Sarah J. Martin
@eatingpolitics.bsky.social
I think about food.
IPE/GPE
Teaching with ungrading practices.
https://www.mun.ca/political-science/people/sarah-martin/
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Teaching with ungrading practices.
https://www.mun.ca/political-science/people/sarah-martin/
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New paper with @charliemather.bsky.social
We argue that feed and feeding are at the center of the contemporary politics and ethics of animal agriculture
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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We argue that feed and feeding are at the center of the contemporary politics and ethics of animal agriculture
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@progenvgeog.bsky.social
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So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
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Students, staff, faculty turning to ChatGPT? That means they are being asked to do things they don't have the time, resources, support, etc to do.
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Students, staff, faculty turning to ChatGPT? That means they are being asked to do things they don't have the time, resources, support, etc to do.
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In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.
Intellectual work is human work that recognizes, builds, collectivizes, and connects.
LLMs/GenAI are anti-intellectual and anti-human because it does not recognize, it breaks bonds, individualizes, and disconnects.
Not a new observation, but one that must be stated over and over again
LLMs/GenAI are anti-intellectual and anti-human because it does not recognize, it breaks bonds, individualizes, and disconnects.
Not a new observation, but one that must be stated over and over again
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Intellectual work is human work that recognizes, builds, collectivizes, and connects.
LLMs/GenAI are anti-intellectual and anti-human because it does not recognize, it breaks bonds, individualizes, and disconnects.
Not a new observation, but one that must be stated over and over again
LLMs/GenAI are anti-intellectual and anti-human because it does not recognize, it breaks bonds, individualizes, and disconnects.
Not a new observation, but one that must be stated over and over again
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Agreed that we need to approach people with empathy and find ways to communicate the message that work. But what I'm saying is that "these products are dangerous to you & those you love" has to be part of the message.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Agreed that we need to approach people with empathy and find ways to communicate the message that work. But what I'm saying is that "these products are dangerous to you & those you love" has to be part of the message.
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This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.
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Great @archive.org talk btw @samuelmoore.org + @hjoseph.bsky.social abt reimagining open-access through small, sustainable, scholar-led publishing (Heather reminds us that the commercial academic journal publishing market is an $11B industry, w/ 20-40% profit margins "because of the free labor")
Publishing Beyond The Market : Internet Archive & Authors Alliance : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Join author Samuel Moore in conversation with Heather Joseph as they reimagine open access through collective, scholar-led publishing.Resources shared:Chat
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December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Great @archive.org talk btw @samuelmoore.org + @hjoseph.bsky.social abt reimagining open-access through small, sustainable, scholar-led publishing (Heather reminds us that the commercial academic journal publishing market is an $11B industry, w/ 20-40% profit margins "because of the free labor")
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AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
A few important points here
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
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Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
Another excellent episode of @academicaunties.com with @tungohan.bsky.social and @tariajadi.bsky.social .
Fantastic discussion of the normalized, caustic, and shitty practices of academia.
Fantastic discussion of the normalized, caustic, and shitty practices of academia.
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Another excellent episode of @academicaunties.com with @tungohan.bsky.social and @tariajadi.bsky.social .
Fantastic discussion of the normalized, caustic, and shitty practices of academia.
Fantastic discussion of the normalized, caustic, and shitty practices of academia.
Ghouls
December 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Ghouls
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In our dept, we have annual awards for writing our students have done. There are all kinds of categories & $$$.
A student came to me for advising & noted that all her teachers assigned in-class writing exams. So she has nothing to submit for awards. 😳 AI strikes again. I hate it. #AcademicSky
A student came to me for advising & noted that all her teachers assigned in-class writing exams. So she has nothing to submit for awards. 😳 AI strikes again. I hate it. #AcademicSky
December 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
In our dept, we have annual awards for writing our students have done. There are all kinds of categories & $$$.
A student came to me for advising & noted that all her teachers assigned in-class writing exams. So she has nothing to submit for awards. 😳 AI strikes again. I hate it. #AcademicSky
A student came to me for advising & noted that all her teachers assigned in-class writing exams. So she has nothing to submit for awards. 😳 AI strikes again. I hate it. #AcademicSky
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I do a Christmas Card every year for the folks at work and this year I designed, printed, sanded, and painted a 3D model of the QEII Library, trees, and a little snowman. The library is hollow so I could stuff a set of fairy lights inside so it lights up. @memorialu.bsky.social @munqeii.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I do a Christmas Card every year for the folks at work and this year I designed, printed, sanded, and painted a 3D model of the QEII Library, trees, and a little snowman. The library is hollow so I could stuff a set of fairy lights inside so it lights up. @memorialu.bsky.social @munqeii.bsky.social
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
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Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
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We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
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Fuck this guy
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Fuck this guy
Am writing therefore must snack
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Am writing therefore must snack
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The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
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Consumption of beef in China will decline this year and fall again in 2026, while pork has hit a "structural plateau", and the egg market is glutted. But chicken is everywhere. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Consumption of beef in China will decline this year and fall again in 2026, while pork has hit a "structural plateau", and the egg market is glutted. But chicken is everywhere. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
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A “shift to looser regulation is ‘likely to reduce the resilience of the banking sector to systemic market shocks.’”
A key lesson from 2008 was “heavily indebted banks lacked the equity capital to absorb large losses, leaving regulators [to let] banks fail or bail them out to protect depositors.”
A key lesson from 2008 was “heavily indebted banks lacked the equity capital to absorb large losses, leaving regulators [to let] banks fail or bail them out to protect depositors.”
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A “shift to looser regulation is ‘likely to reduce the resilience of the banking sector to systemic market shocks.’”
A key lesson from 2008 was “heavily indebted banks lacked the equity capital to absorb large losses, leaving regulators [to let] banks fail or bail them out to protect depositors.”
A key lesson from 2008 was “heavily indebted banks lacked the equity capital to absorb large losses, leaving regulators [to let] banks fail or bail them out to protect depositors.”
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The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration