Janet Fraser
@eightwednesday.bsky.social
Data and transportation nerd, unapologetic cat lover, wild and wonderful
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I wrote more about rural mail carriers' roles as care workers and what rural communities stand to lose with USPS privatization for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/02/usps...
February 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I wrote more about rural mail carriers' roles as care workers and what rural communities stand to lose with USPS privatization for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/02/usps...
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Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
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One of the hardest skills to develop in medicine—one that simply cannot be learned from books and must be taught and encouraged by example—is the ability to take a step back and say “Wait a minute, that doesn’t make any god damn sense.”
December 7, 2024 at 3:41 PM
One of the hardest skills to develop in medicine—one that simply cannot be learned from books and must be taught and encouraged by example—is the ability to take a step back and say “Wait a minute, that doesn’t make any god damn sense.”
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #285,249! …and I thought I was late to the game
September 19, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #285,249! …and I thought I was late to the game
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I spoke to @ameliaknisely at West Virginia Watch about how there are "no guardrails" on #WVU's massive cuts because faculty will has been subverted and the plan is both haphazard and poorly argued. Gee looks like a tool and the cuts are not sustainable. He's breaking the university.
End to WVU job cuts ambiguous as administrators still need to cut millions of dollars - West Virgini...
West Virginia University still has roughly $8 million to find in its campus budgets, and recent layoffs in the university's Business and Economics college have raised concerns on campus about who else...
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September 28, 2023 at 1:37 PM
I spoke to @ameliaknisely at West Virginia Watch about how there are "no guardrails" on #WVU's massive cuts because faculty will has been subverted and the plan is both haphazard and poorly argued. Gee looks like a tool and the cuts are not sustainable. He's breaking the university.
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What’s happening at WVU is demoralizing by design.
They will drag this out, unfurling one gratuitous cruelty after another like teasers for a Summer Blockbuster.
It’s supposed to make it seem insurmountable.
But they wouldn’t do it this way if they knew they held all the cards.
They will drag this out, unfurling one gratuitous cruelty after another like teasers for a Summer Blockbuster.
It’s supposed to make it seem insurmountable.
But they wouldn’t do it this way if they knew they held all the cards.
September 20, 2023 at 8:31 PM
What’s happening at WVU is demoralizing by design.
They will drag this out, unfurling one gratuitous cruelty after another like teasers for a Summer Blockbuster.
It’s supposed to make it seem insurmountable.
But they wouldn’t do it this way if they knew they held all the cards.
They will drag this out, unfurling one gratuitous cruelty after another like teasers for a Summer Blockbuster.
It’s supposed to make it seem insurmountable.
But they wouldn’t do it this way if they knew they held all the cards.
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Janet Fraser and so many other WVU faculty and staff deserve better. #stopthecuts #wvuMistake
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September 25, 2023 at 11:14 PM
Janet Fraser and so many other WVU faculty and staff deserve better. #stopthecuts #wvuMistake
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I ordered a book that my institution’s (well-funded) library doesn’t have. The magic of ILL found it at WVU. The strength of the university system in the US depends on a network of institutions across the country. Without WVU and similar universities the quality of all our work and teaching suffers.
September 12, 2023 at 3:25 PM
I ordered a book that my institution’s (well-funded) library doesn’t have. The magic of ILL found it at WVU. The strength of the university system in the US depends on a network of institutions across the country. Without WVU and similar universities the quality of all our work and teaching suffers.
A bit of Appalachian paradise within 15 mins of my office.
September 12, 2023 at 7:44 PM
A bit of Appalachian paradise within 15 mins of my office.
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🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
⭐IF YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO WEST VIRGINIA OR WVU⭐
Will you send our open letter directly to the WVU Board of Governors? Help it get to them! We want them to see it.
Email it to Special Assistant to the WVU BOG, Valerie Lopez at valerie.lopez@mail.wvu.edu
⭐IF YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO WEST VIRGINIA OR WVU⭐
Will you send our open letter directly to the WVU Board of Governors? Help it get to them! We want them to see it.
Email it to Special Assistant to the WVU BOG, Valerie Lopez at valerie.lopez@mail.wvu.edu
Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.
An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
www.bostonreview.net
September 8, 2023 at 5:41 PM
🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
⭐IF YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO WEST VIRGINIA OR WVU⭐
Will you send our open letter directly to the WVU Board of Governors? Help it get to them! We want them to see it.
Email it to Special Assistant to the WVU BOG, Valerie Lopez at valerie.lopez@mail.wvu.edu
⭐IF YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO WEST VIRGINIA OR WVU⭐
Will you send our open letter directly to the WVU Board of Governors? Help it get to them! We want them to see it.
Email it to Special Assistant to the WVU BOG, Valerie Lopez at valerie.lopez@mail.wvu.edu
Tried out rail bikes in Frostburg, MD at Tracks and Yaks and had an absolute blast following the Great Allegheny Passage …and finished before the intense storms hit!
September 9, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Tried out rail bikes in Frostburg, MD at Tracks and Yaks and had an absolute blast following the Great Allegheny Passage …and finished before the intense storms hit!
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A lot of space has been devoted to the crisis at WVU.
But what else could, and should, a public university be?
For The Boston Review, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @jessiew.bsky.social & I examine the past, present, & future of public education.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-...
But what else could, and should, a public university be?
For The Boston Review, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @jessiew.bsky.social & I examine the past, present, & future of public education.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-...
An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
www.bostonreview.net
September 7, 2023 at 3:04 PM
A lot of space has been devoted to the crisis at WVU.
But what else could, and should, a public university be?
For The Boston Review, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @jessiew.bsky.social & I examine the past, present, & future of public education.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-...
But what else could, and should, a public university be?
For The Boston Review, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @jessiew.bsky.social & I examine the past, present, & future of public education.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-...
Teaching online over the summer is a weird vibe for everyone, but it’s nice to wear t-shirts to work and chill with my cats.
July 10, 2023 at 11:08 PM
Teaching online over the summer is a weird vibe for everyone, but it’s nice to wear t-shirts to work and chill with my cats.