The academic publishing business, relying on publicly funded knowledge to extract profit, is insane. Elsevier, which publishes 25% of the world’s scientific papers, makes £2.9bn profit a year - with profit margins nearing 40%! Now, academics take action. theguardian.com/science/2023/m…

Good morning Boulder County! Bike riders please be aware there is a new cattle gate south of Coal Creek drive near original town Superior that is much more abrupt than other gates. Clockwise Dirty Biz riders will encounter with speed. Be safe.

Do you notice it’s almost always those who are high up in the org chart who says things like this? If it’s so noble cut your own paychecks and live like your workers! No? Then stfu about your vocational awe rhetoric bullshit.

Seeing street flooding all over #Boulder, but getting a lot of calls about Ninth and Balsam specifically. Avoid the area if you can #cowx

Attacks on trans student athletes aren't about sports. They're about erasing and excluding trans people from public life. Make no mistake: trans people belong — both on the field and everywhere else. aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rig…

Police Officers Terrified By Story Of Tape That Shows Fentanyl Then 7 Days Later You Die theonion.com/police-officer…

1948 — Heartbreaking photo of tribal representative George Gillette, weeping as 154,000 acres of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara ancestral homelands were signed away to make way for a dam. #LandBack 🪶

"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals." mcsweeneys.net/articles/criti…

Not a single mention of the carnage upon Palestinians with this mass gaslighting campaign while they commit a genocide.

The Weeknd, first singer and celebrity to be donate $2.5 million to humanitarian aid in Gaza. Four million meals to feed more than 173,000 families for two weeks. While other celebrities are afraid to speak up for Gaza to protect their interests.

"It doesn’t really matter what they did out there," says 2024 School Librarian of the Year Finalist, Jessie Storrs, who serves youth from ages 10 to early 20s at El Centro Junior/Sr. High School in the Sacramento County Youth Detention Facility. ow.ly/NvEE50QWSsJ #SLOTY

remember in 2020 when all of a sudden you knew the names of the 20 worst mayors in the united states because they fucked up so bad? i feel like if i know the name of a single university president outside my hometown, they’ve really stepped in it.

What does disclosure achieve without divestment? Students who are being so brave and determined right now, please don’t undermine your power. You have far more than you know. Demand divestment. This is your money, you are the engine of the university. It stops without you.