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Eleanor
@mfborborygmus.bsky.social
· Nov 2
Finding strength from The People's Project (@theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social) and this page especially (@mirajacob.bsky.social)
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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putting tums on my pizza to save time
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
putting tums on my pizza to save time
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The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Without downloading any new pics describe your gender
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Without downloading any new pics describe your gender
"They have stolen our neighbors, they cannot steal our love and prayers for their return."
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"They have stolen our neighbors, they cannot steal our love and prayers for their return."
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Thousands of dollars have been raised for a Chicago doctor who remains in critical condition after a driver struck him as he biked home last week near the Illinois Medical District.
Doctor in critical condition after being struck by driver while biking near Illinois Medical District
chicago.suntimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Thousands of dollars have been raised for a Chicago doctor who remains in critical condition after a driver struck him as he biked home last week near the Illinois Medical District.
Finding strength from The People's Project (@theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social) and this page especially (@mirajacob.bsky.social)
November 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Finding strength from The People's Project (@theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social) and this page especially (@mirajacob.bsky.social)
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Or anything, really. Passing your grading off to AI is simply deciding that your students’ work isn’t worth engaging with. And if that’s how you feel, why on Earth are you in a classroom?
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Or anything, really. Passing your grading off to AI is simply deciding that your students’ work isn’t worth engaging with. And if that’s how you feel, why on Earth are you in a classroom?
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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This cartoon by artist Frank Ape grounded me today #artmatters
September 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This cartoon by artist Frank Ape grounded me today #artmatters
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For the real healers...
September 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
For the real healers...
People are not worried enough about this and it will be devastating
August 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
People are not worried enough about this and it will be devastating
It's been sad to see this happen to my undergrad institution. The dream of UChicago is a worthy dream, even if it was never quite realized, further now than ever.
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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August 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It's been sad to see this happen to my undergrad institution. The dream of UChicago is a worthy dream, even if it was never quite realized, further now than ever.
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
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More than 37 million adults in the U.S. are estimated to have CKD, yet about 90% don’t know they have it. Without early detection, people lose valuable time to slow or stop the disease’s progression. NKF is committed to changing this.
How NKF Is Fighting for Early CKD Screening Guidelines
Millions have CKD and don’t know it. See how NKF and the Coalition for Kidney Health are pushing for USPSTF screening recommendations.
www.kidney.org
August 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
More than 37 million adults in the U.S. are estimated to have CKD, yet about 90% don’t know they have it. Without early detection, people lose valuable time to slow or stop the disease’s progression. NKF is committed to changing this.
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You owe it to yourself to develop your own interpretation of a text, & there's no shortcut to doing that but sitting & going through all of its words & absorbing them.
July 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
You owe it to yourself to develop your own interpretation of a text, & there's no shortcut to doing that but sitting & going through all of its words & absorbing them.
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"Remember, these standards exist to help us decide whether you have a job in academia forever or will never work in academia again. If you have questions about these standards, please ask three different people and get three contradictory answers."
Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure
Since the founding of our august institution, we have awarded promotion and tenure based on how many pages of your research we could read before fa...
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June 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Remember, these standards exist to help us decide whether you have a job in academia forever or will never work in academia again. If you have questions about these standards, please ask three different people and get three contradictory answers."
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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
May 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
Inside us there are two wolves
March 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Inside us there are two wolves
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Chronic kidney disease often goes undiagnosed, but early detection can prevent severe outcomes. A nursing professor explains what you need to know to keep your kidneys healthy: buff.ly/JNxzFSR @eriverarn.bsky.social, University of Illinois Chicago
Chronic kidney disease often goes undiagnosed, but early detection can prevent severe outcomes
Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave off the disease’s worst effects.
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March 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Chronic kidney disease often goes undiagnosed, but early detection can prevent severe outcomes. A nursing professor explains what you need to know to keep your kidneys healthy: buff.ly/JNxzFSR @eriverarn.bsky.social, University of Illinois Chicago
A new article I wrote in collaboration with @us.theconversation.com on the importance of being diagnosed and treated for early-stage kidney disease - how we're falling behind in our clinical goals, and how patients can advocate for themselves:
theconversation.com/chronic-kidn...
theconversation.com/chronic-kidn...
Chronic kidney disease often goes undiagnosed, but early detection can prevent severe outcomes
Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave off the disease’s worst effects.
theconversation.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A new article I wrote in collaboration with @us.theconversation.com on the importance of being diagnosed and treated for early-stage kidney disease - how we're falling behind in our clinical goals, and how patients can advocate for themselves:
theconversation.com/chronic-kidn...
theconversation.com/chronic-kidn...
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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
March 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
This thread was so generously shared and is beautifully, intelligently stated. It's exactly what I needed to hear to knock me out of my existential despair spiral.
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This thread was so generously shared and is beautifully, intelligently stated. It's exactly what I needed to hear to knock me out of my existential despair spiral.