Hey all, it's a work in progress but I'm trying to centralize all the action steps people can take to get involved, plug in, and understand just what the hell is happening while we get ready to fight like hell for our siblings in Ohio. jessk.org/blog/things-...

Things you can do right now for Ohio — Jessica Kant, LICSW, MPH

For trans people in Ohio, the last several days have been, to be blunt, terrifying. On December 29th, after concerted public pressure, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine vetoed HB 68, a combination gender-af...

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Check out this phenomenal paper outlining the artifice of framing anti-queer and anti-abortion conservatism under the language of "parental rights" (Ziegler et al, 2023). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

SEATTLE (AP) — Alaska Airlines is grounding all Boeing 737-9 aircraft after midair window blowout on flight from Portland, Oregon.

Think you can run the many, many social media accounts for an award-winning investigative journalism outlet? Well then it's a good thing we're hiring for that job at @propublica.bsky.social Details, including salary range, and application at the link 👇

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This company is polluting a predominantly Black town with pig manure. And the government is making it easier for them to do it

This Company Is Polluting A Predominantly Black Town With Pig Manure. And The Government Is Making I...

New documentary, The Smell of Money, exposes the grievous environmental injustices occurring in eastern North Carolina.

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ah, another day of not changing the language settings on this keyboard and getting the é for my own name by googling beyoncé

WASHINGTON (AP) — US homelessness, tied to soaring rents and loss of pandemic aid, up 12% to highest level since reporting began in 2007.

This is legitimately one of the craziest things I’ve ever learned open.spotify.com/episode/2t0h...

The Interstitium

Listen to this episode from Radiolab on Spotify. In this episode we introduce you to a part of our bodies that was invisible to Western scientists until about five years ago; it’s called "the inters...

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Being @docrobphd23.bsky.social former mentee (lifelong mentee really) is the best because I still get to call him and ask him to fight my battles for me 🤣

Airbnb’s silent killer: 19 people have reportedly died due to carbon monoxide poisoning in the last 10 years, but the company still doesn’t require detectors at its rentals The company said it would require them by the “end of 2014” in a now-deleted post

Airbnb’s silent killer: 19 carbon monoxide deaths in the last 10 years, but the company still does...

Family members and representatives of people who died said the company has not done enough and called for it to mandate that carbon monoxide detectors be installed in every rental.

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Long live flamy’s

Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD@jacasiegel.bsky.social · 3y ago

Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college.

I know we all know this but just a reminder, get ALL the free tests your household is owed, every time, even if you still have a stockpile because it’s one of the few direct tools we have to communicate to the government that WE STILL NEED FREE TESTS and there’s still high demand for COVID resources

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman.bsky.social · 3y ago

More free COVID tests are now available from the US government. apnews.com/article/free...

So, uh, this is REALLY BAD and if you have ANY connection to the University of Michigan, you need to take steps NOW to protect your identity. (Contra the headline, it's not just employees and students; it's also alumni, donors, and possibly some research participants.)

University of Michigan employee, student data stolen in cyberattack

The University of Michigan says in a statement today that they suffered a data breach after hackers broke into its network in August and accessed systems with information belonging to students, applic...

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NEWS: Morehouse College—an HBCU in Georgia—took every dime of debt they had in collections and transferred it to us. Today, we're announced that we've canceled all of it. Now, nearly 3,000 people—mostly Black men—can access transcripts and move on with their lives. www.reckon.news/news/2023/10...

Morehouse students get $10M of student debt wiped out, thanks to the Debt Collective

Today, the Debt Collective, the nation’s first debtor’s union, canceled close to $10 million in student debt for Morehouse College students, a private men’s HBCU in Atlanta.

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Attention anyone concerned about the destruction of West Virginia University. This is the same playbook, in the UNC system.

I see @docrobphd23.bsky.social is back with his away messages. This one might be the best yet…

My little podcast is opening our grant program again! We are awarding several grants of up to $1000 for community/art/organizing projects created by trans people of color. Not restricted by age or location! We've got a list of past winners and a lot more info at genderpodcast.com/grant.

Anyone have an accessible CV format? Something that is set up using headers, doesn’t use tables, that is compatible with screen readers when exported to PDF?

Here's a recording of my recent conversation with @edufuturist.bsky.social and the Future Trends Forum community. #FTTE We talked about my recent book, #ungrading, equitable assessment, and lots more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87T...

What is ungrading?

How can we rethink grading?This week the Forum is delighted to host the University of Denver's Jesse Stommel, author of the new book Undoing the Grade: Why W...

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If you have bsky invites and want to give them to scientists/academics, this form by @pkpd-babe.bsky.social has worked well for me. 🧪 I always request that my codes go to folks with marginalized identities and it seems like they try to honor that.

BlueSky Invites

Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, clinicians, academics, other researchers or scholars or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities and would ...

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I'm in an Office of Equity and Diversity Implicit Bias training and really appreciated this Grounding Awareness slide. I haven't seen this before in any trainings or spaces I've been in and I really valued the explicit acknowledgement of not wanting to "recreate these dynamics within this space."

Tell me why I’m listening to a podcast about Joe Jonas and texting my high school besties about T Swift at 31 years old in the year of our lord 2023. Time is truly a circle.

What is ungrading? Why and how might academics use it? Join us this Thursday as the Future Trends Forum hosts Jesse Stommel to explore: shindig.com/login/event/... @jessifer.bsky.social #FTTE

US COVID SHOTS ARE FREE. Please do not let Walgreens and CVS mislead you or your family members or neighbors about this! They are the biggest part of the federal bridge (free shots for uninsured people) program, but the rollout’s logistics have been a little scattered and you may get pushback.

hilzoy@hilzoy.bsky.social · 3y ago

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

Several months ago, I went on a dive into how prevalence conversion therapists were on Psychology Today. The reality is that there are well over a thousand such listings, including those previously removed under community pressure. and it's getting worse. jessk.org/blog/psychol...

Psychology Today’s conversion therapy problem — Jessica Kant, LICSW, MPH

As much as I like getting in a good dig, it has a much darker side than just vapid articles on “hook-up culture” and whatever some junior Jordan Peterson sees as an immutable psychological diffe...

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I just wrote about KOSA: A Nationwide Anti-Trans/LGBTQ+ Bill in All but Name. It has everything you need to know + how to contact your congressppl about it. 4min read, no-paywall link, please share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) so others see it! juliaserano.medium.com/kosa-a-natio...

KOSA: A Nationwide Anti-Trans/LGBTQ+ Bill in All but Name

And What You Can Do to Stop It

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