I didn’t say you fucked up by going there. This isn’t personal, and you should stop taking it personally. I said it has little to offer students. If one of my kids wanted to go to Mizzou, I’d tell them to think hard about that choice, since they’re unlikely to get much direct mentorship from research-active faculty.…

Well, I’ve spent every work day in the past 15 years on college campuses, taught about 4k undergrad students and 200 grad students in class, and supervised another 100 or so upper-division undergrad students, grad students and professional students on research projects. A pretty big chunk of my time is spent deciding…

Uh, it has a lot more issues than other places. In the past three years, they’ve slashed hiring of tenure-track faculty, then froze hiring entirely, then slashed hours to adjuncts (which means that fewer classes are offered and more students per class) in repsonse to state budget cuts. Then, they cut ties with PP,…

Keep what up?

Toddle back to mommy and daddy’s basement now, child.

Lock ‘em all up in College Station and throw away the key.

Exactly, no leftist academic scientists were persecuted during the red scare.

Not just that. People are applying to those schools way less because they don’t want to put up with all that bullshit.

Yep. 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, if people can’t afford someone to take your kid after, we are not going to see people re-entering the workforce after leave.

I hate it when they post contradictory articles.

And I’d go with the advice in last year’s article. But I still do the soap soak for pump parts, since milk fat can get trapped in there.

Usually only financial help (including to do something like rent a car, but maybe not to get someone to pick you up), but you can find organizations here:

From the people suing specifically, no. But this summary from Bloomberg is OK:

Patenting genes is awful, and the cross-industrial nature of gene patents makes it even scarier. I was proofreading a funding proposal for a colleague a while back, and their ability to do the proposed work, in the location they had proposed it, was tied to an in-progress court case. There needs to be action on that,…

I sort of buy that. Monsanto is abusively litigious. But DuPont is presently fighting off 3500 water contamination law suits, one of which recently settled for 1.6 million in damages. I guess I’m just surprised at how strongly people feel about suing farmers vs. drinking poison.

I don’t necessarily think it makes it better, per se. But I would guess that most of the people trying to halt efforts to make higher-yield crops that require less input of nutrients (both things we need to support a growing population without tanking our water supply) aren’t in a rush to give up their computers or…

I think it’s really interesting how Monsanto became the nucleus for anti-GMO objections, when DuPont does everything they do. You see it above: ‘near complete monopoly on our food supply’. In reality, DuPont only owns about 10% less of the seed supply than Monsanto does, and spends similar amounts on lobbying.

I’m a…

I’m pretty over it because PACs can also use money to support other races. To get things done, a president needs allies in Congress, and that means supporting downstream candidates. Simply getting Sanders or Clinton elected isn’t enough.

maybe just school board- the science-phobes in TX could use an actual scientist to temper some of their crazy

It’s definitely worth an adult re-read. I bought new copies when I found out I was pregnant the first time, and there were points when I wondered if I was hallucinating or if I really just read that.

Open the package, they’re worth a read.

The latter ones get super weird, and kind of heavy-handed with the religious allegory. I actually think it ‘s kind of interesting the way CS Lewis gets shat on for his religiosity, but L’Engle doesn’t. I think he balances his theology in a way that makes more sense, but later…

No, I saw them in other places. Even if they were only there, that’s still annoying. Those are packed areas.