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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · 27d

Those 🐍 Metrons 🐍 can GTAFOOH

It's giving
Big Brother
Exploitation
Failure to secure initial, let alone ongoing consent

#UnethicalBehaviour #Experimentation #Exploitation #Consent
#Classic #SciFi #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

Dariush Zadeh as Metron in Season 3, Episode 9 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Photo Credit: Marni Grossman/Paramount+

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · 27d

#StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds S3 E9 Terrarium
Melissa Navia's #EricaOrtegas + Warren Scherer's #Gorn
Hits deep

It's giving
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra ( #TNG S5 E2 Darmok )
Chaka / Kullljhaka ( #StargateSG1 S4 E8 The First Ones, S5 E7 Beast of Burden, S7 E7 Enemy Mine )

IYKYK #Classic #SciFi

Stranded on a moon on the other side of wormhole, Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas (female Human Starfleet officer) in conversation with Warren Scherer as The Gorn (poikilothermic, reptilianoid humanoid sapients with green, rubbery skin and an average height of approximately two meters) to survive in a hostile environment, in Season 3, Episode 9 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+) Image: Marni Grossman/Paramount+.

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · 27d

F.L.C Jackson (1996). The coevolutionary relationship of humans and domesticated plants. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 101(S23): 161-176.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#FoodSovereignty #EduSky #HigherEd #Epigenetics #Healing #Trauma #AncestralScience #Learning #AcademicSky

The coevolutionary relationship of humans and domesticated plants

Human-plant interactions have figured prominently in our species' evolution and they continue to influence the contemporary geographical patterns of human biodiversity. The domestication of particula...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · 27d

Food is epigenetic medicine + plant relatives are biochemical ancestral allies 🌿🍄‍🟫🫐🫚🍋🫶🏾

F.L.C. Jackson et al. (2013). Conceptual shifts needed to understand the dynamic interactions of genes, environment, epigenetics, social processes, + behavioral choices.

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....

Conceptual Shifts Needed to Understand the Dynamic Interactions of Genes, Environment, Epigenetics, Social Processes, and Behavioral Choices | AJPH | Vol. 103 Issue S1

Social and behavioral research in public health is often intimately tied to profound, but frequently neglected, biological influences from underlying genetic, environmental, and epigenetic events. The...

ajph.aphapublications.org

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · 27d

IndigiEarth
🌿🍄‍🟫🫐🫚🍋🫶🏾
Australian Native Food Festival
Sat 27th - Sun 28th Sept 2025
Carriageworks, Sydney
indigiearth.com.au/australian-n...

#IndigEarth #NativeFood #FoodSovereignty #SydneyEvents #Gadigal #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #Deadly #EduSky #HigherEd

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 11

✋🏾 A note on comments: If you're unfamiliar with the patterns of coloniality, I encourage you to explore the introductory resources included before composing your response.

🐙 🛶 🏴☠️ 💜
#Decolonising #Sustainability #Business #Futures #Unlearning

Patagonia Inc

A story told with Adobe Express

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 11

💩 I’ve learned that the realities of extraction & exploitation are hidden behind thick veils of greenwashing, smoke & mirrors, & mass distraction produced by the sustainability marketing machine. Most people give up with the depths you have to dig to see what's really happening.

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

🎟️ Register for the 2023 The #KnowledgeableObjectSymposium:

6/7

#EdChat #GLAM #Play #Wonder #CreativeThinking #LateralThinking #DeeperLearning #ExperientialLearning #SenseMaking #MeaningMaking #Imagination #MultimodalThinking

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

❓DYK

✨🏆 2023 UMAC award-winning #ObjectBasedLearning (OBL) Program team at the @ccwm_sydney (the incomparable Jane Thogersen, @EveGuerry, & team)🏆✨ will host the Symposium in partnership with the @AMaGA_NSW ?

4/7

#GLAM #EdChat #Play #Wonder #ExperientialLearning

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

As @romankrznaric says:

“The #TimeRebellion has began.

The rebels are… helping us escape the short-term cycles that digital distraction and consumer culture traps us in… they inspire us to extend our time horizons from seconds and minutes to decades and far beyond.”

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

Do you greet each bird on morning walkies? 🕊️🐶🐕🐾🏃🏾‍♀️

Do you wish your plants good morning during feed time? 🪴🚿🧑🏾‍🌾

Do you thank the grass when you sit on it to take in the invigorating sun? 🌱☀️

7/9

#RelationalDesign #SustainableFutures #RegenerativeFutures #EdChat

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

📝 Make your submission to the Duty of Care Inquiry before 23 Nov 2023:

#DutyOfCareBill #IntergenerationalClimateEquity #Futures #EquitableFutures #HopefulFutures #auspol #EdChat

Climate Change Amendment (Duty of Care and Intergenerational Climate Equity) Bill 2023

On 3 August 2023, the Senate referred the Climate Change Amendment (Duty of Care and Intergenerational Climate Equity) Bill 2023 to the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 1 February 2024. The closing date for submissions was the 20

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

I got a lot out of @eqlabco’s Dialogic Session on Cultivating Growth: The Role of Play.

Richard Claydon @BlaccRichard & @oscarvenhuis have nurtured an invigorating community.

Check it out, start with the Newsletter:

5/6

#SocialLearning #EdChat

A peer-led, cohort-based, live-learning platform to think smarter.

EQ Lab offers expert-led leadership masterclasses that accelerate cognitive adaptivity to thrive in today’s complex and uncertain world.

www.eqlab.co

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

DYK anytime you receive a scam text or phone call, you can report it to @Scamwatch_gov ?

Bookmark on your devices:

#CrowdsourceDigitalSafety #auspol
#fraud #scam

Report a scam

The National Anti-Scam Centres uses your reports to monitor trends and tell people about new and emerging scams.

www.scamwatch.gov.au

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

TL;DR
Threads by @Meta aka Facebook
via @bmotheprince

“We tried Threads, Meta’s new Twitter rival. Here’s what happened”
via @guardian

Hard pass.

#PublicInterestTech #CivicTech #SocialMedia #BigTech

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

“AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent.

This is effectively the greatest art heist in history.”

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AI Open Letter — CAIR

 Restrict AI Illustration from Publishing: An Open Letter Published May 2, 2023 ︎Add your signature Since the earliest days of...

artisticinquiry.org

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

“Race is a myth. Racism is a reality.

Innate: How #Science Invented the #MythOfRace is a podcast and magazine project that explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of #racism in American #science and #medicine.”

by @SciHistoryOrg

#EdChat

Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race

A podcast and magazine project that explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine.

sciencehistory.org

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

Multimodal paper

✨#ePortfolio #Assessments as Academic #Activism in #Archaeology✨

For @AAEEBL special edition on #DesignJustice here
👷🏾‍♀️👩🏽‍🔬🕵🏽‍♀️⚒️🔦🔎🦴💀🩻

Access all resources in our ✨one-stop-shop✨

#CritDigPed #EdChat

DMTs

Offsite recording by NPR journalists

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

“If we're rlly interested in the individual, then we must be interested in responsibility&relationship&reciprocity.

These are not realisable through #marking.

Since notions of measurement,categorization&hierarchy, that are embedded in marking, can be deeply wounding practises.”

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

d) A right to #correction, and
e) A right to #de-index search results.

8. We need a properly funded #regulator to enforce privacy law.

#PrivacyAct #auspol
#PublicInterestTech #CivicTech
#DataBreach #DataPrivacy

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

7. Privacy reform should increase the ability for people to exercise their rights, including:
a) A right to #access and #explanation,
b) A right to #object to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information,
c) A right to #erasure,

#auspol

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

3. We must build an overarching ‘fair and reasonable’ threshold requirement for all forms of #collection, #use and #disclosure of personal information.

4. The law should require meaningful #consent without the manipulation.

#PrivacyAct #auspol

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

Feedback on #PrivacyAct Review Report

1. Privacy reform must prioritise #DataMinimisation

2. We need a robust, updated definition of ‘personal information’ that discourages #surveillance and challenges the business models of #DataExtraction and targeted advertising.

#auspol

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Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

"When driven by profit, #technology accelerates existential risks.

When technology is governed by the #people, designed to serve society, it can be an enormous enabler of #wellbeing."

#FutureOfHumanity #FutureOfLearning #FutureOfWork #PublicInterestTech

Beverley B Miles @beverleybmiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could day, ‘gosh, I’m so sorry we missed this’, rather than accusing women of making it up, and calling it a fad.

Wouldn’t it be incredible if we could say, ‘we really let those women down’.”

— @EmRusciano

#NCW #Neurodivergent #auspol #health