Joshua Sharp @JoshuaSharp@social.cleverlibre.org

Hamline U update: faculty votes overwhelmingly no confidence in president who presided over free speech debacle. FAAFO.

https://hamlineoracle.com/10822/news/hamline-faculty-no-longer-have-faith-in-president-miller/

The party of free speech out there free speeching I see

https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-florida-race-and-ethnicity-education-353417231de0a790c8e290479a5e52b8

Using heparan sulfate octadecasaccharide (18-mer) as a multi-target agent to protect against sepsis
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2209528120?af=R

Looks Interesting. Will have to dig into this and find out why an 18-mer...

#Glycotime #Proteoglycans #Science #Research

I just wrote a short piece over on post.news about how the h-index rose to prominence because it was a clever UI hack—and now that the UI hack is no longer needed, it may seem like a curious choice of bibliometric measure.

Here's the link if you want to read it there.

https://post.news/article/2KNv9uat3nL8CF6tIpA7eIpVGOg

I'll serialize here as well, below.

Superb structural glycobiology from Joel Bloch with Ethan Goddard-Borger & Kaspar Locher who solved the structure of tryptophan C-mannosyltransferase ! congratulations

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-022-01219-9

#glycotime

Everything about this story is just appalling: University administrators, and apparently even student journalists, have apparently decided that material a particular religious group considers “blasphemous” is therefore “harmful.” They cannot have thought through the consequences of applying that idiotic principle consistently. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/01/03/debates-whether-academic-freedom-includes-images-offensive-muslims

Amid a raft of hospital closures, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves cautioned lawmakers against rushing to provide funding for ailing hospitals during a press conference on Jan. 3, 2023, saying that “keeping inefficient systems is not a good answer.”

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30116/crisis-mode-as-hospitals-close-mississippi-lawmakers-mull-band-aid-fixes

Another HS polymerase structure, after the one from Rebekka Wild's group, late in 2022.

@strucbio #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #Glycotime
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-022-01220-2

UC strike energizes unprecedented national surge of union organizing by academic workers https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-02/uc-strike-energizes-labor-surge #academia

I know that facts don't matter so much during a moral panic, but I'll just say that I teach a class every year at Stanford that tackles hate speech, violence, terrorism, child exploitation, suicide and other really difficult topics and use a lot of these words with no difficulties.

I do give my students a talk up front about the content of the course and the need to be resilient if you want to make a positive impact in this field, but so far no complaints.

https://reason.com/2022/12/21/stanford-elimination-harmful-language-speech-karen-american/

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