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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 9 days ago • 136 comments

EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (Link at the end)

submitted 26 days ago • 63 comments

Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments

I mean yes, there is such a concept in Christianity. It appears quite notably in the letters of Paul, for instance, where it’s a concept he relentlessly argues against, and in the Gospel where it’s a concept Jesus very much repeatedly scorns. So it is technically in there!

submitted 29 days ago • 372 comments

Focus on 1 or 2 things. Go deep on those. Focus on "news" about those things first and foremost. Think about the concrete actions you can take to impact those ONE or TWO things.

submitted 34 days ago • 92 comments

Super fascinating climate-communication study making the rounds today, thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com. Skeptics who changed their minds went through a three-step process, which began with a "distancing from their ideological community." 👇 🧵

submitted 41 days ago • 14 comments

William James was born OTD in 1842. As important as “pragmatism” to understanding James is “meliorism,” the idea that improving the world is possible, but not assured. We have to fight for it. “We receive in short the block of marble, but we carve the statue ourselves.” #philsky

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

1. Plant biology or Mycology or ecology (somethings studying the natural world) 2. Academic Editor or something in academic publishing (came close to pursuing this one when I was struggling to find a job in academia) 3. Urban planning

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Lovely orange mushrooms (possibly enoki?) peaking out from the beneath leaves.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I finally read the article and the prof has created a course pack and flipped the classroom - all things people have been doing for many years and easily done without AI. Also the “textbook” cover is gibberish

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

1st post on bsky - about bsky! I was fascinated with academic starter packs and made an interactive network to see academic communities and how they connect - a map of knowledge! link to an interactive & searchable network: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade...

submitted 89 days ago • 27 comments

Me, (over)thinking about all the ways I'm falling short this semester: I can absolutely fix all my courses over the three week winter break. Next semester will be totally different...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats' backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights must stop now! here is my proposed action. Please share widely and please let me know if you plan to participate! #LGBTQNotGoingBack on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac... or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...

submitted 95 days ago • 78 comments

Since I'm still fairly new to ungrading, the biggest challenge is just figuring out how to do it and make it manageable for me and the students. I constantly have to rethink and redesign my classes. It's a good challenge, but sometimes difficult nonetheless.

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

been using a mix of labor and specs grading. Students seem to like the transparency and control it gives them and express reduced anxiety. I don't think I've managed to harness their intrinsic motivation but I do think it helps them focus more on process over "getting it right". #ungradingchat

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces. all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

submitted 108 days ago • 68 comments

Disturbing: A big reason Trump won was undecideds couldn't be persuaded that millions of jobs lost in 2020 and death of Roe were Trump's fault, internal Harris campaign polling showed. Biden/Ds let Trump rehabilitate himself to disastrous effect. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1882...

submitted 112 days ago • 194 comments

Actions that protect the climate while also connecting us to one another in solidarity are now more important than ever. What are your favorite ways to build community while reducing emissions?

submitted 112 days ago • 16 comments

as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice

submitted 113 days ago • 151 comments

New Stanford Encyclopedia article out today, written by myself and Katharine Jenkins: Feminist Metaphysics plato.stanford.edu/entries/femi... #philsky

submitted 113 days ago • 6 comments

I'm currently trying to raise $100,000 to keep REBUILD going into 2025. I'm so grateful to those who have reached out to me and made some financial commitments to support by 12/31. Thank you. I'm still far away from the goal but will persist until we reach it. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...

submitted 118 days ago • 5 comments

Suicide Prevention is a very important cause to me and based on multiple skeets on my skyline: 📞 988 - National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (has text chat, too) 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Lifeline - 877-565-8860 🏳️‍🌈 Trevor Project - 866-488-7386 Or if you are in immediate danger go to the closest emergency room.

submitted 115 days ago • 22 comments

Shaggy: jinkies, Scoob! A reanimated corpse! Mary Shelley: it’s an allegory for man’s hubris. Shaggy: Scooby: ruh-roh

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

This is an excellent piece by CNN writer Sana Noor Haq, in collaboration with our fantastic visuals team. Weeks of painstaking work went into this, so do take a moment to read www.cnn.com/interactive/...

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

There is real apocalyptic destruction here in Asheville, but this spirit of cooperation is also very widespread. Don't succumb to doom-laden bs and rumors. People here, with a lot of solidarity from elsewhere, are taking very effective action and things are improving.

submitted 150 days ago • 6 comments

What's unfolding in Western NC and E Tennessee is a disaster of monumental proportions--please keep the people there in your thoughts and help as you can. BUT ALSO: Project 2025 wants to dismantle NOAA (weather tracking/warnings), FEMA, and effective governance in general. Remember that as you vote

submitted 153 days ago • 12 comments

Best source for updates out of western North Carolina I've found yet.

submitted 153 days ago • 7 comments

📢BOOK GIVEAWAY📢 To celebrate my joining BlueSky, I'm going to give away a copy of my recently released, 5* rated, Mary Myatt approved book 'Teaching Hacks'. Covering writing, oracy, revision, learner identity, curriculum and more! Simple RT and follow to be entered. Drawn 23rd Sept!

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

Another grade inflation article that is really a grade compression article. The author quixotically wants grades to be something they can never be: meaningful, objective measurements of learning. 1/x

submitted 163 days ago • 3 comments

Turns out she's not trans but Klingon

submitted 201 days ago • 6 comments

A beautiful mushroom emerges from its egg

submitted 201 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly this. More specifically, it’s based on the idea that dispassionate, reasoned argument can convince people to do the right thing, to vote in the right way, and this has NEVER been true. MLK Jr. recognized this when he organized his protest movement.

submitted 226 days ago • 5 comments

This research has come up several times at a big climate conference: A huge majority of people are worried about climate change and want governments to do more to control the crisis. BUT they think they are in a tiny minority and nobody else cares. Everybody (almost) cares! You are not alone 🧪

submitted 226 days ago • 27 comments

FINE

submitted 228 days ago • 2 comments

New academia reality tv show in which hundreds of highly trained candidates get winnowed down to one champion, who is awarded the opportunity to teach intro classes outside their speciality with no research support!

submitted 231 days ago • 16 comments

So much deep thinking about student writing not only wrt gen AI but also how students come to know themselves as writers. 👍🏾 cc: @thetattooedprof.bsky.social @weaverrew.bsky.social @geekypedagogy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/helenbee...

submitted 248 days ago • 3 comments