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🩷 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 👻 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like the MPs during the prorogued parliaments were mad about it. These reps seem cool with it.

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Kimberly @greypele.bsky.social · 2d

Learned about @libro.fm at ALA annual— it’s an audiobook app where you pick your fav indie bookstore and the audiobooks you buy support them. Putting my money in better places is at least somewhat in my control, and I need that when so much else is out my control.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2d

i made a graphic so it can be even more visible

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 2d

This is something EJ/CJ advocates knew from the start and the mainstream movements did not listen. We don't have time to keep making the same mistakes. The only way to reduce emissions is to STOP fossil fuel use. No more of this offset/negative emission bs

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 2d

Are you an adjunct or VAP? Someone who works in history but outside academia? Check out this call for papers!

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

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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🩷 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 👻 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 3d

Yep with a person who waited til close to print as usual.

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🩷 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 👻 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 4d

Did 9.5 today

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🩷 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 👻 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for sharing.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 4d

It is not necessary to be brilliant to recover from trauma, nor spiritual, nor (insert other aspirational adjective here).

It is necessary to be consistent & truly open to the idea that we deserve better & we can do better-- without shaming, pressuring, or punishing ourselves.

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🩷 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 👻 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 4d

I can imagine

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · Aug 10

Entry 31 - Migrating from the Bluesky PDS to the #BlackSky PDS with PDS MOOver #SharpieVLOG

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 5d

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5d

Do you live in a state that voted for Trump or that has a Republican and did you benefit from enhanced ACA subsidies? Do you have a longstanding health condition? If so, I'd love to talk with you. My signal is emgarcia.85. My email is [email protected]

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 5d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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🩷 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 👻 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 5d

Wow though. Like a sword.

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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 6d

Tribute to primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall, and the ways in which she changed science:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

www.nature.com

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🩷 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 👻 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you. Mammograms aren’t my favorite but it’s better than not having them at all. Happy you are good!

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 7d

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

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🩷 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 👻 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 6d

Omg gotta tell my mom it’s out!

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Chicago Public Square @chicagopublicsquare.com · 7d

White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities

The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government's grantmaking agency.

www.yahoo.com

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 7d

The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive

Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

www.theguardian.com

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 7d

It's this simple: the GOP controls the White House + Congress. They could pass a clean CR that keeps the government open. They would rather slash health benefits for working class families. Trump and the GOP are holding sick Americans hostage. Democrats refuse to abandon sick Americans. That's it.

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🩷 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 👻 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 7d

So if you feel anything weird, see a doctor. Better safe than sorry. Get medical care as long as it is available to you. Prioritize your health.

🩷 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 👻 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 7d

I’m certain that my surgeon who took a more aggressive stance with my case did help prevent BC and lengthened my life expectancy. He typically isn’t for mastectomy or referring people to oncology but he did both for me. I’m 2 years post reconstruction.

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