Kitty Climpson
@kittyclimpson.bsky.social
Fond of things in general. She/her.
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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We got everything from signed books to handmade crochet beasts to a rare and precious 1st galley printing of Eye of the World (hi #wotskies!), original art, bespoke fairytales and cocktails just for you, and authors offering the shot to be a named character in their next work. bit.ly/genrefortrans.
Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA
Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.
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May 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We got everything from signed books to handmade crochet beasts to a rare and precious 1st galley printing of Eye of the World (hi #wotskies!), original art, bespoke fairytales and cocktails just for you, and authors offering the shot to be a named character in their next work. bit.ly/genrefortrans.
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💰 Research reveals the business of Channel security is booming, as companies profit off asylum seekers’ desperation.
Find out more @beyondslavery.bsky.social ⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Find out more @beyondslavery.bsky.social ⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
April 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
💰 Research reveals the business of Channel security is booming, as companies profit off asylum seekers’ desperation.
Find out more @beyondslavery.bsky.social ⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Find out more @beyondslavery.bsky.social ⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
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“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.”
$1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company.
www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...
$1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company.
www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...
Baraka Arrested for 'Trespassing' at Controversial Immigrant Detention Facility - Insider NJ
Authorities with Homeland Securities Investigations at the ICE detention facility Delaney Hall this afternoon arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka
www.insidernj.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.”
$1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company.
www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...
$1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company.
www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...
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Another day, another barrage of news about how AI developers are getting billions of dollars for vaporware while NSF, NOAA and NASA are defunded.
May 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Another day, another barrage of news about how AI developers are getting billions of dollars for vaporware while NSF, NOAA and NASA are defunded.
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Authors Against Book Bans is seeking subject matter experts/veterans of the Academic Publishing, Comics, and Self-Publishing worlds to help engage more folks in those areas! Join here. @authorsabb.bsky.social
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AABB Special Expertise Request
Because our expertise is centered strongly in the traditional publishing world, AABB is seeking subject matter experts/veterans of the Academic Publishing, Comics, and Self-Publishing worlds. We're lo...
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May 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Authors Against Book Bans is seeking subject matter experts/veterans of the Academic Publishing, Comics, and Self-Publishing worlds to help engage more folks in those areas! Join here. @authorsabb.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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A reminder not to store red sauce in Tupperware.
May 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A reminder not to store red sauce in Tupperware.
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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Contained within a birdcage in the sky.
May 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Contained within a birdcage in the sky.
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I'm just a guy, I'm just a little guy
May 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I'm just a guy, I'm just a little guy
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I'm sorry, no, we absolutely cannot do this.
What the hell is wrong with the judge that allowed this?
And everyone involved in this decision, honestly?
You can't do AI séances in court to bring deceased victims back to give an impact statement!
This is not what facing your accuser means.
What the hell is wrong with the judge that allowed this?
And everyone involved in this decision, honestly?
You can't do AI séances in court to bring deceased victims back to give an impact statement!
This is not what facing your accuser means.
"It was the first time in Arizona judicial history — and possibly nationwide — that AI has been used to create a deceased victim’s own impact statement"
www.abc15.com/news/region-...
www.abc15.com/news/region-...
May 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm sorry, no, we absolutely cannot do this.
What the hell is wrong with the judge that allowed this?
And everyone involved in this decision, honestly?
You can't do AI séances in court to bring deceased victims back to give an impact statement!
This is not what facing your accuser means.
What the hell is wrong with the judge that allowed this?
And everyone involved in this decision, honestly?
You can't do AI séances in court to bring deceased victims back to give an impact statement!
This is not what facing your accuser means.
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SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.
May 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.
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🚨 BREAKING: From September 1st peak rail fares will be scrapped for good in Scotland!
🟢2023: Greens scrap peak rail fares.
🟡2024: SNP bring them back
🟡2024: thousands join Green and trade union calls for the SNP to reverse their decision
🟢2025: SNP reverse their decision
🟢2023: Greens scrap peak rail fares.
🟡2024: SNP bring them back
🟡2024: thousands join Green and trade union calls for the SNP to reverse their decision
🟢2025: SNP reverse their decision
May 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🚨 BREAKING: From September 1st peak rail fares will be scrapped for good in Scotland!
🟢2023: Greens scrap peak rail fares.
🟡2024: SNP bring them back
🟡2024: thousands join Green and trade union calls for the SNP to reverse their decision
🟢2025: SNP reverse their decision
🟢2023: Greens scrap peak rail fares.
🟡2024: SNP bring them back
🟡2024: thousands join Green and trade union calls for the SNP to reverse their decision
🟢2025: SNP reverse their decision
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I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
The people refusing to use AI
Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.
www.bbc.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
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Best Met Gala outfit ever.
Expect the ‘brollies & box’ look on the catwalks next season
Expect the ‘brollies & box’ look on the catwalks next season
May 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Best Met Gala outfit ever.
Expect the ‘brollies & box’ look on the catwalks next season
Expect the ‘brollies & box’ look on the catwalks next season
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Gesture a Slim Guide is available with a 30% discount code (AUFLY30) on the global.oup.com/academic website - for the hardcover (and it looks like it works for the very cute softcover too)
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
May 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Gesture a Slim Guide is available with a 30% discount code (AUFLY30) on the global.oup.com/academic website - for the hardcover (and it looks like it works for the very cute softcover too)
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Do you watch Chinese TV? Do you use English subs, and/or use English to discuss what you're watching?
If so, please fill out my research survey for a pilot study: forms.office.com/e/rCzcDEwJ4s
* ~10min to complete (+/- free text answers 😅)
* Project details in form
* Pls share/repost! 💚🙏
#cdrama
If so, please fill out my research survey for a pilot study: forms.office.com/e/rCzcDEwJ4s
* ~10min to complete (+/- free text answers 😅)
* Project details in form
* Pls share/repost! 💚🙏
#cdrama
April 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Do you watch Chinese TV? Do you use English subs, and/or use English to discuss what you're watching?
If so, please fill out my research survey for a pilot study: forms.office.com/e/rCzcDEwJ4s
* ~10min to complete (+/- free text answers 😅)
* Project details in form
* Pls share/repost! 💚🙏
#cdrama
If so, please fill out my research survey for a pilot study: forms.office.com/e/rCzcDEwJ4s
* ~10min to complete (+/- free text answers 😅)
* Project details in form
* Pls share/repost! 💚🙏
#cdrama
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This is a textbook attack on scientific freedom and academic independence. The authoritarian playbook is unfolding in full view — and it’s escalating.
A flurry of activity at inauguration, big spike in March, then loads of activity over the last 3 weeks as universities start to fight back.
12/15
A flurry of activity at inauguration, big spike in March, then loads of activity over the last 3 weeks as universities start to fight back.
12/15
April 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This is a textbook attack on scientific freedom and academic independence. The authoritarian playbook is unfolding in full view — and it’s escalating.
A flurry of activity at inauguration, big spike in March, then loads of activity over the last 3 weeks as universities start to fight back.
12/15
A flurry of activity at inauguration, big spike in March, then loads of activity over the last 3 weeks as universities start to fight back.
12/15
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🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation.
🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING
This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised
full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING
This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised
full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
April 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation.
🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING
This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised
full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING
This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised
full post:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
1/15
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UCLAN is one of England’s oldest HEIs, founded by working men in 1828. Its journalism course is one of longest established in the country, amongst the first to teach journalism as a practical undergrad course.
But he doesn’t know these histories & he doesn’t really care about the working class.
But he doesn’t know these histories & he doesn’t really care about the working class.
Just thick. He is literally saying the state should let, e.g., UCLAN go bust rather than let in more intl students. That's certainly getting the state to take a much more active role in shaping Lancashire's economy mate, but not sure anyone in Preston or Burnley would thank you for that afterwards!
April 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
UCLAN is one of England’s oldest HEIs, founded by working men in 1828. Its journalism course is one of longest established in the country, amongst the first to teach journalism as a practical undergrad course.
But he doesn’t know these histories & he doesn’t really care about the working class.
But he doesn’t know these histories & he doesn’t really care about the working class.
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I wish more people knew the long and important histories of many of our ‘post-92’ universities. They all-to-often get judged as being somehow lesser than the pre-92s, but so many of them have much longer and, frankly, more venerable histories.
UCLAN is one of England’s oldest HEIs, founded by working men in 1828. Its journalism course is one of longest established in the country, amongst the first to teach journalism as a practical undergrad course.
But he doesn’t know these histories & he doesn’t really care about the working class.
But he doesn’t know these histories & he doesn’t really care about the working class.
Just thick. He is literally saying the state should let, e.g., UCLAN go bust rather than let in more intl students. That's certainly getting the state to take a much more active role in shaping Lancashire's economy mate, but not sure anyone in Preston or Burnley would thank you for that afterwards!
April 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish more people knew the long and important histories of many of our ‘post-92’ universities. They all-to-often get judged as being somehow lesser than the pre-92s, but so many of them have much longer and, frankly, more venerable histories.
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Now would be a really good time for cis allies to start wearing trans pride badges and make it even more impossible for the toilet police to determine who is and isn’t trans
April 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Now would be a really good time for cis allies to start wearing trans pride badges and make it even more impossible for the toilet police to determine who is and isn’t trans
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April 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM