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So cute! I used to take the long route home just to keep my kids talking in the car

Spending the morning discussing aligning institutional state learning outcomes with state-required learning outcomes and Gen Ed state competencies and … well, I miss my students today, let’s just say

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Almost two years ago, we opened our exhibition (Un)chained Knowledge, subtitled “Fake news, censorship and information around 1500 and today”. The digital version of this exhibition is still available online. Why are we putting this exhibition back in the spotlight now?

Astonishing. HD runs through a cousin’s family and it has left devastation in its wake - a 90 year old widow who watched all four of her children, a grandchild, and now a great grandchild, die

My guardians and bookends

handwriting puzzlers assemble! My eyes just aren't up to this faded copy ... 'I have in the Shipp Tenn Elephants Teeth [contayning?] Eighteen ? ? ?'

for the longest, everyone kept saying we needed to churn out good workers for big companies. so we invested in bench sciences, business, administrative degrees. and now companies want humanities majors: 4/? www.businessinsider.com/notebooklm-e... www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-...

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

Timely reminder that while the artists pass, the art lives on

RIP, Robert Redford.

noooo

Mmmmmm…space donuts. Pumpkin spice space donuts

It’s decorative gourd season, bitches!

Today is Édouard Boubat’s birthday. He was a photographer & photojournalist. ‘Cats on a Roof, Paris’ (1947)

The San Ysidro mass shooting at a McDonald’s killing 21 people happened in 1984. The shooting at a Luby’s in Killeen TX that killed 23 people was in 1991.

Exactly. State and community colleges too.

Anyone got any ideas here?

As someone (at a public institution) charged with updating course descriptions and checking that all syllabi this semester align with them - can confirm

My buddy who's a HS Physics teacher said that one of his students asked him why it's called a hallucination when AI does it but it's a wrong answer on a test if a student does it and yeah

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

Boosting again because I’ve done one a week for the last four weeks but I still don’t know if they help or distract

A Hero’s Journey

Bluesky may be the one place on the internet where you can be like “my hobbies are politics and mental illness and cool bugs” and everyone is like omg follow

To think that when Ed Muskie cried in 1972 and Michael Dukakis looked awkward in a military helmet riding in a tank in 1988 these disqualified them as candidates but all of this *gesturing wearily* doesn’t phase his own party…

This is a very good post to send to your friends and colleagues who use AI, teaching them how to learn how to get more correct answers out of LLMs. AI haters should read this too, as it’s research-based and you can see how these systems work when you encounter them.

It really does

19thC urchin aesthetic. We’ll be dying of exposure because we don’t have enough to keep our ankles warm this winter, selling matchsticks

Applications are open for the Renaissance Society of America's short-term research fellowships, including many that give preference to contingent faculty and independent scholars -- apply by September 16th, applicants must be @rsaorg.bsky.social members: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern

This is wonderful. I bet she and Ada Lovelace would have made great friends, though she's half a generation older at least.

“If We Must Die” is a poem of resoluteness in the face of the Red Summer of 1919 by the Harlem Rennascience poet Claude McKay, a black, queer, creative visionary. #book #poetry #booksky #lgbtq #read #reading #books

New therapeutic exercise just dropped ❤️

Happy Reply All to all who celebrate

no new pictures, where are you at mentally

As an adjunct instructor - new or senior w/ years of experience - would you appreciate or hate a weekly email from your dean updating you on developments and reminding you about admin stuff like No-Show attendance or book orders?

Strong CCs are an essential part of thriving communities

Arcangela Paladini's only known painting, a strikingly modern-looking self-portrait of 1621 in the Uffizi. She died the following year at just 23 years old. #earlymodern

Day 2 of school and Dean-ing. We had a faculty member at the wrong campus, one who didn’t show, one in the wrong country, a classroom that doesn’t exist, a panic attack, a thunderstorm, internet failure, students dropped from classes by accident, & a student logging into an online class from jail

Looking forward to this treat, made in my former hometown of Sanibel Island!

This is becoming my favorite day - MLHotD

WTFityF

This! And Anna Nicole Smith, natch, but she deserves better than a gif quote post

The Night Sky, 1965 The #Perseids Artist: Robert Ayton

I had loads of fun doing this interview with Will Davis-Coleman and Patrick Courtney on the Cloak and Dagger podcast! We talked about the Heian Japanese writers Sei Shōnagon and Murasaki Shikibu - including interpretations of them as queer women. #MedievalSky 🗃️ www.dfdagency.net/cloak-and-da...

FLACs and SAS and EPAFs, oh my! FLOs are red, SLOs are blue, Align both with the CIM, Or I can’t pay you!

Learning how to do Dean stuff and boy howdy does academia LOVE its acronyms