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dj EVIL @djmuel.bsky.social · Apr 12

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · Apr 12

The astronauts aboard the ISS were amazed by the April 8 solar eclipse, just like the rest of us, and went crazy snapping photos from orbit. They got some amazing views of the Moon's shadow sweeping across southern Canada & Maine: www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2... 🧪🔭

The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles (420 km) above.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · Apr 8

This isn’t a joke, my dog eats the same food for every meal and is mostly nonverbal but will talk about one thing for hours (there’s another dog outside)

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Apr 7

Reading this story about anti-vax pet owners and was not prepared for their belief in dog autism www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · Apr 8

This bit from Ezra Klein hit hard

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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · Apr 6

Social media use, social skills and time spent with friends offline were measured at ages 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18.

Increased social media use predicted more time with friends offline but was unrelated to future changes in social skills.

#digitalwellbeing

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The new social landscape: Relationships among social media use, social skills, and offline friendships from age 10–18 years

Social media has created a new social landscape for adolescents. Knowledge is needed on how this landscape shapes adolescents’ social skills and time …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · Apr 6

Hey neurospicy friends, do you often feel like everything is beyond exhausting and if anyone else tries to talk to you or get you to do anything, you'll scream or cry, and all you want to do is hide in your home with a good book until you feel better? Asking for a friend, who is me

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 7

As a middle school teacher lacking systemic support, I see the oversight in helping gifted ND students because they (mainly) excel academically. My principal gets it but there's only so much she can do. People overlook the real issue: these kids need support beyond academics (I was THAT kid once!).

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Apr 6

This makes me really angry because it's also the reason many "gifted" kids don't get help with what would otherwise be noted as ADHD.

They're obviously doing well academically, so it's just written off as "normal for gifted kids".

And the problem is they're not going to spend their lives in K–12.

fuchsiarascal 🌙📚 @lunarlibraries.com · Apr 6

lol remember how it took like 15 years to get ADHD treatment because of bullshit biases like this

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · Apr 7

eucap.eu/2024/04/02/a... A nicely clear statement by EUCAP (European Council of Autistic People), about ABA - and the deep concerns. "The majority of the 620 survey respondents from Europe were strongly against the use of ABA and ABA-based methods with autistic people."

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Apr 6

Jonathan Harker's first clue that all would not be well at Castle Dracula should have been that Dracula signs off the same way a 7-year-old signs their letter to Santa.

End of Dracula's first letter to Jonathan Harker: "Your friend, Dracula."

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 7

Is this the future of Croatian Language and Literature departments in Croatia, marked by dwindling faculties and diminishing regard for the humanities?
Despite a decade of waning interest, quotas still persist unchanged. For how long, Croatia?
#FutureOfHumanities

Michael Hofmann | In Florida

We are a small part of a shrinking thing, tail to a dwindling dog, or that thing that, in Yeats, is fastened to the...

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 7

We must consider impacts on human thought and emotion diversity, especially for the neurodivergent.
Technology's promise must balance with ethical considerations and inclusivity, ensuring advancements do not marginalize or exploit.
#Neurodiversity #EthicsInTech

What Neuralink Is Missing

It turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part.

www.theatlantic.com

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 7

Once swindlers were isolated loners whose greatest weapon was their ability to remain unseen but now they are celebrities in their own right, admired for their skill in exploiting a system we've come to accept as irredeemably corrupt. Tom Ripley was simply ahead of his time.

Netflix Made an Odd Choice With Its Fascinating New Thriller. It’s Actually Perfect.

Andrew Scott’s Tom Ripley knows what it’s like to have the wolf at his back.

slate.com

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 7

Eric Martínez's article finds GPT-4's bar exam performance, particularly in essays, overestimated beyond its claimed 90th %ile.
The study urges law schools to prioritize technology and AI edu underscoring their importance in the evolving legal field, yet not fully integrated into legal academia.

Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance - Artificial Intelligence and Law

Perhaps the most widely touted of GPT-4’s at-launch, zero-shot capabilities has been its reported 90th-percentile performance on the Uniform Bar Exam. This paper begins by investigating the methodolog...

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · Mar 6

One of the things people don't want to talk about is that the real way to fight the chatbot problem in academia is to reduce class sizes and hire fulltime faculty. When it's adjuncts running massive classrooms with no support, it's going to inevitably lead to students and faculty cutting corners...

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Mar 6

Knowing that a chatbot is “grading” your assignment is a great incentive for students to give minimum effort and craft assignments that are specific to the dictates of the machine: boring, rote, and drained of creativity and originality.

Teachers are embracing ChatGPT-powered grading

Writable: AI tool that grades papers for teachers using ChatGPT

www.axios.com

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 6

This text sadly resonates with the teaching profession where passion is often exploited to justify overwork, underpayment, and neglect of mental health. Teachers, loving their work, face these challenges daily.

Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · Apr 6

“Your employer exploits the fact that you love your work (or aspects of it) to avoid addressing serious workload pressures, to avoid the cost of appropriate staffing levels, to justifying paying you less, and to avoid addressing the mental health issues that arise from those other things.” 🎯

Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · Apr 2

Yep. Write about this years ago. You are paid for the value you provide. Not as compensation for doing something terrible jovanevery.co.uk/lies-about-l...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Apr 4

The thing almost nobody in psych told me, and that everyone who has ADHD did, is that ADHD does not mean “cannot focus”: it means “cannot regulate focus.”

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 6

Stumbled upon a gem: Nils Petter Molvær's rare solo at ADE! His blend of jazz & live-electronics is pure magic. #NilsPetterMolvær #MusicSky

BIMHUIS TV & ADE Present: NILS PETTER MOLVAER SOLO

Rare solo performance by Norwegian phenomenon.Nils Petter Molvaer trumpet/electronicsAmsterdam Dance Event’s Saturday night opens with a view over the IJ riv...

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 6

Nils Petter Molvær - "Khmer" (1997): Norwegian trumpeter created a unique sound on this album, combining jazz, electronic music, and ambient sounds which set a precedent for the future development of nu jazz, my favorite genre of music.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · Apr 5

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

Women end up doing the academic housework

kifinfo.no

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 6

At 45 Josephine Cochran whipped up the dishwasher and outsmarted gender biases by using the name J.G. Cochran. Yep, she was masking but her genius shows us something big: we're at our best, most creative selves when we're free to just be us, no hiding.

"I'll do it myself" | USPTO

How Josephine Cochrane defied social norms and invented the modern dishwasher.

www.uspto.gov

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Yoko @francesmute.bsky.social · Apr 5

Ne mogu naglasiti koliko su nam važne vaše prijave na link. Klik i brza prijava bit.ly/mvmccroatia Prijavom na link dobiti ćete direktnu informaciju kad krenemo sa skupljanjem potpisa za peticiju. Više o kampanji i inicijativi možete vidjeti na myvoice-mychoice.org ili me pitati. Dijelite! 🫰🏻🫰🏼🫰🏽🫰🏾🫰🏿

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is a fascinating detail!
Quite the forward-thinking move back in the '70s.

Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 5

Sorry for asking but a photo says children under 12 may not be unattended in a library. Growing up libraries were my haven. Given the patriarchal Balkan norms, had I waited for my mom, busy with work and then drowning in household chores, I'd have missed out on the wonder of reading. Why this rule?

Protect Prattville Library Staff and Patrons, organized by EveryLibrary Institute NFP

The Autauga-Prattville Alabama Library board has fired the lib… EveryLibrary Institute NFP needs your support for Protect Prattville Library Staff and Patrons

www.gofundme.com

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Adrijana @adrijana.bsky.social · Apr 4

Wilderness is this huge, wild space where nature does its thing without us messing with it. Like Kornati National Park in Croatia.
In a figurative sense, that's freedom to me.

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