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Ian Ramjohn

@iramjohn.bsky.social

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Wikipedia expert at @wikieducation.bsky.social.  Plant ecology Ph.D. 🇹🇹Trinbagonian in exile https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2910-0526 (if you want to verify my account's authenticity)

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · Feb 19

I recorded this for my father's funeral today.
youtu.be/c6WWROsaCwY

Eulogy for my father, Ian Ramjohn (1931–2025)

YouTube video by Ian Ramjohn

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 5h

Why is Oral-B floss bad for you? Is the "glide" part PFAS or something?

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 6h

the place for the Texas militia is in Texas, ready to defend their homes. And the president shouldn't be able to send them to, say, Mar-a-Lago instead.

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 6h

So the meaning here is calling them up to support *the military*, when their forces are insufficient? That's a much higher bar than I'd always been led to believe, but it absolutely makes sense.

If the country actually were on the edge of an uprising or invasion...

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 12h

Is this an intentional violation of the TRO? A "you and what army?" type taunt?

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 19h

And not just them. Kash, and Leavitt, and Kushner, and Noem, and McLaughlin are also useful idiots.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 19h

Opposing fascism is a basic obligation in a free society (and even unfree societies can oppose fascism).

Labelling opposition to fascism "terrorism" is a clear marker of where you stand.

And as the article says, letting this frame stand means giving up effective tools to oppose rising fascism.

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 20h

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks for sharing this. Made myself a note to order your book when it comes out. (I'd love to preorder it, but now isn't a good time)

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 20h

I didn't know Betsy DeVos was involved in Engler's "reforms". But then I was a new foreign grad student, so simply knowing who Engler was meant I knew a lot more about local politics than most of my peers.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Be that as it may, these six pictures are of the same person. Not way these could be different people.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Probably afraid Texas might just annex OK if they're free to use their National Guard to invade other states.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously? I'm so glad I moved out of Oklahoma.

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in the "infant circumcision sounds like child abuse" camp (which I know sounds crazy to a lot of people) but I have zero doubt that it's less harmful than having Trump and Kennedy in any sort of position of power.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 1d

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

www.theatlantic.com

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 1d

🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #ﬁre regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

A functional trait perspective on restored temperate #grassland responses to changing winter insulation & managed disturbance by fire

By Katherine Charton et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

Effects of management type and timing and winter snow manipulations on snow and litter insulation during winter and predicted associations with plant functional trait syndromes.

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Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Colombia says boat destroyed by U.S. attack in Carribean was Colombian

www.upi.com

Colombia says boat destroyed by U.S. attack in Carribean was Colombian - UPI.com

twp.ai

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I'd be thrilled with an ad that did that if it has the same sort of community and connectivity message that this ad has. Or something like "I opened a corner store in an empty storefront, created community space and hired people with felony records, but when ICE raided my store without a warrant..."

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Just to underscore: VA Senate Dems brought the 🔥, but it’s very clear the text of their letter was directly inspired by public writing from @sivav.bsky.social, a UVA faculty member. Each party worked with the tools at hand, be they brain and words or force of law.

Resistance is an ecology.

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 2d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 2d

I literal translation did not prepare me for what it actually is.

They put that in their churches?!

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 2d

The strongest memory I have of him was that ad where he basically glared at the camera while maybe walked towards it? I started off thinking Kucinich was the strangest person in that race, but Gravel quickly set me straight.

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 2d

I remember Gravel as the furthest right in the race.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 2d

This is interesting. I have both of those, but it wasn't until i got an adhd + autism diagnosis last year that began to unravel my life, and concluded that the anxiety and depression were probably caused by the experience of AuDHD.

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