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California Bans Legacy Preferences at Private Universities www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/u...
The change will affect Stanford University, the University of Southern California and other private colleges in the state.
Those are Lysenkoist vibes. Better stock up on your essential medicines and get your vaccinations up to date.
The Nolichucky River has median flow of 6k gallons per second. Niagara Falls has a flow of 750k gps, 125x higher. During Helene, the Nolichucky got to 1200k gps, 1.6 times Niagara. Imagine what 1.6 Niagaras tearing through a small river town does. www.wate.com/news/top-sto...
šØ Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!! We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/155792
As an emigrant, one often cringes about language and cultural changes in the birth country. My current top cringe is the adoption of English "Are you fine with this ?" in German popular language as "Sind Sie fein damit ?". Not sure when this crept into German. š¤¢
This is my town, Asheville, NC, supposedly a climate change refuge. The former gas station is half a mile from my house. We have no running water, likely weeks before it's restored. Most are without power. This is the climate apocalypse in real time. It's coming for all of us.
It's woefully incomplete, but I've made the start of a starter pack for folks interested in microscopy. Suggestions for who else to include (including yourself!) are very welcome. go.bsky.app/SaYfAX3
Hope more scientific institutions will follow.
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