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Assistant Director for Open Education, TLC, Graduate Center, CUNY

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mkgold.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure

theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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elizabethalsop.bsky.social
I hate this so much www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/14/c...
Trump Cuts Off Budding CUNY Scientists From Mentorship and Aid
www.thecity.nyc
May 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it—this zine shows you how."
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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grubstreetwomen.bsky.social
Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.

Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
April 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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gctlc.bsky.social
Reminder! There's still time to apply to be a TLC Fellow @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — but the deadline is coming up!

📅 Apps due: April 7, 2025
🔗 For info and how to apply:
tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/03/03/c...
Call for TLC Fellowship Applications, 2025-2026
Announcing: TLC Fellowship Call, 2025-2026
tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu
March 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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jitp.bsky.social
Submissions deadline for our themed issue on minimalist digital humanities pedagogy is June 15

Details here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

Editors are Patricia Belen, @veritas44.bsky.social, @palermog.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social and @walshbr.bsky.social
jitp.bsky.social Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy @jitp.bsky.social · Mar 10
JITP are seeking submissions for a forthcoming themed issue on minimalist digital humanities pedagogy and what it might mean to work with what we have while at the same time advocating for what we need

Submissions are due June 15. Call for Issue 27 here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...
Themed Issue on Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy Questions in the call for Issue 27 on Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy
March 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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wamorrison95.bsky.social
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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erininthemorning.com
Incredible news!

The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order.

The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care.

ACLU statement here:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13, 2025 CONTACT Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon. The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen. “Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.” “Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that… In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide. On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals. "Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse. “The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…
February 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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brentgwarner.com
I built a free URL shortener for teachers bc we don't need ads when we're just trying to help each other out

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February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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humanrestorationproject.org
@charleswlogan.bsky.social joins Audrey Watters for our Critical AI panel at #CTRH2025, with still more participants to be announced!

Check out the line-up and secure your ticket now @ humanrestorationproject.org/conference 🧭

Virtual | July 21-23 | #EduSky
Promotion for CTRH! 2025 (Quest for Connection) | July 21-23, Virtual | Charles Logan is former high school English teacher and a current Ph.D. candidate in the Learning Sciences program at Northwestern University. Charles’ scholarship analyzes how power operates through technology, and he works alongside teachers and students to theorize and develop ways to resist, refuse, repurpose, and reimagine technologies towards ends that center care and collective flourishing. A father of three young children, Charles can usually be found at a park playing the part of a mysterious creature in another of his kids’ fantastic stories.
February 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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mkgold.bsky.social
I made a CUNY Graduate Center starter pack containing GC community members and alumni. Please let me know if I've missed you! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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November 15, 2024 at 9:58 PM