#upenn — Public Fediverse posts
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@meidastouch #DonaldTheDeplorable appears to have mixed-up his #GDP growth and #inflation predictions!
No wonder he has kept his #Economics grades at #UPenn ‘classified’! 😂
But that hasn’t stopped his former professors from speaking publicly about #Trump being “the dumbest goddam student I ever had!”
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Hype for the Future 245/284: Greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—New Jersey—Delaware—Maryland
Introduction The Greater Philadelphia area is a notable metropolitan area associated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania along with nearby New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Today, the region is associated with the major city (and largest in Pennsylvania) as well as with the overall Southeast Pennsylvania (SEPA) area. Counties associated with Greater Philadelphia commonly include Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery, and Bucks in Pennsylvania; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and […] -
…The govt’s attacks on #HigherEducation during the past year have in part been aimed at tilting the #political balance of #academia, which #Trump views as hostile to his brand of “conservatism”. Some #MedicalSchools had been swept up in the campaign, but largely at #universities like #Harvard, #UPenn & #UCLA, where the full force of the govt was on display through investigations into “antisemitism” [#Palestinian Rights activism], protections for #transgender athletes & #admissions policies.
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Heng Yang, a M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at #UPenn came to #Atlanta to visit #GeorgiaTech and his old physics instructor, yours truly, from when we were both at the #UniversityOfArizona. We got coffee, checked out the campus, and visited #Einstein.
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They’re #suing #UPenn to get a count of #Jews on campus. Phila district court to hear the case. Let’s hope the court remembers #history. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/trump-penn-list-of-jews-subpoena.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SFA.0KEF.hADwEZxsNPSs&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Update. Yesterday #UPenn filed a 163-page brief in federal court condemning the #Trump admin demand for a list of #Jews at the institution as “extraordinary and unconstitutional".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html"The #EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry. The government’s demand implicates Penn’s substantial interest in protecting its employees’ privacy, safety and First Amendment rights."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. The Trump admin is demanding a list of Jewish faculty, staff, and students at #UPenn.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-listTrump's #EEOC asked for the list last July. Penn refused, and the EEOC sued the university in November. What's new is that several groups just filed a motion in federal court to intervene in the lawsuit on the side of the university -- the American Association of University Professors (#AAUP, national and UPenn chapters), the American Academy of Jewish Research, the UPenn Jewish Law Students Association, the UPenn Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty.
From #StevenWeitzman, UPenn prof of religious studies and past member of its antisemitism taskforce: “Part of what sets off alarm bells for people like me is a history of people using Jewish lists against Jews. The Nazi campaign against Jews depended on institutions like universities handing over information about their Jewish members to the authorities.”
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Trump #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Generalized symmetries of non-SUSY and discrete torsion string backgrounds
Noah Braeger, Vivek Chakrabhavi, Jonathan J. Heckman, Max Hübner
SciPost Phys. 19, 160 (2025)
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Entities rush to declare that data hasn't been stolen/they haven't been hacked. They often wind up looking like liars or just more incompetent when the hacker starts dumping or leaking data as proof.
This week's example: U. of Pennsylvania, which quickly declared they hadn't been hacked and it was just a vulgar email sent out. The hacker seems to have proved otherwise.
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started a #wikipedia article on American entomologist and college professor Caroline Burling Thompson (1869-1921): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Burling_Thompson @wikiwomeninred @wellesleyalums #UPenn #Philadelphia #termites #ants #WomeninSTEM
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started a #wikipedia article on American academic Louise Hortense Snowden (1865-1931), first Dean of Women at #UPenn (1920-1925); she was decorated by the French government for her work in France and Belgium during #WWI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hortense_Snowden @wikiwomeninred #Philadelphia #Sorbonne #YMCA #medievalist
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How can #AI and #cognitiveScience improve #healthcare?
We got some answers from the #NudgesInHealthcare Symposium at #UPenn.
Check out this summary of some themes in the write-up below:
#medicine #psych #econ #compSci #tech #LLM #edu #bioethics #xPhi
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@paninid #DonaldTrump ‘s #Economics professor at #UPenn Wharton School of Business knew his grades!
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Have you been to any of the many UPenn Hospitals in West Philly lately? I was amazed that they had so much staff literally on the street helping direct traffic and to help lost folks. They even had someone next to the parking lot ticket machine to help drivers get their ticket. Kinda shocked to see more than the minimal effort in healthcare.
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During the #2024election #NickOfferman sang “Proud to be a Kamala man” to parody the stale #MAGA anthem “Proud to be an American” by one-hit-wonder Lee Greenwood.
He continues to taunt #DonaldTheDeplorable with cutting analysis of the #math skills of the #StableGenius #POTUS who cheated his was into and to graduation from the Wharton School of Business at #UPenn. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-show-nick-offerman-trump-national-parks-funding-cuts_n_687b1855e4b02a024c983ada
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"Leges sine moribus vanae" is a Latin phrase that translates to "Laws without morals are useless." It emphasizes the importance of ethics and morality in conjunction with legal systems.
Not today, I guess.
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started a #wikipedia article on #Philadelphia heiress, social worker, writer and mountain climber, Lillian Gest (1897-1986): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gest @wikiwomeninred @vassar #UPenn #mountains #CanadianRockies @AlpineClub
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
MACK: Mismodeling addressed with contrastive knowledge
Liam Rankin Sheldon, Dylan Sheldon Rankin, Philip Harris
SciPost Phys. 18, 150 (2025)
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The #TrumpTaxes that #DonaldTheDeplorable calls ‘reciprocal’ #tariffs are what you’d expect from a #StableGenius that an #Economics professor at #UPenn said was “the dumbest goddam student I ever had!”
#Resist and #DoNotComply.
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Shame on these university cowards! UPenn has tarnished its reputation for centuries.
#UPenn #MrFish #FreeSpeech #IvoryCowards #USPol
UPenn Lays Off Cartoonist Mr. Fish
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/22/upenn-fires-cartoonist-mr-fish/#google_vignette
