Tim McKay
@timmckay.bsky.social
Bird & nature lover; book addict; educator, astronomer, physicist; happiest outdoors. Born at 320 ppm.
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Sound ON!!
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Sound ON!!
Spent part of today working with the Washtenaw Bird and Nature Alliance at our Searles Preserve, making plans for future restoration of this diverse nature area, and removing invasive shrubs. Late fall in Michigan forests, amidst our first snow, is lovely.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Spent part of today working with the Washtenaw Bird and Nature Alliance at our Searles Preserve, making plans for future restoration of this diverse nature area, and removing invasive shrubs. Late fall in Michigan forests, amidst our first snow, is lovely.
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The first snow of the season makes for the perfect cozy backdrop to A2 Community Bookfest!
Browse local authors and discover new reads right here at the Downtown Library.
Join us today from 10AM–5PM for Bookfest fun!
aadl.org/bookfest
Browse local authors and discover new reads right here at the Downtown Library.
Join us today from 10AM–5PM for Bookfest fun!
aadl.org/bookfest
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The first snow of the season makes for the perfect cozy backdrop to A2 Community Bookfest!
Browse local authors and discover new reads right here at the Downtown Library.
Join us today from 10AM–5PM for Bookfest fun!
aadl.org/bookfest
Browse local authors and discover new reads right here at the Downtown Library.
Join us today from 10AM–5PM for Bookfest fun!
aadl.org/bookfest
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A charming essay by the former chair of Africana studies at Bowdoin College about the New York Times crafting elitist propaganda.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A charming essay by the former chair of Africana studies at Bowdoin College about the New York Times crafting elitist propaganda.
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Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
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November yellows. ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
November yellows. ❤️
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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Dancing in the moonlight 🌊🌊
November 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Dancing in the moonlight 🌊🌊
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🎟️ Special Premiere of "A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant" at Michigan Theater!
Post-film conversation with film director Bill Banowsky, journalist Charles Eisendrath, and political cartoonist Mike Thompson, moderated by Lynette Clemetson.
Tickets 👉 https://bit.ly/3L7CX6P
Post-film conversation with film director Bill Banowsky, journalist Charles Eisendrath, and political cartoonist Mike Thompson, moderated by Lynette Clemetson.
Tickets 👉 https://bit.ly/3L7CX6P
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🎟️ Special Premiere of "A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant" at Michigan Theater!
Post-film conversation with film director Bill Banowsky, journalist Charles Eisendrath, and political cartoonist Mike Thompson, moderated by Lynette Clemetson.
Tickets 👉 https://bit.ly/3L7CX6P
Post-film conversation with film director Bill Banowsky, journalist Charles Eisendrath, and political cartoonist Mike Thompson, moderated by Lynette Clemetson.
Tickets 👉 https://bit.ly/3L7CX6P
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As a professor of African American Studies, I endorse this message ✊🏾🤭✊🏾
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
As a professor of African American Studies, I endorse this message ✊🏾🤭✊🏾
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Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.”
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.”
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
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New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope.
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope.
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Thanks to @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social and @motherjones.com for a fun interview!
How to make people want to read about climate change
Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Kolbert's new book is a master class in writing about the natural world.
www.motherjones.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Thanks to @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social and @motherjones.com for a fun interview!
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Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield has won the mayor’s race, according to the Associated Press. She becomes the city’s first woman mayor, a Black woman, with housing for single-mother-led households as a major part of her legacy and platform. 19thnews.org/2025/11/mary...
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield has won the mayor’s race, according to the Associated Press. She becomes the city’s first woman mayor, a Black woman, with housing for single-mother-led households as a major part of her legacy and platform. 19thnews.org/2025/11/mary...
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Milkweed in a classic fall pose.
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Milkweed in a classic fall pose.
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For more on the harms, definitely read @karenhao.bsky.social 's Empire of AI and for more on the bonkers ideology of Silicon Valley, @adambecker.bsky.social 's More Everything Forever.
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
For more on the harms, definitely read @karenhao.bsky.social 's Empire of AI and for more on the bonkers ideology of Silicon Valley, @adambecker.bsky.social 's More Everything Forever.
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"Cleveland’s dreams for a connected, vibrant lakefront could get a powerful dose of inspiration from Detroit." Remember #AtLeastWereNotDetroit? 😊
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/11...
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/11...
Waterfront transformation: Can Cleveland learn from Detroit’s gorgeous new riverfront park?
Detroit completes another piece in its goal for 5.5 miles of continuous public access along the Detroit River
www.cleveland.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Cleveland’s dreams for a connected, vibrant lakefront could get a powerful dose of inspiration from Detroit." Remember #AtLeastWereNotDetroit? 😊
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/11...
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/11...
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“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
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proudly working for you 24 hours a day. except tomorrow when we will work 25.
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
proudly working for you 24 hours a day. except tomorrow when we will work 25.
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Moby Dick, or, the Whale
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Moby Dick, or, the Whale
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
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Spent yesterday at UMich talking to law students and undergrads about what the economy looks like to them, what kind of lives they want to lead, and what barriers they see to creating that life. What I heard was both heartbreaking and hopeful. 1/
October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Spent yesterday at UMich talking to law students and undergrads about what the economy looks like to them, what kind of lives they want to lead, and what barriers they see to creating that life. What I heard was both heartbreaking and hopeful. 1/
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A fungus photo a day: Dancing Chrysomphalinas taken yesterday in the rain, another view below.
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
October 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A fungus photo a day: Dancing Chrysomphalinas taken yesterday in the rain, another view below.
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography