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CathyDavidson.com. Advocate for active learning, student success. Author “The New Education” etc. Cofounder HASTAC.org ("world's first academic social network"--NSF). Science fiction fan. Lover of oceans. Opinions and typos my own. #SeaScrolling #Breathe .. more

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Cathy N. Davidson is an American scholar and university professor. She is a Distinguished Professor of English, Digital Humanities, and Data Analysis and Visualization at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she founded the Futures Initiative. .. more

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 27d

I’m honored to be 2025 McGraw Prize winner in Higher Education, inspired by my fellow recipients—Rapelang Rabana and Joe Wolf (K-12) and Frederic Bertley (Lifelong) and grateful to join a community of educators working to expand opportunity for all. #McGrawPrize mcgrawprize.com/winners/cath...

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 32m

Good morning. That's the challenge... how to make it good, despite it all. #SeaScrolling #Breathe

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Miya115 @miya1156.bsky.social · 18h

All I can hear is the sound of the waves..

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 20h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 20h

Thinking about grad study in Linguistics? 👀
Join our Open House on Thursday, Oct 16!
🍴 Lunch + Q&A with students
🧭 Tour our labs and spaces
📍 CUNY Graduate Center 🕛 9.30am-6:15pm

Come meet the community behind GC Linguistics!

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Page @pagejpdx.bsky.social · 20h

Where the mountains meet the ocean!
I’m an uphill trail wimp, but sometimes it’s worth the effort for views like this!
#BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #ocean #pacificocean #mountains #northerncalifornia #photography

View from a high bluff overlook of a rocky coastline where green foliage covered mountains meet a gray beach and the ocean with white-crested waves. The sky is a cloudy blue overhead.

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Dorota @dorotapawlak.bsky.social · 22h

Happy #BlueSkyMonday.

Happy Thanksgiving Canada 🇨🇦 🍁

#EastCoastKin #photography #scape #seascape #skyscape #nature #clouds #beach #PhotographersOfBlueSky

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Michael S Roth @msroth.bsky.social · 23h

This Sukkot: A Time for Peace
A time for seeking and a time for losing,
A time for keeping and a time for discarding;
A time for ripping and a time for sewing,
A time for silence and a time for speaking;
A time for loving and a time for hating;
A time for war & a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

Coming soon…

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

Coming soon! @shellyeversley.bsky.social is interviewing me on the all-new @futuresed.bsky.social podcast. Stay tuned for more details and drop date! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 3d

We are pleased to share the CUNY Graduate Center’s 2025-2030 strategic plan, Scholarship Shaping Society www.gc.cuny.edu/about/missio... @joshbrumberg.bsky.social

Strategic Plan 2025-2030

Scholarship Shaping Society

www.gc.cuny.edu

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! So well deserved.

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 6d

Here's a link to the article "How to Lead an Academic Social Network" on open access #PublicHumanities www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky @hastacscholars.bsky.social

How to Lead an Academic Social Network | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core

How to Lead an Academic Social Network - Volume 1

www.cambridge.org

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 6d

I just finished a collaborative call for @kcommons.bsky.social the collaborative networking/hosting/information preservation Commons that hosts @hastac.bsky.social and thought again ab this ambitious 15-campus coordinated InFormation Year 2006-07 focusing on in/community, injustice, innovation, etc

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 6d

“Thanks to the generous support of Empire State Development, our students came away [from the APS Annual Convention] inspired, more confident in their goals, and better prepared to take the next steps in their #psychology studies and careers.” #AcademicSky

We loved having you, @cunysps.bsky.social

First-of-its-Kind Trip Brings CUNY SPS Psychology Students to National Conference

With the help of a generous grant, thirty-two undergraduate psychology majors were able to attend the 2025 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention in Washington, DC, this summer.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 7d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 7d

Stunning weekend. Gulls rule. #SeaScrolling #Breathe

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Shelly Eversley @shellyeversley.bsky.social · 7d

Hey Y’all! I’m thrilled to share the news that we will hire a #tenuretrack #assistantprofessor in #Black and #Latine studies @blsbaruch.bsky.social #BaruchCollege #CUNY! Please apply! Please spread the word.

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8d

Exclusive: The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits.

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 9d

#SeaScrolling #Breathe

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 9d

#Breathe.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 9d

I'm proud to have contributed to the first year of the new open access journal #PublicHumanities. Here's a link to the "how to" for this journal daring to be different: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How to Write for Public Humanities

www.cambridge.org

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 9d

The gentleman from the <checks notes> American Enterprise Institute makes a good point.

Screenshot of text of a WSJ article: Conservative-leaning groups agreed with the aims of the compact but raised concerns about the approach.
"Do we really want to wind up with each successive administration blasting out
fast-pass conditions for federal research funds and federal aid?" asked Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10d

October 3, 2025

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-...

October 3, 2025

Although President Donald J.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 10d

Another day, another … #SeaScrolling. #Breathe

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 11d

lake forever problems for now

A photo of Lake Michigan beyond a stretch of sandy beach with various footprints in the sand. There are a couple rolling white waves arriving on the beach under a sky that's blue with streaks of white clouds and a blush orange area at the horizon

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NPR @npr.org · 12d

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

Could 'the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman' be an AI avatar?

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 12d

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.

Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky

Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.

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