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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11d

Thank you! Here's the source for what I said on #WITHpod: "There are six states in the United States where data centres already consume over 10% of the electricity supply, with Virginia leading at 25%." www.iea.org/reports/ener...

Listen to the podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/32ps...

"As a result, in regions where data centres are concentrated, the share of electricity demand going to data centres is disproportionately high. In Ireland, for example, data centres consume around 20% of the metered electricity supply. There are six states in the United States where data centres already consume over 10% of the electricity supply, with Virginia leading at 25%."

World map showing data center load in gigawatts all over the world. Virginia has a giant bubble indicating lots of data centers. Map is from: https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/understanding-the-energy-ai-nexus#abstract

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · 20d

This course completely changed my way of being in the world. If you’re interested in critical and creative coding and/or data and/or birds, stop dithering and sign up ASAP!

Also @jerthorp.bsky.social is offering 60% off right now with the code SIXTY. You will get so much from this experience!

Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · Aug 28

My course about birding & creative code is also secretly (shhhh) a course about critical data thinking.

Which is one of the most important skills you could possibly cultivate in this age of AI and misinformation.

Autumn cohorts start September 23rd... join me?

jerthorp.me/learning

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Why birds & data?
To see the whole picture.
Data is a system, not a thing.
To truly understand data, you need to know how it gets made, how it is changed by the processes of computation, and how the choices we make in representing it affect the stories that can be told.
Birding offers a way to get intimate with this entire system. To watch as our observations become data. To see how they are recast and reshaped by algorithms and models. To explore the many practical and poetic ways we might tell our data's story.
Through birding, data is revealed not as static record, but as a living process of which we (and our feathered neighbors) are very much a part.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 28

The call is live! Please share.

We’re inviting submissions of teaching and learning objects for POEM: the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Aug 6

It’s #WoodpeckerWednesday but I’ve just been in Iceland and have no new woodpeckers to report. Have a puffin instead. 🪶

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 28

Deadline to submit is September 17
Submit your materials here:
🔗 hov.to/37bcce17 or scan the QR code above

Call for Teaching and Learning Objects: Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies (POEM)

Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies (POEM) Created at Carnegie Mellon University, POEM is a dynamic collection of teaching resources that addresses crucial digital literacy challenges across t...

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 28

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Final selections will be published bilingually under a CC-BY-NC license and made freely available to educators.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 28

We’re looking for openly licensed resources that help students engage critically with AI, data, and media/disinformation literacies—in English or Spanish.

Lesson plans, assignments, videos, games, podcasts—formats are wide open.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 28

The call is live! Please share.

We’re inviting submissions of teaching and learning objects for POEM: the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 25

The call for teaching and learning objects goes out next week. Keep an eye out, and please share with your networks when you see it!

#AILiteracy #AcademicLabor #OpenEd #MediaLiteracy #DataLiteracy

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 25

So we’re proceeding—with care, with clarity, and with intention. This won’t be the POEM we first imagined. But it will still be a resource we believe in.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 25

I guess this is what negotiating conflicting values looks like. We believe labor deserves compensation. And that learners need resources now. And that the IMLS matters.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 25

But two-thirds of us have decided to continue. Not because we don’t believe in compensation or in the essential nature of IMLS—we absolutely do—but because the need for these literacies is too urgent.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 25

Some members of the editorial collective stepped away—and I respect their decisions and am grateful to have worked alongside them, even briefly.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 25

Without the funding, asking people to keep going meant asking them to volunteer a significant amount of time and expertise. That wasn’t something I felt comfortable doing.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 25

The cancellation posed a quandary. The whole point was to pay people for the kind of labor that’s often invisible in the academy: writing, editing, peer review.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 25

The grant was meant to support a bilingual, peer-reviewed collection of open educational resources focused on AI, data, and media/disinformation literacies. Work we think is absolutely essential for students and educators right now.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 25

Back in April, the IMLS grant @library.cmu.edu had secured for POEM—the Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies—was canceled by the administration. Apparently, it no longer met agency priorities.

a cartoon drawing of a bottle that says science is not cancelled

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a bottle that says science is not cancelled

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 16

The first edition of the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute powered by @humetricshss.bsky.social is underway! humetricshss.org/an-expansive...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Jul 15

NOAA and FEMA are being gutted and our infrastructure was designed for the weather of 100 years ago.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 15

The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight

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Hans de Jonge @hldejonge.bsky.social · Jul 9

🎉 Netherlands University Presses (NUPs) receive €300,000 grant from @opensciencenl.bsky.social to strengthen diamond open access publishing! 💎 Building a sustainable, academic-led alternative free for both readers AND authors. #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience

www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran... 👆🏾

Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL

The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

www.openscience.nl

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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · Jul 3

🔥 Save the date 🔥

"Learning from Each other's Journeys: Case Studies from Open Initiatives"

📅 31 July 2025, 18 - 19:30 UTC+1 (UK time)

Featuring Aleksandra Nenadic, @choldgraf.com, @yabellini.bsky.social, Yo Yehudi, & @arielleb.bsky.social

Learn more: the-turing-way-fireside-chats.start.page

Hand-drawn image by scriberia is on the right of the digital poster: three people are sitting around a fire whose flames form the words “The Fireside Chat”. They are holding speech bubbles on sticks in lieu of marshmallows.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Jul 3

Our research confirms this. Climate change increases the need for air conditioning for people to not die in heat waves. We need clean energy. We need efficient buildings. We need green infrastructure. We need more of this that most folks can imagine. We should start building it all right now.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jul 3

I’ve read a lot of research on air conditioning, heat waves, and mortality, and there’s extremely strong consensus among actual experts about “we need to expand global access to air conditioning at the same time as we engage in other sustainable measures, like better architecture and green spaces.”

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Jul 2

Bird book data! (Also: birds + one of my top 25 novels = instant subscribe)

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · Jun 29

Here's a free PDF copy of Lundy Bancroft's essential book Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men.

tinyurl.com/bancroftpdf

Please repost. You never know who might need to read this. (Or reread it.)

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Jun 28

NOAA is essential to the health, welfare, and safety of all Americans. Dismantling climate.gov makes us all less safe. Here’s an article we wrote about the value of NOAA to the American public: bsky.app/profile/cost...

NOAA Climate.gov @climate.noaa.gov · Jun 27

Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.

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