Terry McGlynn

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Newsletter for scientists navigating higher ed: ScienceForEveryone.science. Ecologist, entomologist, extremely amateur ornithologist, writer. Professor of Biology at CSU Dominguez Hills. (he/him)

Messi smiling big time with trump while inter Miami visited the White House
'but it might work for us' meme from arrested development with Tuchel's face
xG for ENG-ARG is 0.03 - 0.05 at halftime
What do the rules say? The “outside interference” section of the Laws of the Game indicates that if an “other object” enters the field of play during the match, the referee must: “Stop play (and restart with a dropped ball) only if it interferes with play unless the ball is going into the goal and the interference does not prevent a defending player playing the ball; the goal is awarded if the ball enters the goal (even if contact was made with the ball) unless the interference was by the attacking team allow play to continue if it does not interfere with play and have it”
Comically bad bust of cristiano Ronaldo
Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
Many years of journals on bookshelves.
A map from the Watch Duty app showing a plethora of active fires in the greater LA area.
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance"
"Don't gag me with a spoon--gastric emptying at home "
The simple gravestone of Octavia Butler
screencap of a linkedin consultant guy saying E = mc^2 + AI "including AI inthe quation, symbolizies the increasing role of...." copypasta bs. And a physicist simply replies "What"
screencap of chat requests in bluesky dms from deleted acounts, saying hi, hello, hello handsome interested in hookup, hello, etc
A far side comic, when car chasers dream, a dog howls on top of a upside down car that they caught
a screenshot of a histogram comparing the length of my peer reviews to the average, and the average at my university (I'm just over 500, apparently the mean is 350, my campus just over 400)
Targeted in-app Ad for Lyft silver select, rides for older adults
White guy with a grey beard taking a selfie in front of a card catalog wearing a blue hat that says “TAX THE RICH”
An ikea rolling side table with animal toys, board books, books for older kids, other fun things.
White guy with a grey beard and a blue jays hat pointing to his ‘I voted’ sticker
Photo from April 2025 of the Dodgers bending the knee to Trump at the White House. Presenting him with a special Trump Dodgers jersey number 47. Eff them.
image of an inflatable honey bee costume that a person can fit in and wear around. And it's like less than 50 bucks?!
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A New Yorker drawing of a plane cockpit with the pilot as an octopus, copilot as a white dude
Photo of Kathryn Jeffery, president of SMC. She appears to be a Black woman.
pixelated screenshot of an image from the corner of the tail end of a tiktok of a girl as a chicken jockey doing ice ballet to 'I need a hero', someone in an inflated brown suit with a big head that might be an otter or a dog or...?
A bunch of lounging male elephant seals
MLS buys Chivas USA plans franchise rebrand
screenshot of 'migration tools' for substack, wordpress, medium, etc, from the Ghost website
image of a political cartoon from the early 1800s, criticizing MA governor Gerry for drawing voting districts with hideous shapes to engineer elections in the interest of his party. You know he eventually became Vice President?
the cover of the album, which is cream white and in the middle, a square image of 15th century Ethopian art depicting St. George, the Patron saint of ethiopia. The image is a cool piece of art, not as psuedophotorepresentative like you'd see coming out of europe at that time, it's been characterized as "proto-cubist" and it will make you want to look at more ethiopian art from that period of time, at least it is for me now after I looked this up to fill in the alt text.
A new yorker style comic with a typical family beach scene and a lifeguard on an elevated chair speaking into a bullhort, but the lifeguard is the Creature from the Black Lagoon
image from Peanuts of Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie brown as he flies into air and shouts AAUGH.
drawings of Frog and Toad, by Arnold Lobel. Toad (who is me, by the way) is wearing a cozy pied jacket of sorts and loose fitting trousers.
Lucy yoinking the football away from Charlie Brown
a figure of a triangle with each corner indication by 'teaching' 'research' and 'mentoring' inside the space of the triangle is divided showing the relative emphasis of each type of faculty job, with categories being research university, ranch/farm college, elite slac, less-selective slac, regional comprehensive, and community college. This figure is modeled after Grime's CSR scheme in the field of community ecology. Fig by me, Terry McGlynn
A strand of a dozen colorful peace cranes, tackily hung up with some blue masking tape against a white wall.
Portrait of a woman, labeled as a nurse.
A book entitled BORN FREE and EQUAL: the story of loyal Japanese Americans. Text and Photographs by Ansel Adams.
“Astronaut with gun” always has been image
WH A-420
Grey bearded bald white guy with glasses taking a selfie with a rainforest backdrop. For those who La Selva, this is around CCL 650 I think.
It's the classic 'i am not a cat' online court video from the early days of the pandemic
A scrolling image of a typical lowland rainforest. The chorus of a few howler monkeys howling, accompanied by a light consistent hum of cicadas, more lilting than droning.
A person holding a sign saying “educated Chicanas intimidate white fascist nationalists” in the middle of a huge protest in Pasadena
A loteria card with ‘el valiente’ abs a man in a suit hoisting a California flag
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to…
A wall full of backlit dire wolf skulls. Hundreds are in the exhibit
screenshot from the NSF budget request to congress showing that the number of people involved in NSF activities will drop from 330,100 to 90,000.
Elmo, as sassy as ever
A mortar board decorated with “crossing borders and university stages”. Also with a monarch butterfly, another transborder achiever
screen cap from the front page of The Guardian online, "Daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard arrested at Columbia University protests"
Photo of a life-size realistic coyote statue on a front lawn, painted all in blue though. Standing half as tall nearby is a lawn gnome with a traditional red hat, but is also ciesrly a Fat Elvis gnome on a jumpsuit wearing shades, and with rhinestones and such.
White bearded white guy on a sidewalk wearing a Tax The Rich hat
View from the freeway of anti-Trump protestors and signs
Art on the pizza box that says “Altadena forever” with the San Gabriels in the background and a phoenix rising from flames.
It does not follow, because aliens are not parties to the constitution, as citizens are parties to it, that whilst they actually conform to it, they have no rights to its protection. -James Madison
A historical plaque indicating how many Japanese Americans were imprisoned during WWII and how f’ed up it was
3.9 magnitude, 1 mile ESE of north Hollywood