Ashley Patriarca
@aspatriarca.bsky.social
Associate prof. Obsessed with dogs, teaching, perfume, romance novels, comics, & risk & crisis communication, not necessarily in that order. AL-NC-VA-PA. She/her. Opinions mine, all mine.
I'm pretty sure I just saw Nosferatu get into a Cybertruck in New Orleans.
January 2, 2026 at 11:13 PM
I'm pretty sure I just saw Nosferatu get into a Cybertruck in New Orleans.
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RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office.
Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.
Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.
Robert F Kennedy cancels flu vaccination ad campaign and key vaccine policy meeting
The new US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to halt its publicity campaign encouraging uptake of this year’s seasonal flu vaccine...
www.bmj.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:34 PM
RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office.
Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.
Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.
I kept trying, and the only two I got were this one and "moribund." Welp, we tried. Here's hoping for a better 2027?
January 2, 2026 at 3:03 AM
I kept trying, and the only two I got were this one and "moribund." Welp, we tried. Here's hoping for a better 2027?
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continually tapping the "short form video is fundamentally evil and deleterious to society" sign
Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad
Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions
arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714
Ht: HowTown
Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions
arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714
Ht: HowTown
December 31, 2025 at 6:44 AM
continually tapping the "short form video is fundamentally evil and deleterious to society" sign
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1970—no fault divorce finally legalized, female suicide rates drop 20%
1974—Equal Credit Opp Act passes, women finally have basic access to finances
1993—Marital rape finally criminalized
Call me old school but countering record high suicide, financial imprisonment, & suffocating DV IS Liberation
1974—Equal Credit Opp Act passes, women finally have basic access to finances
1993—Marital rape finally criminalized
Call me old school but countering record high suicide, financial imprisonment, & suffocating DV IS Liberation
December 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
1970—no fault divorce finally legalized, female suicide rates drop 20%
1974—Equal Credit Opp Act passes, women finally have basic access to finances
1993—Marital rape finally criminalized
Call me old school but countering record high suicide, financial imprisonment, & suffocating DV IS Liberation
1974—Equal Credit Opp Act passes, women finally have basic access to finances
1993—Marital rape finally criminalized
Call me old school but countering record high suicide, financial imprisonment, & suffocating DV IS Liberation
One of the little joys of extended family Christmas is finding out my cousin is raising his daughters to love Dolly and Stevie as much as I do. Christmas morning kid karaoke for the win ♥️
December 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
One of the little joys of extended family Christmas is finding out my cousin is raising his daughters to love Dolly and Stevie as much as I do. Christmas morning kid karaoke for the win ♥️
Anyone have good strategies for getting parents away from Facebook's AI slop videos? (No, getting them off Facebook is sadly not an option.)
December 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Anyone have good strategies for getting parents away from Facebook's AI slop videos? (No, getting them off Facebook is sadly not an option.)
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Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
Fall 2025 is officially in the books!
Ended the semester with lovely student conferences - I got to tell students everything they're doing well, & we had great discussions about tweaks for making my D2L even more usable.
Now, on to re-reading my texts for spring's graphic novels class!
Ended the semester with lovely student conferences - I got to tell students everything they're doing well, & we had great discussions about tweaks for making my D2L even more usable.
Now, on to re-reading my texts for spring's graphic novels class!
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Fall 2025 is officially in the books!
Ended the semester with lovely student conferences - I got to tell students everything they're doing well, & we had great discussions about tweaks for making my D2L even more usable.
Now, on to re-reading my texts for spring's graphic novels class!
Ended the semester with lovely student conferences - I got to tell students everything they're doing well, & we had great discussions about tweaks for making my D2L even more usable.
Now, on to re-reading my texts for spring's graphic novels class!
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.
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Generations of steely eyed, take-no-prisoners Disney IP lawyers are screaming anew in hell today
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Generations of steely eyed, take-no-prisoners Disney IP lawyers are screaming anew in hell today
I am so mad that the vast majority of the delightful kiddos in my life are now too old for this book.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I am so mad that the vast majority of the delightful kiddos in my life are now too old for this book.
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Doing the little hobbies, activities & side quests you love is so hard & so important, because they're *not* little, they're how you choose to delight in being alive, but Capitalism & its flunkeys continually tell us that Work is the only true & moral thing, & revokes food & shelter if we shirk it.
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Doing the little hobbies, activities & side quests you love is so hard & so important, because they're *not* little, they're how you choose to delight in being alive, but Capitalism & its flunkeys continually tell us that Work is the only true & moral thing, & revokes food & shelter if we shirk it.
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“A Charlie Brown Christmas”—among the most beloved holiday specials of all time—premiered 60 years ago, on December 9, 1965. The first Peanuts TV special, it not only won an Emmy Award; it won a place in the pantheon of pop-culture classics.
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“A Charlie Brown Christmas”—among the most beloved holiday specials of all time—premiered 60 years ago, on December 9, 1965. The first Peanuts TV special, it not only won an Emmy Award; it won a place in the pantheon of pop-culture classics.
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Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
Keep the Free Press Alive at the University of Alabama
By Media Alumni Seeking to Highlight Equity and Diversity
givebutter.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
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I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
My allergy doctor apologized to me today for continuing to have me do weekly shots.
Normally, folks would be on a twice-a-month maintenance shot schedule at this point. Me? I still have a good six months or more to go. I really am just that allergic to *everything* in the natural world 🤧
Normally, folks would be on a twice-a-month maintenance shot schedule at this point. Me? I still have a good six months or more to go. I really am just that allergic to *everything* in the natural world 🤧
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My allergy doctor apologized to me today for continuing to have me do weekly shots.
Normally, folks would be on a twice-a-month maintenance shot schedule at this point. Me? I still have a good six months or more to go. I really am just that allergic to *everything* in the natural world 🤧
Normally, folks would be on a twice-a-month maintenance shot schedule at this point. Me? I still have a good six months or more to go. I really am just that allergic to *everything* in the natural world 🤧
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Do I know any LGBTQ+ folks who work (or have worked) in higher education who would be willing to offer some Indiana youth (who also identify as LGBTQ+) tips and resources for returning to non-affirming homes over holiday breaks? DM me! Or email me at Ashley dot Ford at Free Press Indiana dot org :)
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Do I know any LGBTQ+ folks who work (or have worked) in higher education who would be willing to offer some Indiana youth (who also identify as LGBTQ+) tips and resources for returning to non-affirming homes over holiday breaks? DM me! Or email me at Ashley dot Ford at Free Press Indiana dot org :)
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The next CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Gen AI in the Writing Classroom is happening in 1 week!
Join @hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social for a discussion of @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage on Wed Dec 10, 4–5 PM ET.
Join @hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social for a discussion of @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage on Wed Dec 10, 4–5 PM ET.
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The next CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Gen AI in the Writing Classroom is happening in 1 week!
Join @hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social for a discussion of @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage on Wed Dec 10, 4–5 PM ET.
Join @hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social for a discussion of @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage on Wed Dec 10, 4–5 PM ET.
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Be a Hell Yeah person.
It goes into that weird thing that genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism but everybody is getting trained to be such a cynical unfeeling asshole nowadays that I find the smartest people often are the “hell yeah cool song/drawing/story/video” people
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Be a Hell Yeah person.
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literacies friends: my workplace is hiring an assistant professor of reading and literacy. I'm only in my second year here and am not in the school of education, but I am on the search committee so I can try and answer any questions you have.
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
literacies friends: my workplace is hiring an assistant professor of reading and literacy. I'm only in my second year here and am not in the school of education, but I am on the search committee so I can try and answer any questions you have.
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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I already responded to this once, but another point that I think is just so important for currently abled folks to understand is that if something needs to be changed so that disabled people can use it, it wasn't made correctly from the beginning. Universal access isn't just for physical structures.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I already responded to this once, but another point that I think is just so important for currently abled folks to understand is that if something needs to be changed so that disabled people can use it, it wasn't made correctly from the beginning. Universal access isn't just for physical structures.