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Assistant Teaching Prof, Emory University Writing Program & Affiliated Faculty, Data Science (fka QTM). Citation, data, & disciplinary rhetoric. Co-editor, JITP Reviews. 📷🎾☕️🎹. Opinions mine. he/they

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Greg Palermo @palermog.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi blue sky! I teach courses that involve writing with/about quantitative data, focus on the rhetorics of source use and citation analytics across disciplines, and foster critically-generous research methodologies. I co-edit the Reviews section of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 16d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Greg Palermo @palermog.bsky.social · Sep 23

I did not say it was a gotcha question.

Greg Palermo @palermog.bsky.social · Sep 23

I have a somewhat different take, which is that it’s adept of her and part of avoiding bad faith uptakes. Very necessary when pretty much every move you make ever is scrutinized in a double bind.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Sep 23

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

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Greg Palermo @palermog.bsky.social · Sep 22

What’s wild to me is that they are the alchemists in their own metaphor, and it seems like projection.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Sep 20

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Sep 20

Oops www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Bob Iger’s Wife, Willow Bay, May Have to Move Her Free Speech Fundraiser

A fundraiser for Willow Bay's International Women's Media Foundation, planned to take place at the power couple's Brentwood home next month, may have to relocate after her husband yanks Jimmy Kimmel o...

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Mike Loves Blues 🎶🎸📎 @phippshippie.bsky.social · Sep 20

It never works. Ever..

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Sep 20

I refused to placate the bully. Then I refused to placate the institutions who placated the bully. Then I refused to placate the shills who placate the institutions who placate the bully. I'm still standing; the rest are down.

Never placate the bully.

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · Sep 20

Failing to defend our rights never leads to keeping those rights. Every single human and civil right has to be fought for against erosion, even when you think those rights are guaranteed. Our institutions keep refusing to understand this.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Sep 20

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

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Greg Palermo @palermog.bsky.social · Sep 20

This is genuinely horrifying. Who says that with a straight face as though it’s a good thing!?

Greg Palermo @palermog.bsky.social · Sep 20

No, it isn’t. That fallacy requires that there’s an argument about whether the person is a member of the group or not. And to protect a generalization. This person is saying you can’t generalize millennial sentiment based on an individual, which is the actual logical error here.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Sep 20

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 16

u know who are skeptics
scientists are skeptics

being anti-science is not being a skeptic

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · Sep 16

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · Sep 16

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist.

The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Sep 15

This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 15

Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · Aug 18

💥 Trump Racism & Violence, 1st Term (2016) #Racism

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 15

The primary use case is fraud.

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 15

We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Sep 12

I don't like doing this. It feels fucked up to constantly point out the negative dimensions of someone who just died in a horrific, worrying way. But I would like the media to tell basic truths about this person and his impact on public life rather than resorting to euphemism and outright lies!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Sep 11

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · Sep 10

A student in our MSc is doing a project titled "Reimagining Reference Management Tools as Living Knowledge Management Systems". I know many of my followers here use Mendeley, Zotero, etc. Please help her with her survey? cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · Sep 11

I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Sep 11

"But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness."
That is Ezra Klein.
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com

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Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · Sep 11

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

They watched ICE detain their dad. Now D.C. neighbors escort them to school.

Immigrant neighborhoods across the District have organized “walking school buses” to shuttle kids to classes during President Donald Trump’s federalization of D.C. police.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Sep 11

As a survivor, I am profoundly disturbed to see news of Trump trying to take over the 9/11 memorial and with it is memory and meaning. He corrupts everything America.
Trump seeking ways to take over 9/11 memorial in NYC
apnews.com/article/911-...

Trump seeking ways to take over 9/11 memorial in NYC

President Donald Trump’s administration says it's looking at ways the federal government can assume operation of the 9/11 memorial in New York City.

apnews.com

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