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Cathy Davidson

@cathyndavidson.bsky.social

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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 · 29d

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/...

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1h

#SeaScrolling #Breathe And #Breathe again.

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dougcdogdad.bsky.social @dougcdogdad.bsky.social · 4h

This is 3 years ago today, it's pouring outside. What's happening in Venezuela is happening today. It's criminal action. Fuck the GOP for allowing this. Fuck tRump! Lock his ass up. Fuck SCOTUS for the broad brush they gave tRump. May they all rot for their crimes against humanity. Fuck them all!

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Yvonne Redknap @yredknap.bsky.social · 6h

The #NewYear means that I only have about 10 more weeks to capture sunrises over Lake Ontario, before the sun moves further north.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #EastCoastKin

Taken from the shore of Lake Ontario. The sun has just risen above the horizon and the sky is stripes of gold and orange. There is a patch of dark blue sky at the top of the photo, with a white cloud across it. The sky is reflected across the water and the sun's reflection travels all the way to the shore. One long sunbeam crosses the water and the sky diagonally.

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SkyBlueWaters @skybluewater.bsky.social · 7h

Tettegouche
Lake Superior
Minnesota

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 7h

2-This isn't about the agency of the technology but the technologists and policy makers and governmental leaders who support and enable them.

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly! With the caveat that, as I just read in brilliant article by Harry Halpin, there's a "hidden ideology inherent in AI where the goal is not to perfect a model but to control the world." This admin rescinded Biden-era AI guardrails.The alignment is scary. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Artificial intelligence versus collective intelligence - AI & SOCIETY

The ontological presupposition of artificial intelligence (AI) is the liberal autonomous human subject of Locke and Kant, and the ideology of AI is the automation of this particular conception of inte...

link.springer.com

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SkyBlueWaters @skybluewater.bsky.social · 9h

February Evening By
Lake Superior Minnesota

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PJ 🇮🇪☘️ @knotweed-ireland.bsky.social · 10h

Sunrise Ireland - Good morning my BlueSky friends. A cold and frosty start to the day in Westmeath, Ireland. Hope you all have a great day today 😊 #Sunrise #Scape #Landscape #Ireland #Nature #Photography

Bright orange sunrise over the lake in Westmeath, Ireland.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h

CBS News has capitulated but Democracy Docket never will. I created it without any corporate backers or private equity investors. It's only accountable to its members who help support its 22-person team. Become one now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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katia thee mc @katiathemick.bsky.social · 18h

Southie Beach pics

I went to the beach almost every day for almost six years. Before that, two years walking my dog along the Esplanade looking at the Charles.

Sigh.

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Barry @barryw757.bsky.social · 21h

Sunset tonight
January 2, 2026

The setting sun shines through thin clouds before disappearing behind a cloud bank near the horizon. A dock juts into the river from the left side of the image.

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 23h

#SeaScrolling #Breathe

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Karen in Appalachia 📚🥾🎵 @karenwnc.bsky.social · 1d

Visited the beach for a few days visiting family during the holidays. I enjoyed it, but I’m definitely a mountain gal.

Sun setting on the beach. Sun’s rays coming through clouds above. A few houses are on the right further away.

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

Hilarious.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d

This is why they want us talking about day care centers and $500 boots.

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Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social · 1d

Full tide at the White Strand in Cahersiveen.

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for posting. It’s important to keep track of ridiculous ideas. They get recycled and peddled later by “respectable” op ed “centrists” (no, I’m not naming names).

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

This may be the stupidest educational proposal I’ve heard yet. (There are lots of runners up,btw.)

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

This is the academic version of peaking in high-school or reliving your senior year as start quarterback now that your 45 and stuck selling used cars.

Rebecca Dean @rmdean.bsky.social · 1d

This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

This is the academic version of peaking in high-school or reliving your senior year as start quarterback now that your 45 and stuck selling used cars.

Rebecca Dean @rmdean.bsky.social · 1d

This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.

A screenshot of a National Review article by George Leef. The title is “Let’s Hire Professors Purely on Merit”. The first paragraph reads: the diversity media that has swept over American education for the last 50 years or so has had a align effect on the quality of professors. Many of those hired to fill quotas for certain groups are, to be blunt, not especially qualified. Moreover, such hiring violates the law against discrimination. What should we do?”

It’s the usual thing about white men not being able to get jobs because women and minorities are given preference. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog

AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.

futurism.com

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

Agree! Also, LLM's are trained on the models we give it and are easily manipulated... The dangers are on every level.

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Yvonne Redknap @yredknap.bsky.social · 1d

#Scape
#Photography
#EastCoastKin

In the foreground are silhouettes of three trees and a wooden arbor. There is a lamp beside the arbor and behind it are the waters of Lake Ontario. The sun is about to rise above the horizon and the sky is orange, blending to blue. There are a few grey clouds.

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly, with the results getting significantly worse and weaker every time we use it as if it's true. John McCarthy was predicting this "cannibalism" effect back in 1969 . . .

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children

Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.

cnb.cx

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

It’s cold outside but the fresh air blowing through NYC is invigorating. #SeaScrolling #Breathe

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LMC_CurryCreations @lmcurry.bsky.social · 1d

Another sunrise over the dunes on Hilton Head Island

#sunrise #photooftheday #photography #beach #ealrymorning #firstlight #canonphotography #landscape #nature

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Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · 1d

Sundown on the ocean for #scape

The sun setting over the ocean, dark clouds on the horizon.

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

I would guess that the majority of Americans have no idea how much of an outlier the U.S. is in not offering universal health care. Bankruptcy for medical debt is almost unheard of in other developed countries.

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

Too too true!

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 1d

First sunset of 2026. #SeaScrolling #Breathe

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