I dropped the sex/gender distinction in teaching a while back when i learnt this.

And as someone who has Hera as a patron and acknowledges that people still worship these figures and that Greek identity in the US is nuanced—I think people also have to also hold space for the fact that Greek mythology and its legacy in the West is used for white supremacy propaganda

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Couldn't get more Foucault by wearing a turtleneck

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Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Reminder that in June, 2016, a suit (w/witnesses) was filed against Trump re: his repeated raping of a 13 year-old child at an Epstein party. (She wasn't a "teen," in anything but the most technical of senses. She was a 7th, maybe an 8th grader.) We've known he was a child rapist THIS WHOLE TIME.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

May I recommend a subscription to @theonion.com print edition as a holiday gift, because their ads continue to rule

Speaker Mike Johnson says his entire worldview comes from the Bible. But he’s about to kick 2 million Texans off their healthcare right before Christmas. If you aren’t loving your neighbor, then keep Jesus’ name out of your mouth.

You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them. You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them. You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them.

First look at ‘NODDYLAND - The World of Pud’🍴 Coming to Disneyland Paris in 2027 and Disney California Adventure Park in 2028.

This post by Olivia Roanhorse has been going around — thanks for flagging it @tiffmorris.bsky.social — and I can't stop thinking how broadly it applies (or needs to apply) to the publishing world.

It’s coming. The pud, the cream, the custard. 2026, Pud Legacy. youtu.be/wA8BgsUkr14

This is likely going to get me yelled at or at least grumbled about again but lots of young people were not told the truth about PhD programs over the past 2 decades. There wasn't an honest accounting that most of them were not going to get tenure track jobs even if they really wanted them.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

The RFK, jr effect.

One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.

Game designer: After lots of hard work we’re proud to announce we’ve created the Wheel of Saṃsāra from the ancient Buddhist classic Don’t Get Trapped in the Wheel of Saṃsāra

That said? Getting locked in the wheel of Samsara until you break free is basically the core mechanic of roguelikes

The legislature in nh is full of batshit crazies. Hopefully this is shot down like the recent trans bill

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

"I was initially surprised by how often I ran into the attitude from students in these programs that they don't actually need to be well-versed in anything besides the exact information they need to know to conduct research in their field." We no longer train scholars, we train specialists

Well this article by Celeste and folks at UWA just came out, but it’s on inequity and accent modification. I’ve seen articles on rudeness to chatbots, but not linguistic research per se theconversation.com/we-gotta-act...

Looking for new papers to include in my syllabus for an #EMCA course for undergraduates in health, pre-health, pre-med tracks. Please share new/forthcoming #EMCA (+adjacent) papers on patient-provider interaction (+tech +teams) beyond the well-knowns/wiki. Would love to include newer researchers.

A huge number of people were deprived of citizenship by the Nazis. Political opponents first, then Jews. Maybe more than 200,000 people in total.

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

“Positivism Creep” “The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.” By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social

Repeat after me. Public services cost money. Public services are not a business. Public services SHOULD NOT make money. That includes cops and parking enforcement. Not every institution is, or should be, a business.

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

The Mapping Black Language project is working to document how Black Americans speak, and how their language shifts and varies—and they’re looking for people to interview

I once talked to a student who self-described as having a "mild" ADHD diagnosis about why they hadn't sought accommodations. The literal first thing that they said was "I'm not ADHD enough to need them," which was something that I've kept in mind as I listen to this "discourse" about accommodations.

Tis the season.

In 1936 Forverts published a reader's letter about a trans man from his Ukrainian shtetl Beyle was a gender nonconforming woman who left home, transitioned, and returned years later, now a "handsome, healthy, redheaded man" named Berel who soon "learned to daven and was in synagogue every day"

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

a real tell in all of this is that the trans instructor wasn't alone in trashing this essay! a whole other person also said they agreed completely that it sucked. but as far as i can tell only the trans person is getting punished. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...

P.S. There is a huge difference between having to work with students or teachers who hold different views than you do (reasonable, fine, part of existing in a community) and having to work with students or teachers who believe you don't and shouldn't exist.

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."