jenna newman phd
@jennanewman.bsky.social
fed govt: public health, public safety. deep breaths, long horizons.
+ science comms + strategic comms + public sociology
+ science comms + strategic comms + public sociology
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Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Watched Oceans 11 with the teen last night and decided that the answer to the male loneliness epidemic is more heists.
December 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Watched Oceans 11 with the teen last night and decided that the answer to the male loneliness epidemic is more heists.
“Both @milleridriss.bsky.social & @maryannefranks.bsky.social are feminist scholars with impeccable academic credentials, who have mastered the tough art of making scholarship accessible to a mainstream audience. Both also use their knowledge to advance real-world change”🧪
@bechamilton.bsky.social
@bechamilton.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“Both @milleridriss.bsky.social & @maryannefranks.bsky.social are feminist scholars with impeccable academic credentials, who have mastered the tough art of making scholarship accessible to a mainstream audience. Both also use their knowledge to advance real-world change”🧪
@bechamilton.bsky.social
@bechamilton.bsky.social
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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
Most public libraries are culling their physical media because it doesn’t circulate. If you want libraries to hold something, you need to check it out. Public libraries can’t just be warehouses for physical media you might want someday. Use it or lose it.
When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
@annnapolitano.bsky.social ‘s *Dear Edward* utterly wrecked me — wrenched my heart wide open. An astonishment, frankly, amidst these precious, precarious days, when I find myself all too often fighting the inclination to harden and snap it shut.
#booksky
#booksky
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@annnapolitano.bsky.social ‘s *Dear Edward* utterly wrecked me — wrenched my heart wide open. An astonishment, frankly, amidst these precious, precarious days, when I find myself all too often fighting the inclination to harden and snap it shut.
#booksky
#booksky
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“The [immunity debt] theory landed in the public consciousness at the right moment. A simple idea that sounded like science, it soothed a public seeking answers just as the world was returning to a semblance of normality. & it served a policy function, allowing govts to focus on economic recovery.”🧪
Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year...
A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky
A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“The [immunity debt] theory landed in the public consciousness at the right moment. A simple idea that sounded like science, it soothed a public seeking answers just as the world was returning to a semblance of normality. & it served a policy function, allowing govts to focus on economic recovery.”🧪
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"come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me & has failed." --Lucille Clifton
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me & has failed." --Lucille Clifton
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"because it is bitter and because it is my heart" is a banger.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"because it is bitter and because it is my heart" is a banger.
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Well not for a good reason. "chilling and killing"? Come on Edgar
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Well not for a good reason. "chilling and killing"? Come on Edgar
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Watch to the end. Mother Nature is not messing around
Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
December 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Watch to the end. Mother Nature is not messing around
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"when i watch you
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
i stand up
through your destruction
i stand up"
Lucille Clifton, miss rosie
poets.org/poem/miss-ro...
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
i stand up
through your destruction
i stand up"
Lucille Clifton, miss rosie
poets.org/poem/miss-ro...
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"when i watch you
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
i stand up
through your destruction
i stand up"
Lucille Clifton, miss rosie
poets.org/poem/miss-ro...
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
i stand up
through your destruction
i stand up"
Lucille Clifton, miss rosie
poets.org/poem/miss-ro...
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“they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.”
Why some people be mad at me sometimes
– Lucille Clifton
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.”
Why some people be mad at me sometimes
– Lucille Clifton
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.”
Why some people be mad at me sometimes
– Lucille Clifton
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.”
Why some people be mad at me sometimes
– Lucille Clifton
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On Turning Ten by Billy Collins
December 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
On Turning Ten by Billy Collins
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Kim Addonizio, To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall
December 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Kim Addonizio, To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall
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Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
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This poem is framed on my wall, but it doesn't need to be, because it also lives in my brain.
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This poem is framed on my wall, but it doesn't need to be, because it also lives in my brain.
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My slightly more serious answer:
I learn by going where I need to go
The rest of the day was quite easy
I did all of the things on my list
You must change your life
I, too, dislike it
Practice losing farther, losing faster
I learn by going where I need to go
The rest of the day was quite easy
I did all of the things on my list
You must change your life
I, too, dislike it
Practice losing farther, losing faster
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
My slightly more serious answer:
I learn by going where I need to go
The rest of the day was quite easy
I did all of the things on my list
You must change your life
I, too, dislike it
Practice losing farther, losing faster
I learn by going where I need to go
The rest of the day was quite easy
I did all of the things on my list
You must change your life
I, too, dislike it
Practice losing farther, losing faster
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I discovered this poem shortly after losing my grandmother (who had mostly filled the mom role in my life), and it has profoundly shaped the way I think about life and death and grief and mortality.
December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I discovered this poem shortly after losing my grandmother (who had mostly filled the mom role in my life), and it has profoundly shaped the way I think about life and death and grief and mortality.
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children.
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social ❤️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children.
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social ❤️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children.
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social ❤️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children.
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social ❤️
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
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So so so many, but one that comes up more frequently than you might think is
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
So so so many, but one that comes up more frequently than you might think is
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
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NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.
futurism.com/artificial-i...