G. Weiser (they|them)
@theweiser.bsky.social
Educational leadership scholar @ Miskatonic University. Associate professor, parent, partner, friend, horror & sci-fi fan. Not necessarily in that order.
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This is just impossibly grim
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
February 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is just impossibly grim
This is incredibly important and troubling.
Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system
People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...
www.bmj.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This is incredibly important and troubling.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org is fighting for the digital rights of everyone in the USA.
We demand accountability for this unconscionable collection and sharing of private data happening right now.
We demand accountability for this unconscionable collection and sharing of private data happening right now.
BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.
EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data
EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of mil...
www.eff.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org is fighting for the digital rights of everyone in the USA.
We demand accountability for this unconscionable collection and sharing of private data happening right now.
We demand accountability for this unconscionable collection and sharing of private data happening right now.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Happy birthday to the powerful and insightful Dr. Angela Davis. We are so grateful she joined #BMEC2024, where she reminded us, "There is no liberation without education." It's a mantra we will continue to carry forward in our work.
January 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Happy birthday to the powerful and insightful Dr. Angela Davis. We are so grateful she joined #BMEC2024, where she reminded us, "There is no liberation without education." It's a mantra we will continue to carry forward in our work.
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Jesus.
They rebranded segregation and the press just follows along.
Why did we need "antidiscrimination practices in federal hiring?"
They rebranded segregation and the press just follows along.
Why did we need "antidiscrimination practices in federal hiring?"
President Donald Trump issued a broad executive order ending antidiscrimination practices in federal hiring, reversing a nearly 60-year precedent and launching a significant step forward in his agenda to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in federal government.
Live updates: Pentagon to order initial wave of additional U.S. troops to Mexico border
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Jesus.
They rebranded segregation and the press just follows along.
Why did we need "antidiscrimination practices in federal hiring?"
They rebranded segregation and the press just follows along.
Why did we need "antidiscrimination practices in federal hiring?"
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One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
January 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
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In this moment when antisemitism has reached a new high, this is outrageous behavior. At a Presidential rally no less.
Donald Trump should condemn it. And Elon Musk owes our country an apology.
Donald Trump should condemn it. And Elon Musk owes our country an apology.
Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture
Speaking at a celebratory rally in Washington, Mr. Musk twice extended his arm out with his palm facing down, drawing comparisons to the Nazi salute.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
In this moment when antisemitism has reached a new high, this is outrageous behavior. At a Presidential rally no less.
Donald Trump should condemn it. And Elon Musk owes our country an apology.
Donald Trump should condemn it. And Elon Musk owes our country an apology.
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Been thinking about this cartoon.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
January 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Been thinking about this cartoon.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
For no reason.
Really.
It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.
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Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism.
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
January 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism.
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
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Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day!
January 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day!
Today at 7:47 am in the year of 2025 after having been driving on my own for 23 years and filling my gas tank innumerable times - the gas pump stopped on its own at a flat dollar amount for the first time. It’s the little things.
January 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Today at 7:47 am in the year of 2025 after having been driving on my own for 23 years and filling my gas tank innumerable times - the gas pump stopped on its own at a flat dollar amount for the first time. It’s the little things.
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Got to look at snow out of my window at work today. Was incredibly beautiful and lovely way to spend my time between things.
January 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Got to look at snow out of my window at work today. Was incredibly beautiful and lovely way to spend my time between things.
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
January 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
Some of the best! So happy for y’all!🎉👏🏽🙌🏽
It is an honor to be named one of ACPA Emerging Scholars! Truly grateful for this recognition. Congratulations to all the award winners and to my emerging scholars cohort. (cc: @itsalexcl.bsky.social, @drqhutchings.bsky.social, @dajanaepalmer.bsky.social, & Stephanie Hernandez Rivera)
January 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Some of the best! So happy for y’all!🎉👏🏽🙌🏽
8th Annual First-Generation Graduate Student Symposium from #FirstGen Forward via Zoom February 7, 2025, from 12:30—5:00 pm ET. The event features Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, is FREE, and it's open to ANY students studying across ANY discipline. Learn more and register at bit.ly/FgGPSS.
8th Annual First-Generation Graduate Student Symposium
Join us for the 8th Annual First-Generation Graduate Student Symposium on February 7, 2025, hosted by Boston University, Duke University, and UNC Chapel Hill. Open to all students who identify as firs...
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January 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
8th Annual First-Generation Graduate Student Symposium from #FirstGen Forward via Zoom February 7, 2025, from 12:30—5:00 pm ET. The event features Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, is FREE, and it's open to ANY students studying across ANY discipline. Learn more and register at bit.ly/FgGPSS.
I just finished my second novel of the semester break and man I’m so fortunate that the text was The Kaiju Preservation Society by @scalzi.com - what a fun romp the binge read in 24 hours. Now what to read - I wish there were a sequel! I suppose I’ll have to find something else for now!
January 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I just finished my second novel of the semester break and man I’m so fortunate that the text was The Kaiju Preservation Society by @scalzi.com - what a fun romp the binge read in 24 hours. Now what to read - I wish there were a sequel! I suppose I’ll have to find something else for now!
Celebrated solstice with my bestie by reading and eating chocolate. I’m so thankful for this invitation and also that I have been able to begin reading fiction for pleasure again. I’m excited to finish this trilogy that I began in 2010. This quote from the book hits different than it would then.
December 30, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Celebrated solstice with my bestie by reading and eating chocolate. I’m so thankful for this invitation and also that I have been able to begin reading fiction for pleasure again. I’m excited to finish this trilogy that I began in 2010. This quote from the book hits different than it would then.
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This thread is a must read if you are in academia.
THREAD
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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December 21, 2024 at 7:15 PM
This thread is a must read if you are in academia.
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🚨 NEWS: #ResearchIntegrity supporters have signed the Paris Declaration, calling for data-driven forensics - Forensic Scientometrics #FoSci - to spearhead the fight against fake science.
See comments from @mcintold.bsky.social & @gcabanac.cpesr.fr:
🔗 www.digital-science.com/news/paris-d...
See comments from @mcintold.bsky.social & @gcabanac.cpesr.fr:
🔗 www.digital-science.com/news/paris-d...
December 18, 2024 at 10:00 AM
🚨 NEWS: #ResearchIntegrity supporters have signed the Paris Declaration, calling for data-driven forensics - Forensic Scientometrics #FoSci - to spearhead the fight against fake science.
See comments from @mcintold.bsky.social & @gcabanac.cpesr.fr:
🔗 www.digital-science.com/news/paris-d...
See comments from @mcintold.bsky.social & @gcabanac.cpesr.fr:
🔗 www.digital-science.com/news/paris-d...
I made it on the Jumbotron at commencement today! Congratulations to all graduates!
December 14, 2024 at 10:33 PM
I made it on the Jumbotron at commencement today! Congratulations to all graduates!
Consider submitting a piece to this new and great journal!
Journal review processes can take a LOOOOONG time. JQTSIE is different, with an avg 45 days from submission to decision w/ doubly-anonymized peer review. @jqtsie.bsky.social is a fee-free open-access journal. www.jqtsie.com
@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social
@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Consider submitting a piece to this new and great journal!