Matt Lamb
@therealmattlamb
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Lubbock, TX
Joined December 2009
Boomer news broadcaster: This is a once in a lifetime event Millennial:
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My favorite factoid about Houston is that though the suburbs are currently impossible to live in without cars, in the 1940s and 1950s the suburban areas were serviced by a sophisticated network of electric interurban rail cars, like this one in my home town of Baytown, TX
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If you’re a grandparent of a student, please be careful. We are about to enter the most dangerous time of the year for you.
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Very few shows portray academia/professors correctly, but season two of “Man On the Inside” pretty much nails it.
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When you are unable or unwilling to argue a position on the merits, you say it’s just common sense.
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Me to students: affordability is likely to become a bigger political issue with holiday shopping coming up. What's the hot gift item this year? Students: Labubus! Me: What are those? Students: well... Me: Does it have something to do with "skibidi"? Students:
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“What you are, we once were. What we are, you one day will be”
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"So, wait. Victor, you created a living being from dead tissue, capable of intelligent & complex thought, speech, emotion & had it been nourished & educated since creation, it could have been a perfectly fine, if not productive, member of society?" "yeah, but it was ugly so..."
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When I get statistical results that are good for the paper but bad for society
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“ThE SeNaTe BiLl WoN’t AfFect ReSeArCh aNd TeAcHiNg”
A TAMU student asked for a professor to be fired because of a lesson that didn't align with her religious beliefs. TAMU President Mark Welsh told her no, but changed course after pressure from Gov. Greg Abbott and other politicians.
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Watch our Community Partnership panel with @therealmattlamb and Jennifer Jackman. We discuss how you can seize opportunities in the community, align your goals, and encourage student involvement. https://t.co/ws7nfcqaDN Join the APSA section to get updates about panels & more.
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“Back in the good old days, people trusted academia” The good old days ⬇️
"America’s higher education has always depended to some degree on the patronage of its elected leaders, an arrangement that has often been a civic boon," @ethomasfinan argues. "Today, universities have to prove that they can uphold their end of the deal":
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Exhibit A of the notion that people don’t actually remember a “better time”. They just remember being a sheltered kid.
Miller: You know, I grew up in Los Angeles, the city that I grew up in—in the 1980s and 1990s doesn't exist anymore. Everywhere you look, there's needles and druggies and criminals and vagrants
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New open access @LSQjournal article from me & @vj_judson shows that legislative districts with larger populations experience more partisan gerrymandering https://t.co/d2BA2pHf4I
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Technically this doesn’t live inside you, this IS you
This creature lives inside you and controls literally every thing you do.
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In my new article with @bcburden and Bob Stein, we find there are different determinants for retaining newer versus more experienced poll workers. https://t.co/9hCPap4U6A
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