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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 3d

TIL about Faculty First Responders, a group that offers "peer-to-peer counseling and advice to academic workers experiencing media attacks, campaigns of harassment, doxing, or other threats to their academic freedom and free speech."

facultyfirstresponders.com

Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 21d

It's going to be absolutely critical that we be able to hack on and trust the hardware we use. I think the hardware from MNT is the best bet we have for a computing future we still have a say in mnt.re

I hope the MNT Reform Next is going to make MNT's stuff more accessible to more people

MNT Research GmbH

MNT Research makes open source hardware laptops, mobile devices and keyboards that are modular and repairable. Designed and assembled in Berlin, EU.

mnt.re

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · Aug 30

If you're wondering what I've been working on.

I'm just gonna stubbornly put my skillz towards helping people until something fucking sticks lmao

Conjured.Ink @conjured.ink · Aug 30

We'll be hosting a Q&A Session on September 27th, 3pm PST in our Discord!

Questions form - forms.gle/QpDWroJPLx...
Discord - discord.gg/VgGHggJdka

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Aug 26

Pobreza, calor, hambre. Pero vamos a prohibir los telefonos en las escuelas.

Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · Aug 26

on stuff that feels novel, new, emerging, scary, rather than the hard and boring old problems that are like "if we fixed the temperature in this school kids would be healthier and learn better," and "if we got them more food they would learn better." No, the answer is always cell phones 🙄

Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Aug 21

Like many other things, first tried in Puerto Rico: www.primerahora.com/noticias/pol...

Discuten legado de "Mano Dura contra el Crimen" 20 años después

La efectividad o no de esta estrategia gubernamental se evaluará en un foro con funcionarios y ex funcionarios, en el teatro Ramón Frade en el recinto de Cayey de la UPR.

www.primerahora.com

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Aug 14

We got a rice maker as a wedding gift, and I never learned to make pegao either.

My mother in law made, my sister in law, and cooks in our church group all make 6 pounds of rice in a giant caldero with perfect golden crispy pegao. I could never.

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Jun 30

I wonder how long before they start denaturalizing us Puerto Ricans?

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jun 30

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

substack.com/redirect/169...

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · Jun 23

They Asked Me To Cut My 6-Year-Old Son's Hair. I Taught Them About Native Cultural Erasure.

In February, my 6-year-old Waccamaw Siouan son was told that he must cut his long hair to continue attending a public charter school in North Carolina — and our world stopped.
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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy go skateboarding day to all who celebrate!

I've been skating for 50 years. I've never been good at it, but I can still do a 360°, and learned to Coleman slide a couple.of years ago.

Skatebarding keeps me young.

A white skateboard and a black white and brown striped longboard in a car trunk.

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Jun 4

Cupey, de vez en mil pasa el amolador. Ya nunca veo verdurero. No recuerdo donas por aca.

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · May 30

The cuts to training and education will do incalculable damage to biomedical research and health.

Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social · May 30

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · May 25

Does it have LEDs?

Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · May 20

¿Y el belén, pa' cuando?

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 10

(10/11)

75 years of scientific discovery—now on the chopping block.

Trump’s 2025 budget proposes a 56% cut to the NSF. Over 1,000 grants terminated. 37 divisions abolished. Funding frozen.

This isn’t just reckless—it’s a war on knowledge, a war on progress.

A bold graphic with the headline ‘75 Years of Incredible Discovery. Now Under Attack.’ displays four visuals representing threats to the National Science Foundation (NSF). A pie chart shows a proposed 56% budget cut, a ‘CANCELLED’ stamp is over a document to represent over 1,000 grants terminated, chained lab equipment symbolizes freezes on new and existing funding, and a person packing a box reflects the abolishment of 37 internal divisions.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · May 6

The right-wing attacks on education--the grad student arrests, defunding battles, long-term reputation attacks--are a strategy, and so I've been thinking about what the big-picture counter-strategy is.

And then I wrote an article about it.

Attacks on Higher Ed and the New Illiberal Electorate

The right-wing destruction of American higher education institutions is a strategic move. Liberals need to answer with a strategy of their own.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Kevin R. McClure @drkevinrmcclure.com · May 2

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

Meeting the Moment Together

We are returning from the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver reinvigorated and with a deep appreciation for all that scholars and higher education leaders are holding in this moment. Rapid shifts in fed...

www.spencer.org

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Luis Joel Méndez González @mjoel17.bsky.social · May 1

(🧵) Honored to receive the Best Investigative #Climate Storytelling Award from @climatetracker.bsky.social for my three-part series “Inefectiva la protección costera.” #Journalists from across the #Caribbean competed — this is my 3rd award with @cpipr.bsky.social and my first international one.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · Apr 30

You know what I wish the more human-centered tech conferences would do right now?

Open up special tickets and speaking slots for scientists whose work is getting axed and whose fields are being obliterated right now.

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform to share my NSF experience & some thoughts on the recent cuts to misinformation research. Publicly funded research & accurate information is vital to our democracy. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/i-oversaw-...

I oversaw rigorous review of NSF-funded research on misinformation: Now the Trump administration is cancelling it

Politicians, not scientists, are the ones engaged in censorship

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Apr 22

Playas: boqueron, la ocho, pine grove, ...

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Apr 21

bsky.app/profile/scie...

Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · Apr 19

I've been making a series of videos called "What the FUNDING" that highlight all the incredible science that federal funding supports. If DOGE just fcked up your NSF grant and you wanna collaborate on a video, lmk? I'm @science_irl on insta & TT

#scicomm 🧪 #nsf

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Apr 21

My grandfather, an old doctor, complained his patients expected him to always prescribe some pill, even though he thought they should just rest.

Patients here just go to the drug store and buy loose antibiotics, no doctor visit. "I have a sore throat, give me 5 pen vks".

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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · Apr 18

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Apr 13

I was listening to mountaintown.fm this morning and they played Viva Puerto Rico Libre by Ghetto Brothers. I don't think I ever heard them before. The album first released in 1978.
youtu.be/c0SaAJzm4oo?...

Mountain Town Radio

mountaintown.fm

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga @humbertoortiz.bsky.social · Apr 10

Las playas son del pueblo.

Luis Joel Méndez González @mjoel17.bsky.social · Apr 10

From #PuertoRico to #Jamaica, coastal communities are uniting to reclaim their right to beach access as rising seas and private developments threaten their shores. Explore this shared struggle to protect these vital spaces in my latest for Climate Tracker: climatetrackercaribbean.org/climate-just...

From Borikén to Jamrock: A common fight for beach access & the changing coastline - Climate Tracker

From Puerto Rico to Jamaica, coastal communities are fighting for their right to beach access as rising seas and private developments threaten their shores. Explore the shared struggle to protect thes...

climatetrackercaribbean.org

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