One of my USF colleagues, Dr Ann Lawani, has been kidnapped by ICE. Dr Lawani is the director of the university's master's entry program in nursing and a vital leader in our community. Her detainment is further evidence of the racism and brutality propped up by Republicans in power.

The San Francisco Standard@sfstandard.com · 3d ago

A University of San Francisco nursing professor who was granted protection from deportation to her native Nigeria has spent the last eight weeks in ICE detention in Louisiana, thousands of miles from her family.

So then on the day after Outlook went down for like 12 hours, a tanker hit a cruise ship, Elon’s rocket blew up in the water and stopped all flights to Hawai’i, and then FAA grounded all planes for no reason and the Secretary of Transportation got on TV and demanded $50 BILLION DOLLARS

Very Old Pic of D. Gray@blurbette.blacksky.app · 15h ago

Did the Secretary of Transportation just demand $50 Billion on live tv during a whole fucking Nation wide aircraft grounding?!?

There are many who have spent DECADES focusing on "trying to get rid of the bad teachers" while doing absolutely nothing to make the job more attractive and bring the best people possible into classrooms. How about we try that for a bit?

Jennifer Berkshire@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 3h ago

The education reform dream of weakening or getting rid of teachers unions *for the right reasons* dreams on, yet seems increasingly untethered from reality

I’ve been saying for many years now that educators are on the front lines in a war for education and thought. Stay strong everyone. You’re not alone and history shows us we will eventually prevail.

@Shamlet@shamlet.bsky.social · 5h ago

To be an English teacher in a time when it feels like sea level rise is eating away the coastline of the things you hold dear

I appreciate the sentiment of calling the New Orleans rescue efforts a miracle but they were actually the results of decades of exceptional training efforts for a scenario exactly like that one. I emphasize this because that kind of response capability is what our tax dollars ~should~ pay for!

I showed the teen the movie Better Off Dead last night for the first time. It’s held up well and he absolutely loved it! 

Better Off Dead: Two Dollars Cash Scene

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Extraordinarily powerful waves will hit the California coast tonight into Saturday. A 30-foot wave is NINE TIMES more powerful than a 10-foot wave. Stay far away from the ocean.

Anthony Edwards@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 3d ago

The wave forecast is insane for the California coast on Saturday. Significant wave heights (average of highest 1/3 of waves) up to 7.8 meters/25.7ft offshore SF and 8.7m/28.5ft offshore Point Reyes. That's about as big as swells get around here! Max waves often 1.8x bigger than sig wave height!

@mraleosays.bsky.social & my consistent argument has been that context matters in education; that decisions about how to organize and deliver teaching, learning, and schooling are inseparable from people and purposes. In Ep. 6, Hanford gives away the game: trevoraleo.substack.com/p/in-convers...

PMC COVID Update Week of Nov 9, 2026 PMC reports SARS-CoV-2 levels continue to percolate around 1 million estimated new daily infections, as 49 states and territories experience observed outbreaks, an increase from last week.

—@marcusluther.bsky.social

this is happening because a bunch of chuds decided that having grown-ups with subject matter expertise in charge of important things was woke and gay

Entire Nation Asks John Candy for Ride in UHaul with Polka Band

He diagnoses Trump perfectly and offers thoughtful insight rather than the poll tested and focus grouped slogans and platitudes we typically hear and are tired of.

A point I'm emphasizing today from Audrey Watters: "A Luddite pedagogy is a pedagogy of subversion and transgression. It is a pedagogy of disobedience and dismantling. It is a pedagogy of refusal and of care."

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Off to Chicagoland to talk with teachers and teacher educators about Big Tech's capture of AI literacy and what Luddism offers us, especially now when the momentum to challenge Big Tech is gaining strength across school communities. ⚒️🤖⚒️

"Although some of our media heroically try, and I understand the impulse, there is simply no way to understand Trump’s actions in terms of any framework of US national interests. The reason for that is that he does not care about the United States of America at all." — @timothysnyder.bsky.social

In conversation with Tim Snyder

“It’s important to think not about what he’s going to do to us, but what we’re going to do to him.”

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If you're looking for an alternative to whatever the Chronicle Review has become, let me humbly suggest Academic Freedom on the Line, the newsletter for the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. Today's piece by Heather McCambly is on point academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

The Fight Over General Education Is a Fight Over the Borders of Democracy

It’s about freedom.

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Hey folks, a request! We just started an Archaeology minor here at Denison and are looking for archaeologists who might be interested in talking to our students about careers in person or via Zoom. Would any of y'all be willing/interested to do this? I can send details if you are. Thanks!

Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Thumbs Up

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One thing I've heard is that the Josh Turek campaign was shocked at the pushback he received over his anti trans ad. They didn't expect it and have now tried to bury that ad. Pushing back on politicians works. Do not accept their positions as immovable. Our job is to push them to do better.

It would be nice if, as a society, we began to see education as a crucial investment in a functional society rather than an expensive and dilettantish burden that must be maximally shouldered by students, almost punitively.

NPR@npr.org · yesterday

Many Americans have soured on higher education because of how frustratingly hard it is to figure out what they will pay to attend. n.pr/4Alt6yg

"Before students invest their attention, effort, and persistence in learning, they often make an implicit calculation: Is this worth my effort?" Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey via @ascdofficial.bsky.social www.ascd.org/el/articles/...

Moving Past “You’ll Need This Someday”

By pairing personal relevance with broader sources of value, we give students reasons to invest in learning.

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Yesterday, we launched the Caltech Center for Disaster Resilience. I’ve joined the faculty to direct this effort to support the activation of science in the creation of more resilient communities, where scientists help decision-makers understand the implications of their decisions @caltech.edu

Oh my God, his expression. I’m dying! 🤣🤣🤣

cari@cari.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tough week so I had to let the dog have a whole burger last night

This is what life is like being a scientist, living with a person who has anxiety. 🤣😭

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 2d ago

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The affairs are a red herring to distract you from like 30% of NVIDIA's earnings coming from sales to China w Howard Lutnick+ Trump admin's blessing, this is the biggest business scandal in history y'all.

CLEAN AIR EVERYWHERE LET'S GOOO! "Using air purifiers for a month helped cut levels of harmful air pollution tied to spikes in blood sugar and developing diabetes by 36%, according to the study presented at a conference of the American Heart Association." www.the-independent.com/life-style/h...

Your air purifier could stop you getting diabetes, study finds

The findings could have major implications for the 115 million Americans living with prediabetes, most of whom don’t know they have the condition

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There is a collective hallucination about the past 15 years about how Democrats as a political party "went too woke" when what actually happened was major US retailers and corporations saw a competitive benefit to marketing directly to LGBTQ and non-white people and the right wing went insane

NEW: Over the past year, ProPublica has photographed some of the more than 500 U.S. citizens who have been held against their will by immigration agents and learned of the lingering impact the experience has had on their lives. These are their stories.

We Photographed U.S. Citizens Held Against Their Will by Immigration Agents — ProPublica

Over the past year, ProPublica has photographed some of the more than 500 U.S. citizens who have been held against their will by immigration agents and learned of the lingering impact the experience h...

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This is only the latest use of fingerprint analysis ✋ to determine that certain pieces of art were actually made by women & children rather than solely men. Watching the gender bias surrounding artisan crafts (=the assumption of men as makers) is great. A few other examples below...

Stone Age children left fingerprints on ancient art projects

Natufian hunter-gatherers may have shown their kids how to sculpt clay, sets of preserved fingerprints suggest.

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You beat apathy by standing for something great. You beat apathy by fighting back. You beat apathy by making people feel like they can win with you. You beat apathy with uncompromising commitment to your ideals.

People think elections are candidate vs. candidates. They're not. Elections are candidate vs. apathy. People who don't vote outnumber people who vote for the opponent. You don't beat apathy with callousness. You don't beat apathy with surrender. You don't beat apathy with opportunism.