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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)

@aketchum22.bsky.social

PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions https://www.alexketchum.ca/ https://linktr.ee/aketchum

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Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · 3w ago

"From July 1, 2026, households in New South Wales, South Australia, and southeastern Queensland can access at least three hours of free electricity each day through a new initiative called the Solar Sharer Offer" via No One Cares

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Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The point of having students do peer review is not to fix the essay, it’s to give the students a concrete experience of delivering their ideas to an audience and being in community caring about their compositional choices.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo ago

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3mo ago

I am so tired of these people. Can we have one fucking thing where AI isn't mining people for their knowledge and experience and then pitching a shitty, hallucinatory, often dangerous 'replacement.'

Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

“With your permission, your child’s lead teacher may wear a small teacher-worn camera that captures the teacher's approximate first-person perspective, and/or we may place a fixed video camera in the ...

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Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...

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Willow@rockshrimp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)@aketchum22.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great article by @rcmacleod.bsky.social aftermath.site/dykes-to-wat... I've written about @alisonbechdel.bsky.social 's Dykes to Watch Out for Food in my book Ingredients for Revolution @concordiapress.bsky.social press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ing...

Let's Cook The Joke Vegetarian Food From Alison Bechdel's Dykes To Watch Out For

The famous lesbian comic strip satirizes politically-conscious eating with dishes that were never meant to exist--until now

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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)@aketchum22.bsky.social · 4mo ago

www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/activitie... This Wednesday at 6 PM at the @museemccordstewart.bsky.social ! 10 bucks but it includes entrance to all of the museum's exhibitions (and museum entrance is normally 22 CAD)

Exploring Queer Food and the Montreal Restaurant Scene

Explore Queer Food and the Montreal Restaurant Scene with Alex Ketchum, Al Dervisevic and Lauren McGowan, followed a self-guided tour of the exhibition On the Menu – Montreal: A Restaurant Story.

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