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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
Beyond unbelievable. The world is literally burning in three fires around us, we're in a state of emergency, major events are being canceled left and right, and the email is just an outright denial of danger while flames are visible and everyone breathes ash. I moved my class online.
“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Starting again at or around 1:30pm PT today (1/8), I will begin a NEW livestream to discuss the ongoing catastrophic wildfire events in Southern California. The link is different from AM session! #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #CAfire #CAwx youtube.com/live/uRn...
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
As someone struggling with what I want to share with students when the term starts, reading this was immensely helpful. Also, what lovely treat to be listening to Workers Playtime while reading Billy Bragg's 2025 words almost 30 years after the album's release.
As someone born in the Oregon Trail Generation where Gen X and Millennials meet I can't remember ever being taught about the idea of consent in either high school or college.
If you work with young people, do your part to emphasize the importance of signatures! www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
An OC Register article lists 2024 restaurant closures around the county, but misses a big one: Old Vine Kitchen & Bar (aka Old Vine Cafe 2007-2019). I was behind the scenes at Old Vine for 13 years and if you were part of our community, then you know what a loss this was for Costa Mesa. ❤️
This looks amazing!
The stack of unread books on my desk can confirm that they are releasing booxytocin, just like their friends, the books about to be delivered and lovingly added to said pile.
Writing is an act of rebellion. Writing is an act of creation. Writing is an act of salvation. Writing is an act of exploration. Writing is an act of emotion. Writing is an act of confession. Writing is an act of speculation. Writing is an act of reflection. Keep writing.
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
Can confirm — gorgeous hair, Ned!
I think everyone had a great experience except me, lol!
Almost all "How to use ChatGPT in the classroom!" advice I see starts with the premise that it doesn't matter if students learn anything or demonstrate any skills in a course.
I’ve been holding this in but… seems remiss not to recall the assassination of the abortion doctors? The bombing of clinics? Why act as if this is without that context?
Writers Guild Calls on Studios to Take “Immediate Legal Action” Against AI Companies: The union is arguing that tech companies "looted the studios’ intellectual property" while Hollywood's major companies stood by Via THR
Love that for you — wish that had been the approach in my class!
Yes, so similar, and hopefully minus the education trauma!
This box haunts my 2nd grade memories. Bleak, but using SRA was the first time I remember feeling competition, individualism, and ranking as important in the classroom. We learned to tie our worth in education to quick card completion and next leveling. I kind of get the chills thinking about it.
OMG, I just looked up photos of SRA and that is exactly it. Thank you!
Maybe! Are they large, like maybe close to 8.5” x 11”, and sometimes folded like a pamphlet?
#Edusky friends: I’m a child of the 80s with vivid 2nd grade (?) memories of a box of what I can only describe as large reading cards with colors denoting different levels. Each kid was on a different level depending on how quickly they completed the cards. Do you remember this? What was it called?
Ahh, mistyped! Thanks!
#Edsky friends: I’m a child of the 80s with vivid 2nd grade (?) memories of a box of what I can only describe as large reading cards with colors denoting different levels. Each kid was on a different level depending on how quickly you completed the cards. Do you remember this? What was it called?
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Excited to see this piece out which looks at the work journalists undertake to manage audience hostility--through rank-and-file journalists as well as audience editors in 🇺🇸and 🇨🇦. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2UH6R...
Yes, it was so real and no forced dialogue. So many complex characters and I wish we could have seen all that was possible in a next season.
This. Exactly why I stopped playing Two Dots. Watching anxious and terrified animated characters on ads between rounds, and then realizing their suffering is the story line of other games was just a hard pass. Since I refuse to pay to bypass ads of their distress, I stopped playing.
You can find the SOUL! episode where Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin are in conversation on YouTube, and you should watch it.
Them: "As a writer, you should never--" Me:
ICYMI, this was one of the best things I read all week. Reminded me of being a teen reading 1990s Sassy Magazine and wanting to be IRL friends with Angela, Rayanne, and Rickie so bad.
Yes, the group think is the worst!
As always, spend your dollars with small businesses, especially restaurants. It's rough out there. Patronize them, become regulars if you can, and spread the word. And if you see this kind of Karen review BS, tell them you saw it and that's why you're here -- so that you can support them even more.
And here's the thing, self-righteous "reviews" like that, whether on NextDoor or Yelp, can be detrimental to small businesses. I was with a small restaurant for years and saw first-hand how any minor issue or even perceived slight could unfurl into a tale of epic proportions for all to read.
I'd been there a dozen times since they opened and always enjoy talking with the owner who runs the front and takes the orders -- great spot, friendly service, good vibes. As I stood at the front this morning, I seethed picturing the Karen who threw a plate of food on the floor.
Several people pushed back and stood up for the place, which only goes so far on NextDoor. Many of us took another route and I know I'm not the only one who saw this woman's post and immediately went in to spend my dollars at their restaurant.
On NextDoor, dozens of people then piled on to "thank" this person for "warning" them about this place and then vowing in true NextDoor fashion to never set foot in this establishment and announcing they'd spend their money elsewhere. All this online posturing based on this one woman's rant.
Made the mistake of logging into NextDoor and someone was trashing a small POC-owned restaurant. The person claimed she was mistreated, the place wouldn't accommodate her modifications, and then admitted she threw a plate of food on the floor and yelled at the owner to clean it up. (continued in 🧵)
I tell my students the same thing. This is a bit different -- I enjoy reading my students' work, but even the best planners among us can still feel overwhelmed by the demands of the end of the semester.
Ha! We miss your humor in class, Max!
I'm on sabbatical this fall, which means this is the first semester since 2013 that I'm not drowning in papers while living out my Joy Division grading playlist: Isolation, A Means to an End, She's Lost Control, Twenty Four Hours, Disorder, Something Must Break... #EduSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Exactly right. I’ve been told I shouldn’t offer extensions because students “need to learn about consequences.” No. They understand punitive driven education. I want them to learn how to ask for an extension when they need it, and to learn grace — how to accept it and how to extend it to others.
YES. Giving my brain permission to sink into deep slow thinking sometimes feels like a daily task!
hot takes about why it's not respectful to make jokes about the murder of the United healthcare CEO do not require any actual reporting, unlike @propublica.org's multiple investigations into the company's mass denial of healthcare coverage claims: www.propublica.org/article/unit...
At that stage of writing where I have to remind myself that thinking is writing. Thinking is writing. Thinking is writing.
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
No surprises here — an excellent doc!
Cheers to my local public library for saving me a trip driving to campus!
This is an excellent thread and a very good question indeed, so I encourage reading it all. I'll share my own answer in response to this post, but the short version is: a lot of email and recommendations, my own whims, and outside non-musical factors all come into play.
"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"
“We speak truth to power, regardless of which party is in power.” Thank you LA Times guild and my fellow writers in the trenches for delivering on this promise no matter the pressure. Persist. latguild.com/news/2024/12...
The way male journalists write about the targeted harassment and abuse of women online is so deeply fucked. Every single time I'm targeted some man writes an article that boils down to "wow she must be loving this attention!". No actually, bc being the target of a harassment & smear campaign sucks
Sotomayor basically gets Tennessee to admit its reasoning would also ban treatments for trans adults. He says much would be left to the democratic process. Sotomayor responds: "When you're one percent of the population or less, very hard to see how the 'democratic process' is going to protect you."
There is a stance I will call "Kavanaugh neutrality" that says the Constitution is "neutral" between vulnerable people and the power of the state and so we will watch and shrug while the vulnerable are beaten up in our presence. #Skrmetti
Seriously!
Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year is brain rot, which refers to the "overconsumption of material or content to the point that it deteriorates one’s mental state."
Glad to see my piece on legal threats against researchers is making the rounds here on @bsky.app, where I've finally set up camp. Thanks to @heymike.bsky.social & @compiler.news for all the support. Please read and share --- more relevant than ever.
A new peer-reviewed study finds that books by women of color, often featuring diverse characters, are frequent targets.
MY LATEST @latimes.com OBITUARY: Dolores Madrigal, ¡PRESENTE!
THANK GOD
Well, apparently the algorithm actually shows me your posts!
Was literally just driving by — gorgeous tonight!
And the other 5% of purchases? From small shops I want to remain open, from small independent designers doing amazing things, or from small businesses supporting the community. Moral of the story? #ShopSmall
On Black Friday in 2013 I committed to making 95% of my clothing purchases #secondhand, a decision that single-handedly changed my relationship with consumption. If you've seen me in the past 11 years I've worn outfits comprised entirely of used or vintage pieces or items I've worn for decades.
Same! Mixed Filipino and white too, so anytime someone asks I’m so happily surprised.
Welcome to the House of Representatives, @congresstran.bsky.social! Congratulations on flipping CA District 45 Blue -- we're cheering for your next door in CA 47.
Yes, great list of #indigenous stories for youth! Thrilled to see my childhood friend Kristiana Kahakauwila and her book Clairboyance here. Let me know when you get to the part with Auntie Nina... ❤️
If you're Asian, then why is your last name Flores? Because colonization, that's why. #Filipino #AsianAmerican #FilipinoSky
Sadly seeing so many orgs and institutions doing this already. I recently sent a picture this page to a group that cancelled a private post-election event on truth and trust because of its "unscripted nature."
Len is characteristically informative and nuanced here but one thing strikes me as deeply wrong. Academic freedom is not so much about what academics can say—whether in class or in their research—as it is about who judges what they say. /1 www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
Wild story that is well worth the read, especially for an ending that gave me such a surge of hope.
He did it! Congrats to Derek Tran!!
48 years ago today "Anarchy in the U.K." by the English punk rock band the Sex Pistols, released as the band's debut single on this day in 1976 #punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #sexpistols #anarchyintheuk #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Another day, another 5:00pm update in the super close, yet-to-be-called 2024 U.S. House of Reps race for CA District 45: Derek Tran (D) now leads Michelle Steel (R) by 581 votes. With every update he adds a few dozen more votes to take a wider lead.
@bellhookedme.bsky.social Thanks for the follow. I hope it's OK that I added you to this starter pack go.bsky.app/SUxgJo8
Of course, and thank you for organizing the starter pack — happy to be included!
I’m on sabbatical this semester and it turns out that just when you finally relax and settle into a grove it’s time to prep for spring classes. 🤦🏻♀️ I also really underestimated how much I would miss my students. Research time is a gift, but my students are the best part of this job. #Edusky
“They’re starving undergraduate enrollment in our courses,” said Dr. Rainwater, the sociology professor. “The worry is they’ll then be able to take away whole programs and justify it by saying courses aren’t filling up.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
This is a terrifying article, and it shows what’s at stake in silencing academic dissent/attacking academic freedom. #commsky #AcademicSky www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...
Thanks for organizing! Would love to be included.
And I’ll add to read the lyrics of so many albums brimming with resistance.
We need to talk more about the emotional labor of qualitative research, especially when writing about heavy or personal topics. Coding a new round of interviews about targeted harassment of faculty by the public and my soul feels tied wanting to hold these people and their stories. #academicsky
Thanks to everyone for posting from #ASHE2024 and #NCTE — you’re keep so many of us in the loop!
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy...
Another 5:00 update for the U.S. House 45th District race: Derek Tran (D) now leads Michelle Steel (R) by 480 votes. Again, huge for those of us in Orange County.
After the 2016 election I wrote an essay for the OC Weekly (RIP) in which I feared that Trump and Pence were "co-pilots for a ride through reproductive rights hell." Building up my energy to keep fighting back for those of us who made it through the first time and especially for those who didn't.
Love this!
It's 5:00pm and the new numbers are out, so here's your daily update on the U.S. House District 45 race: Derek Tran (D) now leads Michelle Steel (R) by 397 votes. Again, this is huge for these close congressional races in Orange County, CA.
My facebook memories of this week from 2016 are full of essays and other writing I did for YES! Magazine and the beloved OC Weekly about how to resist Trump. If that's not a sign to get back to public writing, I don't know what is.
Latest update for the District 45 race: Derek Tran's lead over Michelle Steel is now up to 314 votes! Exciting news if you live in Orange County and are tracking the votes in our close, close House elections.
Just checked this out from the library with a knowing look from the librarian. As someone who’s biracial and grew up seeing so few Filipinos in the media or popular culture, Maria Ressa is the Fil-Am hero I’m so grateful to have as an adult.
Deeply unsettled by confirmation of plans to use the US military for mass deportation, and equally unsettled by the crickets among everyone from pundits to people in positions of political power. I saw an ACLU lawsuit and condemnations from orgs and that's... it? Am I missing a leader who spoke out?
And now the nightly update on the CA District 45 race: Derek Tran's lead over Michelle Steel is now up to 102 votes.
