RFK Jr. says you shouldn’t get a Covid vaccine. All doctors and research results say you should. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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RFK Jr. says you shouldn’t get a Covid vaccine. All doctors and research results say you should. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
For the record this photo is of a local pharmacy in Brooklyn where I have gotten several of my Covid vaccinations 😊
If you’ve had a dose or doses in the past, one shot should be good. You can also ask for titers to check immunity, but that’s more time and money than getting a shot.
idk man i've been shoved into what basically amounted to high pressure sales seminars for block chain, MOOCs, NFTs, and god knows how many CMS tools every year since i started this job. in some ways unis are resistent to change and in a lot of other ways they are the most gullible mark in the room
Hi, I don’t know you, but I’m a queer parent to a (now nearly grown up) Margot, who has had more than her fair share of medical issues. I’m so happy your Margot is doing well! 💗
They’re so pretty, it hurts I’m not talking about boys; I’m talking about data
Have we found the Emily Oster of lesbianism?
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
Yes! Offering CEU workshops for dieticians and mental health professionals would be amazing! My family worked with an ARFID-focused dietician and it made a huge difference after more traditional advice was basically “eat more” and being threatened with inpatient treatment.
Awesome, thanks! My college kid developed ARFID after an intense, prolonged illness (superior mesenteric artery syndrome) at age 16, so we are all still learning a lot. Her college has been great with accommodations, luckily.
Would this be a good resource for a college student with ARFID learning how to put together meals from dining hall options, or is it more scratch-cooking focused?
I’ve noticed that is has once again become normal to openly discuss and conjecture about body sizes, shapes, and fluctuations in the workplace. Mostly with effusive praise for anyone who has gotten smaller.
How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge? I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
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the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
Repost to help share my new course! Fall 2025 @huntercollege.bsky.social I wish I could have taken a lab class on Native American x African American science and history as an undergraduate. So now I’m teaching one as a prof and yes, we’re whale watching in Manhattan. And learning to DJ.
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"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...
What about understanding GenAI in educational settings specifically requires partnership with Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI? Some students know a lot about prompting but that doesn’t mean they actually know much about GenAI. We could use a harm reduction framework to really educate about GenAI.
Actual late sleepers are aiming for noon, earliest.
Major decision out of the Northern District of California. AI training on copyrighted material is fair use under the copyright act. This will have major implications for the AI industry and artists having their work stolen by AI companies. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If New Yorkers are wondering who will fight back against Federal overreach, we have visible evidence today that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander are the candidates that you should rank 1 or 2 Lander literally resisted federal overreach and Mamdani showed up immediately to have his back Fuck Cuomo
Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement
Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
“THE “ARTIFICIAL” IN AI is a MacGuffin. The taproot of this ideology is intelligence: that is, an intelligence that can be measured and ranked, an intelligence that is both quantifiable and presumptively quantified.”
The 1st articles in the special issue “Centering Affect and Emotion Toward Justice and Dignity in Science Education” co-edited by Lama Jaber & me are rolling out! This has been a huge labor of love for us both. I’ll add to this thread as they publish. It’ll take time. Please share! #academicSky
@drkellyodonnell.bsky.social The only thing worse than learnings is efforting.
Hey all, here's a post at @ssrc.org about how anti-trans talking points are getting wrapped into Google's AI search results. AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.
Indeed they are precious. As a Bennington parent and a CUNY educator, I dwell often on the differences in access, and how to create more spaces for expression, community, and joy.
It's like every website, app and piece of software has developed its own Clippy. Clippy is following me around every day from Google to Zoom to Adobe Acrobat, telling me it looks like I'm trying to exist and would I like help with that
I hope to see more soon…
CUNY, represent! Signatories to AAC&U public statement and declaration of academic independence. So far! [Thanks @ejgoldstick.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social!]
My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...
Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
It's really wild watching my timeline tonight that's half #2025MMM and half the end of this country
Oh, just reading about how this college president uses AI in academic leadership and wondering why, exactly, they need such salaries?
I also don’t have any research, but I introduce body doubling and create accountability groups within my senior thesis course. We use the How to ADHD body doubling video as an intro and we also help students make structured time for writing and sharing their writing schedule and goals within groups.
In the next couple of months Congress is going to pass a budget bill that likely takes a pass at federal financial aid. This will make many families unhappy, and universities should be prepared to leverage that. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
Are you ready? #2025MMM
UPDATE — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now commented on the Trump admin’s detaining & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia Gaza encampment student negotiator: “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
I think this might be my "I am become the Joker" moment, because tech is partially culpable for the degradation of how society perceives the arts and humanities "no one needs arts/hums", added to the contempt Ive seen from techbros and Big Tech for the arts and humanities in the AI debacle
If you haven't checked out HOLDING IT TOGETHER, Women's Day is a great place to start. It shows how billionaires and their cronies force us to DIY society, how a DIY model traps us in precarity, and how we manage that precarity by forcing women--especially the most vulnerable--to be our safety net.
oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety
Weekly accomplishments, 2/16-2/23/25 - Ran up that road - Ran up that hill - Ran up that building - Made a deal with god* - Asked to swap our places *If I only could
I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired *directly* by the Founding Fathers The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper
I'd love to see an article titled "what keeps stressed out higher education staff keep going?"
Get cozy and have a look at this proteanmag.com/2022/03/22/m...
I’m think we’re at the point where “data-driven” and “evidence-based” don’t synch up. When I hear “data-driven” it’s usually an agenda with some numbers superimposed on it to make it appear convincing and neutral-ish.
Cross over event!!
I don’t think that’s always true. I was never anti-vax, but after experiencing medical abuse and severe disinformation when my daughter was born, I had PPA/D and mistrust in doctors. I think that’s on overlooked factor. Once I was able to take in trustworthy info, I became super pro-vax.
Thank you—you made my day!
I hope this means I am getting my fervent wish of an Emily Oster episode!
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)
LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!
Today, the AAUP released a new statement on Institutional Neutrality which reaffirms that institutional neutrality is neither a necessary condition for academic freedom nor categorically incompatible with it. 🧵 www.aaup.org/report/insti...
An orange crowned warbler has been visiting my Brooklyn bird feeder daily since 12/31/24. I’ve never had a warbler stay this long, let alone a less common one. 🧡 #BirdSky
Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including: • Pride Month • Black History Month • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Jewish Heritage • Hispanic Heritage • Indigenous People Month
Instead of "don't cut our funding," our message should be: hands off higher ed. You want to restrict what professors can say in the classroom? Hands off. You want to ban diversity offices? Hands off. You want to cut our research funding? Hands off. Hands. Off. Higher. Ed.
Here’s a fun little friend outside my building last night. With thanks to my daughter for coming home late and capturing footage for me.
Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it
Don’t let the headlines reframe the bad actors as the agencies they are demolishing. The *Trump Administration* [is trying to] cut billions.
Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
This web site lets you interactively explore the spread of illness with different masks and different percentage masking. Everyone has an opportunity to save lives. aatishb.com/maskmath/
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
My colleagues and I have pulled together some guidance and resources for supporting immigrant students in this moment, drawing upon and compiling existing guidance at CUNY. (a wholly unsatisfying, maddening, and upsetting document to craft) tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/01/27/g...
FYI CUNY faculty: Public Safety should prevent ICE from entering campus unless they have a warrant. If they have a warrant Public Safety are to escort ICE to that campus' Legal Counsel, who will call CUNY Central Legal Office, who will call NYS Attorney General. ICE should NEVER enter a class.
Lighthouses in these storms. Grateful! Organizing: @prisonculture.bsky.social & @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Ed policy: @bakerdphd.bsky.social & @dcollier74.bsky.social Disability policy: @matthewcort.land Gov't: @celestepewter.bsky.social Digital: @blackamazon.bsky.social & @hypervisible.bsky.social
AOC 🔥🔥🔥
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
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...
Recommend! Lifesaver for hot weather subways, too.
How often do we hear to prepare for (more) austerity because a new PSC contract is on the horizon?
What are your favorite readings on AI and environment? Bonus if they are accessible at a high school reading level!
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Alright you March Mammal Madness contributors and fans! @mammalssuck.bsky.social, who is in NO WAY associated with this account, has asked if I’d be willing to create a MMM Starter Pack. So here ‘tis! Every contributor and Superfan I could find on this happy blue sky location go.bsky.app/BVUtr1g
The City Nature Challenge starts in NYC in 163 days 10 hours and 27 minutes. More info: tinyurl.com/cnc2025nyc 🌿
Circa 1981, age 5, I called WETA Channel 26 and asked to pledge my bag full of pennies. I’ve always been a viewer like you.