Breakdown of PhD student cost on a grant: tuition $45K stipend $35K fringe $10K indirects $60K -- total paid by NIH to university: $150K total paid by university to student: $35K (this is just a toy example to illustrate a point, not real numbers but same ballpark)

All the academics who complain about the lack of ethics, corruption, and amount of money spent on college sports want you to know their availability will be limited over the next few weeks while they are closely watching the World Cup in Qatar.

3 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill and later becomes the first confirmed case of COVID-19. More than 6.6 million people have since died.

FUSION ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH: US scientists have made one of the most significant leaps in decades in the search for the Holy Grail of energy - limitless, carbon free power - by achieving net energy gain in a fusion reaction ft.com/content/4b6f0f… Huge scoop by Tom Wilson

Let's review the basics: Until February 2022, every time Putin used military power, he scored a geopolitical win. He invaded #Georgia in 2008 - he still got Nord Stream 1; he invaded #Ukraine in 2014 - he got Nord Stream 2 nonetheless; 1/

I have not seen the video. Those who love me most have urged me not to. One of the truths playing Kunta Kinte taught me is that the dehumanization of Black people was necessary to the success of our enslavement.

Woke professor Albert Einstein going out of his way to promote diversity, equity and inclusion during the Jim Crow Era

Overheard in Silicon Valley: "This thing will be President in two years."

My sustainability class just finished a module about disinformation. I had them write me a letter assuming they were flunking and arguing that they deserve an A, using the techniques of disinformation we discussed, like cherry picking, false experts and ad hominem. HOO-boy. 1/n

To show we are doing something without increasing costs or actually changing anything, we are appointing a task force to investigate potential solutions. We expect their recommendations in 2026.

What a fun group meeting. Love students presenting their work and collaborating. Thank you Robin Macaluso Dave Hilton Melissa Orr Mel Anderson Moisés Bravo mor4267. Pretty flowers on campus too!

Republicans don't claim Trump is innocent under the law. They claim he's above the law.

The #StarTrekLegacy petition has passed 18,000 as we close in on Picard season/series finale... BTW, the petition for a Pike/Enterprise show had 11,000 the week of Discovery S2 finale change.org/p/let-terry-ma…

🎉🎉Happy to announce we received the 2023-2025 Department of Distinction in undergraduate Physics education from American Physical Society this weekend!! Here's our shiny new plaque! UAB

Breaking: The Texas Senate has given final approval to Senate Bill 18, which would ban public colleges and universities in Texas from granting tenure starting on Jan. 1. It now heads to the Texas House. #txlege

Remember that kid you gave a “C” to in your state politics course? He is now in the state legislature and is about to end tenure.

Yes, we want you to recruit the very best faculty in the country to work at a college with below median pay and in a state where the state legislature is trying to kill tenure. And your negativity isn’t helping!

Our conference hotels can’t exploit labor, but we can. Have you seen what we pay our grad students?

Everyone else in your department knows it is ungovernable. Everyone else your department also knows they are not the reason why it is ungovernable.

Are we just going to ignore the fact that Biden let Hurricane Hillary hit California when he could have used a Sharpie to move it out to sea safely?