Nipun Chopra, PhD
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🇮🇳 🇺🇸. Neurodegeneration researcher. @DepauwU grad turned Assistant Professor of Neuroscience. BioTech Startup advisor. Love ⚽️ and 🐶. Anti-Racist. He/Him.
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The same folks who were arguing that the mere “1%” chance of dying from COVID19 (untrue, btw) meant it was not a big deal,
Will now argue that the 0.00008824% chance of getting a blood clot from the vaccine = not worth the risk.
And that is depressing.
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As someone who grew up in a country where "Raw water" is a serious cause of death, I am amazed at what some idiotic rich white folks will believe.
I've had Hep A, cholera and a giardia infection. Trust me, water-borne diseases will rock your world. Stop with this drivel.
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NBC Sports has done more for ⚽️ in America than the United States Soccer Federation.
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Just walked past three college-aged kids walking with styrofoam coolers at the intersection of New York and East.
One told the other that the track was walking distance.
Godspeed, lads.
(For non-Indy folks, see map below)
#Indy500
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So, in some personal news,my home-made Biryani was the second most exciting thing that happened this week.
We were out on a hike (like our 1st date) and I asked Eliz to be my Fellaini for life, and she said yes.
So, that’s a thing. Hashtag out-kicking my coverage by a lot. 💍
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I’ve been sent that Plandemic video by 5 different friends so far. And I managed to get through 25’ of it. I don’t doubt you’ll also see it/be sent the video. This is what you should say-
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American soccer Twitter - where some dude tweeting from his couch while watching soccer on a 50” high def screen in a temperature controlled home while pausing live games to eat breadsticks - regularly criticizes fans attending MLS/USL games about “authentic soccer experience”.
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Dear American Soccer Twitter And Supporters,
There’s already a team in Austin, and you don’t have to wait until 2021 to watch them play.
And they didn’t try to destroy a soccer community to start their club.
Support Austin Bold FC in the
@USLChampionship
.
Bold Stadium is growing fast and we are working nonstop to be ready for the inaugural
#AustinBoldFC
. Season ticket packages are available now - for details head to .
#GoBold
#ABFC
#ATX
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Attendance at Nippert: 23, 955.
I'd like to bring to your attention that
@fccincinnati
v
@ColumbusCrewSC
drew 30, 000 in 20187. ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
Maybe
@ussoccer
should look at its pricing model
#USAvVEN
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Happy pride to all who celebrate but, specially, to the young adults that are afraid to.
#IndyPride
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The main site crashed, so we are publishing this here:
Breaking:
@IndyEleven
to join the
@USL
in 2018:. Latest for
@SocTakes
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Heartbreak for the thousands of American soccer fans who have been lifelong supporters of Man City since 2008.
And the tens of season ticket holders at the Etihad.
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I’m sorry, you guys are watching Messi debut in a nothing burger match over the
#USWNT
?
You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
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Some personal news: starting in August, I will be an Assistant Professor of Biology (two-year term) at my alma mater, DePauw University!
I got to interview at some really great places, but returning to DPU was the goal all along.
🙌🏽
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BREAKING:
@SocTakes
understands
@oaklandrootssc
will be playing in the
@USLChampionship
starting next season.
The team is expected to take on additional investors to supplement current ownership.
The team is expected to take over territorial rights previously owned
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Strongly disagree.
All of this is driven by an unnecessary Americanization of the sport. And it’s all because the money people in soccer recognize that America is the golden goose.
It’s MLS now, but defo Europe soon.
Turning the beautiful game into NFL. 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
Really like the new rules of in-game VAR announcements by the referee. Obvious change, but a positive one and well executed so far
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So, Gregg Berhalter goes from an organization with poor leadership, questionable business practices, and a clear disdain for its fans,
To
An organization with poor leadership, questionable business practices, and a clear disdain for its fans.
#USMNT
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The Venn diagram of people who have stockpiled multiple guns for self-defense
and
Who won’t wear a mask because they don’t believe in living “in fear”
Is one big circle.
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Dear beat writers,
If one of the reasons you've identified for
#USMNT
losing tonight is - the game was played in immigrant-heavy Florida - please delete your entire report and start over.
Sincerely,
Everyone
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I'm not anti-MLS, but if Crew relocates to Austin, I would hope many supporters would cancel their season tickets to their own clubs.
If not, we are buying into a system which places the whims of a self-serving owner over the interests of community-serving fans.
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Remember - the question isn't whether MLS clubs are a business.
We're not idiots, we know that money talks.
The Q is - is it MORE than a business?
Are you spending hours of your time making tifos for your local Italian restaurant or Adidas outlet? Don't think so.
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My family boiled ALL our drinking water. At times, the potability of the water was so poor that we used that boiled water to even brush our teeth. Americans are so lucky that you can drink water from the tap. Trust me, regulation of E. Coli content in your water is a good thing!
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1️⃣14 hour 🚗 ride.
2️⃣
#COVID19
tests.
1️⃣ courthouse.
0️⃣ guests.
1️⃣ ceremony, 1️⃣ minute long.
1️⃣ unimpressed doggo.
Feels strange to be celebrating anything this year when so many families have been torn apart.
So I recognize my privilege in being able to start my own. ❤️
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BREAKING: After suffering home defeat to
@IndyEleven
,
@NashvilleSC
is relegated to Major League Soccer.
RIP Nashville USL, we barely knew ye.
#NSHvIND
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Update: Per three sources, the re-brand of leagues, to be announced tomorrow, will be as follows (and as expected):
@USL
- The Championship
@USL_D3
- League one
@USLPDL
- League Two
The brands will switch over post-USL cup (mid-November).
No change is expected for Y-league.
Two sources inform
@SocTakes
that USL will announce a re-brand tomorrow (Tuesday) which will apply to USL, USL D3 and PDL.
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Reflecting on how many people would still be alive if Facebook had gone down a year ago.
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So ESPN now has streaming rights to -
(1) La Liga 🇪🇸
(2) Serie A 🇮🇹
(3) MLS 🇺🇸
(4) USL C 🇺🇸
(5) USL L1 🇺🇸
(6) Eredivisie 🇳🇱
(7) Pro League 🇧🇪
(8) ISL 🇮🇳
(9) Bundesliga 🇩🇪
(10) A-league 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
(11) Scottish Prem 🏴
(12) FA Cup 🏴
(13) Championship 🏴
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Me: Soccer supporters are some of the most passionate, loyal, community-oriented sports supporters out there.
**Sees Austin FC fans singing 'Anthony Precourt, he's one of our own.'**
Me: Eh, never liked the sport anyway. Burn it with fire.
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Awful result. But I’ve experienced so much success as a United supporter.
This current (and recent) lull is a part of the cyclical nature of being a United supporter.
Got to meet
@WayneSBarton
&
@StatmanDave
while in Manchester and went to Old Trafford 2x!
Love United and Mcr
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I'm genuinely amused by the fact that
#USMNT
might get relegated before any of the pro clubs playing in the US can be.
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You/I can dislike MLS b/c of business/infrastructural concerns, but in terms of actual ⚽️, virtually every game I’ve watched this season has been 👌🏽, w lots of great attacking movements& memorable goalfests.
And for those of us who actually love ⚽️,MLS makes good viewing.
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By the time you’re 35, you should have realized that “chai” is the hindi word for “tea”, and that Starbucks has been fooling you into saying “Tea-Tea latte” for many years.
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Last night on
@nbcsnl
:
“The US men’s soccer team failed to qualify for the Olympics for the 3rd time in a row, but fellas, keep your heads up. Remember that win or lose you will always get paid more than the women’s team.”
Fact check: unfortunately true. All of it.
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So, I had Homer Simpson on one of my slides for my Intro to Cell Biology class, that I thought was funny.
Nobody laughed.
I soon learned that about 75% of my class has never watched an episode of The Simpsons.
I've never felt older.
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Some personal news: I'll be an adjunct professor at Butler University this semester. Will continue my research postdoc as well, so I may not be as active as I usually am w/ soccer stuff. But, I'm sure I'll be on enough to make you all question my Garber/NASL/USL loyalties!
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I can’t believe I have to say this, but:
DO NOT SKIP YOUR SECOND VACCINE DOSE!
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Five biggest surprises of the group stages:
5. Iran's draw against Portugal.
4. Argentina's draw against Iceland.
3. Morocco's draw against Spain.
2. Mexico beats Germany.
1. Pepe goes 270 minutes without a card.
#WorldCup
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This morning, a lady pulled up next to me at a round about up in Fishers.
She calmly asked me - “is that how they drive in your country?”
Joke’s on her - magic carpets drive themselves.
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Would MLS survive if US soccer stopped making all its decisions in alignment with the interest of the league? 🇺🇸 ⚽️
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Waiting in a 2 hour line at The Harry Potter Adventure in Orlando, And I’ve counted 14 soccer jerseys so far.
Four of them have been Liverpool jerseys, and now I finally understand why some people hate Florida.
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People who were wrong:
Every MLS mouthpiece who said this was just business, and attempted to change public opinion.
People who were right:
Folks who understood that this was a business, but, also something more .
#SavedTheCrew
#MoreThanABusiness
Breaking
#SaveTheCrew
news: a group that includes the Haslam Family are acquiring the Columbus Crew, keeping the team in the city.
More to come in
@sbjsbd
shortly.
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In case you're confused about the two COVID19 vaccines you've been hearing about, here's a quick overview (With a TLDR at the end).
VACCINE1 (Oxford University/AstraZeneca) - This vaccine contains a harmless common-cold virus that has been modified to contain the genetic info
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Us: You cannot strip a team from it’s city.
Them: It’s just business.
Ibra: I don’t want to play on turf.
Them: HOW DARE HE DISRESPECT THIS GREAT SPORT THAT WE TAKE SO SERIOUSLY!??????????!
#SaveTheCrew
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Students were blown away by the Stretford End. We watched York City, Villa women, Salford City, Leicester City over last 2 weeks.
Hope I’ve convinced a few of them to support MUFC (in spite of the result).
Also, for all the Leeds fans in my mentions... enjoy The Championship!!
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lol @ MLS
lol @ Nashville
Ultimately, the joke is on all of us that love soccer and live in this country.
So, lol @ all of us.
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If this is really the reason FCC pulled Laurel’s cred, well, then, the Front Office is even more insecure, pathetic, and naval-gazy than the one I remember 3-4years ago.
Imagine pulling a journalist’s credential for **checks notes** being a journalist.
Do better,
@fccincinnati
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“Give them (Columbus) a USL team”.
You are an embarrassment,
@AlexiLalas
. Done defending you.
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Down a goal at HT, in spite of creating a number of great chances.
Tell you what, I’m so lucky my seats are next to the Stratford End. What a fantastic atmosphere.
Sold out 76k stadium for a largely inconsequential match. On a Wednesday night.
American ⚽️someday, I hope!
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Some personal news:
My H-1B work visa was approved yesterday.
So, I'll be sticking around to annoy all of you for a while longer.
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Micah Richards talking about Alphonso Davies - “hes 19, two years ago he was playing in... you don’t even know where he was playing.”
Vicious MLS subtweet, Micah.
#UCL
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If one single player cannot play a game in your country, you should be ineligible to host a final.
This is true of concerns over athlete safety due to religious, cultural, gender/sexual orientation, race, etc
Feel for Mkhi (And Arsenal) UEFA should be ashamed.
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Rocking my
@GrantWahl
jersey from
@olive_york
today during class.
Told my Cell Biology students about Grant’s lasting impact on the beautiful game stateside.
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Guys, I have set up this GoFundMe to raise money for staff at
@PRFootballClub
. Your donations would be appreciated
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I
I believe
I believe in
I believe in equal pay
I believe in equal pay
(repeat ad Infinitum)
cc:
@AmericanOutlaws
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American soccer - at all professional levels - is weirdly and unhealthily obsessed with branding, logos and color schemes.
Especially when you consider all of it is a house of cards driven by speculative increases in expansion fees.
American soccer is Dogecoin.
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Announced attendance: 17,535 !!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s a record for Indy XI by a considerable distance.
@USL
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So, if you'll indulge me, I have a thread on my concerns about how knowledgeable
@CACSoccer
is about lower division soccer in the United States. Specifically, about how the
@ussoccer
PR team attempts to protect him from interview. Even a written interview.
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2015: MLS Cup runners up - Columbus
2016: NASL Spring Champions, cup runners up - Indianapolis
2017: Regular season + USL cup winners - Louisville
2018: Regular season winners - Cincinnati.
⚽️ belongs in the Midwest.
#SaveTheCrew
#MoreThanABusiness
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Very happy to learn that my H1B was approved yesterday.
It also means that I am going to be co-leading a Winter Term Course to England in January. We'll be exploring the history of the growth of football in England.
And, genuinely, I cannot believe how lucky I am.
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BREAKING:
@NISALeague
to apply for D3 sanctioning by September 1st and follow the European calendar. Latest for
@SocTakes
#NISA
#USSF
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In 2017 we reached level of soccer analysis where ex players are dogwhistling that immigrant-heavy cities are not good hosts for ⚽️ games
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PSA for folks in Indianapolis:
The 'Little India' restaurant located at 52nd and Keystone has the best Biryani in the city.
These are facts.
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IDEA: Hey NPSL/UPSL/PDL/etc teams. Link to your jersey merch page below and tell us - in 1-2 sentences - why we should be buying your jersey.
Let's try to get some merch sold for amateur clubs today!
#MerchDay
! RT and spread the word.
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MLS expansion will not stop until the league finds a way to make money outside of expansion fees.
USL expansion will not stop until the league finds a way to make money outside of expansion fees.
USL League One expansion will not stop until the league finds.....
#USSoccer
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I just realized that MLS live with Doyle, Wiebe & co has better tactical analysis than what we’ve seen for Champions League from either Fox or Turner Sports.
That’s just embarrassing re: how little we value the absolute pinnacle of ⚽️.
But also, huge credit to all those guys.
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.
@AlexiLalas
today - "
#SaveTheCrew
represents everything that is right and good"
Alexi a few weeks ago - Biz Metrics, give them a USL team, this is not a moral issue, etc etc
Alexi is undoubtedly a great entertainer. But, also in this case, very disingenuous.
Columbus Crew appears to be SAVED.
@AlexiLalas
applauds the
#SaveTheCrew
movement for representing everything that is good about the game of soccer in the U.S. on the State of the Union Podcast:
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"(MLS is) highlighting a supporter's culture while stealing a team from Columbus."
"If you're going to say you value the people who make the tifo... be ready for us to say, how can you justify that (Crew)"?
@davisjsn
nailing it on
@SiriusXMFC
this morning.
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Thought:You should be more critical of Crew relocating. More than just sticking a
#SaveTheCrew
sticker on your laptop. You’re a smart dude, you have an important voice. This is more than just a business& you should know that better than those of us who never played at your level
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Freedom is seeing 40,000 humans dying over 45 days and deciding the enemies are:
(1) Scientists for "over-reacting."
(2) Media for "over-reporting."
(3) Nurses/doctors/1st responders for "overusing/stealing."
(4) Epidemiologists for "over-analyzing".
Gotta love freedom.
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I'll be eternally grateful to have come across
@DrIbram
's "How to be an Antiracist".
It's brilliantly written, and I've learned so much from it; it highlighted areas that I need to improve upon in my teaching and everyday life.
I unequivocally recommend it to everyone.
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Request denied.
Dear Media,
Please retire the use of the term “Anti-vaxxer.” It is derogatory, inflammatory, and marginalizes both women and their experiences. It is dismissivemy simplistic, highly offensive and largely false. We politely request that you refer to us as the Vaccine Risk Aware.
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MeGaN rAPInoE Iz 2 aRrOgAnt 4 hEr OwN gOoD
"[Carlos Vela] is playing in MLS and he's in his prime. When I was 29 where was I?"
Ahead of El Tráfico, Zlatan says he's the best player in MLS "by far" 👀 (via
@ahoraonuncaespn
)
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I'd like to bring your attention to the fact that an ex-2nd division coach just made it to the MLS cup on his first attempt.
#LoveD2
#MLSCupPlayoffs
#Gio
#SKCvPOR
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So folks want Christian Pulisic to leave Dortmund because he isn’t getting enough playing time, and think he has a better chance at
****checks notes****
Chelsea.
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That fan represents a toxic opinion about Pogba that was surreptitiously inserted into the narrative by Jose Mourinho -
One that posits that Pogba is lazy, selfish, disloyal and unbothered by results.
Pogba will likely leave
#MUFC
, but it won’t be b/c of any of that.
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Dear
@MLS
,
You’ve been told this before, but let me reiterate.
Your “we welcome all our fans,” policy is certainly not the inclusive policy you seem to think it is.
If you had more diversity in your leadership/ownership you’d know this.
Do better.
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🐐
Marouane Fellaini’s game by numbers vs. Ajax on this day in 2017:
82% pass accuracy
9 ball recoveries
5 tackles won
3 successful dribbles
2 chances created
2 interceptions
Massive performance. 🇧🇪
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Let's bring back
#MerchDay
.
Front offices of lower div clubs (USL-C, L1, L2, NPSL, UPSL, etc) - Share the merch page for your club and highlight why folks should buy your merch.
Lower div stans - buy said merch. I'm pledging to spend $100
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So, feel guilty celebrating anything today, but:
My public dissertation defense for my PhD was a success.
I only respond to Dr. Nipun now
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Here we go
Multiple current
@NPSLSoccer
teams signed LOIs to join
@naslofficial
for 2018 pending injunctive relief
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Latest trend I've seen from affluent folk I went to college w/:
(1) Buy a house w/ your parents' money.
(2)Generate income by sticking it on AirBNB.
(3) Live w/ your parents/sig. other while you do (2).
(4) Call this a 'start-up'.
(5) Claim anyone can do this if they work hard.
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Tonight's attendance is a new
@USL
single-game record:
31,478.
#FCCvIND
Kudos to FCC, their fans, the league, and the traveling
@The_BYB
. Soccer is at home in the midwest.
#MoreThanABusiness
#SaveTheCrew
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Some professional news: starting fall 2023, I will be an assistant professor-tenure track (!!!) of Neuroscience and Psychology at
@DePauwU
Bittersweet — leaving my beloved Bio dept (and the wonderful
@dr_m_squared
), but delighted about continuing to work at my alma mater.
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Being anti-violence against Muslims doesn’t make you anti-Semitic or anti-Israel.
Being anti-Modi doesn’t make you anti-India.
Being anti-Trump didn’t make you anti-American.
Don’t let the bootlickers tell you otherwise or scare you into silence.
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MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
What a terrific way to start this week!
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1) From source: Select
@USL
games will be live on ESPN3 , ESPNU and potentially ESPN2 next season! This will defo improve exposure of league
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Embarrassing immigrant story: I went to college in a very conservative town, and was in a fraternity and never bothered to learn the history of the civil war.
So, because I came across the confederate flag so often, I assumed it was the Indiana state flag.
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Dear national news media,
50 morons booing Andrew Luck are not representative of the people in Indianapolis.
Sincerely,
The other 872,630 people living here.
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If UPSL and NPSL don't come together at this point - with independent soccer against the ropes - it is fair to ask if they really care about everything they claim to care about.
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Look, I'm not one for hyperbole, but,
This
#JAM
team boasted of a handful of USL players.
This
#USMNT
team comprised of a handful of MLS players.
The
#USAvJAM
result means
@USLChampionship
is better than
@MLS
I expect
@MattDoyle76
's write-up to reflect this obvious fact.
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Some life news:
20 years ago in August 2002, I entered the USA via Newark, as an undergrad, for the first time. Was clueless.
Today, I arrived at Newark as a permanent resident for the first time. Am still clueless, tbf.
20 years of a life. In one tweet.
#Immigration
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Now available to all:
Too small to succeed: the perils of owning a lower division pro soccer team. RTs appreciated. cc:
@SocTakes
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