Many well-meaning people don't know that Autism Speaks does very little to help existing autistic children or adults. We are grateful to @autisticadvocacy.org for going over Autism Speaks's financial record—so you can see exactly why you shouldn't donate to AS. #autism #neurodiversity

For the latest installment of Working Better, I explored workloads in higher ed. This is a big topic, and one column surely doesn't do it justice. But I wanted to elevate the issue and offer ideas about how those of us in leadership roles can, in small ways, help. www.chronicle.com/article/high...

Sure, the world may be falling apart, but don't let that stop you from being kind. Don't let it stop you from trying to help. Don't let it stop you from disappearing into a sinister fog and becoming a terrifying creature of folklore and legend.

This is Jack. He was given a pair of overalls today. Doesn’t mind wearing them, but wants to be clear he will not be performing any manual labor. 12/10 (IG: jeffthebasset)

I'm never going to not be angry over what has been done to my country. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

Frog and Toad sat on the porch, feeling sad together.

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

This isn’t a lamentable side effect of these products. It’s the actual reason they exist.

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New story! "Welcome to Heroism" by John Wiswell! buff.ly/tRfFuRF

April 7, 1980 "Oh, boy. Wow! Now, those are large objects, say, the size of small Volkswagens or something like that... you don't want to run into." — Tom Benson, Portland State University geologist, reacting on ABC News to rocks hurled from Mount St. Helens.

Meet Gabrael Bey, the CSUN film student & talented cinematographer for Strangely Optimistic! 🎥 Grateful for his work on this Disability Film Challenge dramedy. 🎬 Written/Dir/Starring @ninastorey.bsky.social ✂️ Edited by @msjulieslam.bsky.social Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaVm... #LongCOVID

Seen in the department (not my doing)

This is great!

What's a good, basic manual for new activists? To give people some conceptual grounding? Maybe correct common fallacies? It feels like there is a need. I'd love suggestions. Name your own books, ofc! And, anyone can DM suggestions too. DMs open. No need to follow! (Save yourself!) Thank you!

A absolute heartbreaker of an article. I empathize with the teachers - I vehemently hope AFT seeks out dissenting educators. Plenty to choose from in the replies.

It seems a bit unfair to cast negative perceptions about GenAI (which are usually informed opinions / rooted in expertise lol) in terms of feelings while amplifying the experiments of the AI curious as the future of teaching.

Meth, measles and black mold can also spread rapidly in schools. This means they must be important for educators to integrate in the classroom! That’s just logic, which Randi has definitely mastered.

In one of the nation's most ambitious, and contentious, overhauls of math education, California has made it all but impossible for most students to start out in remedial courses. Are they removing a lifeline or a barrier to the least-prepared students? https://chroni.cl/4c5X7I2

We have a new Brew and Banter session coming up! This session explores critical perspectives on AI: its broader context, key concerns, and potential negative impacts on education. Join our discussion on April 27 (3pm ET). Learn more: bit.ly/3O9XgSO

In less than two weeks, Kaleidotrope will re-open to fiction and poetry submissions for one week. April 19-25. One of only three weeks the zine will be open this year!

tompkins king apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912

unreal to realize that, in about 2 months, it'll be 2 years since The Originalism Trap came out I've sold 5,925 copies so far, which is probably pretty good for a Black girl nobody had ever heard of writing a book about the Constitution? hope I can hit 6K! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

and fools say bluesky is dying

Do not rely on the A.I.-generated alt text in Facebook or Instagram. The result is vague and useless, like "may be an image of food and text," and "may be an image of outdoors." These do nothing to give users the context and content of an image.

April 5, 1980 At least three eruptions sent ash 15,000 feet high at Mount St. Helens. Ash drifted south and east. Scientists detected sulfur dioxide in the plume—another sign magma was rising. Just four quakes topped magnitude 4.0, but harmonic tremor buzzed for 16 minutes before noon.

Lots of good points in this piece, including:

As teams use AI tools to generate high-fidelity prototypes, the focus shifts to output instead of purpose. Prototyping should be about testing ideas and learning what actually works before building. annaecook.com/writing/2026...

you guys guess what (I promise it’s something good, don’t look at me like that)

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Happy Easter! And happy anniversary to my annual Easter joke. And so to bed.

From Chanda's lips to everyone's ears. so many people don't understand the structure and the history of how we've gotten here. I'm going to enjoy the space pictures with one hand while I plot & scheme & dream how we get to space not chained to the military industrial complex. It *is* possible.

Happy Easter: “I’ve spent well over 20 years studying the history of the Crusades, thinking about the ways that sanctified violence works once it takes hold in a culture and becomes institutionalized. Once leaders start talking the way Pete Hesgeth does …limitations can easily fade away.”

The Dispossessed is one of those novels that can alter worldviews when it finds the right reader at the right time. (I certainly was one of those readers.)

On this day, 49 years ago.

Somebody was talking about how all the single use plastics that we absolutely need for hospitals and medical settings are going to suffer from this petroleum crisis at some point, yet all i see in most publications is concern about gas prices.

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I saw Harry Belafonte perform "Turn the World Around" on the Muppet Show when I was seven, but I thought the title was "We Come From the Mountain" so it took me more than a decade to track it down.

If you spot any bunnies hopping home tonight and you are feeling brave, follow them into the misty forest. Join them as they dance in the shadows, bay at the moon, and mutter dark incantations to their elder gods.

Just in case anyone needs some lizard blep this morning 😛 I haven’t seen any Belding’s Orange-throated whiptails for a while, this might be FOY! It’s a ‘teen’, or at least a tweener - in between a tiny and adult. Those stripes 🥰 #herps

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Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the arrest of Ted Kaczynski/Unabomber and I just remembered this truly understated note while citing his mathematical work.

Bullfrog of the day! Saturday, 4 April 2026

I’ve been spotting snowdrops popping up from dirty snow all over town for a week or more. Today I found a bunch I could get close to. The green inner petals are so pretty.

catline apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1929

“We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

I know a lot of researchers who should know AAT exists. “A disabled-led, unapologetically intersectional transcription and closed captioning social enterprise offering transcription support for researchers, by researchers.”

Someone asked for an app to point your camera at a color and find matches. Cool. Here. BUT ALSO: I'm colorblind and never thought to make this for myself! Save colors ("new paint," "mom's fave"), get colorblind-friendly complements, simulate what you see vs. what others see. Legit using this daily.