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Kaitlin Stack Whitney
@kstackwhitney.bsky.social
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STS / enviro studies prof, on unceded Seneca lands. mostly thinking with insects and about ableism in biology. own views, etc. she/they
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fractalecho.bsky.social
This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
Rua M Williams's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI, publushed by palgrave macmillan, is held in front of rainbow glass. The cover is deep pink with orange vines.
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
kid#2 found a US history book in the little free lib nearby. it seemed ... off from even the first page. looked up the pub-- turns out it's a phonics reader published by a higher ed institution that doesn't allow women to wear pants on campus
December 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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hptsociety.bsky.social
OTD in 1950, Judy Wajcman was born. A pioneering sociologist and feminist theorist, Wajcman reshaped the philosophy and sociology of technology by showing how technological systems are deeply entwined with gender, power, and social organization.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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tis the season (meals based around chex mix)
December 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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the pond is frozen
A snowy frozen urban pond with bare tree silhouettes and blue sky. The sun is the top right corner.
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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@lecagle.bsky.social
meadekrosby.bsky.social Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 27d
I love this idea so much: Washington Dept of Fish & Wildlife just released an anthology of poetry and art exploring how each of the state's ecoregions is being affected by climate change, and how fish & wildlife managers are responding.

I just ordered my copy.
WDFW and partners publish poetry anthology focused on climate resilience in Washington’s ecosystems
“On Resilience: Stories of Climate Adaptation Across Washington’s Landscapes” is a new poetry anthology bringing together place-based…
wdfw.medium.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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ashleyshoo.bsky.social
It’s an incredible success of ADA+IDEA: many disabled students can make it to college now. We should be thrilled to have student pool that better reflects society and shows the benefits of inclusion and accommodations in k-12. Celebrate that we have so many disabled students! This is a win.
December 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
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
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night walk in the snow
yellowish strangely bright skies of the kind that happens when it's dark but snowy in the background. In the foreground is a tall evergreen that someone has strung up with white twinkle lights (outside!). Some snow on the boughs. Dark silhouettes of a few other trees are in the background against the sky
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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stumbled upon in the woods
A participatory sculpture artwork in a field. There's a metal sphere reflecting everything on the ground, with a few pacing stones and mostly grass, within a larger landscape of a senesced wildflower meadow. The artwork is "Cartas al Cielo" by Alicia Framis 2011
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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went to wonderful talk by @maryfissell.bsky.social on the history of abortion that had the audience reflecting, making lots of connections, even laughing-- thanks to @slobogin.bsky.social and Corner Society for organizing
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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aadita.bsky.social
My doctoral dissertation, ‘Chasing flames: Racial capitalism in fire ecology research and praxis,’ is finally online!

yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/9c832f...
Chasing Flames: Racial Capitalism in Fire Ecology Research and Praxis
This dissertation explores fire ecology and its applications in settler colonial environments. It introduces the framework of pyrosociality to understand fire’s role in ecosystems, guided by an analys...
yorkspace.library.yorku.ca
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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a tree I met today
a beech tree seen close up of just part of the trunk, with some green mossy patches and an old face carved into the bark in a small smile. Behind the tree some snowy grass and grave stones are visible. It's in Mt Hope Cemetery in Rochester
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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sthv.bsky.social
New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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first snow of the season
A small urban pond ringed in grass with a dusting of snow and tree boughs and cattails topped with snow. Deciduous trees still with color changing leaves at the far side of the pond
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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these bubs are everywhere around now
Harlequin ladybug on a jade plant indoors Harlequin Ladybug on a metal outdoor table
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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rust belt riverway
Looking north up the Genesee River at dusk, with former Kodak wastewater treatment plant and buildings, now owned by other businesses, along the banks and cliff on the left side
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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spending the time change extra hour figuring out if the thing found in the woods is bone or rock 🤔
November 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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look down
An oak gall on a brown oak leaf fragment, atop a mat of bright green moss. The gall is about the size of a golf ball; it's brown and has a small hole where the gall wasp has emerged
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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looking down
Orange leaves on a tree in the foreground and below a green river lined on both sides with trees with colorful leaves. A bridge and Apt building are in the background
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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look up
A red glow beams out where the sun shines through deciduous trees turning yellow. (The glow is from a red plastic heart someone has hung on a branch - it's obscured from direct view)
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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look up
Color POP of red and yellow leaves on deciduous trees above, over a gravel and dirt trail (a former rail bed), lined by a tall wooden fence on the right and some rocks and senescing plants on the left. It's near dusk so the trail and ground are in the shade but the setting sun is shining on the tree canopy, making the changing colors stand out even more
October 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
kstackwhitney.bsky.social
ecology of a half dead mall
large tropical indoor plants under a skylight.
October 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM