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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 20h

As a deaf person with a deaf kid, I'm the first to admit IDEA isn't perfect. I fight people's (often willful) misinterpretations of the Least Restrictive Environment every day. Just gave a lecture at BU about how change is needed. Deleting all legal oversight in the middle of the night isn't it.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 8d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 4d

the sidewalk has questions for passerby

A white paper flyer with black text that reads in all caps 'HAVE YOU FOUND YOUR PEOPLE YET?' on a concrete sidewalk

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 4d

@rebeccapscales.bsky.social lolsob

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.

The Faculty Mental Health Fair Has Been Postponed Again

Dear Faculty: Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in ...

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 4d

saw the poster for @mw-m.bsky.social upcoming Conable Futures lecture and cackled, very excited: "Thanatocapitalism, or, the death drive of complacency and accumulation in the Anthropocen"

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 5d

Oooh going to request this right now!

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 6d

hey buddy

Gloved hands holding a small dark colored baby snapping turtle that easily fits in a palm

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 11d

agreed!

Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 11d

yeah I just don't know if they want this fight. Or at what stage. Sigh.

Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 11d

yeah I want to defer to what the student is comfortable with, which may mean waiting until later (fear of retaliation if it goes back out to review with same person, it's not a 'double masked' review, etc). ugh I get madder the more I think about this

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 11d

please just decline to review.

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 11d

welp, just got a peer review probably written by AI (comments on things not in the paper and full of headers/bullet point lists not in the review Qs). sucks that student-led work is treated so poorly by colleagues.

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 11d

Same AND they are rolling out workday (AI HR operations, payroll, reimbursement etc).

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12d

same. @marspidermonkey.bsky.social writing a few years back about Fossey totally opened my mind on that one 😱👎 - had no idea as someone outside that field www.ladyscience.com/ideas/time-t...

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12d

@hypervisible.blacksky.app

Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12d

sigh. (seen in a kid toy section of store)

Picture of a pictionary game box that says pictionary VS AI in big letters at the top. On the box it has phrases like "can you predict if the AI will get it right?" And "human sketches, AI guesses!"

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12d

note the privacy/safety warning at the bottom... Regular pictionary doesn't need to come with that...

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12d

sigh. (seen in a kid toy section of store)

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12d

Oct is when the reality of a changing climate and local traditions are in stark contrast. Stuff starts "closing for winter" and it's 80 degrees out.

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12d

Oct is when the reality of a changing climate and local traditions are in stark contrast. Stuff starts "closing for winter" and it's 80 degrees out.

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12d

a beautiful if alarmingly warm fall day in #ROC

Landscape photo of an urban park. Paved sidewalk in foreground, shallow pond in center, ringed in mixed trees and lawn and blue skies with a few clouds. This is Seneca Park.

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 13d

it worked out, thanks to some wonderful colleagues. but still, mortifying 🤦

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 13d

welp, a new first - scheduling a guest speaker months ago + realizing today, the day of the visit, that I scheduled them not for the class time 😱🙃😭

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 13d

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 13d

Do you sometimes see/report/handle dead wildlife as a scientist (including volunteer community scientists)?

If so, do you have any strategies for dealing with the stress and grief that these encounters can cause?

I'm building a toolkit for myself and for some other stressed out folks!

context:

a woman is holding up a help wanted sign in a window

Alt: Gif of a woman taping a "help wanted" sign to a window.

media.tenor.com

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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 15d

The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel, and an important vector for economic growth and urbanization.

It also played a large role in Indian removal, something most modern Americans associate with the West, or even the South, but not New York State. Gift article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

New York Faces Painful History as It Marks the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial

www.nytimes.com

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · Sep 4

We pulled up to the Rochester, NY, Amtrak station and tried to get around without a car.

The buses were pretty great, actually!
But they weren't very frequent.
Sometimes we walked instead.

Paying with @transit.app was a nice surprise.

howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

Getting Around: Rochester, NY

October 2024

howdoyou.guide

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