Mark

Bioinorganic chemist investigating chemical ecology & phytoremediation | Postdoc @UWMadison @LindrothLab | Ph.D. from @Valentine_Lab | he/him | Views are my own

[Mark @ProfessorEllery]

I'm happy to announce that starting this Fall I will be an Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Lake Superior Sate University! We will be studying phytoremediation in quaking aspen and cannabis @LifeatLSSU

[Mark @ProfessorEllery]

I'm pretty sure @LastWeekTonight with the birdman will tell me something horrendous about our society bookended by adorable animals and celebrities/politicians/news casters being the absolute weirdest humans. It's perfect.

[Voices in Movement @VIM_Media]

“While at the top they accumulate capital, at the bottom we accumulate anger” seen in Chile. 🖤🖤😡😡✊🏿✊🏿🔥🔥📸:@KastroBurgos

[Mark @ProfessorEllery]

Do you remember when Fruit Roll-ups was like put this sticky candy on your dirty gross skin, it will leave a vague ink spot and then you can eat it?

[Labor Notes @labornotes]

Grad workers are also helping each other organize across campuses. For instance, those at Northwestern, University of Chicago, and Johns Hopkins "ran joint trainings and exchanged materials" since they were organizing around the same time, Luketa wrote: https://t.co/VXTvBHkAJy

[Mark @ProfessorEllery]

"Inflation"

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve signals interest rates will stay at two-decade high until inflation further cools.

[Katie Beardall, PhD @k_beard12]

My faculty harasser, who was found guilty of violating department and university policies by IU Title IX, was not banned from IU Bloomington campus. He was only banned from department space/events. Not banned from campus as a whole.

And yet this student was banned for 5 years.

[War On Women @WarOnWomenband]

“How Hardcore Feminist Punk Rock Unlocked My AuDHD Brain”
What an honor to be mentioned in the same breath as Babes in Toyland, Bikini Kill, and Lambrini Girls! Thank you, Amy!

https://t.co/lIbwoUnd53

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

It appears that the North Dakota GOP is going to be voting on a platform that includes "restoration of gender dysphoric people" to their "natural biological state,"

IE: Forced detransition and conversion therapy at any age.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

So whatever your politics, Sylvia's case is important.

It asks the Supreme Court a big question: In what scenarios should government officials be immune for jailing their critics?

That's not a left or right issue. That's an everyone issue. /9 https://t.co/ZGmCyTOzXm

[John @jptormey]

I repeat: you don't want Shawn Fain to be the US president. You want the president of the US scared shitless of what would happen if they fucked with Shawn Fain.

[Mark @ProfessorEllery]

This is the most American thing possible. Let's build an entire port instead of just not shooting people.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

I welcome President Biden’s decision to establish an emergency port on the Gaza coast to get large amounts of humanitarian aid delivered directly to the people of Gaza.

But LET'S BE CLEAR about why this extraordinary step is necessary in the first place:

[Mark @ProfessorEllery]

I'm sorry officer, in a few weeks I will provide a letter that says I will not speed any more. There is legal precedent.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

Scoop: The Biden administration gave Israel until mid-March to sign a letter that provides assurances that it will abide by international law while using U.S. weapons and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. My story on @axios
https://t.co/kE9FgKYZF4

[Mark @ProfessorEllery]

Some days I wonder why I chose to work here. Other days, like today's snow day where only my one colleague and I are here, remind me why. My colleague, whose office is two doors down, is blasting thrash metal.

[Mark @ProfessorEllery]

If only I had known this, maybe I wouldn't have gotten that doctorate which led to me teaching students how to grow Cannabis. What a tool.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

This shirt raises money for and causes, but also I think explores a central tension of contemporary progressive politics.

You can’t really be punk (edgy, avant garde, rebellious, cool, fun) and also be the educated professionals who run everything.

https://t.co/XXh9fN7fbN

[Mark @ProfessorEllery]

I just want to thank Oregon Trail for preparing me for this life of famine and hardship. If I can just ford this next river everything will okay.

[Mark @ProfessorEllery]

There are ads for ads. How can anyone not think the system is eating itself?

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Companies steal $50 billion from us every year. Time for some real consequences

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

The "Pink Triangle" drivers license bill that would force al transgender people to get a gender marker identifying them as trans if they want to change their gender has been scheduled tomorrow in Iowa with less than 24 hours notice.

They clearly do not want people to show up.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

The number of messages I have gotten from cisgender people who read Pamela Paul's article and were nearly swayed until reading mine easily debunking it is unreal.

I am glad I am able to fight back.

But I do NOT have the reach that the New York Times has to offer.