Dr Raspberry
@drraspberry.bsky.social
I teach online, ungrade, and wear a mask. She/her
Pinned
Dr Raspberry
@drraspberry.bsky.social
· Jan 5
I am temporarily being more private for work reasons.
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
The Punctuation Collection™️
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Punctuation Collection™️
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
Omg you guys I'm obsessed with this one, fresh off the sewing machine/serger.
July 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Omg you guys I'm obsessed with this one, fresh off the sewing machine/serger.
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
As someone currently in the rewrite, craft, polish final stages of thesis writing, this. Also - Bender and Hanna's book 'The AI Con' is excellent and a great argument for the enduring value of longform writing. It's starting to feel like reading is becoming an act of resistance against AI.
There's this fundamental mismatch in what AI people seem to think research is. As if you have a kernel of an idea and one needs the right re-combination of tokens to have some kind of insight.
Research should be surprising, thought-provoking, (re-)discovering new literatures and subcommunities.
Research should be surprising, thought-provoking, (re-)discovering new literatures and subcommunities.
May 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
As someone currently in the rewrite, craft, polish final stages of thesis writing, this. Also - Bender and Hanna's book 'The AI Con' is excellent and a great argument for the enduring value of longform writing. It's starting to feel like reading is becoming an act of resistance against AI.
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
I have never in 3 decades in higher education worked for an organization who did an evaluation of their software needs before purchasing extremely expensive software that the sales team promised would fix all their problems.
We're on six supplemental systems at this point doing the things it can't.
We're on six supplemental systems at this point doing the things it can't.
Its the ease with which universities have suddenly the money to pay for AI subscriptions, AI professorships, AI workshops, AI everything while they reassure us that "there is no money" to pay grad students and precarious faculty living wages.
Can you imagine if the loudest voices in higher ed actually stopped to critically evaluate whether so-called "AI" tools are worth the documented and likely-but-not-yet-well-documented effects of their use?
Instead of being AI triumphalist, remembering that tech vendors are not our friends/saviors?
Instead of being AI triumphalist, remembering that tech vendors are not our friends/saviors?
May 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I have never in 3 decades in higher education worked for an organization who did an evaluation of their software needs before purchasing extremely expensive software that the sales team promised would fix all their problems.
We're on six supplemental systems at this point doing the things it can't.
We're on six supplemental systems at this point doing the things it can't.
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
🚨🚨EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS. WORLD’s TALLEST DOG MEETS WORLD’S SMALLEST DOG 🚨🚨
May 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🚨🚨EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS. WORLD’s TALLEST DOG MEETS WORLD’S SMALLEST DOG 🚨🚨
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
My husband took a way nicer photo
May 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My husband took a way nicer photo
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
Always telling people to compromise by giving up what's right; never telling people to compromise by giving up what's wrong
I would really really genuinely love one of these lectures just one time to be aim that centrists and wavering right wingers telling them to put aside their impatience with pronouns and loud denunciations to do what needs to be done.
May 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Always telling people to compromise by giving up what's right; never telling people to compromise by giving up what's wrong
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
happy 2nd anniversary to the most important piece of bluesky lore
April 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
happy 2nd anniversary to the most important piece of bluesky lore
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
how cow, they actually built #Durer's monument to murdered peasants! Wonder if @periodeye.bsky.social knows about this.
April 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
how cow, they actually built #Durer's monument to murdered peasants! Wonder if @periodeye.bsky.social knows about this.
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
It struck a chord because it's true. As I write in More Than Words, the chief benefit of LLMs to writing (and teaching writing) is it forces us to examine what we value in writing. We should be building statues of the students who remain proud to be themselves & encourage others to join them.
Here’s an observation that’s closing in on 80k likes on twitter:
April 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It struck a chord because it's true. As I write in More Than Words, the chief benefit of LLMs to writing (and teaching writing) is it forces us to examine what we value in writing. We should be building statues of the students who remain proud to be themselves & encourage others to join them.
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
I’m also really enjoying the genre of Chinese creators giving house tours with all their US-made items, such as this one.
April 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I’m also really enjoying the genre of Chinese creators giving house tours with all their US-made items, such as this one.
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
I cannot stress enough that it is possible to govern well, and to do so in a manner that is broadly accretive.
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I cannot stress enough that it is possible to govern well, and to do so in a manner that is broadly accretive.
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
I spoke to another person this week—also a US-born citizen—who showed me the DHS email she received informing her that she had to leave the country. Incompetent, evil or both?
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I spoke to another person this week—also a US-born citizen—who showed me the DHS email she received informing her that she had to leave the country. Incompetent, evil or both?
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
I've been busy working on the side, but have thoroughly neglected this account woops! I'm far more active on my Instagram
Study of a withered torch ginger inflorescence. Even in this worn state, it doesn't fail to keep me captivated
#botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡
Study of a withered torch ginger inflorescence. Even in this worn state, it doesn't fail to keep me captivated
#botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡
April 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I've been busy working on the side, but have thoroughly neglected this account woops! I'm far more active on my Instagram
Study of a withered torch ginger inflorescence. Even in this worn state, it doesn't fail to keep me captivated
#botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡
Study of a withered torch ginger inflorescence. Even in this worn state, it doesn't fail to keep me captivated
#botanicalart #botany #SciArt🐡
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
True fact.
I was fully vaxed as a kid in the 70s. Recent test showed I was no longer immune.
Fixed that last week.
I was fully vaxed as a kid in the 70s. Recent test showed I was no longer immune.
Fixed that last week.
MEASLES
PS I've begun saying this ⬇️ to every adult I see with whom I have even the most passing acquaintance and the vast, vast, VAST majority of them had no idea that immunity can lapse or that there's a test.
Tell your friends, loved ones, co-workers, neighbors, running club, hair dresser, etc!
PS I've begun saying this ⬇️ to every adult I see with whom I have even the most passing acquaintance and the vast, vast, VAST majority of them had no idea that immunity can lapse or that there's a test.
Tell your friends, loved ones, co-workers, neighbors, running club, hair dresser, etc!
🧵MEASLES
If you're ~40+ pls pls talk to a healthcare provider about a titers test to asses your immunity to measles.
There are several reasons that your immunity may have lapsed; if it has, you can get an MMR booster.
You're doing this for you AND for everyone who's immunocompromised & can't.
If you're ~40+ pls pls talk to a healthcare provider about a titers test to asses your immunity to measles.
There are several reasons that your immunity may have lapsed; if it has, you can get an MMR booster.
You're doing this for you AND for everyone who's immunocompromised & can't.
April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
True fact.
I was fully vaxed as a kid in the 70s. Recent test showed I was no longer immune.
Fixed that last week.
I was fully vaxed as a kid in the 70s. Recent test showed I was no longer immune.
Fixed that last week.
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:
April 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
Looking forward to the workshops on "embedding sweatshop skills in the humanities classroom"
April 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Looking forward to the workshops on "embedding sweatshop skills in the humanities classroom"
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
hi, cis folks!
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it'd strip care from DACA recipients, too.
context & guidance in the thread. do it while you’re still fired up from/about protests.
only 4.5 days left!
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it'd strip care from DACA recipients, too.
context & guidance in the thread. do it while you’re still fired up from/about protests.
only 4.5 days left!
hi, cis folks!
if we *are* going to talk ACA, RFK's HHS proposed a rule to remove *all trans care* from ACA essential health benefit status.
~25mil people are insured by ACA & if 1% are trans, that's 250,000 people who'd lose access to care.
that's bad! take 2 minutes to stand with trans people.🧵
if we *are* going to talk ACA, RFK's HHS proposed a rule to remove *all trans care* from ACA essential health benefit status.
~25mil people are insured by ACA & if 1% are trans, that's 250,000 people who'd lose access to care.
that's bad! take 2 minutes to stand with trans people.🧵
April 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
hi, cis folks!
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it'd strip care from DACA recipients, too.
context & guidance in the thread. do it while you’re still fired up from/about protests.
only 4.5 days left!
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it'd strip care from DACA recipients, too.
context & guidance in the thread. do it while you’re still fired up from/about protests.
only 4.5 days left!
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
My wife works in a college writing center. She helps students go over their papers and make them better.
They just recently put into place a policy where they check the links to the sources cited. If they aren’t real, they don’t read the paper and send an email explaining why they don’t read AI.
They just recently put into place a policy where they check the links to the sources cited. If they aren’t real, they don’t read the paper and send an email explaining why they don’t read AI.
April 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
My wife works in a college writing center. She helps students go over their papers and make them better.
They just recently put into place a policy where they check the links to the sources cited. If they aren’t real, they don’t read the paper and send an email explaining why they don’t read AI.
They just recently put into place a policy where they check the links to the sources cited. If they aren’t real, they don’t read the paper and send an email explaining why they don’t read AI.
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
and — i know i keep saying this but i have a hunch it'll be important — americans have not yet felt the tariffs
April 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
and — i know i keep saying this but i have a hunch it'll be important — americans have not yet felt the tariffs
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
A major paper @nature.com this week found a significant decline in dementia after an outdated Shingles vaccine.
I've reviewed the study and many other relevant ones here
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...
I've reviewed the study and many other relevant ones here
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...
The Shingles Vaccine and Reduction of Dementia
A compelling new study adds to the body of data supporting some protection provided by the vaccine
erictopol.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A major paper @nature.com this week found a significant decline in dementia after an outdated Shingles vaccine.
I've reviewed the study and many other relevant ones here
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...
I've reviewed the study and many other relevant ones here
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...
Reposted by Dr Raspberry
I mean, this is just Quality Work
April 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I mean, this is just Quality Work