Rachel Martiniak
@rmartin2.bsky.social
Senior eLearning Specialist in Higher Ed | Instructional Design | Educational Technology | Anthropology
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Champaign-Urbana and the University of Illinois campus look beautiful this morning with a fresh coating of snow and our brilliant autumn color palette. Looks great from above, but roads are problematic across Champaign County so stay home and enjoy from the window if you're able.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Champaign-Urbana and the University of Illinois campus look beautiful this morning with a fresh coating of snow and our brilliant autumn color palette. Looks great from above, but roads are problematic across Champaign County so stay home and enjoy from the window if you're able.
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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
slate.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
June 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
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The other dimension of this is the perverse incentives it gives instructors to assume the worst of their students. If I read a decently written essay, I now have to pause and question a student’s honesty. That kind of creeping distrust is fatal to the model of teaching we’ve followed for millennia.
In an effort to avoid accusations of cheating, some students are recording their own screens for hours at a time or using keystroke loggers.
A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I.
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The other dimension of this is the perverse incentives it gives instructors to assume the worst of their students. If I read a decently written essay, I now have to pause and question a student’s honesty. That kind of creeping distrust is fatal to the model of teaching we’ve followed for millennia.
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It’s really remarkable how textbook abuser this administration is, particularly when it comes to language.
Kevin Hassett blames Canada for tensions with Trump: "Canada kept making it worse and worse with their rhetoric."
May 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It’s really remarkable how textbook abuser this administration is, particularly when it comes to language.
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Yale and Princeton University Presses are having 50% off sales and you should *also* need to fill up floor space next to your already overflowing bookcases. Here's a very select few that looked interesting to me ...
May 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Yale and Princeton University Presses are having 50% off sales and you should *also* need to fill up floor space next to your already overflowing bookcases. Here's a very select few that looked interesting to me ...
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NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN
Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.
www.cnn.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
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Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
April 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
Every dictator in history has lied.
Donald Trump is no different.
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it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
April 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
Big fan of my state. And our governor!! 👏👏👏
We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper.
Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.
Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.
March 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Big fan of my state. And our governor!! 👏👏👏
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February 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
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Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
February 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
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All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool
January 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool
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One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
January 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
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You had different dreams for yourself than having to meet this shit historical moment.
I did too. I did too.
I did too. I did too.
January 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
You had different dreams for yourself than having to meet this shit historical moment.
I did too. I did too.
I did too. I did too.