While doing awesome science and communicating science with the world, @umdgeography terps🐢 are practicing work-life-balance by checking out what SF has to offer🌉 (we would like our advisors to count this as field work)
A selection of posters from this morning... Featuring @ArmstonJohn from @GEDI_Knights, Mehdi Hosseini from @HarvestProgram, and our recently PhD-minted Abdul Qadir (temporarily represented by Jaemin)
Anderson Cooper has on-air meltdown on the verge of tears telling viewers not to watch CNN after Trump goes BEAST MODE during townhall:
“You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again.”
Three children have been shot dead at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, and police say the suspect is dead https://t.co/UnGodFPzQa
Fiercely outspoken Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, whose efforts to save people during the 1994 genocide inspired the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda", has been freed from prison after more than 900 days behind bars.
https://t.co/uNk8cic10m
GEOG PhD Candidate Yiming Zhang has won an Outstanding Student Presentation Award from @theAGU for her #AGU22 research presentation on the mapping of temporary roofs in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
Congrats, Yiming! 🥳
⬆️Increased food prices = ⬆️Increased poverty.
Every 1% increase in food prices leaves another 10 million people in extreme poverty.
@WFP has more facts on the global food crisis. https://t.co/aHIFJereG9
A moment in time during a terrible beating by Memphis Police that the DA says left #TyreNichols dead
Punch after punch kick after kick
And there are more than five officers on the scene we counted at least 9 officers
not one officer intervened to stop the attack
The police beat a man, punching his face as he cried for his mother. The incident was so bad, the police can’t even come up with a plausible explanation as to why they can’t even try to cover it up.
Footage captured by an overheard camera shows two officers holding each of Tyre Nichols' arms while another repeatedly punches him in the face. https://t.co/1z3qPltWdb
Pollsters: please ask no more questions about the "situation in Ukraine" or the "crisis in Ukraine." Please ask about "the Russian invasion of Ukraine" or "Russia's war on Ukraine." That is an actual event on which people have views.
This is the Bronx River the same year the EPA was founded, a place the city referred to as an "open sewer." This week, three dolphins were found eating fish in the river for the first time in decades. Yeah, environmental protection is actually a great thing.(Camilo Vergara, 1970)
Aaron’s story needs to be told more in the #OpenScience movement.
I was at MIT when he was unjustly prosecuted for downloading paywalled journal articles from the campus network and making them open access. He ended up losing his life over it. 1/
President Volodymyr Zelensky is delivering an emotionally filled address to U.S. Congress on Dec. 21.
“Your money is not charity, it's an investment in global security and democracy we handle in the most responsible way,” he said.
Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Rishi Sunak set to become the UK's first British Asian prime minister, as Penny Mordaunt withdraws from Conservative Party leadership race https://t.co/j4eDEaS62O
@AlexGatopoulos Police in Russia were accused of raiding hostels, homeless shelters and student dormitories in a desperate attempt to boost the military https://t.co/w9a2yVllnK