Sam
UPenn Chemical Engineering PhD, GETUP-UAW. views on polymers and politics my own. they/them
- Reposted by Samthe Bring Back Shame Popular Front is expanding
- "Since prison for Epstein’s fellow abusers gets unlikelier over time, America’s deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." - marvellous, marvellous column by @edwardluce.bsky.social:
- so funny that the same facial hair I was so desperate to have at 18 that I had a terrible goatee for years I am now haggling with my health insurance to get burned off my face permanently. life comes at you fast!
- on the final episode of Heated Rivalry which is when I can only assume they are finally going to break the silence on Russiagate and the annexation of Crimea
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- I rarely post about my actual work here, but I'm happy to share that I have a new paper out in RSC Soft Matter. In this work we used molecular dynamics to study small penetrant dynamics in model polymer glasses and connected them to existing theory. Check it out: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
- I'm a No Limit soldier for Jerome Powell and the United Auto Workers
- Reposted by SamIf she wasn't already dead, they killed her by preventing medical assistance. All the ICE/CBP officers involved should be prosecuted.
- Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
- so awesome how the biblical context for the Christmas story is that Augustus was conducting the first census of the ancient world. data guys celebrating the miracle of accurately capturing the demographics of the Roman Empire
- when it's New Years Eve on Pandora they sing Auld Varang Syne
- All so-called "coastal elites" WILL be subjected to family viewing of the Christmas episode of The Dukes of Hazzard
- Reposted by SamI’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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- From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak I fought with him, the Balrog of Morgoth, until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside
- How it feels knowing that Avatar 3 will gross 2 billion dollars while the least interesting critics in the world are spending all their time writing about how it has zero cultural impact
- Reposted by SamThe USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
- Reposted by Samevery trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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- #NowWatching filling in a blind spot in my tour of Cameron's filmography
- Last week our graduate union at Penn accomplished something amazing. In GETUP's first ever strike authorization vote, two-thirds of all grad workers at Penn turned out in favor of striking to settle the contract we've been negotiating for over a year. Back in the bargaining room next week!
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- NKRC was extra special this year, even though it's always the best part of my summer. racked up 202mi of running and 23,000ft of climbing in the last two weeks and solo summitted two mountains I've wanted to do for years. can't wait to do it again next year and also every other year forever
- going to force all my kids at running camp this year to sing Love Takes Miles in perfect orchestral harmony
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- The money is about to get touched in ways we've never seen
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- Guess someone at Harvard heard me positively comparing them to Penn one too many times this week
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- Meanwhile a former NY governor who wasn't even elected to that office is trying to tell the world that this is somehow unelectable
- A solemn reminder that Israel's tolerance of LGBTQ+ people, laundered through "pinkwashing" as a reason it's so great, is extended only to those who are bought into their government's colonial project.
- Blow Out by Brian de Palma rules what a great movie
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- I'm still mad about this. Here's my question: if federal or NCAA guidelines change in the future, will Penn reinstate Lia's records and issue her an apology for doing this? At what point do the retroactive changes stop?
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- the president's email to the university ended with: "We have now brought to a close an investigation that, if unresolved, could have had significant and lasting implications for [Penn]." Glad to know the lasting implications for J. Larry Jameson personally have been fully resolved. lmfao
- had a dream that they tabulated the NYC votes tonight and Zohran ended up winning by 20 points and Cuomo just started disappearing Back To The Future style
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- Dark Knight Rises lovers vindicated yet again
- it's so amazing how all of Zohran's highest-visibility endorsements are from people who are good and cool and all of Cuomo's are from people with documented personal and financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein
- Zohran might win tomorrow, but even if he does, the job won't be finished. He needs to trick Andrew Cuomo into saying his own name backwards on camera in order to finally put an end to all of this
- safe to say my upstairs and downstairs neighbors are definitely familiar with rxknephew John Fetterman song at this point
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- Employers don't resort to tactics like this, to piling up spurious legal challenges, or to hiring lawyers that bill over $1000/hour unless they know that their status quo depends on mistreating workers and they will have to change their ways when they actually have a seat at the table.
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- Amazing new email from Penn to every single postdoc, signed by nobody, and trying to scare people out of voting in the union election that they are trying to prevent from happening, just dropped
- I hear Waterloo by ABBA and I'm transported instantly to the museum of ice cream
- Pictured: almost 200 Penn graduate workers attending their GETUP-UAW bargaining session today where we unveiled our economic platform for the first time. We are stronger together ❤️💪👊
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- feeling a primal urge to knock some doors. in the big apple
- if you're in line to fight for a materially better world inside and outside of your own communities stay in line
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- Reposted by Sam“In an unusual act of public protest, more than 340 scientists and staff at the National Institutes of Health today released a statement charging NIH officials and their superiors with politicizing science.” www.science.org/content/arti... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration
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- the debat
- phonebanking people in my union about our economics bargaining session
