Elsebelle
@elsebelle.bsky.social
TrentU Dept Social Work. LSE Social Policy. Research on children of prisoners, punishment, social policy, social justice. Settler, she/her.
All the props in the world to this guy, but THIS IS NOT A FEEL-GOOD STORY IT IS A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF OUR SOCIETY AND HOW WE TREAT OUR MOST VULNERABLE
CNN@cnn.com · last mo.At just 22, Connor Gibson is doing something he never dreamed possible: using his engineering skills to 3D print dentures for America's most vulnerable people — and giving them back their sense of dignity in the process. https://cnn.it/44omGk4
Not having a comprehensive social welfare system isn't a financial or technical choice, it's a political one. It's always austerity for the poor, and an open purse for military and law&order...
Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · 2mo agoFor $600 billion, Americans could get: $200B: universal free child care for all kids before TK $95B: generous free college plan $150B: Free in-home care for 4.3 million seniors ... with money left over.
This dog perfectly captures my vibe at work this month and I blame Arsenal for that (but also love Arsenal for that, don't stop now, one more) 🔴⚪
Writing is a form of thinking, and outsourcing it tells you something about how someone thinks.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2mo agoI think one thing the AI age has taught me is how many of my colleagues: 1. genuinely hate writing. 2. are bad at writing. 3. are bad at assessing writing. 4. really do not care about how the writing gets done. Which seems bad, because writing=thinking.
your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoFerguson: "Just this weekend, I was shopping at a big home improvement store to buy a drill. I had to hit a call button and wait 15 minutes for an associate to unlock a padlock. Social trust has evaporated and people are taking advantage of it, and the same is true of our federal benefit programs."
If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?
Feels like next time we should not let the 500 worst people in the country be in charge of everyone else
I see so many guys like this. They've been raises in racist patriarchy, trained to be selfish & imperious toward other people, but then they reach a stage of life where they have no power & no one *has to* put up with their shit ... so no one does. And they are utterly at sea.
JWexTheSpa@jwsidders.bsky.social · 3mo agoToday’s FT www.ft.com/content/dbfe...
We've spent an estimated $25B on Trump's war on Iran. Now Trump and Co. want even more money to fund the war. But healthcare? Cut. Food stamps? Cut. Education? Cut. Cancer research? Cut. Environmental protections? Cut. And of course, taxes on the rich? Cut. Obscene.
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Check out the newest publication from the CHIRP study (headed by the lovely Fiona Kouyoumdjian @macdeptmed.bsky.social). We FINALLY have a clear estimate of how many Canadian children have a parent in prison: 1 in 100,
Exciting news!! The CHIRP team (headed by Fiona Kouyoumdjian @macdeptmed.bsky.social & @marthapaynter.bsky.social & many more including me) has its first publication out. By linking Stats Can data, we FINALLY have a credible estimate of how many Canadian children have a parent in prison. Gift link:
thestar.com
There's one trait where economists clearly outperform the other social sciences: Hubris.
On any given day, 1.25 million kids are without their parents because of mass incarceration.
The moment we accept the idea that peace must be purchased with the blood of women and girls, we are no longer speaking of peace. If safety demands their suffering then what we are building is not a better world but a quieter graveyard.
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
19thnews@19thnews.org · 5mo agoThe trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz
Had a grad student submit a lit review on a topic I know about that was pure AI and it wasn’t ‘better’; it was stupid, unreliable and unusable bc a bunch of if the sources and concepts were made up.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 5mo agoMeanwhile, Dartmouth Political Scientist:
It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5mo agowhat even is the fucking point
Note how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do." This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.
![To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com]
From: roger schank
Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:53:33 PM
Subject: Re: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence
wrong; one; my very best PhD student was female; smartest woman I ever knew;
she has decided to quit being a professor and is now an accupuncturist; that
is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap;
also she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in
order to be smart; they all do
roger schank
http://www.rogerschank.com/
On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeevacation wrote:
> It's the tail of distribution , no really smart women ---none
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, roger schank • t
> wrote:
» intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed
>> behavior); (this is why you have the absent minded professor
» caricature)
>> it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what
>> others are thinking and feeling about her
>>
>> hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why
>> another woman hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dtgy62tymnpbnzozbpgnov56/bafkreiebtsn4ebmqdnzjdj273ic4y7upjcgdjeqti43xna6qtr2bxe4kxm)
If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 5mo agoNote how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do." This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.
In a sea of terrible misogynistic bile, this one put me over the edge. What a pair of absolute assholes. May they rot, and I wish the same on all the other ‘brilliant men’ who’re having these hubristic conversations at this very moment. You’re awful.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 5mo agoEpstein responds in the affirmative, insisting "no really smart women---none." Schank, in turn, admits that his "very best Phd student was female," but laments that she "decided to quit being a professor," adding "that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap."
Ford says about OSAP that “What we were doing was unsustainable.” I wish the reporter would give the context that the Ontario gov't "provides the lowest per-student funding in Canada.... at only 57% of the national average." ontariosuniversities.ca/news/joint-s....
Ford defends OSAP cuts despite student outcry | CBC News
Ontario Premier Doug Ford stood by his decision to cut funding to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), when asked Wednesday about pushback from students.
cbc.ca
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.
One more way AI doesn't actually save time/effort? Because while it takes 20-30min to grade a paper, it takes 2x that to realize it's AI, check citations & document how they're hallucinated or don't at all say the thing the paper claims, write this up, respond to NONSENSE excuses that come back.....
Gen X Canadians, we're up. Time to put that grittiness to work and get our 90s crush elected so sandwich generation-ing doesn't kill us. lewisforleader.ca
Jill made history as the first Black, queer MPP in Ontario, and she’s fought relentlessly for affordable housing, health care, the arts, and gender & racial justice. She is a principled, courageous leader who knows how move a room — and a movement. I'm delighted to have her support.
