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educator editor mediator be kind but be vigilant equity & freedom Simon's Rocker '81/'85 CA via SK, OR, MA, NH, CH, RI RPs don't always mean endorsement
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We are recruiting @ox.ac.uk @dunnschool.bsky.social for a joint project between Kevin Foster's group and mine! Cluster hire of two postdocs interested in: 1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 2) Microbiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please share!

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This is excellent

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Contents of the March 2025 issue of @isisjournal.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/202... #histsci #HPS

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Trying to figure out why Bs isn't dynamic like twitter was. For me, in a positive way. I'm following 90 accounts, 30 of whom I know IRL or from twitter. I'm not sure many are seeing my posts. I'm not seeing all of yours. No reason I'm blocked--ok, more drumphy posts than usual these days...

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I knew, of course, that William Whewell first coined the word “scientist,” but I had no idea that the idea remained so controversial that Nature was still weighing in on the appropriateness of the term at least as late as 1925. https://www.nature.com/articles/115253a0.pdf #HistSTM #PhilSci #STS

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Gift article in comments Hummingbirds!

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Especially the last paragraph about Anna's hummingbirds. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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am giving a public seminar at Oxford department of education on may 12 - all welcome, details here 💜 www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/the-wh...

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Looks like you can pre-order a paperback copy of You’re All Talk with *25% off* at @waterstones.bsky.social this weekend! www.waterstones.com/book/you-re-... (comes out in April)

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What a great book. Remarkably Bright Creatures is told from 3 alternating points of view. One, an octopus.

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i'm an experienced, award-winning teacher and can teach courses and/or supervise (ma and ba theses) on, among other things: popular culture and world politics, visual politics, human rights, politics of international law, and (critical) IR theory

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BREAKING: President Donald Trump terminated Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr., the country’s highest-ranking military officer, from his position.

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“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sleep Tight.

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Volunteers are building 15 tiny libraries alongside CityYear San Jose/Silicon Valley team members to be placed at all four schools in the Ravenswood City School District and throughout the community. Please help support our youth leaders www.cityyear.org/about/

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3 wks left for our funding goal! TY again to Plant Biology Exploratory Research Microgrant for supporting our project to get HS students to use Nanopore Sequencing in the classroom to study plant microbiomes! If you would like to donate: shorturl.at/8i4tG

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Castell #Aberystwyth Castle #Ceredigion #Cymru #Wales

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NEW: If you were impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires, no-cost wildfire debris removal is available. To get debris removed from your property at no-cost, submit Right of Entry forms by March 31st. Visit ca.gov/LAfires to learn more.

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It is believed that there are more people who speak multiple languages ​​in the world than people who speak just one. Celebrated on 21 February, the International Mother Language Day emphasizes the significance of linguistic diversity and the preservation of mother tongues worldwide. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

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COOL JOB ALERT: We're looking for a senior leader to take on Indivisible's media operations, particularly with experience in the non-mainstream media space (influencers, podcasts, etc). Only downside is you have to work with me. Please apply or tell people to apply! jobs.lever.co/indivisible/...

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We declutter. We do not decimate. foolproof-proofreading.com/a-cog-to-the...

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This weeks's post is about two recent 'metaphors' that emerged in and out of the critical times we live in blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc... #metaphor

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Critical Inquiry in Language Studies is advertising for a new editor in chief, co-editors + associate editors (deadline 18 April). these could be great roles for someone who is willing to push the field of critical applied linguistics in new directions! think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

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Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sleep Tight.

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#Mail-inBallots

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@governor.ca.gov please protect our mail-in ballot choice. Thank you!

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LA County residents, please don’t miss the chance to opt in for no-cost wildfire debris removal. Submit a Right of Entry form by March 31 at Recovery.LACounty.Gov or click the link in my bio. This is a critical step toward rebuilding. So please take action today!

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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In search of nature…

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Just a quick heads-up that my partner-in-podding Michael and I are guests on Flixwatchers talking about that blackest of black comedies The Death Of Stalin. open.spotify.com/episode/5Co7... @flixwatcher.bsky.social

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Just seen this beautiful #woodpecker in the back garden. Never been so close to one before.

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American kestrel with lichens in #DavisCA moments ago. #birds

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Amidst all the horrors, here are two good posts by @omicsomics.bsky.social about Roche's new sequencing tech 🧪 omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/roch... omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/roch...

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🚨IMPORTANT PLEASE READ!🚨 50501 is a PEACEFUL movement dedicated to positive change through nonviolent action. We unequivocally condemn any form of violence, threats of violence, or the suggestion of using weapons in connection with our movement. #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne @polrev.bsky.social

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Great report by MRes — now PhD! — student @emonroe02.bsky.social on ‘French Studies and the Medical Humanities’ @ilcs.bsky.social, featuring Anna Elsner and @benbgdalton.bsky.social among others. Emily’s participation was funded by the research initiation scheme we run in QUB Modern Languages.

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Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.

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My personal Tree of Life. At @ucdavis.bsky.social.

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did this one a month ago, just saying www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Suddenly Trump has lost the populist UK media: “Appalling,” “Shameful,” “Putin’s Poodle.”

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