Heather Chacon
@wickettred.bsky.social
English professor (c19 American), closed adoptee, lover of the arts who studies public health & literature. Also a friendly neighborhood deadhead.
🚨 Croatian virologist Beata Halassy used viruses from her own lab to shrink her recurrent breast cancer by over 60% The result: Her tumor shrank by over 60%, was successfully removed, and she has remained in long-term remission
Made an appointment to go look at a Sears house from 1910 with my son later this week. I do love a 4-square
Oh great. An untreatable, possibly fatal virus passed by ticks is spreading in the USA. Good thing we have the CDC looking out for us, am I right?
First Case of Bourbon Virus, Which Is Untreatable and Potentially Fatal, Confirmed in New York
The first confirmed case of the tick-borne Bourbon virus, which is extremely rare and potentially fatal, has been identified in New York.
people.com
If you just saw The Odyssey and want to know how Penelope feels having a ton of suitors who are there to win her but are ultimately in it for themselves, spend the day online car shopping and then check your inbox
I used to make choices based on what helps students learn. Now I make choices like I'm trying to identify replicants with the Voight-Kampff test
Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)@bestonetx.bsky.social · 5d agoI'm going back to in-class exams this semester, which are harder to schedule, less intellectually rigorous, slower to grade, harder to secure, more prone to error, harder to provide disability acommodations for, and use up a lot more paper than online exams. AI makes everything worse.
Any ideas where one could purchase one of those metal library stools?
Anyhow been listening to this on repeat for like 28 days m.youtube.com/watch?v=eot3...
Big Mouth USA
YouTube video by Jim Ford - Topic
m.youtube.com
The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.
Love the almost art deco style of this leaf-hopper 🪲
www.fire.org/news/she-was... If no one is supposed to feel “uncomfortable” during a college course should we also cancel anatomy or idk, dissections?
She was fired for teaching English literature in an English class. Now she’s suing.
In a story stranger than fiction, a Florida college fired an English professor for nothing more than teaching literature in a literature class.
fire.org
Shout out to the guy I just saw on a Danville busy-street sidewalk reading a book as he walked.
Go put and look at the moon. It’s the Buck Moon and is glorious!
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... He renews his attacks on people’s access to health treatment, this time for older Americans
Trump administration to end Medicare premium subsidy program
The Trump administration will end a subsidy program, meant to keep premiums stable for Medicare prescription drug plans, after 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Tuesday.
reuters.com
Let's start it here. Black teachers check in with your lists.
Spank Da Tank 😈🤠@ DREAMCON@invadeherzim.blacksky.app · last wk.Surprised I haven’t seen a “Blacksky Teachers Supplies Wishlist” thread yet 🧐🤔
Anyone recognize where this is bc I want to go there. This is a serious question.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The fuck
NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association
The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...
insidehighered.com
Thank the universe for the writing of Barbara Kingsolver
