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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yup. There is no excuse. Real universities dismiss people who are found responsible for sexual misconduct.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is there a Jackson Lamb leadership training program?

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But the consequence is significant and rapid. A good student discipline system keeps the community safe, and sends strong signals to all students about what behaviors are expected of them as members of the community. 4/4

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is important for conduct like sexual misconduct, stalking, and other forms of violence because it enables the university to act quickly to keep other people on the campus safe be removing a student found responsible for such actions. They are not going to jail, so burden of proof is lower 3/

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Responsible parties" that could not be charged in criminal cases because evidence does not meet "beyond a reasonable double" can certainly be found responsible for having violated university "prohibited conduct" and, if conduct was serious, dismissed. 2/

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Important note about standard of evidence commonly used in university student discipline systems. It is NOT the same as in criminal or even civil law. It's just "preponderance of the evidence" or "more likely than not." 1/

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did I put you over the top? I hope so. Trick or treating on a random Thursday is the dumbest thing ever.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In-state tuition for a similar degree at Ohio State is $15k. Go public.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gambling addiction is a real problem. This is a chilling story showing how companies promote dangerous gambling behavior

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The bumblebees are very happy that these little goldenrods have self seeded all over our back yard

A small branching plant with tiny yellow flowers sits in brown mulch

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wisdom. Demand for specific job skills will evolve over a student’s lifetime. We need to teach them capabilities that are robust to such disruption.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of my favorite things is the book group I now co-lead which is full of people of many stripes who don’t really know each other otherwise but want to connect in person over a drink to talk about books.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Over the five years following a sexual assault, victims’ employment falls by 6 percentage points and annual earnings decline... These effects persist for at least a decade and correspond to a 15% decline in employment, 17% earnings loss, and 28% rise in anti-depressant use"

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Rep. Shontel Brown @repshontelbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you need some good news on a Monday – baby sturgeon are thriving in the Cuyahoga River. It’s a great sign for the health of our river. signalcleveland.org/lake-erie-ba...

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Lake Erie’s baby sturgeon are thriving a year after release - Signal Cleveland

Ahead of Saturday's Sturgeon Fest, we checked in on the little babies released last year. How are they doing? Early signs are promising.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There is someone in this flight wearing red plaid pajama pants and a red terry bathrobe with bright yellow Tweety Birds, and honestly, respect

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The snake oil business is alive and well in America

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I would not like an AI summary, I would not like it on a boat, I would not like the email bloat, I do not like it on a chair, I would not like it anywhere! I do not like them on a phone, I do not like them in my home, I do not want them on a search, I do not like them in a church

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I remember this vividly. My sister-in-law and her family lived in fear because they were Lebanese and haters viewed them as enemies.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks friend. Calvin’s brother Bear has the biggest loss. But here is Momo literally comfortable Bear. Yeah, that’s both of us crying

An orange tabby cat has his are around a younger grey cat

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lost a kitten today due to excessive curiosity and a string of very bad luck and we are absolutely gutted. RIP Calvin

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fascinating. Such a simple intervention - I had no idea iodized salt had such broad and important benefits

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Same. I finished all the books in the children’s section of our little library in elementary school. The librarian helped me branch out to adult books by authors like Agatha Christie. Foundational to my education and humanity in my tiny town. This is a terrible law.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you do get an absentee ballot, you can either mail it back or “You or a near relative may deliver your completed ballot to your county board of elections or your county board of elections's drop box by 7:30 p.m. on Election Day.” In person returns means you don’t have to worry about mail delay

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Fellow Ohioans, voting starts soon. In-person early voting starts Tuesday October 6 if you don’t want to mess with USPS absentee vote shenanigans. www.ohiosos.gov/elections/vo...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Useful for those of us with cats

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And more beautiful things that are not AI slop

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I love that. I wonder how many other languages have a similar expression. Perfectionism is a curse

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Remember the Berlin Wall taught us that monstrous structures can be torn down.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tonight I went to the new bookstore in my town and bought a book, dropped by the bar next door to have a beer and say hi to the friendly bartender, and met a new friend talking about the book I was carrying. Life is not all bad

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The cost of utility-scale solar power and onshore wind dropped 90% and 70%, respectively, between 2010 and 2024.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Or complete papers to send as research samples for job applications.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I told a few graduate students today about the saying, “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”

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