Amanda
@amabarbour.bsky.social
Dancing, baking, or hanging out with my cats
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🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
October 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
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MA folks, today is be a great day to call the governor and ask her what the plan is to keep ALL Massachusetts residents safe in the face of kidnappings by masked men who refuse to show warrants. *Everyone* is endangered by this. Contact info here: www.mass.gov/orgs/governo...
May 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
MA folks, today is be a great day to call the governor and ask her what the plan is to keep ALL Massachusetts residents safe in the face of kidnappings by masked men who refuse to show warrants. *Everyone* is endangered by this. Contact info here: www.mass.gov/orgs/governo...
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Let me just say to Mass residents following along, your legislative leaders on the Advanced IT committee are absolutely standing up for your privacy rights and we truly do love to see it. They're taking their responsibility very seriously and sticking up for us regular people.
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Let me just say to Mass residents following along, your legislative leaders on the Advanced IT committee are absolutely standing up for your privacy rights and we truly do love to see it. They're taking their responsibility very seriously and sticking up for us regular people.
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We won! Good job everyone. bsky.app/profile/angu...
"Our caucus is unified," says Schumer.
Team Fight has won the CR battle in the Senate Democratic caucus.
Team Fight has won the CR battle in the Senate Democratic caucus.
Schumer on Senate floor: "Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path"
"Because of that Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified" on the month-long CR
"Because of that Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified" on the month-long CR
March 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We won! Good job everyone. bsky.app/profile/angu...
My girlfriend, while editing and asking me about cholesterol:
you're my favorite desk reference. Well, for science questions that social scientists are likely to use/misuse as metaphors. Garner's Modern English Usage 4th ed. is also pretty foxy tbh
you're my favorite desk reference. Well, for science questions that social scientists are likely to use/misuse as metaphors. Garner's Modern English Usage 4th ed. is also pretty foxy tbh
March 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
My girlfriend, while editing and asking me about cholesterol:
you're my favorite desk reference. Well, for science questions that social scientists are likely to use/misuse as metaphors. Garner's Modern English Usage 4th ed. is also pretty foxy tbh
you're my favorite desk reference. Well, for science questions that social scientists are likely to use/misuse as metaphors. Garner's Modern English Usage 4th ed. is also pretty foxy tbh
Today I got to tell my housemate about the Wisconsin butter flood www.madsewer.org/news-resourc...
Butter River: Cleaning up Madison's largest commercial fire
On May 3, 1991, a massive fire engulfed Central Storage & Warehouse (CSW) and created a burning river of melted butter in Madison's streets.
www.madsewer.org
January 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Today I got to tell my housemate about the Wisconsin butter flood www.madsewer.org/news-resourc...
I used to correct typos *constanty* as a kid until my English teacher in high school graciously taught me that people generally don't like that
Speaking (for a change) not (entirely) of myself:
Calling out someone's typos publicly is very likely to be taken, by the typoer, as an act of aggressive hostility.
If you mean to be aggressively hostile, then swell.
If not, maybe just keep schtum.
Calling out someone's typos publicly is very likely to be taken, by the typoer, as an act of aggressive hostility.
If you mean to be aggressively hostile, then swell.
If not, maybe just keep schtum.
January 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I used to correct typos *constanty* as a kid until my English teacher in high school graciously taught me that people generally don't like that
My brilliant plan for folkposting a lizard across the state involves two lesbians visiting their girlfriends and skid just along for the ride
December 15, 2024 at 2:37 PM
My brilliant plan for folkposting a lizard across the state involves two lesbians visiting their girlfriends and skid just along for the ride
Thank goodness for the @smittenkitchen.bsky.social blondies when you want to make something for a party in under an hour and without needing to look up the recipe
December 7, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Thank goodness for the @smittenkitchen.bsky.social blondies when you want to make something for a party in under an hour and without needing to look up the recipe
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one of these days I'll have a garden, but in the meantime i'll just enjoy the interesting plant things i learn
If you're planting daffodils, crocuses, and other spring-flowering bulbs and you don't get them all to the ideal depth, don't fret! Many flowering bulbs can *pull themselves* deeper with contractile roots!
📷 Rama Sisodia & Satish C. Bhatla; Mordecai J. Jaffe & A. Carl Leopold
📷 Rama Sisodia & Satish C. Bhatla; Mordecai J. Jaffe & A. Carl Leopold
November 29, 2024 at 7:20 PM
one of these days I'll have a garden, but in the meantime i'll just enjoy the interesting plant things i learn
it's also still interesting for people who are read up on this topic! I learned way more about the sports world and how gender testing has changed with new medical technologies but has been fundamentally the same for over 100 years
I think one thing Tested can do is help your relative/friend who isn't read in on stuff to understand it. If you're trans/nb there's probably stuff you'll feel is oversimplified (fair). The point of the show is to help normies who are most likely to be taken by the "protect women's sports" stuff.
November 29, 2024 at 7:16 PM
it's also still interesting for people who are read up on this topic! I learned way more about the sports world and how gender testing has changed with new medical technologies but has been fundamentally the same for over 100 years
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Still thinking about Agatha All Along and I wish Bitch Magazine still existed bc the way I would read some longform feminist analysis of those characters
November 23, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Still thinking about Agatha All Along and I wish Bitch Magazine still existed bc the way I would read some longform feminist analysis of those characters
The face of a guilty cat
November 29, 2024 at 2:33 AM
The face of a guilty cat
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Check out this dark fucking reality of the biotech bust. 16M square feet of vacant lab, with a demand for 1/8th of that.
You know those buildings that are just -stopped-? This is what that's about.
18/?
You know those buildings that are just -stopped-? This is what that's about.
18/?
November 27, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Check out this dark fucking reality of the biotech bust. 16M square feet of vacant lab, with a demand for 1/8th of that.
You know those buildings that are just -stopped-? This is what that's about.
18/?
You know those buildings that are just -stopped-? This is what that's about.
18/?
Killing time until my housemates are out of the kitchen so I can heat up my leftover lentils and make pudding without giving them the flu
November 25, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Killing time until my housemates are out of the kitchen so I can heat up my leftover lentils and make pudding without giving them the flu
Can't stop laughing at this photo of my cat trying to eat my knitting
November 25, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Can't stop laughing at this photo of my cat trying to eat my knitting
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Fun bird fact time! Did you know that Northern mockingbirds recognize individual people? They attack researchers who have previously disturbed their nests while ignoring everyone else. They are not simply responding to familiar vs unfamiliar. 🪶🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wild mockingbirds distinguish among familiar humans - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Wild mockingbirds distinguish among familiar humans
www.nature.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Fun bird fact time! Did you know that Northern mockingbirds recognize individual people? They attack researchers who have previously disturbed their nests while ignoring everyone else. They are not simply responding to familiar vs unfamiliar. 🪶🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I just learned about transient global amnesia where you can just randomly blank out and lose all your short term memory? And it only lasts about 24 hours and then you're back to normal and there's no discernible cause??? (My dad went to the ER yesterday. He is doing fine now)
November 14, 2024 at 3:02 PM
I just learned about transient global amnesia where you can just randomly blank out and lose all your short term memory? And it only lasts about 24 hours and then you're back to normal and there's no discernible cause??? (My dad went to the ER yesterday. He is doing fine now)
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I am SO glad @jopabinia.bsky.social brought up viviparous cockroaches, who also make milk 🐛🍼 tysm for the excuse to share old #SciArt
November 13, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I am SO glad @jopabinia.bsky.social brought up viviparous cockroaches, who also make milk 🐛🍼 tysm for the excuse to share old #SciArt
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The Page & Wick edition of SORCERESS COMES TO CALL arrived, and they are SPECTACULAR.
November 12, 2024 at 7:42 PM
The Page & Wick edition of SORCERESS COMES TO CALL arrived, and they are SPECTACULAR.
Gotta remember some of these for everyday life and also sword dance practice
Can someone, like, tell some jokes or something.
November 12, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Gotta remember some of these for everyday life and also sword dance practice
Guess who snuck into the construction zone of my house and fell down through the hole in the bathroom floor into the basement and then had to sit still and get bits of insulation brushed out of her fur?
October 24, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Guess who snuck into the construction zone of my house and fell down through the hole in the bathroom floor into the basement and then had to sit still and get bits of insulation brushed out of her fur?
Yet another contractor is here because of the water damage in my apartment (this time it's the asbestos testing guy), but my cat is once again thrilled because he has a laser tape measure
October 10, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Yet another contractor is here because of the water damage in my apartment (this time it's the asbestos testing guy), but my cat is once again thrilled because he has a laser tape measure
This is so exciting! Always going to be grateful to @moyazb.bsky.social for introducing me to Dorothy Roberts' work
Dorothy Roberts is one of those people whose work makes this place called the United States make more sense and I'm thrilled to see her genius recognized!
Dorothy Roberts
Exposing racial inequities embedded in social service systems and uplifting the experiences of people caught up in them.
www.macfound.org
October 1, 2024 at 5:19 PM
This is so exciting! Always going to be grateful to @moyazb.bsky.social for introducing me to Dorothy Roberts' work