The answer for me - in the classroom - has been to use universal design principles. I don’t give tests, my assignments are open book & can be submitted in multiple ways, I give extensions to anyone who asks. People have family emergencies, work demands, get ill… An inclusive class helps more people.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

I drove through this town at least ten times a year, and my mom had us all convinced you were supposed to roll down your windows and shout WAHOOOOOO at someone. "they like it when you do it!" I did this for 20 years, including during college, before I discovered, oh my mom just made that shit up

Same composition a few days apart

What holds democracy together? A shared sense of what’s real. At Civic Saturday on Nov. 15, we dug into how we protect that. Full gathering and sermon here ›› civicnebraska.org/20251115-the...

START YOUR WEEKEND: With a story of agricultural resilience, about a Nebraska family that has fought to stay on the farm with help from a state and federal program aimed at people with disabilities. From Cindy Gonzalez:

Hi all! I'm hiring for a #scicomm research postdoc to join our Scicomm LIFT team! Short story is: 2 years guaranteed funding, open to remote or hybrid work, $61k+hearty benefits (see UW's 401k match in particular)! Please share with folks who might be interested! 1/

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

After so many ugly headlines, it’s nice to read a piece showing autism as a strength. And it’s especially needed in these times, when the Dunning–Kruger effect is running rampant.

Recently I’ve been discussing with friends the consequences of outsourcing our thinking, and this 🧵 captures my sentiments.

This judge may be the angriest person in America. This thread blew my hair back.

In addition to the 🧵 below, why would we want to cut out the learning that comes from BEING a tutor? When I ran a tutoring center, the tutors were students and explaining the material helped many tutors acquire valuable skills (not to mention material review for the MCAT, LSAT, etc).

Are Nebraska state agencies that receive federal funding subject to the Hatch Act?

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

frosted aspen #idaho #foliage

The fault is not with us individually. The fault is with the institutions that actually do the evil. When we work together - encourage each other using positivity and community action - we succeed. When we just shout and judge each other we get nowhere.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Seems like a good time to revisit Dewey. Great read.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

With alt text, and it is beautiful ☺️

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

When we live in an individual mindset, being asked to do anything for others without profit or advancement of some kind feels useless, uninteresting, or burdensome.

This. So much this.

This is such a great topic of study. I see the ramifications of this too often in my youth development work.

Equally sad, US big ag is pivoting towards heavily subsidized "Sustainable" Aviation Fuels as the way to continue overproducing corn and soybeans. They rely on subsidized dubious climate friendly practices scored with jerry-rigged metrics and CO2 pipelines to keep agro-extractivism alive here too.

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Met some great colleagues and published a paper together.

A lot of “farmers” in the US are tiny: 2/3 have less than $25,000 in sales. From @profsecchi.bsky.social’s paper “Who is an American farmer? Who counts in American agriculture?” The median American farmer is the ex-Brooklyn type you read about in the Sunday NYT. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

If your job was to decarbonize by 2050 a big university in a state with hot summers, cold winters, and the 4th dirtiest electricity of any US state, what would you do? No nearby lake or big river, unremarkable geothermal resources, no safe/suitable site for nuclear on campus.

Start with the 🧵 and stay for the farm facts.

So exhausting..

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences amongst the programs being axed 🧪⚒️

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

The Bee Brick is a mandatory addition to new construction projects in the UK. They provide tiny homes for solitary bees; the most prolific pollinators 🐝

Short 🧵 with lots of links re: China’s green tech.

Just sharing the “Xtreme endnotes” assignment @parisnoire.bsky.social mentions here in case anyone else finds it helpful as we begin a new academic year. FWIW, it’s a purely analog exercise in an AI-freaky world & my students have never not had fun doing it.✌🏽 www.historians.org/perspectives...

BONUS FOR WHOM? Dr. Jeffrey Gold, the president of the University of Nebraska, is donating the $159,000 bonus he earned with performance clauses in his contract to help programs facing cuts at NU campuses. From Zach Wendling: buff.ly/hmSwXjN

I hate that universities are held in opposition to the trades. My dad’s work as an electrician made me appreciate expertise and made me want the highest form of knowledge in my field. love to pay an expert for their knowledge— seems nice that our economy could sustain many kinds of expertise.

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

Scoop: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists will no longer accept federal funding, citing changes in funding laws and regulations under the Trump admin. This will have knock-on effects, including on programs meant to improve maternal health. Statement to TPM:

The UNL Dairy Store is always a must-stop in Lincoln. There’s also a meat market and annual plant sales on campus.

I love a good learning 🧵!

I’m having lots of conversations with my red state 4-H families about what working in higher ed looks like right now. It’s amazing how many have no idea that there’s any issues.