Penny Wheeler
@pennyjw.bsky.social
Education, language, art, humanities, landcare.
Also @teledvisors.bsky.social
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7856-5093
Also @teledvisors.bsky.social
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7856-5093
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I wrote a short blog post about this paper, reflecting on my own time as a @carpentries.carpentries.org Software Carpentry instructor blog.stephenturner.us/p/ten-simple...
Ten simple rules for teaching data science
A new paper from Tiffany Timbers (UBC) and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel (Duke), and lessons I learned from my time with Software Carpentry
blog.stephenturner.us
February 5, 2026 at 10:29 AM
I wrote a short blog post about this paper, reflecting on my own time as a @carpentries.carpentries.org Software Carpentry instructor blog.stephenturner.us/p/ten-simple...
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MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates have the opportunity to do something so hilarious right now. There are 300 recently unemployed journalists who would love the opportunity to help them fight the darkness that is consuming our democracy.
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates have the opportunity to do something so hilarious right now. There are 300 recently unemployed journalists who would love the opportunity to help them fight the darkness that is consuming our democracy.
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Just a reminder to consider the Library of Babel Group. We have projects afoot and opportunities to network with like-minded folks. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Just a reminder to consider the Library of Babel Group. We have projects afoot and opportunities to network with like-minded folks. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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Made a conscious decision to focus on AI/bigtech in early 2025 and I'm glad I did
It's a systemic attack on both the means of climate action (evidence-based facts, the written / spoken word, visual communication) and the ends (trying to stop fossil fuel use). I think it's starting to sink in, now
It's a systemic attack on both the means of climate action (evidence-based facts, the written / spoken word, visual communication) and the ends (trying to stop fossil fuel use). I think it's starting to sink in, now
December 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Made a conscious decision to focus on AI/bigtech in early 2025 and I'm glad I did
It's a systemic attack on both the means of climate action (evidence-based facts, the written / spoken word, visual communication) and the ends (trying to stop fossil fuel use). I think it's starting to sink in, now
It's a systemic attack on both the means of climate action (evidence-based facts, the written / spoken word, visual communication) and the ends (trying to stop fossil fuel use). I think it's starting to sink in, now
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Some much-needed good news, including
• renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally
• new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty
• landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown
• indigenous wins at COP
🌱❣️🌊
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
• renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally
• new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty
• landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown
• indigenous wins at COP
🌱❣️🌊
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Some much-needed good news, including
• renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally
• new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty
• landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown
• indigenous wins at COP
🌱❣️🌊
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
• renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally
• new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty
• landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown
• indigenous wins at COP
🌱❣️🌊
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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A thread describing an absolutely fascinating project about the Deep History (and meaning) of Ukraine. x.com/Mylovanov/st...
Tymofiy Mylovanov on X: "Snyder describes an ongoing research project with unusual scale: 3 years of work by 100+ Ukrainian and international scholars writing a “longue durée” history of Ukraine, from geology and ecology to the present war. 2/" / X
Snyder describes an ongoing research project with unusual scale: 3 years of work by 100+ Ukrainian and international scholars writing a “longue durée” history of Ukraine, from geology and ecology to the present war. 2/
x.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A thread describing an absolutely fascinating project about the Deep History (and meaning) of Ukraine. x.com/Mylovanov/st...
Poster on way to #ascilite25 @wentale.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Poster on way to #ascilite25 @wentale.bsky.social
Very funny 🤣 -- great crypto-chart @crikey.com.au fyi @infobeautiful.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Very funny 🤣 -- great crypto-chart @crikey.com.au fyi @infobeautiful.bsky.social
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Huge congrats to a real ed-tech hero, @linkletter.org, who survived a five-year legal odyssey after he posted a critique of Proctorio on social media. linkletter.org/update-33-th...
I so admire Ian's bravery in the face of corporate bullying. Kudos and congrats, Ian!!!
I so admire Ian's bravery in the face of corporate bullying. Kudos and congrats, Ian!!!
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Huge congrats to a real ed-tech hero, @linkletter.org, who survived a five-year legal odyssey after he posted a critique of Proctorio on social media. linkletter.org/update-33-th...
I so admire Ian's bravery in the face of corporate bullying. Kudos and congrats, Ian!!!
I so admire Ian's bravery in the face of corporate bullying. Kudos and congrats, Ian!!!
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Turn off Gemini in Google!
It's been turned on by default.
Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box.
www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
It's been turned on by default.
Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box.
www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
How to turn off Gemini in your Gmail, Docs, Photos, and more - it's easy to opt out
It's a little hidden, but there is a way to remove Gemini from your favorite Google services.
www.zdnet.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Turn off Gemini in Google!
It's been turned on by default.
Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box.
www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
It's been turned on by default.
Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box.
www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
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Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.
My friends, they have lost the flag.
My friends, they have lost the flag.
October 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.
My friends, they have lost the flag.
My friends, they have lost the flag.
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Class is in session! Thanks, @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social, for this analysis of the importance of this moment.
"This is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography." Yes!
"This is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography." Yes!
And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
October 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Class is in session! Thanks, @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social, for this analysis of the importance of this moment.
"This is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography." Yes!
"This is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography." Yes!
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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This is wild. I’ve never heard this story before.
October 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This is wild. I’ve never heard this story before.
USA Government is targeting people who just want things to be normal.
Who was Who in Weimar Germany (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Who was Who in Weimar Germany (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)
Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"
open.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
USA Government is targeting people who just want things to be normal.
Who was Who in Weimar Germany (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Who was Who in Weimar Germany (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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bubble dance party
October 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
bubble dance party
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We're launched! In my newsletter this week, I write about our new female-founded media collective
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve
The Nerve
We've got it. Do you?
broligarchy.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We're launched! In my newsletter this week, I write about our new female-founded media collective
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve
Speak truth to power, from Professor Tim Snyder.
Speak truth to power
And other thoughts about a difficult week in the US
open.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Speak truth to power, from Professor Tim Snyder.