Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Beyond excited to announce that the newest edition of PUBLIC OPINION, written by Rosalee Clawson, Zoe Oxley, and ME(!!) is available now! This book is filled with lots of cool material geared towards undergrads, super proud! Find the book here: collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/pub... 53615
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Civil servants should be able to provide the policy analysis we need. This is ridiculous. 2264
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Next Thursday! Join us for a really fun evening where we talk about the perils and joys of running for politics. There will be snacks! Activities! Incredible panelists! Conversations! (Free) Registration at this link: www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-did-w... 030
Reposted by Amanda BittnerHolly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...huffpost.comI Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking."Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead." 361710661
Reposted by Amanda BittnerCarole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 13/11/2025I don’t think you can understand the dynamics of the Epstein and Trump and how this much corruption gets suppressed in the digital age without reading Robert Entman’s book, Scandal or Silence, an exploration of the factors that really drive presidential scandal. robertmentman.com/2012/03/24/s...robertmentman.comScandal and Silence: Media Responses to Presidential MisconductScandal and Silence challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave and actively pursue scandals whenever they sense corruption.… 14210
Reposted by Amanda BittnerTim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 26/10/2025"The Albanese government has ruled out granting tech companies an exemption to copyright laws that ... would have allowed them to mine their content to train artificial intelligence models for free." Excellent news for all of us whose work is being stolen by AI. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...smh.com.au‘Very clear’: Labor rules out exemption for AI giants to take content for freeThe Albanese government has shot down a proposal from the Productivity Commission, which had tech company backing, that would exempt them from copyright laws. 24417
Reposted by Amanda BittnerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ... 510125784554
Reposted by Amanda BittnerAngelle Haney Gullett @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 19/10/2025"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link 8246971717
Reposted by Amanda BittnerDr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required. 211913470
Reposted by Amanda BittnerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing. 4448371052
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025It’s on election nights especially that I really miss the old good twitter.media.tenor.coma cartoon cat playing a trombone with the words sad trombone above itALT: a cartoon cat playing a trombone with the words sad trombone above it 1150
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 13/10/2025This is so great. I wish we had it at Memorial. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...nytimes.comThe Therapist Next Door 031
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 10/10/2025I needed to take 3 trips to city hall this year in order to vote - I was not on the voters list despite living in the same house for 18 years. The average person would not take these extra steps. Voter turnout is partially a function of electoral management. Let us assess our processes, St John's.media.tenor.coma woman with her eyes closed and the words that seems like quite a lot of work below herALT: a woman with her eyes closed and the words that seems like quite a lot of work below her 1101
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 07/10/2025A truly brilliant idea. Get your debate bingo card here. Will the leaders talk about child care? Or any other "gender" issue? I am curious! nl.childcarenow.ca/2025/10/07/n...nl.childcarenow.caNewfoundland and Labrador Leaders' Debate Bingo - Newfoundland and Labrador Child Care NowHey Newfoundland & Labrador party leaders — help us get a BINGO. Wednesday night’s Leaders’ Debate is a chance to show you care about #EarlyLearning and #ChildCare. We’ll be listening for: 🏫 Child car... 111
Reposted by Amanda BittnerIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 02/10/2025🦖 Steve's T-Rex mug > inotternews.etsy.com/listing/1755... 836237
Reposted by Amanda BittnerBojan Fürst @bojanfurst.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Hey folks! There is still a few spots left in the intro to audio storytelling workshop I will be teaching in October through the StoryCenter.org. Here is the link to the workshop page" www.storycenter.org/schedule/pod... 011
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Everyone is talking about this article, and it is GOOD. Recommend! 050
Reposted by Amanda BittnerAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."nepc.colorado.eduFit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public EducationDigital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i... 241065423
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 28/09/2025This is the part that I find most astounding and hard to watch. 081
Reposted by Amanda BittnerCynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Why did Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) create a whole portfolio of work on preventing gendered violence? Because the online worlds we study are 1/ www.linkedin.com/posts/cynthi...linkedin.com#manup #manup #manup #manup | Cynthia Miller-IdrissWhy did Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) create a whole portfolio of work on preventing gendered violence? Because the online worlds we study are rife with anti-feminist cons... 23619
Reposted by Amanda BittnerÉric Grenier @ericgrenier.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Joined by @bittner.bsky.social and @sarahsmellie.bsky.social Sarah Smellie on The Writ Podcast to break down the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election. www.thewrit.ca/p/ep-146-wha...thewrit.caWhat's at stake in Newfoundland and Labrador's electionAmanda Bittner and Sarah Smellie discuss the ongoing election campaign in Newfoundland and Labrador. 053
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Sent this to some important teens in my life. I’m sure they’re rolling their eyes but I am delighted. 🤣 040
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025THERE IS A PODCAST! Come on with this! I am so excited. 050
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Oh the role of academic wives is one of my all time favourite topics!!! How exciting! 270
Reposted by Amanda BittnerOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either 360318228274
Reposted by Amanda BittnerLaurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 13/09/2025“It’s shocking … did you consider not complying with this request?” Butler said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ moveProminent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’ 23719
Reposted by Amanda BittnerDiana O'Brien @dzobrien.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Are you attending #APSA2025 and (thinking of) writing a book on the topic of gender and politics?! Come meet the editors of the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Cambridge Studies in Gender & Politics! Friday at 2:30pm at the Sutton Place Hotel (Salon Cezanne). We want to talk w/ you! 0167
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Currently writing up a few paragraphs to explain the science of sampling to undergraduates and am reminded of how amazing some folks are at explaining math and probability with such seeming ease. This is no simple feat even if simple random sampling is not that complex.media.tenor.coma black and white drawing of a girl sitting at a desk with a laptop and a quote .Alt: a black and white drawing of a girl sitting at a desk with a laptop and a quote "I wish I had a refresh button for myself for when my brain's not loading." 170
Reposted by Amanda BittnerJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 09/09/2025A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall. 531137392
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Nine things I have written are in this database. I hate it. 032
Reposted by Amanda BittnerLeanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Monday Giggle! 0104
Reposted by Amanda BittnerRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence? 171376217
Reposted by Amanda BittnerDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Easiest way to teach someone how difficult data prep is would be to record me using a new to me dataset. The final syntax file does not begin to cover all the things I tried and didn't work until I eventually found a way to discover the 130 observations out of 22k that need to be fixed. 5726
Reposted by Amanda BittnerLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 02/09/2025I hope when Kevin Costner dies his obituary identifies him as “American Actor Who Portrayed White Characters” 1286191158
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Introducing Geordi! Our new Golden Doodle puppy, who at 10 weeks old is adorable and frisky and destined to be best friends with her older brother Data, the grumpy 5 year old Scottish Terrier. Her humans are in love. 3160
Reposted by Amanda BittnerYourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 01/09/2025#MorningReads Sex is often used as a proxy for gender (in political surveys here), but this study shows it misses nuance—about a quarter of people don’t fit neatly. A finer measure of gender improves analysis and highlights the need for better survey design. #SOGIDatalink.springer.comSex isn’t Gender: Reforming Concepts and Measurements in the Study of Public Opinion - Political BehaviorThe importance of sex and gender to political behavior is reflected in the volume of work examining gender gaps in public opinion and partisan choice. Despite their centrality, sex and gender are poor... 0177
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Universities need to stop partnering with AI. It is confusing our students and making them think that they *should* use AI instead of training their brains. We are ensuring a future of shriveled, useless brains. The future is bleak. 0245
Reposted by Amanda BittnerDr. Noa Balf נועה באלף نوعة بالف @noabalf.bsky.social · 01/09/202586% among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution: "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the UN Convention for the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide". www.reuters.com/world/middle...reuters.comIsrael is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association saysThe world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday. 001
Reposted by Amanda BittnerSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Encountering more and more GenAI/LLM produced work. It is like sewage, but without a sanitation infrastructure, no pipes, no workers, no regulations. Like shit it flows everywhere, it makes everything worse, dangerous and smelly, and no one is fixing it or taking any responsibility.media.tenor.coma cartoon of homer simpson standing in front of a sinkAlt: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in front of a sink that is overflowing with brown liquid onto the floor, and then he looks around like nothing is happening and walks away. 071
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Defund education, then insert for-profit pure garbage to fill the void. The future is bleak. 06315