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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd)
@danteshepherd.bsky.social
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Northeastern ChemE professor. My research is educational comics. I used to make Surviving The World. I believe the plural should be "chemicals engineer". http://sciencetheworld.com
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AND MAYBEEEEEEEEEE
YOU'RE GONNA BE THE ONE THAT SAVES MEEEEEE
Pope Leo
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Saw Hallelujah the Hills play tonight and my soul is full
Hallelujah the Hills in concert
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Also thinking about this panel from Runaways, right now and always, in response to Spider-Man's credo
"Really? that's inane. Most people in life don't have great power, and the few that do are almost never responsible with it. The people who have the greatest responsibility are the kids with no power because we're the ones who have to keep everybody else in check." - from Runaways vol. 2
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Thinking a lot about this panel from QC right now
Questionable Content panel. "One of the fundamental roles of a community is to care for its members, particularly when broader institutions have failed to do so. You are part of a good community. There is no shame in turning to it for support."
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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My students took 1st and 3rd place in the undergraduate poster competition at AIChE today. Congratulations to Marissa, Sydnie, and Kate!
AIChE undergraduate research poster competition winners!
November 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Highly meme-able
Blue Jays scoring a run
November 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Happy Halloween from a lobsterman and a lobster
Lobsterperson and lobster Halloween costumes
November 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Happy Halloween! Best holiday!
Pie chart, 50/50 split. "people who enjoy Halloween because it is the one day of the year that they can without repercussions..." 50% = be themselves, 50% = be someone else
October 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Here is a comic on the use of AI in education that @makinaro.com and I made for Chemical Engineering Education. Maki's art is otherworldly in this one, and I'm very pleased to have gotten this published in the journal.
a Drawn to Engineering comic for Chemical Engineering Education Worst-Case Scenario written by Luke Landherr drawn by Maki Naro Panel 1 STUDENT working on a computer. Smoke in the background. STUDENT: … actually, if I just enter in the right prompts, I can get this AI tool to solve all this work for me! STUDENT: And that’s before I even get into any writing assignments… STUDENT: The professor will probably want more accurate answers, after all. Panel 2: PROFESSOR working on a computer. Smoke rising from fire in a green hilled background. PROFESSOR: So there’s all these problems to write and this student work to review, but… PROFESSOR: … actually, I could just feed this AI tool the right prompts and have it do the curriculum design and evaluations for me! PROFESSOR: The students will probably appreciate unique problems and faster feedback, after all. STUDENT at left, PROFESSOR at right. Circular arrows reflecting that the computers are doing all the work between them with no human involvement, surrounding a data center with smokestacks. Panel Two: STUDENT and PROFESSOR shaking hands with environmental consumption being revealed. TEXTBOX: This is the worstcase scenario for AI in education. STUDENT: Thank you for a great semester. PROFESSOR: Thank you for a great semester. TEXTBOX: All the learning and teaching self-contained within the AI tools, with no real human involvement. Panel Three Different PROFESSOR and STUDENT talking together, a back and forth to help showcase the continued learning and teaching together. Brighter colors. TEXTBOX: Let’s be clear, there are real possibilities for AI tools in both teaching and learning. AI tools can be great at helping develop codes for complex mathematical solutions, and can also allow for an all-hours tutoring tool for additional student support. And as an educational community, we need to consider what the best potential of these tools are, for all involved parties. TEXTBOX: But it is a potential slippery slope in rationalizing what is acceptable from all involved. And that is before we consider the devastatingly huge environmental cost in using AI, a somewhat ironic factor when we work to increase instruction in sustainability at the same time. TEXTBOX: So let’s work together in figuring out best approaches using AI. And let’s be careful to find the best limits at the same time.
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I read this whole garbage op-ed and had two thoughts:
1) I cannot possibly conclude this professor liked teaching students and interacting with them
2) leopards are certainly trying to eat his face now but he's trying to talk himself into it
More garbage from the Washington Post
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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The current Washington Post op-ed that argues the current attacks on academia will likely have better long-term impacts than the "woke-era" attacks honestly sounds like the whining of a professor who was bad at teaching and got upset when any students questioned his reasoning.
This is a screenshot from a garbage op-ed.
October 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.

This Ninja Turtles comic from 1992 went more truthful and harder at Columbus than any American K-12 school at the time, and I still appreciate its blunt honesty.
Cover to TMNT #40 from 1992 Columbus did not discover anything. There were millions of people in 1492 who knew about te new world, the Americas, because they lived there. Native Americans lived here for about fifteen thousand years before the arrival of Europeans. Native Amaerican like the Arawaks, like those who greeted you when you awoke on the beach earlier. Yes, but Columbus' time, it's still the age of discovery. To some, it is also the age of collision, of great and irreversible change. You see, the Europeans unwittingly brought diseases such as smallpox, measles and typhus with them, disease which the natives had no defense against, epidemics wiped out entire tribes. In addition, the triangular route pioneered by Columbus, Europe - Africa - Caribbean - back to Europe, was the route then adopted by slavers. Why slavery? Gold. Many Europeans of the time were obsessed with gold. The Caribbean natives who survived the epidemics were taken as slaves and forced to labor for gold on their home islands, this virtually extinguished the Arawaks. As European expansion spread, slavery became a big business. In the years that followed, over ten million Africans were forcibly relocated, families shattered and spread across the globe. It was a pattern to be repeated elsewhere in the Americas over the next 300 years, of Indians being replaced by slaves...
October 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Everyone knows Carey already but I'll add to it to say she does really great short comics work and you should definitely work with her if you can! She drew this spherical cow in our assumptions comic and I'm not sure art gets better than that! sciencetheworld.sites.northeastern.edu/science-comi...
Page 1 of assumptions comic drawn by Carey Another page of the comic. There's a spherical cow. Six more pages follow this.
September 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Today was my first day of 35th grade!
A professor
September 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Anima Rising was kind of remarkable, how effectively art and history and literature and Moore-isms were blended together. More great work by @theauthorguy.bsky.social. Definitely recommended.
Anima Rising by Christopher Moore
July 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Superman has always been political, empathetic, and compassionate. It's just that to some people that's apparently bad now. Too bad for them!
Superman page promoting that talking against anyone because of their religion, race, or national origin is un-American Superman page from DC supporting 1981 as the 'international year of disabled persons' Superman page published in support of the National Social Welfare Assembly The Regan page from All-Star Superman
July 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Happy July 4th from STW
Surviving the World comic "The strength of your freedoms are only ever as strong as the strength of the morals of those ensuring your freedoms." File under: the strength of you grammar something something Surviving the World comic "The strength of your freedoms are only ever as strong as the strengths of those very freedoms among the least of you that they've been extended to." File under text: fireworks a little less bright and dazzling
July 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Old STW comic survivingtheworld.net/Lesson3276.h...
"You're not the people that you speak for. And you're not the people that you speak against. And you're not the people that you act for. But you ARE the people that you do not act against. So who do you want to be?"
July 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Re-reading some old Oglaf and this panel feels like it summarizes certain politician's viewpoints on health care
panel from Oglaf. "These leeches are here for you and if you can't be bothered to replace the lid, then you don't deserve proper health care!"
July 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Happy last hours of Pride month. I forgot this STW existed but according to a joke in the archive it was purposely made with bi colors so here's an old STW for the last hours
Venn diagram from survivingtheworld.net. One circle reads "knowing you exist", with a red dot inside just that circle marked 'empty humanity'. Other circle reads "caring that you exist" with a blue dot inside just that circle marked 'empty morality'. Intersection between circles in purple marked "The sweetspot of all human interaction". File under comment reads 'unfortunately most strike out'.
July 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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I love Jessica Hagy's brilliance and I love @thisisindexed.com open.substack.com/pub/jessicah...
Jessica Hagy's graph. Horizontal axis is "how much you dislike it", vertical axis is "people who care, spot far along the horizontal axis with zero vertical value is "sucks to be you"
June 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Hello, I am in Quebec for the week for ASEE! Gonna find Northstar and Aurora while I'm here, they seem cool
Welcome to Quebec, but in French
June 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Been listening to the new Hallelujah the Hills album for the past week - as good as everyone says it is! This is the "hand" of songs I would recommend most at the moment - but honestly, you could put almost any song from the 54-song DECK in there, they're all great. Congrats @ryanhwalsh.bsky.social
Cards from the Deck set to go along with Hallelujah the Hills new quadruple album
June 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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We might have a new cat
New cat? Maybe Also maybe new cat
June 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Get yourself a favorite band like Hallelujah the Hills, that when they make an album, they put out an album of 54 songs and also make an artistic deck of cards to go along with it @ryanhwalsh.bsky.social
Hallelujah the Hills new album, DECK, now in card form
June 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM