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Bedrooms Are For People @boulderbedrooms.bsky.social · 1h

"The University of Colorado Boulder had just 44 students, a president and one instructor when it first opened its doors." #boulder

CU Boulder to celebrate turning 150 years old in 2026

The university will turn 150 years old in 2026, and the campus has announced early plans for the anniversary — plans that will include a yearlong schedule of events and many ways to celebrate.

www.dailycamera.com

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 54m

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaking with employee ownership advocates, remembering how he started his campaign at an EO grocery store. And he has ensured we have the best EO policy in the country.

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Horizon Europe @horizoneu.bsky.social · 4h

Wildfires have become more frequent and severe in Europe. That’s why we’re investing in solutions to tackle the challenge.

See how #EUGreenDeal-funded projects are driving action in landscape management, technology and community engagement.

🔗 link.europa.eu/CDRXCK

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 4h

During the past year, my lab hosted a cohort of communities around the world adopting open social networks. Together, they've created a beautiful cookbook full of their lessons and reflections. Come to the launch event on November 3: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2025/launch-event-open-social-

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 4h

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Tuesday. Above normal across nearly all of the region, but especially in the Aleutians and Alaska Peninsula as well as Southcentral. State-wide temperature index at +9. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

Map centered on Alaska showing site-specific high temperatures (ºF) on Tuesday, October 7, 2025. Plotted temperature range from 33F at Deadhorse and Utqiaġvik, AK and Anadyr, Russia to 63F at Pilot Point and Port Heiden, AK.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 4h

Academia is a difficult career path, and it doesn’t surprise me that so many people I knew as grad students have pursued alternative careers.

But it seems noteworthy that I know so many people with a Masters in marine biology who:

-Operate dog day cares (3)

Or

-Work as fitness instructors (7)

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 10h

Join us online at 16:00 BST for Professor Rob Wilson’s talk, “Norming Human Individuality,” part of the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory Autumn 2025 seminar series.
Details and link: placememory.net/events-2/#Wi...

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iramey @iramey.bsky.social · 11h

HEY!

Well-beings with,... One Love, yous.

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 12h

Apropos nothing in particular, one can disagree with a good junior scholar's arguments about a set of events in the past without maligning them as advancing a harmful political agenda whose emergence post-dates work they did on those events and with which that scholar is openly, clearly, not aligned

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 12h

I don't 100% recognise the 'woo-hoo conference' characterisation here, but do recognise that is spoken from a position of privilege. A thought- and action-provoking read about the damage of academic conferences and their place in a cis-white-male-built university structure 👇🗃️

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

A new piece by us up on Substack: "Against Colonial Conferencing," where we reflect on the akademic conference circuit as an integral part of the global tourism industry, as well as the destruction of Native Hawaiian and Palestinian lands and knowledge.

open.substack.com/pub/workshop...

Against Colonial Conferencing: A w4g screed against the phenomenon of academic conferences in general

workshops4gaza
October 07, 2025

If you are thinking of visiting my homeland, please don’t. We don’t want or need any more tourists, and we certainly don’t like them. If you want to help our cause, pass this message on to your friends. Thank you.

“Lovely Hula Lands” by Haunani Kay-Trask

Recently, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) announced that it will be convening its 2026 annual conference in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

The call for proposals describes Hawai‘i as a “space, place, and time through which to collectively reflect on, respond to, and reckon with settler colonial and U.S. imperial desires and designs that continue to shape everyday life and futures.” So far, neither the participants nor the conveners appear to see a contradiction between the theme of the conference and its very material and environmental impact, in which hundreds of primarily North American scholars and their families will flock to a place that is actively under U.S. colonial military occupation.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

A new piece by us up on Substack: "Against Colonial Conferencing," where we reflect on the akademic conference circuit as an integral part of the global tourism industry, as well as the destruction of Native Hawaiian and Palestinian lands and knowledge.

open.substack.com/pub/workshop...

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iramey @iramey.bsky.social · 12h

@arctictogether.bsky.social Goodness the chance to "practice", to "do better", to "walk the talk" & in ways many orgs, agencies, teams, etc., maybe cannot, given "reality of this work & field, over generations", eh?
Necessarily "self-appointed" to play "*THIS*" very roll, 'supporting convergence'!🙏✌️

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

"...In addition to contributing to Indigenous dispossession locally...the 2026 AAAS conference also appears to provide a distraction...from colonial genocides occurring elsewhere, most notably in Palestine: shockingly, the call for this year’s papers does not mention the word “Palestine”...

iramey @iramey.bsky.social · 12h

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iramey @iramey.bsky.social · 12h

www.minneapolisfed.org/events/2025/...

CICD 10th Anniversary and Data Summit | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Braiding the past and future of Native economies

www.minneapolisfed.org

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Don @wormeguy.bsky.social · 16h

Fairbanks polls just closed
Early results can be found here as counting begins experience.arcgis.com/experience/e...

Experience

experience.arcgis.com

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Leah Berman Williams @leahwrenn.bsky.social · 14h

I can’t tell if this is advertising copy for Borealis Basecamp or an actual (super positive) review.

#alaskasky

www.journee-mondiale.com/en/better-th...

Better than Iceland's $800 aurora chaos: Alaska's glass igloos deliver 240+ northern lights nights at half the cost

www.journee-mondiale.com

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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · 14h

Today! 💚

Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · 3d

Creative Conversations: Inspiring Minds with Dr Jenna Mikus, Flourishing by Design, pls join us! 💚
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa/...

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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · 3d

Creative Conversations: Inspiring Minds with Dr Jenna Mikus, Flourishing by Design, pls join us! 💚
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa/...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 18h

Top state lawmakers say they’re investigating why $50 million from the state’s primary savings account was invested in an outside private equity fund. via @alaskapublic.org

Alaska lawmakers question use of state savings for $50 million private equity investment

Former Revenue Commissioner and candidate for governor Adam Crum committed to investing money in the fund shortly before his resignation took effect, according to his successor.

www.adn.com

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 13h

Traveling to Fairbanks soon? Consider booking a tour with us!

Maia and I are partnered up this season to run aurora tours. October is a great month for aurora viewing. Even cloudy conditions are workable with Maia able to seek out clear weather.

Book: theauroraguy.com/pages/maias-...

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iramey @iramey.bsky.social · 13h

However strange, awkward, advisable, or "just crazy" many maybe have thought, have tried define & understand "the work itself",...when considering "What's happening?!", "How did it get this way?", "What's to be done?!", I've some wherewithal caring to pay attention to "experience itself", maybe?
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a draft page from project for "Interdisciplinary Learning" titled Master's with University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 2000,...
" ... very optimistic to be able to recognize these things and not go complete mad. Especially optimistic if one thinks that something else can be done about it. I believe some-things can be done about these things and it is going to take a lot of consideration(s) and action(s) from many of us to do it.
The question has been asked if I sense this is happening. The movement is not as strong and widespread as I would like, but, yes, I think there's reason to think we may have a window of opportunity opening."

a draft page from project for "Interdisciplinary Learning" titled Master's with University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 2000,...
" ... Randolph Bourne had this to say in his essay, 'The Experimental Life':
Life is a laboratory to work out experiments in[Pg 245] living. That same freedom which we demand for ourselves, we must grant to every one. Instead of falling with our spite upon those who vary from the textbook rules of life, we must look upon their acts as new and very interesting hypotheses to be duly tested and judged by the way they work when carried out into action. Nonconformity, instead of being irritating and suspicious, as it is now to us, will be distinctly pleasurable, as affording more material for our understanding of life and our formulation of its satisfying philosophy. The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets, and lovers. It admires physical courage, but it has small use for moral courage. Yet it has always been those who experimented with life, who formed their philosophy of life as a crystallization out of that experimenting, who were the light and life of the world. Causes have only finally triumphed when the rational “gradual progress” men have been overwhelmed. Better crude irrationality than the rationality that checks hope and stifles faith.' (p.244; Bourne, 1913)"

"I have a problem. I grew up with this idea that the university, the institution of higher learning, was this tremendous bank of knowledge, wisdom & experience. I held this impression that when one entered these campuses, arms were held wide in greetings of acceptance and warmth. I believed these institutions had a deep interest in the ideas and resources one brought to bear. Coupled with this, I held that if the University didn't know "it", they would send one out to the world to find "it" and and then be filled with eager anticipation for the return. As being the first in my family to attend, it is somewhat reasonable to understand that I might have this view of higher education. Perhaps it is needless to say, but anyone with even the most remote exposure to the university today knows this vision I had is quite different from the reality. The problem I have, then, is either 1) that I'm too naive, idealistic, unreasonable, stubborn, pig-headed and radical to give up that vision of higher learning and world-view or, 2) that the system(s) and institution(s) of higher education are short-sighted, corrupt, misguided, top-heavy, artificial, disrespectful, wasteful, too big and just plain broken.
All things considered, this might not be that big of a problem. Bearing in mind, however, that I care about people, learning and education, as well as my place and role in all of this, I have found that it is arguably the preoccupation of my life. Further, as my life has lead on, I have also noticed that this discrepancy in higher education is quite similar to that I have found to exist in many other institutions in our society. I have witnessed this in our political structure, our public education system, how we treat those over age-65, and our economic structure as well as in the media, our personal habits and our understanding of our environment. The problem I have, indeed, does not go away.
In 1992, I tried to address this problem by attending university. In 1993, that,... "

"... ... The friendship many had with Rudy supported his patience & relative understanding to not restrict access from me to the tools to figure “my question” out, even if “unconventional”, &/but to do it & so it is *not* just my perspective or opinion on “x,y,z,”,...

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/public-health-and-the-open-society/11219752

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/closing-the-office-of-religious-freedom-students-rate-their-universities-don-francks-the-enduring-power-of-1.3520034/the-meaningful-man-a-one-hour-special-1.3520040

I have noted in a journal, from 22 April, 2000, my desire, my awareness of the opportunity & the need coming,... & I was, I would be someone to “help ferry” orgs, people, professionals, markets, disciplines,... thru the days & changes to come. What I might do “for work”, what I might/would do to respect that same familiar need to “make a difference”, I would have to make the choice & commitment, & be willing to respect “what it would take”,...

“Anticipatory Intelligence”, is more about the emotional security learned & shared via storytelling, than is it any “AI” assist by electronics or gadget, I think will be what ‘proves out’,...

Anyway,... not a direct “point A to B”, but is as direct to connect some dots, & why my relative passion & communication, “why now”,...

iramey @iramey.bsky.social · 13h

I actually committed my career to "the practice", as matter of fact, & in part w/ "Interdisciplinary Learning", M.A., 2000, @uafairbanks.bsky.social
& didn't Dean of Grad School then worry & caution me - not over 'quality' nor 'content'! But feared *the title* would discourage "real employment"
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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 15h

Interdisciplinarity is something you only get to do once you're "inside"

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 15h

Ask me how I know!

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 15h

Interdisciplinarity is fun because it’s something job ads in humanities HE say they want but it often feels like it actively disqualifies you (in the sense of having degrees in, and published in leading journals of, multiple distinct disciplines). Everyone believes you’re not in their discipline.

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