When so many have been killed, we need many candles for memory and love.

Yiddish Praxis With the caveat that I haven't compared this to other applications of the plebes from the era, look at JFK's pathetic little application to Harvard. Looks like the application of someone who is guaranteed a spot, no?

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Hey, everyone: This is pretty big.

The Daily Caller (ugh) has memos from the Florida DOE suggesting they were influencing College Board on the AP African-American Studies curriculum as early as January 2022, and at the very minimum, July 2022.

When the Gen Z grandkids take over the company

A difficult and important read. No reason to think the problem is limited to U of T med school.

Even though there was only enough employees to keep Twitter going for a single day, the tweets continued tweeting for eight wondrous nights, leading the sages to declare a miracle

Am curious to see an angry faculty meeting

Perfect

Because this is where we’re at: fart smell comes from molecules like indole and skatole, vastly smaller than viruses, which are themselves hundreds of thousands of times smaller than the respiratory aerosol particles that carry them.

That’s why keith can still smell his farts

What beautiful writing

In writing a land acknowledgment for an upcoming virtual talk I decided to research the Indigenous history of my neighbourhood in Toronto, which is built on a buried tributary of the Don River. 1/4

Still? Really?? Infuriating

And: The illustration is stunning too. Notice that expression on her face

Jonathan Turner shares strategies and resources for grad students and postdocs to further their professional development.
universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/…

A play in several hilarious acts

Just started reading it and it’s already making my soul feel better

So deeply true. Beautiful.
So where were you with this advice when I was wrangling my kids and my “career”? Oh, yeah. I remember now ❤️

My brilliant friend & favourite legal communicator ⁦⁦Dahlia Lithwick⁩ has written the essential book for this moment. Buy it (on sale Sept. 20!). Devour it. Talk about it with your friends. Then go make some magic. #lawtwitter #ladyjustice

Good therapy here from Dahlia Lithwick the writing alone will spark joy.
Maybe he can’t escape the law, or the facts, forever. slate.com/news-and-polit… via @slate

Any tweeps going to the Toronto Blue Jays game today? My kid is pining for the Vladdy bobble head but her mean mom didn’t buy tix. Will exchange for cookies 😊🙏🏻