Kate Clancy
@kateclancy.bsky.social
Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Obsessed with the uterus, even when it's being shitty. Author of PERIOD: The Real Story of Menstruation, now out on paperback. Up next: PREGNANCY, INTERRUPTED. Settler, queer. 🍉
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In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month.
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December 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month.
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"Last year, we found that you could increase strawberry yield by 18 per cent under solar panels compared to strawberries in an open field. This agrivoltaic crop yield bump has been shown for dozens of other crops and solar panel combinations all over the world..."
Agrivoltaics boost crop yields even when the solar panels aren’t generating power. New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that can lift yields and improve performance across dozens of crops. buff.ly/6eqClf1
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The gift that keeps on giving: How solar panels on farms can help increase crop yields
A new study finds farmers can enjoy increased crop yeilds under partial shade of solar panels long after they stop working decades from now.
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December 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"Last year, we found that you could increase strawberry yield by 18 per cent under solar panels compared to strawberries in an open field. This agrivoltaic crop yield bump has been shown for dozens of other crops and solar panel combinations all over the world..."
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“You didn’t get a high paying job right after graduation because you got a Humanities degree instead of learning to code”
Same people: “too bad, so sad, AI can do your job and no one cares about cultivating future leadership in the field.”
Same people:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Same people: “too bad, so sad, AI can do your job and no one cares about cultivating future leadership in the field.”
Same people:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Stanford graduates spark outrage after uncovering reason behind lack of job offers: 'A dramatic reversal from three years ago'
"That has changed."
www.yahoo.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“You didn’t get a high paying job right after graduation because you got a Humanities degree instead of learning to code”
Same people: “too bad, so sad, AI can do your job and no one cares about cultivating future leadership in the field.”
Same people:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Same people: “too bad, so sad, AI can do your job and no one cares about cultivating future leadership in the field.”
Same people:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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December 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Your desire to have a cool tool or to be able to create some nifty piece of art or whatever is just a desire. It has no moral foundation. You're not arguing for a right you didn't have before. You aren't arguing for a value that outweighs the harms. You just want something. Damn the costs.
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Your desire to have a cool tool or to be able to create some nifty piece of art or whatever is just a desire. It has no moral foundation. You're not arguing for a right you didn't have before. You aren't arguing for a value that outweighs the harms. You just want something. Damn the costs.
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Personally, it pisses me off. You want me to take your argument seriously, but you don't want to deal with the largest theft of creative work in history (in some cases, literally through mass digital piracy), the environmental costs that will ruin the future, its capacity for mass delusion etc.
December 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Personally, it pisses me off. You want me to take your argument seriously, but you don't want to deal with the largest theft of creative work in history (in some cases, literally through mass digital piracy), the environmental costs that will ruin the future, its capacity for mass delusion etc.
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I think part of the reason the reaction to people arguing *for* GenAI use is so aggressive is that not a single one of these arguments bothers to meaningfully engage with the ethical problems these technologies present. And those ethical problems are monumental. They're not minor.
December 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I think part of the reason the reaction to people arguing *for* GenAI use is so aggressive is that not a single one of these arguments bothers to meaningfully engage with the ethical problems these technologies present. And those ethical problems are monumental. They're not minor.
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This trans instructor was doing her job, giving a failing grade to a student who cynically did not comply w the assignment.
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This trans instructor was doing her job, giving a failing grade to a student who cynically did not comply w the assignment.
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
The instructor was targeted by Turning Point USA who worked hand in glove w the student in a highly orchestrated media hit job to advance its anti-trans hate campaign
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Someone should take this case on and help this TA sue the shit out of this institution.
Not sure how far it’ll get in these courts but my god this is so awful.
Not sure how far it’ll get in these courts but my god this is so awful.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Someone should take this case on and help this TA sue the shit out of this institution.
Not sure how far it’ll get in these courts but my god this is so awful.
Not sure how far it’ll get in these courts but my god this is so awful.
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Here is the 60 Minutes segment Bari is trying to keep you from seeing. They keep getting taken down so watch asap
December 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Here is the 60 Minutes segment Bari is trying to keep you from seeing. They keep getting taken down so watch asap
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If you are feeling helpless and hopeless in the face of the CECOT report, I’d like to suggest donating to HIAS. It’s a Jewish organization that actively protects displaced people and fights for refugee rights everywhere including against the Trump regime. 🧵
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December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
If you are feeling helpless and hopeless in the face of the CECOT report, I’d like to suggest donating to HIAS. It’s a Jewish organization that actively protects displaced people and fights for refugee rights everywhere including against the Trump regime. 🧵
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Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice...
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Fine. Let's compare CECOT to being in solitary confinement in a US jail.
In both cases we have innocent people.
In both cases we have what international organizations have defined as torture.
In one case we have people in a cell 23.5 hrs a day (CECOT), and in the other 23.26 hrs a day (county).
In both cases we have innocent people.
In both cases we have what international organizations have defined as torture.
In one case we have people in a cell 23.5 hrs a day (CECOT), and in the other 23.26 hrs a day (county).
Solitary Confinement Is Inhumane
YouTube video by Partners for Justice
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December 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice...
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No?
It's only bad when the GOP does it?
It's okay when it happens to Black people?
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To be clear, a standard part of job applications are providing sample syllabi - often a whole portfolio of them - because *your syllabi* are part of the value proposition of hiring *you* and not *someone else.*
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
December 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
To be clear, a standard part of job applications are providing sample syllabi - often a whole portfolio of them - because *your syllabi* are part of the value proposition of hiring *you* and not *someone else.*
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.
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You also have to consider... respectfully that maybe Denmark is making bad choices.
If you want to give us the Denmark vaccine schedule, you also need to give us the 6+ month parental leave the Danes get, so that new babies can avoid picking up germs at daycare, and you need to give us universal healthcare.
December 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
You also have to consider... respectfully that maybe Denmark is making bad choices.
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I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
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If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
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As networks reportedly cut back on lgbtqi+ characters in response to Trump we have this viewership for a show with a lesbian fantasy romance novelist main charracter and Heated Rivalry, adapted from a gay hockey romance series, as the number 1 show on HBO.
It's a hit! It just surpassed Severance S2 as most watched Apple TV series in their brief history.
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
As networks reportedly cut back on lgbtqi+ characters in response to Trump we have this viewership for a show with a lesbian fantasy romance novelist main charracter and Heated Rivalry, adapted from a gay hockey romance series, as the number 1 show on HBO.
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Denmark, whose vaccine schedule they seem to see as a model, doesn’t require that kids get vaccinated against chickenpox. This is nuts; not only do kids die of chickenpox, but if you have it, you can then get shingles later, whereas if you haven’t had it, you can’t.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Denmark, whose vaccine schedule they seem to see as a model, doesn’t require that kids get vaccinated against chickenpox. This is nuts; not only do kids die of chickenpox, but if you have it, you can then get shingles later, whereas if you haven’t had it, you can’t.
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The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
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The end goal is eugenicist. RFK and his ilk know that this will make vaccines more expensive and time-consuming — and therefore marginalized children are most likely to fall through the cracks.
This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The end goal is eugenicist. RFK and his ilk know that this will make vaccines more expensive and time-consuming — and therefore marginalized children are most likely to fall through the cracks.
This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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The #1 movie when I was 10 years old was Superman II, a film in which a narcissistic tyrant assumes control of the United States, slaps his likeness all over it, even wrecks the White House. Near the end his hand gets fucked up. After that he gets kicked into a hole and goes to jail so here's hopin'
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The #1 movie when I was 10 years old was Superman II, a film in which a narcissistic tyrant assumes control of the United States, slaps his likeness all over it, even wrecks the White House. Near the end his hand gets fucked up. After that he gets kicked into a hole and goes to jail so here's hopin'
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In other contexts this note would be incredibly mundane. In the context of Jeffrey Epstein, it makes my skin crawl.
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In other contexts this note would be incredibly mundane. In the context of Jeffrey Epstein, it makes my skin crawl.
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When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.
December 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.
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The AAUP is seeking transparency & accountability on the extent of Palantir’s role with the Department of Education.
Higher ed should not be treated as a security threat to be monitored by Palantir. Rather, it should be treated as a public good that strengthens our democratic values.
Higher ed should not be treated as a security threat to be monitored by Palantir. Rather, it should be treated as a public good that strengthens our democratic values.
December 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The AAUP is seeking transparency & accountability on the extent of Palantir’s role with the Department of Education.
Higher ed should not be treated as a security threat to be monitored by Palantir. Rather, it should be treated as a public good that strengthens our democratic values.
Higher ed should not be treated as a security threat to be monitored by Palantir. Rather, it should be treated as a public good that strengthens our democratic values.
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