Marie
@mariekung.bsky.social
Academic background: history, poli sci, education. Working with tech and data. Current interests: ecology, gardening. But curious and interested in pretty much everything.
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Could this be the greatest moment in television advertising history?
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Could this be the greatest moment in television advertising history?
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If I was a responsible academic, I'd hide this until I publish on this, but WHO CARES
Spring bee visits to flowers Mar/Apr/May in MN IA WI IL IN MI
What flowers are early season bees, including bumblebee queens, actually visiting?
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Spring bee visits to flowers Mar/Apr/May in MN IA WI IL IN MI
What flowers are early season bees, including bumblebee queens, actually visiting?
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Pollinator Plant Observations in Mar/Apr/May in MN IA WI IL IN MI
docs.google.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If I was a responsible academic, I'd hide this until I publish on this, but WHO CARES
Spring bee visits to flowers Mar/Apr/May in MN IA WI IL IN MI
What flowers are early season bees, including bumblebee queens, actually visiting?
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Spring bee visits to flowers Mar/Apr/May in MN IA WI IL IN MI
What flowers are early season bees, including bumblebee queens, actually visiting?
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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It didn't occur to me that one of the problems with getting older is witnessing the culture debate and process the same things over and over. Like, as a historian it's fascinating and useful to analyze these continuities. As a human it's exhausting.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It didn't occur to me that one of the problems with getting older is witnessing the culture debate and process the same things over and over. Like, as a historian it's fascinating and useful to analyze these continuities. As a human it's exhausting.
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Went into this story thinking it was a profile of two brilliant pranksters—Connor Gaydos and Peter McIndoe of Birds Aren’t Real fame. They started Enron as a satire of greed and corporate buffoonery. But those things aren’t as easy to defeat as you might imagine. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
How an Enron Parody Turned Into a Financial Mess of Its Own
Some performance artists bought the name for peanuts and concocted an elaborate caricature of corporate excess. It didn’t go as they planned.
www.bloomberg.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Went into this story thinking it was a profile of two brilliant pranksters—Connor Gaydos and Peter McIndoe of Birds Aren’t Real fame. They started Enron as a satire of greed and corporate buffoonery. But those things aren’t as easy to defeat as you might imagine. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
tell me what u are doing
be proud of your work and share it here
be proud of your work and share it here
hearing that we're not supposed to be promoting our stuff on here? seen a couple of posts disparaging that practice. still have no idea what this place is about, what is ok to post or not post, feeling like i'm dog paddling here
September 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
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August 31, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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I for one.
Love Roman numerals.
Love Roman numerals.
August 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I for one.
Love Roman numerals.
Love Roman numerals.
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Shocked and sad and amazed to see my first live spotted lanternfly in our own backyard (Chicago). Gorgeous animal—I wasn’t prepared for how beautiful it was. 🥲 Squashed and reported on @inaturalist.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Shocked and sad and amazed to see my first live spotted lanternfly in our own backyard (Chicago). Gorgeous animal—I wasn’t prepared for how beautiful it was. 🥲 Squashed and reported on @inaturalist.bsky.social
Light bulb moment that I can try talking about vaccines as practicing before game day. Going straight into a game without reviewing tape, scrimmaging, drilling plays is just bad prep and a fast way to lose. We play how we practice.
I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
August 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Light bulb moment that I can try talking about vaccines as practicing before game day. Going straight into a game without reviewing tape, scrimmaging, drilling plays is just bad prep and a fast way to lose. We play how we practice.
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Right #UglyDogs, this is a call to arms for your joy. I know I usually post the weird animal joy, but today I need what you've got. Dogs, pets, zoos, trail cams, flowers - please can I have some joy and distraction.
Thank you 💚
Thank you 💚
August 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Right #UglyDogs, this is a call to arms for your joy. I know I usually post the weird animal joy, but today I need what you've got. Dogs, pets, zoos, trail cams, flowers - please can I have some joy and distraction.
Thank you 💚
Thank you 💚
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Pro-tip. If you print your book all the way to the edges of the page, you will never make money. There's no margin.
July 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Pro-tip. If you print your book all the way to the edges of the page, you will never make money. There's no margin.
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Not only is this an almost impossible time to be an historian, structurally, it’s also a hugely morally distressing one. Our work is manipulated, defunded, and then ignored, and we sit here watching humanity do the same dumb shit over and over again. Thanks, I hate it.
June 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Not only is this an almost impossible time to be an historian, structurally, it’s also a hugely morally distressing one. Our work is manipulated, defunded, and then ignored, and we sit here watching humanity do the same dumb shit over and over again. Thanks, I hate it.
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I don't know if my ~1000 square foot pollinator garden actually helps native pollinators or if it just makes me feel good, but my neighbor told me that he's seen more bees in his yard this year & he attributes it to my garden attracting them to the area.
And that makes me feel good. #bloomscrolling
And that makes me feel good. #bloomscrolling
June 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I don't know if my ~1000 square foot pollinator garden actually helps native pollinators or if it just makes me feel good, but my neighbor told me that he's seen more bees in his yard this year & he attributes it to my garden attracting them to the area.
And that makes me feel good. #bloomscrolling
And that makes me feel good. #bloomscrolling
Happy early Festivus to those who celebrate
June 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Happy early Festivus to those who celebrate
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Denali puppy cam is LIVE!!! #uglydogs
www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p... Webcam: Sled Dog Puppies - Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p... Webcam: Sled Dog Puppies - Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
Webcam: Sled Dog Puppies - Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
May 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Denali puppy cam is LIVE!!! #uglydogs
www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p... Webcam: Sled Dog Puppies - Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p... Webcam: Sled Dog Puppies - Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
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And now, to soothe your timeline, a patch of Illinois tallgrass prairie.
May 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, to soothe your timeline, a patch of Illinois tallgrass prairie.
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Being my kid is probably a lot like you imagine it is...
May 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Being my kid is probably a lot like you imagine it is...
Two part-shade #NativePlants flowering up in NE Illinois. Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) and Golden alexander (Zizia aurea). 🌱
May 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Two part-shade #NativePlants flowering up in NE Illinois. Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) and Golden alexander (Zizia aurea). 🌱
As it says, this is the true calling of the Internet.
woke up to learn our deep dive into the Tom Holland lip-sync battle caught @fuggirls.bsky.social Heather & Jessica’s attention, which i guess is how infrastructure education goes pop-culture mainstream these days. neorsd.medium.com/what-tom-hol...
May 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
As it says, this is the true calling of the Internet.
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Adventures in watching TV with a husky:
- bears, kind of cool
- frogs, not cool
- sharks, sometimes
- antelope, great, v exciting
- Pallas cat, sort of interesting
- Pallas kittens, literally the best thing that has ever happened to the dog. Had to catch her before she tackled the screen
- bears, kind of cool
- frogs, not cool
- sharks, sometimes
- antelope, great, v exciting
- Pallas cat, sort of interesting
- Pallas kittens, literally the best thing that has ever happened to the dog. Had to catch her before she tackled the screen
May 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Adventures in watching TV with a husky:
- bears, kind of cool
- frogs, not cool
- sharks, sometimes
- antelope, great, v exciting
- Pallas cat, sort of interesting
- Pallas kittens, literally the best thing that has ever happened to the dog. Had to catch her before she tackled the screen
- bears, kind of cool
- frogs, not cool
- sharks, sometimes
- antelope, great, v exciting
- Pallas cat, sort of interesting
- Pallas kittens, literally the best thing that has ever happened to the dog. Had to catch her before she tackled the screen
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The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect.
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
May 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect.
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
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Just a flower. A flower with an ant. And definitely no moths or anything.
May 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Just a flower. A flower with an ant. And definitely no moths or anything.