CONGRATULATIONS to Madlen Conlen who won an Arts & Sciences Award of Excellence in Social Sciences for her EURECA poster on research mentored by Dr. Matt Kerr.  Madlen’s project aims to use dendroecology to understand land-use history & inform management & conservation!

The focus of student projects in Dr. Kerr’s 432 course this term was community engagement. Nicolas Castillo, Sophia Jodoin, Elizabeth Barnes & Hope Hutchinson dated a red oak cross section to 1869 for the Greenback Historical Society, and made a tree-ring lesson for 5th graders!

My husband and I got new resident drivers licenses today. I (white) was offered an opportunity to register to vote. My #hispanic husband at a different window was not. Aren’t Tennessee Department of Safety employees required to ask this as part of #motorvoter? Rep. Gloria Johnson Mayor Kincannon

Here’s my sweet 9yro /Third Grader. He currently has a 92 / A in ELA with benchmark scores above the national average in reading. He’s in the 99% for math and has started doing Algebra and translating Japanese at home. He did not pass TCAP ELA and is facing retention right now.

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Hey Dylan Mulvaney, love your work, but hear me out on this… …pose with an AR-15 and let’s see what happens?

Happy Pride Month! As the most visited NP, we see a wide community of visitors that come to appreciate our equally biodiverse landscape. Come see what colors of the rainbow you can find within our park! Can you identify what species make up these colors of the Smokies?

BREAKING: After hours of bargaining, Grad Workers voted to walk out of today's bargaining session following HR's obscene response to the Stephenson sexual harassment scandal, reported on by the Michigan Daily on June 7th.

Grad Employees' Org UMich has been working to create avenues towards protecting grads from sexual violence for months during this bargaining cycle b/c University of Michigan is notoriously bad at handling abuse cases. This bargaining session was so triggering to attend bc of U-M Human Resources's carelessness abt the issue

Guess she means when I was a kid in Jackson, MS & the KKK blew up a synagogue near my house & my dad & his partner arrested 3 of the KKK racists who did it & we had to move out of our home until they rounded up the other KKK a$$hats as they threatened to kill our entire family?

Well, Mr. Speaker, the People have spoken. The FIND OUT era of politics is just beginning. See you August 21st for special session.

The FINAL results confirm, that the voice of District 86 will not be silenced! Dear TN GOP, YOU CAN’T EXPEL A MOVEMENT!! #PeoplePower ✊🏾🎉🎉

Climate Change is a major driver of Canada’s extreme fire season. New World Weather Attribution study shows the Pyrocene is well & truly here, thanks to our continued burning of fossil fuels worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change…

Join us tomorrow in Baltimore to learn about climate disinformation! Info and RSVP⤵️ #AMS2024

There are very few predictable constants in life as much as how much powerful women trigger Donald Trump…. Particularly ones who publicly make it clear they think he is garbage. Taylor Swift is doing nothing but winning here.

I'm confused about the 'Canada as 51st state' thing because, if they succeeded, they'd be adding 40million new citizens who overwhelmingly hate Trump and hate MAGA, flipping the House and Senate. Right?

👀 You have got to be kidding me. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

hi! astrophysicist here. this is so stupid it makes me want to vomit

Starbucks investigated and found the insult had been added to the cup *after* the customer received it. Jacqueline Garretson and her relatives are using Kirk’s killing to harass innocent people and destroy their livelihoods—it’s absolutely disgusting. thedailybeast.com/starbucks-call…