Kari Zacharias
@macflail.bsky.social
Mostly here to lurk about engineering studies, roller derby, politics, and cats. she/her
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life
December 12, 2024 at 1:40 PM
If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration”
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
NSF board member resigns in protest of Trump policies at agency
Alondra Nelson fingers DOGE in taking an unprecedented step
www.science.org
May 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
"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...
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference
April 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
Canadian election coverage is refreshingly, hilariously boring.
I’m living for this lady on CBC who keeps complaining that she has to work late. They throw to her for a take and she gives the anchor her breakfast order. Now her coworkers are griping about working to midnight. This rules.
I’m living for this lady on CBC who keeps complaining that she has to work late. They throw to her for a take and she gives the anchor her breakfast order. Now her coworkers are griping about working to midnight. This rules.
April 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Canadian election coverage is refreshingly, hilariously boring.
I’m living for this lady on CBC who keeps complaining that she has to work late. They throw to her for a take and she gives the anchor her breakfast order. Now her coworkers are griping about working to midnight. This rules.
I’m living for this lady on CBC who keeps complaining that she has to work late. They throw to her for a take and she gives the anchor her breakfast order. Now her coworkers are griping about working to midnight. This rules.
This goes double for Canadian media!
Dear Media, et al,
For heaven's sake, please stop saying that Trump "trolls Canada" or "wants to make Canada the 51st state."
The man is literally threatening Canada and the Canadian people with annexation, a thing that could only be achieved by invasion.
That's not trolling. That's not "wants."
For heaven's sake, please stop saying that Trump "trolls Canada" or "wants to make Canada the 51st state."
The man is literally threatening Canada and the Canadian people with annexation, a thing that could only be achieved by invasion.
That's not trolling. That's not "wants."
April 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
This goes double for Canadian media!
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
The myth of de-extinction in a lab vs the reality of preventing extinction in the field.
As @korybing.bsky.social says later in the thread: the fieldwork is hard, slow, and unsexy, but it WORKS.
Our world is NOT recoverable in a lab. It’s this world or no world.
As @korybing.bsky.social says later in the thread: the fieldwork is hard, slow, and unsexy, but it WORKS.
Our world is NOT recoverable in a lab. It’s this world or no world.
Instead of believing the myth that three expensive, genetically modified wolves are “de-extinct” dire wolves, let’s look at animals humanity has actually brought back from the brink of extinction using proven science and dedicated hard work: 🧵/6
April 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The myth of de-extinction in a lab vs the reality of preventing extinction in the field.
As @korybing.bsky.social says later in the thread: the fieldwork is hard, slow, and unsexy, but it WORKS.
Our world is NOT recoverable in a lab. It’s this world or no world.
As @korybing.bsky.social says later in the thread: the fieldwork is hard, slow, and unsexy, but it WORKS.
Our world is NOT recoverable in a lab. It’s this world or no world.
ALL of this. As a decidedly amateur cis athlete in a sport with an inclusive gender policy, I have *only ever benefited* from having trans teammates, competitors, and coaches.
As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵
April 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
ALL of this. As a decidedly amateur cis athlete in a sport with an inclusive gender policy, I have *only ever benefited* from having trans teammates, competitors, and coaches.
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
THIS is what I was waiting for
Review of Careless People written by former head of public policy for Bangladesh at Meta.
A former Meta employee reviews the new Facebook memoir
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir is a courageous feat, but it glosses over her own indifference to warnings from policymakers, civil society, and internal teams outside the U.S. about serious harm to commu...
restofworld.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
THIS is what I was waiting for
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
The Virginia Tech community is in the street. Stop the attacks on higher ed, on DEI. To our Board of Visitors: get a spine and stand up for us@
March 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Virginia Tech community is in the street. Stop the attacks on higher ed, on DEI. To our Board of Visitors: get a spine and stand up for us@
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
Back to some minor home renos (laundry chute!) after a lengthy break. Handyman Hamish took a while to get back into it but is now fully invested.
March 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Back to some minor home renos (laundry chute!) after a lengthy break. Handyman Hamish took a while to get back into it but is now fully invested.
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
March 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
I love our piecemeal reproduction of Roman concrete. It's one of the best, most engaging real world examples of epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of technology there is. So damn good.
Roman concrete's 2,000-year durability secret finally decoded
The exceptional strength comes from 'hot mixing' quicklime directly with volcanic ash at high temperatures. This creates distinctive lime clasts that grant remarkable self-healing properties. buff.ly/3EQOcxi
#ShareGoodNewsToo
The exceptional strength comes from 'hot mixing' quicklime directly with volcanic ash at high temperatures. This creates distinctive lime clasts that grant remarkable self-healing properties. buff.ly/3EQOcxi
#ShareGoodNewsToo
We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Was So Durable
The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.
buff.ly
February 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I love our piecemeal reproduction of Roman concrete. It's one of the best, most engaging real world examples of epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of technology there is. So damn good.
Heartbroken to have lost Jeff, a bright light in our research group and in Canadian engineering education, far too soon.
Jeffrey Paul Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information
Share Memories of Jeffrey & Support the Paul Family
memorials.neilbardalfuneralhome.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Heartbroken to have lost Jeff, a bright light in our research group and in Canadian engineering education, far too soon.
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
I make the music for when everybody knows mom needs some space
Overheard C (9) talking to A (3) while I was making dinner.
C: You might want to give Mom some space, I can hear the music she’s listening to.
It was @themountaingoats.bsky.social.
C: You might want to give Mom some space, I can hear the music she’s listening to.
It was @themountaingoats.bsky.social.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I make the music for when everybody knows mom needs some space
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
Crowdsource Q for #science #HPS #STS #sociology communities:
For a newsletter helping science studies scholars get up to speed on what's happening to science under current admin, what would you include
1. What need to know (e.g., NSF flag words list, data backup sites/arX, etc)
2. What you can do?
🙏
For a newsletter helping science studies scholars get up to speed on what's happening to science under current admin, what would you include
1. What need to know (e.g., NSF flag words list, data backup sites/arX, etc)
2. What you can do?
🙏
February 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Crowdsource Q for #science #HPS #STS #sociology communities:
For a newsletter helping science studies scholars get up to speed on what's happening to science under current admin, what would you include
1. What need to know (e.g., NSF flag words list, data backup sites/arX, etc)
2. What you can do?
🙏
For a newsletter helping science studies scholars get up to speed on what's happening to science under current admin, what would you include
1. What need to know (e.g., NSF flag words list, data backup sites/arX, etc)
2. What you can do?
🙏
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
Searing letter.
"At the top of NSF we need people who radiate epistemic authority; beacons of faith in the power of research and education to benefit the Nation ...
What we have instead is blades of grass, bending in the wind, however it blows. People without a shred of empathy."
Alt text added.
"At the top of NSF we need people who radiate epistemic authority; beacons of faith in the power of research and education to benefit the Nation ...
What we have instead is blades of grass, bending in the wind, however it blows. People without a shred of empathy."
Alt text added.
February 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Searing letter.
"At the top of NSF we need people who radiate epistemic authority; beacons of faith in the power of research and education to benefit the Nation ...
What we have instead is blades of grass, bending in the wind, however it blows. People without a shred of empathy."
Alt text added.
"At the top of NSF we need people who radiate epistemic authority; beacons of faith in the power of research and education to benefit the Nation ...
What we have instead is blades of grass, bending in the wind, however it blows. People without a shred of empathy."
Alt text added.
Great🧵that also reminds me how much I still love browsing through library stacks for physical books. So much learning in the search!
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Great🧵that also reminds me how much I still love browsing through library stacks for physical books. So much learning in the search!
Dinner companion.
February 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Dinner companion.
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
so get this: it turns out that technology can be vacuous hype and be adopted and not work all at the same time
February 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
so get this: it turns out that technology can be vacuous hype and be adopted and not work all at the same time
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace.
If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...
If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...
January 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace.
If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...
If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...
Reposted by Kari Zacharias
They literally removed the T from LGBTQ and erased any mention of trans people who were present at the Stonewall Riots. They're trying to erase us from history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
They literally removed the T from LGBTQ and erased any mention of trans people who were present at the Stonewall Riots. They're trying to erase us from history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...