Kaitlin Stack Whitney
@kstackwhitney.bsky.social
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STS / enviro studies prof, on unceded Seneca lands. mostly thinking with insects and about ableism in biology. own views, etc. she/they
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kstackwhitney.bsky.social
yeah I just don't know if they want this fight. Or at what stage. Sigh.
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
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
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
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.
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
Same AND they are rolling out workday (AI HR operations, payroll, reimbursement etc).
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
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...
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
note the privacy/safety warning at the bottom... Regular pictionary doesn't need to come with that...
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
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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kstackwhitney.bsky.social
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.
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
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.
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
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.
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
it worked out, thanks to some wonderful colleagues. but still, mortifying 🤦
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
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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skwinnicki.bsky.social
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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lawrencecphd.bsky.social
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
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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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
It’s not that it should surprise you. We know prisons, surplus population, wage theft go hand in hand.

It’s just an elegant little case — as employers terrorize workers with AI replacement threats, and compel them back to the office imprisoned people are “WFH”

www.mainepublic.org/2025-08-29/i...
In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking notice
Forty-five Maine prisoners are currently working remote jobs for outside companies. A few are working full-time, earning more than corrections officers. One is making well into the six figures. Here's...
www.mainepublic.org
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ashleyshoo.bsky.social
Disability accommodation represents a failure to plan and build accessible infrastructure —work structures, public spaces, events.

We force people thru appts, paperwork, mtgs w their boss and HR…bc of structural failures. The work of being included too often falls to individual disabled people.
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
amazing. got a small one a few years back to make custom project field guides but clearly need to thinking bigger!!