Berkeley is known for three things: protests, Nobel Prize winners, and sunshine. All three came together today to #standupforscience

Thousands march at UC Berkeley today to #standupforscience

“Thanks to advances in science, my son’s life was saved!”
—Robin Lopez, Mayor of Albany, CA and PhD candidate at Berkeley
#standupforscience

“We have the numbers, and we have the power! If you haven’t yet, join your union.”
— UAW rep, and also a scientist who lost NIH funding
#standupforscience

“I had a choice to study science in Europe or the US. I chose the US”
—Fernando, Colombian computer scientist (and developer of Python?)
#standupforscience

“Science and engineering are for everyone!”
—Negar, president of Berkeley Society of Women Engineers

#standupforscience!

“When you feel like you’re losing hope, look up to the sky!”
— Brian Mendes, Director of Berkeley Planetarium and Berkeley’s first Mexican Ph.D. in Astrophysics

“Truth wont bend, nor will we!”
—speaker at #standupforscience Berkeley

Proud to #standupforscience at Berkeley!

“Today’s young people are tomorrow’s scientists!”
—Rita Dorff, Director of Lawrence Berkeley Hall of Science

“There is no king, or dictator, or tzar, in science!”
—Ted Miguel at #standupforscience Berkeley

Merci mon ami!

Oh, and for economists: the GOAT of countercyclical public investments.

Hoover Dam is the Sistine Chapel of dams. Breathtaking in scale, transformed the entire Southwest, an engineering marvel, architecturally and artistically beautiful, historically fascinating, the yardstick against which all other dams are measured…

I’d give it a chance.

Proudly Team Parasaurolophus here, repping the 0%

@whatthefog.bsky.social I’m trying to think of what the SF equivalent would be. Maybe a beloved burrito or dim sum place.

Relative to NYC they were top tier, among many contenders obviously.

Relative to the Bay they were so much better that when we moved here I started baking my own bagels because nothing else compared.