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Scientists should graduate ready to share what they know, effectively. Even the top science programs in our country do not require science communication and public engagement for their graduates. This is dangerous. Let's change the future. Sign the petition to make a difference: bit.ly/3LbnfHB
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Repost to showe thyne appreciacioun for the social media folks at Merriam Webster, the best arounde!
October 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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booke
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reade a booke
then anothir booke
aftir that anothir booke
bookes are freakinge awesome
October 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Repost yf you are thinkinge about the tendencye of everye literarye texte to instantlye unfolde ynto a labyrinthine networke of self-referentiale asydes and polyvocalic symbols that reveale the presence of historye, genre, and discourse even yn what doth purport to be most original and individual
September 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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"It is an attempt to silence and erase all of the decades of knowledge and study and teaching excellence that we have brought into higher education—that’s a direct attack on our identities and our communities."
slate.com/life/2025/09...
The Trump Administration Doesn’t Want Your Kids to Learn This Subject in School. But Skipping It Will Cost More Than You Think.
This shouldn’t be up for debate, yet here we are.
slate.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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🍁🦊Competition time! To celebrate the coming of autumn, win a cornucopia of delights! A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox & accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, Apple & Blackberry chocolate, cinnamon knots, Caramelised biscuit tea & a fine fox companion. Follow, like & repost to win! 🦊🍂
August 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
August 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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I'm so sorry to have to share this news, but it seems important to get the word out there.
news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Coverage of Gender-Affirming Care Banned for Federal Workers
Gender-affirming care will no longer be covered for federal workers in 2026, according to a letter the Trump administration sent to insurance carriers.
news.bloomberglaw.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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A countrye that doth not value learninge will nevir learne values
August 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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To celebrate 8 months in remission I’m combing my mission to help others & my love of fancy dress in an Ovarian Cancer Fashionista Fundraiser!!! Every time it grows by $500, I’ll post a selfie in a smashing outfit on the breakwater! Please share! ❤️ #yyj #fuckcancer tinyurl.com/Jean-Fundrai...
I'm supporting Canadian Cancer Society!
In trusted partnership with donors and volunteers, we improve the lives of all those affected by cancer through world-class research, transformative advocacy and compassionate support.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Los Angeles, graffiti wisdom: "*This* is America"
July 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations.

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lataco.com/ice-raids-pe...
July 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.
July 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Official Harvey Milk biography from the Harvey Milk Foundation. Plese repost & share, just because:
milkfoundation.org/about/harvey...
The Official HARVEY MILK Biography | Harvey Milk Foundation
milkfoundation.org
June 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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#oer #medievalsky #chaucer #oa Plese repost: "THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES, a free, scholar-produced resource for teaching and studying *The Canterbury Tales* at the University Level is at a NEW address: opencanterburytales dot lsusites dot org"
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
May 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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An importante and timelye booke. Plese share & repost.
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
bookshop.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Plese repost & share thys dire but important newes about medieval studyes (of ynterest to anyone who doth care about any kynde of learninge & bookes, too):
May 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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PLS REPOST: "The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration."
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holi...
www.aup.nl
April 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Repost thys to celebrate the Birthedaye of the lovelye Will Shaksper
April 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The leaders of all of the federal parties in Canada accidentally added me to their group chat
March 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Plese repost and share: "[A]ctors in Sonoma State University Theater Arts department’s performance Perfect Arrangement abruptly froze. The lights dimmed, and they bowed their heads, turning around to face a large painting in the back of the set..."
sonomastatestar.com/37798/arts-a...
“We will not go quietly” chant student actors in demonstration following Perfect Arrangement Performance
At the end of a long performance last weekend, actors in Sonoma State University Theater Arts department’s performance Perfect Arrangement abruptly froze. The lights dimmed, and they bowed their heads...
sonomastatestar.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM