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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13d

I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.

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SB Paxson @sbpaxson.bsky.social · 19d

Not something I generally post on main, but just finished this sapphic romance novel about an assistant professor who falls for her tenured mentor, and I can only describe it as delicious. Don’t read if you’re avoiding your own R&R as it gets the details about publishing/academia mostly correct lol

Photo of Rachel Lacey’s new book “Learning curves” propped up against a condensed window. Cover has two women in feminine attire looking at each other with a flirty vibe

SB Paxson @sbpaxson.bsky.social · 23d

Symbolic violence is deadly

zellieimani.bsky.social @zellieimani.bsky.social · 23d

When we define violence only as physical harm, we overlook how ideologies and institutions not only enable violence but can themselves be violent.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 24d

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity.

And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 28d

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’ve been thinking about how the white moderate think about free speech. Where calling for violence and the dehumanization of entire groups of people is merely supposed to be pluralism at work rather than an a threat to that pluralism.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · Sep 10

Watching the “political violence has no place in America” language with interest.

I’m no historian, but our whole nation is founded on political violence. And has continued to be politically violent ever since.

Curious how “political violence” from a communication perspective shifts.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

I just… love #OrphanBlack so much. AND it’s all about bodily autonomy, identity and found families. Rewatching it now is so intense and clarifying.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 1

Tatiana Maslany’s performance is staggering. I keep having to remind myself that these eight (?) different characters are being performed by the same actor. And often one character ends having to pretend to be another character and it still tracks. You’re never confused.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’m rewatching #OrphanBlack and wow, it’s just so well written and performed.

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SB Paxson @sbpaxson.bsky.social · Aug 25

Also similar to JoJo Siwa as well…

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SB Paxson @sbpaxson.bsky.social · Aug 18

I did interviews w/ land grant scientists last summer where they also had a problem conflating objectivity w/ neutrality.

Attacks against imagined bias have shifted the way that rational actors behave as they want to be trusted by the audience that has been inundated w/ claims of ideological bias

Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · Aug 18

This problem plagues journalism, where too often things are edited not for accuracy, but counter factually to avoid seeming biased. Those who preach “objective” journalism abandoning objective truth.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Aug 18

I love how accurately describing actually existing conservatism makes one sound totally unhinged and the people who get punished for this are not conservatives but the accurate describers.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · Oct 22

the flip side of no one studying humanities anymore is i regularly quote philosophers and literary giants and people think i just came up with those ideas on my own

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Aug 15

Also, why the hell would I be mad at someone for living in a rent stabilized apartment??????? Everyone should be able to live in rent stabilized housing!!!! That’s the whole point!!!!! OMG!!!!! I’m going to snap!!!!!!

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SB Paxson @sbpaxson.bsky.social · Aug 15

What if I raise you:

All apartments should be rent controlled.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hakeem Jeffries says of Cuomo's attacks on Mamdani for living in a rent controlled apartment: "It's a legitimate issue that has been raised, and the [Mamdani] campaign is going to have to address it."

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

www.scrippsnews.com

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SB Paxson @sbpaxson.bsky.social · Jul 29

115 projected today in central Florida and I have zero plans to on anything with structure

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Jul 29

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · Jul 25

Forgive me if I haven’t seen it elsewhere, but why are we not referring to this as the Pedofiles?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 24

I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · Jul 24

A lot of older adults forced a war on universities because that’s where their kids realized their parents were evil.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 24

Linda McMahon on Columbia settlement: "This is a monumental victory for conservatives who wanted to do things on these elite campuses for a long time because we had such far left-leaning professors."

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SB Paxson @sbpaxson.bsky.social · Jul 21

When times were hard, my mother liked to listen to Anne Murray. This is the song that I keep turning back to.

At its heart isn’t a revulsion from being an informed global citizen, but a desire to hear about humanity’s joys and accomplishments. We need more good news. Little joys can be radical…

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 21

Let him cook.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Jul 21

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

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SB Paxson @sbpaxson.bsky.social · Jul 19

It’s what the happiest season tried to be on its best day

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