The Dec/Jan issue of National Teaching and Learning Forum is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21663327...

I know this is hard, but please don't give advice unless someone asks for it. Sometimes someone just needs to say something and to be heard. It's not always an invitation for your opinion.

I wish I could make a fortune going "should we just all agree I dont have to do my job."

this is my favourite, lol.

And here we are again with the mental fibrillation.

when the robot tells you to bring a bobcat a dish of milk

This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.

Hey #MathSky, help out our friends in theoretical CS?

Northwestern University offered bland reassurance to trans students and faculty after signing a deal with the Trump administration that sacrificed them for restored funding. More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social: www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Happy December! Here's a little something about shapes: mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolum...

It was six years ago today that a man in Wuhan, China began feeling ill. He would become the first known COVID case. Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling. Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters. Public health is a social justice issue.

A few new little updates here. If there is some good research out there I should add, let me know!

Here is a nice (but deadly!) mushroom

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It’s fine. I know what I’m doing. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

...on your work managed device. We should assume no level of privacy from work on work managed devices. At least not us regular folk.

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Yes, the transition from purchase to subscription models is a massive part of the enshittification ecosystem.

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

1+3+5+7+... will always equal a square number. Here's an example of a proof by induction.

This threads need to be collated, published as a novel, and then nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards, which it would almost assuredly win. (And as a judge for the 2021 Lammys for the transgender fiction category, I speak with some authority on the matter)

The whole point of citations beyond "showing your work" is so it's clear where your evidence is coming from. I'll be the last person to be a stickler about the specifics of a given style other than my deep and abiding hatred for APA but citations matter! They matter so much!

Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.

I think librarians and archivists will be even more important in the AI age. People will want verifiable information. We will need to keep evidence. We will need to continue teaching information literacy skills in an age where nothing can be trusted at first glance.

"Conservatives desire to pry the lid off the coffin & so our confrontation must be against the grave robbers. Our coalition has got to keep the lid nailed down tight & wheels of progress turning." -- Shirley Chisholm, born #tdih 1924, Brooklyn. Early childhood teacher, Congresswoman, & much more. ⬇️

#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1

Memos are not laws and it’s extremely weird we pretend they are.

Related, here is the "Living Wage" for where I live in Ohio: How much you need to make on a yearly basis to be able to afford things like health care, child care and housing. Depending on circumstances, it can be $100K+, and I live in a "cheap" area in the US. livingwage.mit.edu/counties/39037

Tax rich people and massive corporations. Provide universal basic income and healthcare. It's okay for them to have a bit less money and for the rest of us to have a bit more money. We'll spend it back to them anyway. They'll live. We'll all live. As a RIGHT.

We should really retire the term "AI" it's been corrupted beyond redemption. Actual useful applications of machine learning need to be called something else.

There is a special kind of willful ignorance that has attached itself to the mechanisms of how vaccines work and the good they have done in society.

any editors out there want a piece that’s a blend of personal narrative & reporting on breaking the silence around suicide, inspired by my last few days on social media? DM me. (retweets appreciated—I started writing it this AM)

Things to do this weekend besides shopping: - manage your mind goblins - nap for 1,000 years - investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff - investigate pie - read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it

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More and more, I think the solution to problems of pedagogy in universities has little to do with pedagogy or universities and whole lot more to do with fixing our merciless, relentless, and profoundly stupidity-inducing society.

Kate makes an excellent argument here. Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

IMPORTANT reminder for when you print zines: Set your printer to "Scale: 100%" Many printers automatically resize to 94% or something, which will shrink the image and give you weird borders when you fold the zine. Scale: 100%.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Black Crowned Night Heron Black bear Brown bear American bison Javelina

I increasingly think the pandemic is a gaping wound and generative AI is a Band-Aid People seem unable to think clearly due to trauma and lingering effects, but here's a shiny toy that will compensate

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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild: horseshoe crab elk hummingbird bald eagle pelican

AI companies going bankrupt and authors getting paid, this is the future I want

“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”

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Hitler was bad. An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.