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@readywriting.bsky.social

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I do digital pedagogy things professionally, coach swimming for my sanity, sew my own clothes amateurishly, parent the best I can. Co-host of the All The Things ADHD podcast, editor of the National Teaching and Learning Forum.

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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · Aug 14

It's my birthday today and I can't think of a better way for you all to celebrate it than to PRE-ORDER OUR BOOK! press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Of Many Minds

Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 57m

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 4h

Finally something to share that isn't a total horror show! cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app

pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 4h

Proud to serve as the publishing editor for this fantastic piece. The authors position refusal as an ethical/methodological stance for working with "materials that depend on the objectification of, and through that objectification the commodification of, human subjects." It's a must read!

In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 5h

The Digital Opaque: Refusing the Biomedical Object by Sean Purcell, Kalani Craig and Michelle Dalmau

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/digital...

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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 5h

It's the same thing in Northern Virginia.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com

Panel 1
A figure stands at a lectern
"This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything."
The screen is completely packed with such things

Panel 2,3,4,5.
Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"

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Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Come work with me at @propublica.org!
We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫

job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Higher Education Reporter, National

New York City, United States

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 1d

www.nature.com/articles/pal...

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 1d

This Brewers pitcher is a BABY, does he even shave? Is his mom watching and being like, he needs a good meal or two? Isn’t he pitching past his bedtime OMG

readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 2d

Sigh. cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Someday really soon simply tagging you in a post that I share will get my flagged. lol*sob

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 2d

"Now Wired — which has become indispensable and deserves your subscription dollars (🙏) — reports that DHS wants to create dedicated centers to mass monitor social-media in real time."

"Authoritarian Capacity" and the Trump Regime - Lawyers, Guns & Money

In May of 2022, the Department of Homeland Security tried to stand up a group to coordinate government anti-disinformation efforts. As Deepa Shivaram wrote at NPR, the “decision” resulted from a “coor...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Jill Fisch @jillfisch.bsky.social · 2d

This was fascinating.

Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about all the lived experiences and strange structures of modern society — many of which we take for granted — that were literally impossible for all previous generations of Homo sapiens. www.forkingpaths.co/p/we-are-dif...

We are different from all other humans in history

Countless experiences that have become routine for us are unprecedented in the history of our species. Here's why that matters.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this will only continue to escalate, they want a civil war

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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 2d

18yo daughter: Mom, stop, you’re grown.
Me, internally: AM I? I AM PERIMENAPAUSAL AND I HAVENT FELT THIS OUT OF CONTROL SINCE PUBERTY DONT TELL ME IM GROWN

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 2d

My blog post reporting on testing the use of agentic AI (the Fellou.ai browser) to start a research project on gathering definitions of the humanities: “Humanities Definitions Research Project: An Experiment with Agentic AI” (liu.english.ucsb.edu/humanities-d...).

Screenshots of the Fellou interface while its browser agent is in progress on a research task prompted by the user. (A) and (B) represent windows with multiple browser tabs open to searches. Each tab in these windows shows rapidly changing thumbnails of the websites, articles (including PDFs), and other materials that Fellou is currently searching and analyzing. A panel at the right of each window shows a partial view of the kinds of sources and topics Fellou has planned to search in response to the user’s prompt.
(C) is a window showing a periodically refreshed report on progress so far. In this window, the panel at the left shows in separate blocks some of the kinds of sources and topics that Fellou plans to search. The wide panel in the center summarizes results. And the panel at the right shows in blocks the specific sources and key phrases currently being “deep searched.”

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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 4d

So proud of myself - I only thrifted two thing I didn't need: a leather purse and a pair of Cole Haan boots.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d

I regret to inform you that in addition to the collapse of Reconstruction and the Red Scare we all need to bone up on how Woodrow Wilson cracked down on journalists and dissenters. We've got you covered, with this piece by Adam Hochschild www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

America’s top censor—so far

Woodrow Wilson’s postmaster put papers out of business and jailed journalists. The tools he used still exist.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 5d

The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

Data protection (UK GDPR)
Obtain confirmation that Anthology will continue to meet its UK GDPR Article 28 obligations as your data processor throughout the process.
Get clarification of sub processor stability (no changes planned; if changes are anticipated, please provide advance notice and details).
Confirm that no organisational changes arising from the restructuring will alter how your personal data is accessed, processed, or transferred; if any changes are envisaged, please outline controls, locations, and safeguards.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 5d

I really hope someone has written on misogynoir in particular so Jonaya and I can cite it…

Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 5d

Has anyone written a paper on investigating fandom's internalized racism, homophobia and sexism using Actual Play* fans reactions? If not, it's going on my list. 🤌🏽

*I wish my new line of research on performance and bleed didn't mean I have to occasionally read reddit, but here we are.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 6d

THIS MAKES IT SO MUCH WORSE

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 6d

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 6d

why are they all so weird??? :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

Paul Rudd making a horrified/disgusted face and holding a drink, he's wearing a cowboy hat with a unicorn horn on it

Paul Rudd making the same horrified/disgusted face, looking to the right this time, and holding a drink, he's wearing a cowboy hat with a unicorn horn on it

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Lucius @petrouchkacries.bsky.social · 6d

Release the Grindr files.
Release the Grindr files.
Release the Grindr files.
Release the Grindr files.
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Release the Grindr files.
Release the Grindr files.
Release the Grindr files.
Release the Grindr files.
Release the Grindr files.
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 6d

ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...

Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R

In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 6d

This is the first compelling argument I've seen to upgrade and it's coming from some of my favorite progessives. 😭😭

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 6d

An under-the-radar but huge story: in less than 2 weeks, Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows 10 operating system, which is currently used on 42% (!) of all PCs globally. Over 400 million computers will be vulnerable to hacks or destined for the dump if users don't pay up.

Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.

The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 7d

tomorrow at @scholarslab.bsky.social we will be talking about setting reasonable expectations for teaching people to read (not write) code - a meta discussion for my in-person workshop here on reading python for beginners next week

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7d

Bin-go

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