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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein

@jennbernstein.bsky.social

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Editor-in-Chief, Case Studies in the Environment. Adjunct Faculty, GEOG/ENVS, Tarleton State & Texas Tech. Snake bites are contagious if you take the snake with you.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 21h

People who make baby formula should design the package assuming the user will only have one hand available

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

“Trust nobody” -Tupac

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for highlighting underrepresented voices in the podcast space like Jon Favreau’s.

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all just one podcast now

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skms @skms4evah.bsky.social · 2d

the two uses

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

I’m heading to GSA representing both Tarleton and Texas Tech and keep thinking it’d be funny to have a hat for each and make a big deal of switching them depending on the event or who I’m talking to and it's so dumb I'm doing it

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a post that at core AI makes us dumb and paranoid and damn

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 4d

Just got a note from a dear family friend who moved to Colorado after a gutting divorce and the loss of her son and she’s telling me about this beautiful new life she is building and NO I DON’T WANT TO SUMMARIZE THIS MESSAGE USING META AI

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 6d

omg, I'm having the students do a physical geography data collection project and one student brought his PARENTS to his field site and included a picture of them sitting in beach chairs in the intertidal zone in his field report.

Ah yes, the sterile and anonymous world of online teaching ;)

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 7d

One thing I love about teaching is that you have many opportunities to be compassionate.

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 8d

“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”

-U. Utah Phillips

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 8d

"Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.”

-U. Utah Phillips

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 8d

Totally! Finally, I am not playing AI cop. By looking behind the curtain, I'm seeing them struggle to use it ethically, just like we are.

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 8d

There is so much nuance! Next semester, I might have them design an AI use policy for me ;)

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 8d

Most students use AI, but they use it for different reasons and in different ways.

I strongly recommend instructors offer an opportunity for students to be honest about their AI use with fear of being reprimanded. It's fascinating.

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 8d

You change your life to meet your commitments, you don't change your commitments to fit your life.

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 9d

"Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. Poverty persists in rich countries because governments have made a political choice to keep people poor."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot

Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 9d

“New education technologies are only as powerful as the communities that guide their use. Opening a new browser tab is easy; creating the conditions for good learning is hard.”
- Professor Justin Reich, MIT, who has some lessons from recent history

What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools

It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.

buff.ly

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 9d

I wanted to live deep
and suck out all the marrow of
life

-Thoreau

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 9d

Friday mailbag

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 10d

Not sure they ran this one by the marketing team either

Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 10d

I’m gonna be like chocolate chip
cookie dough and chill for an hour

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 10d

Firefly image AI was overrepresenting white male doctors. Instead of fixing it to match the profession’s demographics, they fixed it to match the U.S. census. Now 13% of AI “doctors” are Black because 13% of Americans are.

This is weirding me out.