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Cathy Davidson
@cathyndavidson.bsky.social
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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 · 5d
Here's the press release of 2025 #McGraw Prize including videos of our careers and our acceptance speeches. It was such an honor to share the evening with the inspiring recipients of K-12 and Lifelong Learning. Thank you, #McGraw and @PennGSE. mcgrawprize.com/news-events/...

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Edward Byers @edbyers.bsky.social · 19h
Wavy clouds of pink glory at 5:00 pm this evening.
#eveningsky #pinkglory #sunset
Pink and orange wavy clouds hanging over the sky with the visible landscape at 5 PM this evening in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Vickie Carey 🦋 💙🇺🇸 @vickiecarey.bsky.social · 1d
The hate in this man's body makes him ignorant and blind to reality.
Or he knows he's outright lying!
#LiarsLie
#prosecuteStephenMiller
Presence of Immigrant Students Boosts Test Scores for All - UCLA Anderson Review
U.S.-born students with high exposure to immigrants in school scored better on math and reading tests than students with low exposure to immigrants, research finds.
anderson-review.ucla.edu

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d
No brainer. Such an impressive career and so much good for higher education and well beyond!

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Fliss @flisswave.bsky.social · 1d
#ArtAdventCalendar 9/24 - from the long strange summer of 2020, a beautiful eerie #landscape near Kalaloch in Olympic National Park. One of my last solo camping trips; maybe someday I can go again. #photography #canonphotography
A color photo of a hazy shore with seastacks rising from the low tide flats. They are perfectly reflected in the wet sand. The background is obscured by fog and haze but the sky is blue. Trees on a hillside are dimly visible.

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Ron 🇳🇱 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪 @ronsteenvoorden.com · 1d
Lovely colour palette in the sky tonight after sunset. 🌅

#sunset #bluehour #dusk #sky #colours #trees #landscape #germany #winter #photography #mobilephotography

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d
With apologies for over-use of "incredible" but, hey, in some cases it's deserved!

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d
Nah, I think this is his virgin voyage so to speak . . . (oy)

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations @brettbobley.bsky.social on this incredibly well deserved honor for your incredible work at @neh-odh.bsky.social from @aupresses.bsky.social! aupresses.org/news/brett-b...
Brett Bobley Named 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award Winner - Association of University Presses
Honoring digital humanities advocate and funding champion Brett Bobley, former Office of Digital Humanities Director with the National Endowment for the Humanities
aupresses.org

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Paul Gundlach @paulsgundlach.bsky.social · 1d
Happy Tuesday! I'm heading back to New Jersey after a very productive trip on Cape Cod so here is another photo from Sunday morning taken eight minutes before the sun broke the horizon at West Dennis Beach. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d
I don't think Claude's been "trained" yet on post March 2025 data. Back in those far olde days, the East Wing existed.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d
#SeaScrolling #Breathe There's work ahead.

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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 1d
Nothing fancy, just some foothills stuff at #Sunset up on E. Camilo Cielo Road above #SantaBarbara tonight. #Photography
Foothills lightly shrouded with fog with an Orange sky on the Pacific Ocean at sunset

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 2d
This is tonight--Chandra Mohanty and Linda Alcoff--and it's going to be great. Details below! @kwissoker.bsky.social @intellpublics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 2d
Who needs a coup when you've got a junta?

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 2d
Right? I have read so many books and articles on AI and have interviewed a number of its developers . . . sorry to say, Claude is smarter on Claude than they are (and, yes, that creeps me out . . .)

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court seems likely to expand president's power and back Trump's firing of independent-agency board members.

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Smartphone Photographer @averagesphotos.bsky.social · 2d
Blue Hour. The "blue super moon", August 2024. #moonlight #seascape #nightsky #oceanview #reflection #naturelovers #landscapehunter #twilight #bluehour #coastallife #scenicview #nightshoot #smartphonephotography #photography
A vertical, atmospheric photograph of a seascape at twilight. A bright, reddish-orange moon sits low on the horizon, casting a vibrant, shimmering reflection across the dark, rippling ocean waves. Above, the sky is a deep, moody blue filled with textured clouds. In the foreground, the dark, jagged silhouettes of coastal rocks anchor the bottom left of the frame, contrasting with the glowing water.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d
New data reveals US layoffs in 2025 could surpass Great Recession levels.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 2d
Not even trying anymore to guess what abominations today might bring.... #SeaScrolling #Breathe

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Miya115 @miya1156.bsky.social · 2d
I love this moment..

#sunset

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 2d
This interview about Claude and with Claude is one of the most interesting I've read about what AI can and can't do. I'd love to hear what people who really know music think about this. Fascinating! The Missing Now open.substack.com/pub/dadadrum...
The Missing Now
An Interview with Claude
open.substack.com

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Mira🌺 @deepgreens.bsky.social · 2d
Monday Zen…🌺

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 2d
They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...

"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
people.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d
This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
When my business school colleagues insist that ChatGPT is “just another tool in the toolbox,” I’m tempted to remind them that Facebook was once “just a way to connect with friends.” But there’s a difference between tools and technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the very environments in which we think, work, and relate. As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself. A pen extends communication without redefining it; social media transformed what we mean by privacy, friendship, even truth.

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Mira🌺 @deepgreens.bsky.social · 3d
Horizon's disappearing melody...🌺
#Photography #BeachLife #Stunday #Eastcoastkin

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
#SeaScrolling #Breathe

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Yvonne Redknap @yredknap.bsky.social · 3d
A stormy sunrise from last week.
#SundayYellow #Stunday #Photography #EastCoastKin
In the foreground are the silhouettes of trees. One branch of a tree is hanging right across the top of the photo. Above the horizon, the sky is bright yellow and gold but there are many grey storm clouds above that.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 3d
Aqua water, blue skies, golden-white sands....

(Freezing water 🤣)

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Smokehead 🤠📸🌶️✈️🥃🐈‍⬛🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 @smokehead.bsky.social · 4d
Gotta finish #BlueSkyArtShow #Sky day with something local…from the local beach, a #sunset shot looking out over the Clyde Estuary, Scotland

#EastCoastKin #Arran #Seascape
A late sunset photo over the sea, some shore visible in the foreground and islands in the distance. A few scattered clouds are lit orange