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Danielle Williams
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Passed this in my neighborhood and it did brighten my mood. ❤️ The code links here: padlet.com/bbns/neighbo...
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Want to learn how to help tackle the climate crisis and contribute to a sustainable, just world via impactful climate solutions (which begin by using your voice to call for change)? This 4-week course by @universityofleeds.bsky.social is free! Sign up now ⬇️

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May 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling: Doomscrolling turns our phones into misery machines—and makes us see the world as a mean, scary place. Here's what happened when Jennifer Mercieca's students tried hopescrolling instead
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling
Our phones have become misery machines. Hopescrolling can change that.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Join us because we need you. Join us because throwing yourself into meaningful work helps heal a broken heart. Join us because there are many ways to contribute with whatever time you have & whatever talents you bring.

Read it. Share it. And maybe come build it with us. bsky.app/profile/unbr...
Upcoming pages will look closely at food safety, the USPS, medical research, and more. If this sounds like something you’d like to contribute to, here’s how to help: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/
Unbreaking — How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
unbreaking.org
May 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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“There is a distinct difference between ‘unity’ and ‘solidarity’: where solidarity recognizes our differing social contexts and positions but still highlights the criticality of working together, ‘unity’ pushes a violent doctrine of sameness.”

- @zsamudzi.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Help Daylight San Diego raise $50k by July 1
We’ve already raised more than $1,500 toward our $50,000 goal to fund independent, community-driven journalism in San Diego. But we still need your help!
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May 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.
March 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Guys, #sdjournos PLEASE help out. We really need nominations for “Journalist of the Year.” Please share. The only requirements are 1) the nominee is a journalist 2) in San Diego. 3) is not on SPJ board.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Journalist of the year
Please nominate who you think should be journalist of the year. Please include their name followed by a brief explanation of why. Specific examples would be greatly appreciated. If there are notes, do...
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May 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Write the book you’d like to see someone pull from a higgledy-piggledy pile in a secondhand shop sixty three years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
April 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Check out this dossier of reflections on #ungrading from a range of Film & Media Studies faculty (including me) - thanks to @jennblaylock.bsky.social for co-editing!
quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach...
March 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Very worried about what this means for UC San Diego medical and Rady’s Childrens.
Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding.

Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)

(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
February 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Higher ed institutions need to step up not just to save themselves, but because democratic institutions are an important part of a larger resistance against an over authoritarian project. The stakes couldn't be higher. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
Higher ed must resist authoritarian rule. It's the mission.
Trying to make your institution a smaller target isn’t going to work.
www.insidehighered.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Today, February 20th, is a day of action at UC San Diego. Join us and tell your reps what you think about cuts to NIH funding that will severely affect lifesaving University of California research: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...
Protect research funding
Federal funding for biomedical research is under threat.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
February 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am
February 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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"It is my hope that this tool in process, which benefited from the input of many seasoned activists, helps you to connect the personal to the political. I hope that this offers the beginning of a bridge between information and action." millionexperiments.com/zines/making...
Making A Plan
"It is my hope that this tool in process, which benefited from the input of many seasoned activists, helps you to connect the personal to the political. I hope that this offers the beginning of a brid...
millionexperiments.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO TURN ANGER INTO ACTION
Here’s advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. I’m retyping from Allison McGuffie’s post, which she cut and pasted from a friend.

There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they’ve by far the most important things.
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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The more of us can be awake and clear in this moment, the better we can respond with power to the horrors they are hoping to unleash. The easier to organize. To show up.

And? Even now? You’re allowed joy. You should have joy.

More on all this here, w/some practical tips:
fortify inside
why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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How to find instant clarity

(no hacks or apps)

Feeling stuck? Here's the action map:

1. Overthinking spirals?
↳ Write it down. Get it out of your head.

2. Lost inspiration?
↳ Read. Others' ideas spark yours.

#academicsky #acwri #sciencesky #productivity
January 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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November 26, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Pointing again at my US Blue State Challenge. If you live in a "blue state", pick the red state you hate the most and the issue you care about the most and find a group in that state working on that issue and support them.
One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.
October 13, 2023 at 3:40 PM
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November 11, 2024 at 12:17 AM