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Cathy Davidson
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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 · Dec 5
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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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 18h
Definitely!

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18h
Down with the Patrio-archy. 🤷‍♂️

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 20h
38,000 times. Are we going to gloss over that number, 38,000 times?

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 20h
#SeaScrolling #Breathe

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 20h
What can Puerto Rican Studies & Bad Bunny’s music teach us about the future of research? Futures Initiative's Shelly Eversley sits down with Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro), Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Brim and FI Fellow Vallerie Matos www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQw...
FI Podcast Ep 1:4 - “Learning from Bad Bunny and El Centro”
YouTube video by Futures Initiative
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23h
🏈🏈🏈🏈

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 23h
The halftime show is the only part of the Superbowl I'm watching!

El mundo bailará!

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d
“Bad Bunny’s performance isn’t just the story of the ascendancy of a single performer, or of one genre,” Noah Shachtman writes. “It’s the sign of something bigger still. America’s pop culture is today multilingual, polycultural and international at its very core.”
Opinion | The Culture War Is Over. Bad Bunny Won.
American pop culture is global pop culture, and vice versa.
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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 2d
#SeaScrolling is for me an antidote to doom scrolling. So is activism. #Breathe.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 2d
“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou. He’s shown us all along, and it speaks volumes of those who continue to support him…
A comics page in black and white. Arranged in 5 tiers of panels, each with successively smaller panels and more per row - with the exception of the first. Opens with no panel border - silhouette of a hand in a gun position - with smoke coming from index finger. speech balloon “i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn’t lose any voters, ok?” Caption “this is perhaps the most truthful thing trump has ever said…” Same row - more than half page width panel with three drawings of trump making jerky body distortions mocking cerebral palsy. Caption “one might’ve assumed when he mocked reporter serge kovaleski that it would cross a line and be the end of him in public life.” Speech balloon “now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy!” Caption “that was naive.” Next row, first panel, slightly more than page width - closeup on trump’s open mouth, shouting “when you’re a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. you can do anything.” Caption “surely, there’d be no coming back from this?” Second panel - silhouettes of tiki torch carrying rioters with their shirt collars showing. Caption “or this?” Dialogue “you also had some very fine people on both sides.” Caption “and yet…” Third row - three panels, first slightly more than a third, rest smaller still. Silhouette of trump throwing a paper towel roll like shooting a basketball. Dialogue “a great day…” Caption “c’mon…”. Second panel closeup on his lips, dialogue “why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Caption “really?” Third panel closeup on a coiled-style phone cord, dialogue “i would like you to do us a favor, though.” In background words from the first articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. Dialogue “the call with ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.” full alt-text on my site at the link

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James Bennett @jamesbennett.bsky.social · 3d
Between the storms. 💙🌬️
Tarifa beach, golden sands, blue sky, rocks in foreground, hills in background

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
Ya think?

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

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d
The EU Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over its addictive design — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications & hyper-personalized recommendations. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Brock’s Photographic Journey @bar44.bsky.social · 3d
Along the trail to Warrior Rock Lighthouse on Sauvie Island, Oregon #Photography #Trees #Oregon 📷

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 3d
Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.

It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 3d
Exactly.

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 3d
Every American needs to watch this:

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you for helping us see what this offers. The knee jerk response is to say “they are doing nothing.” This helps!

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 4d
You ban DEI, condemn critical race theory, shut down gender and women’s studies programs, defund scientific research, gut funding for the arts, condemn empathy, attack public health, and look at what a world you end up with! Hmmmmm…

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 4d
#SeaScrolling #Breathe

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you and thank @anildash.com ... I think we all need to hear this every day, all day. Thanks for all you do!

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Financial World, the magazine of LIBF @financialworld.bsky.social · 4d
Gangs use AI to clone pensioners’ voices and empty their bank accounts

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#AI #scams #financialservices #VoiceCloning #GenAI #banks #APPF
Gangs use AI to clone pensioners’ voices and empty their bank accounts
Criminal gangs are copying the voices of pensioners with the help of AI and using the technology to drain their bank accounts.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 4d
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you to everyone in CA including the elected officials and voters who successfully accomplished mid-decade redistricting to swiftly counter the attempted theft by Texas.

Action and tangible results are so much better than gripes and strongly worded letters.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 4d
"Imposing minimum teaching requirements...has been touted as a way to cut costs and 'better focus university resources in the classroom,' .... The notion is also gaining steam in conservative circles as a means of ensuring faculty productivity and curbing 'intellectually unserious' research."
The Campaign to Make Professors Teach More
Lawmakers say faculty members don’t work enough. Is this about productivity or punishment?
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