the EPA no longer regulates fossil fuel emissions through the Clean Air Act, cities and states have a better chance at bringing climate lawsuits against the oil and gas industry.

Meanwhile in the U.S., we’re opening the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing and will soon be selling off public lands to the highest bidder.

China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists say

China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban

- the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist

Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”

Sounds accurate to me.

Manufactured outrage resulted in the most watched Super Bowl halftime show ever.

The billionaires are sitting back and just laughing at us all.

Two countries booed at Olympics opening ceremony despite stern warning

NBC removed the boos for Vance and Israel from their primetime broadcast of the opening ceremonies.

They cut the boos for Israel too

American propaganda in full swing tonight for the NBC broadcast of the opening ceremonies.