Mignon Talbot, American paleontologist & geologist, died #OTD, 1950. She was the first woman to find and describe a dinosaur: Podokesaurus holyokensis, and the first woman to become a member of the Paleontological Society. wp.me/p3ihHu-NI #WomenInSTEM

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“You won’t earn as much going to college because it’s expensive” is literally the right wing assault on higher education, a data-free lie going back back at least to Bush’s disastrous 2005 bankruptcy reform that created a gigantic moral hazard pushing tuition rates into the stratosphere.

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God forbid people be intellectually curious or go into fields that help marginalized communities but that aren’t lucrative.

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I see people making the “if the left and right both think the BBC is biased then it must be getting it broadly right” argument. Or, stick with me here, one side consistently argues in bad faith while the other gets consistently rat fucked in coverage.

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They wrote down that their plan is to eliminate *legal* immigration from China and India. They wrote down that university and PhD programs are a big problem, because they create large numbers of legal non-white immigrants. Guess which two countries send the most international PhD students? 🇮🇳🇨🇳♥️🕊️

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