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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)

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Into words, sentences, genres. #writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing https://katjat.medium.com/

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · Jul 1

If you've ever found yourself in a position of inventing some sort of story that might explain uneven student evaluation scores—your own or someone else's—then this blog post is for you.

#writingstudies #cdnwrds #rhetcomp #teamrhetoric

Teaching Scores, Storied Averages, and Small Classes

University administrations are very keen on student evaluations. Behind the scenes, they are a managerial lever in employment decisions and…

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 7h

HI. It's me.

WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.

Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 4h

Nonononononononono. . . 😆

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 18h

i think my favourite part about being a trans woman is how much of an impact we have on culture. a friend reminded me today about a popular meme format she created. another friend today casually told me about how she was the most notorious roblox hacker when she was a child.

just a day in the life!

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 5h

I hope people like the bluesky moderation who keep shutting down voices from inside Gaza are reminded every day for the rest of their lives how they acted for over 2 years of livestreamed holocaust.

Are they the worst villains? Of course not but they use the power they have to make survival harder.

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 5h

Attending online! Full of interesting tidbits, from what a C18 valet did immediately after unpacking his master's belongings (find a fellow English servant and go drinking) to what these journals don't include (surprisingly, servants rarely wrote about their actual work). #18thcentury #academia

Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 5h

Just listening to @richardjansell.bsky.social talking eloquently about servants and their journals on the grand tour @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

A photo of a seminar room with an audience facing forward. The speaker is at the front behind a podium

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 15h

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 15h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 19h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 6h

Contemporary background: AJ Link has been banned from this platform.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

jay posts this first thing, he quotes this with the second thing which has that alt text, his appeals

nice and tidy

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 6h

„Space law impacts your ability to see the night sky when you go camping. It impacts your ability to navigate around the world, your phone’s GPS, who has access to that, and who doesn’t. Space is a place where we have an opportunity—though it’s fading—to fight for a different type of humanity.“

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

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Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 6h

Truly one of the best pieces of content.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 4d

michael?
peter.

Page from fox in socks by dr seuss. Drawing of weird little four legged bugs with faces.
Text reads:
What do you know about tweetle beetles?
Well
When tweetle beetles fight, it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 8h

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: ‘She is surrounded by love’

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: 'She is surrounded by love'

Trans campaigner and author Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has been moved to hospice care following her hospitalisation earlier this month.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 6h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 8h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 7h

This is an excellent thread—litigating written rules is not what makes a community function.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11h

Humanity has tried for 1000s of years to find the perfect set of written rules that make civilization and we have never succeeded. Civilization only works because people are generally decent and intolerable of jerks. Rules come later as a way to generate gradients of power and accountability.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11h

Here’s the thing about social media moderation: you need to have both a provision and a practice of keeping people off your platform even if they don’t break any of your rules but are simply just a fucking asshole. And of course off-platform behavior is a legitimate reason.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 8h

"Too many people are busily promoting a version of "‘AI’ literacy” that is simply training students how to use and consume 'AI' 'properly' – whatever that means – and refusing to admit that there may be no ethical usage of a fundamentally unethical, abusive technology," writes Audrey Watters.

Without Our Consent

When I wrote last week’s round-up of “AI”-related news, I didn’t include any of OpenAI’s product releases, mostly because it’s 2025 and I’m exhausted by this game that tech companies and tech journali...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

The TESCREAL Bundle

The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 23h

TFW that bad thing happening where u live that you've been yelling about for five years since it started happening to anyone who'll listen is now happening everywhere just as an ordinary practice of business and government and no, we didn't even get to vote about it & neither does almost anyone else

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I will never vote for this man. I'm just going to say that right now

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 1d

It. Is. Magnificent.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 1d

Pinkerite has a section on Pinker in this report.

www.mergatroyd.org/pinker/pinke...

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LesbianSpaceMerc @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 1d

I joined Bluesky because I thought it was going to be a safe place for me as a trans woman. There was so much promise of it being a permanent social media home.

We all deserve a straightforward answer from management if they'll protect their users from harm, or if they'll protect abusers instead.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app.

i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this

and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

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Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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