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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health

Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

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Kentucky Educators for Role Playing Games @kyedrpg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Less than a week to go for our FREE PD on #ttrpgs in education! It's not too late to register, all educators are welcome! If you're within driving distance of Western KY, please join Kalli and me: forms.gle/KunAi4UEuSNp... #kyedrpg #gamebasedlearning #KYILN #AllinKY #dnd #dnd5e #EduSky #LevelUpEDU

A flier for "Dungeons & Dragons," an educational PD on TTRPGs in the classroom.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 10/02/2025

I don’t have a fancy lesson I delivered about the #SuperBowlHalftimeShow Before I showed it, I instructed my students to write down three words and document when they noticed them: •imagery •symbolism •message We watched once all the way through, then we broke down where my students noted. +

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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Adam Watson @watsonedtech.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

LIMITED SEATS LEFT! Register today, and come with us as OVEC facilitates a visit to JCPS Western STEM Magnet High School's new eSports Arena & learns more about their "Game Design & Development" program! #AllinKY #KYDLC #KYILN #esports #STEM #kygoplay #EduSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A flier about a visit to Western STEM Magnet High School on February 13, 2025.

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Adam Watson @watsonedtech.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Coming summer 2025: a FREE "#AI for Kentucky Educators" conference, hosted by OVEC on June 4! This will launch a series of dates where we will meet over the 2025-2026 school year to learn from and beside each other. Register today! forms.gle/hoDZDLaRb5BL... #AllinKY #KYDLC #KyLchat #EduSky

A flier for the "AI for Kentucky Educators" conference series.

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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

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NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA

Lee esta historia en español aquí

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Adam Watson @watsonedtech.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Dr. Fletcher, the Kentucky education commissioner, starting us off in Shelbyville for a town hall on the educational work ahead. #AllinKY #UnitedWeLearnKY

Dr. Fletcher, the Education Commissioner for Kentucky.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

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Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video

PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A revelation that hit me during my conversation w/ @pernille.bsky.social is the tension & pressure of training American teachers to be superheroes needed to rescue kids from failing economic systems while ignoring those systemic failures. The demand to be superhuman is ultimately dehumanizing.

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Adam Watson @watsonedtech.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Happy to see Kentucky's David Cook in the first Fireside Chat with Virgel Hammonds (CEO of Aurora Institute) about local learning ecosystems! #KYDL #AllinKY #KYILN #competencybasededucation #EduSky youtu.be/-HIVNx4mWU0?...

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Aurora Institue Fireside Chat Episode 1: David Cook

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Brewer: mostly coffee, some tea @breweredu.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Lol, if you don't know me here's a shorthand for my beliefs/biases People: Thomas Merton, Howard Zinn, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, James Loewen, Virginia Woolf, James Finley Things: NASA, Cats, AI, cooking, quantum compute Ideas: Contemplation, Ethics, Pedagogy, Edu Law, Linguistics, Rhetoric

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The raw chain of thought from DeepSeek is fascinating, really reads like a human thinking out loud. Charming and strange.

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Dr. Crystal M. Watson @crystalmwatson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

DEI is not gone just because they disband a funky lil program or department. Keep breathing life into inclusion and equity. We have to stop waiting for “them” to give us permission to see the humanity in others.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It's wild that the Bloom study about 1:1 tutoring has been around for over 40 years, teachers have been advocating for increased staff & small class sizes the entire time, yet it's re-emerged as the TechBro mantra to answer education inequality & "democratization" with AI tutors. 😵‍💫

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/01/2025

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other. Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

screenshot of a Tumblr post from user ecofear yelling "what is HAPPENING" in response to a screenshot of a quotetweet from user @Ovichknox reading "this is so scary to me. i recommended a book to a friend recently and she came back to me a day later saying it was really good and i asked if she finished it already and she said "yeah i got chatgpt to summarise each chapter into 3 paragraphs to it was easy to read"
which is replying to a tweet from @alz_zyd reading "Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt l got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred…"

Followed by a a reblog from tumblr use moonglade-poetess reading "Hey guys, with so much love, and as someone with an actual English degree:

Please just use Sparknotes if you're going to do this. I get it. I do. But chatgpt or other genAl shit doesn't actually know what's important for you to know, and in some cases it might fully make shit up. Use sparknotes. Failing that, talk to someone who did read it. I'm begging.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/01/2025

Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.

A four-panel comic called Instinct is Weird. In panel 1, a yellow warbler looks at a beautiful nest in a shrub and says "I made this for some reason". In panel 2, there are five eggs in the nest and she says "these are my smooth round children". In panel 3 an egg has hatched into a yelling hatchling, and she says "Oh no now it's loud". In panel 4 she looks distressed as five hatchlings now fill the nest, begging for food, and she says "help".

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Brewer: mostly coffee, some tea @breweredu.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

"When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost, and won." Source: Three dads in an interfaith meeting talking about the weather and politics in 2025.

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Coffee and Fingernails @coffeenfingernails.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

This is a perfect sentence: "All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

One thing the TikTok ban discourse has not included is that many TikTok creators privately do not like TikTok, which of course they’re not saying because none of us want it banned. It’s a brutal creative ecosystem that extracts from creators until they burnout and then they are replaced.

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Your regular reminder of this great feed of 300 English Language Learner educators. Check out if you're on it and, if not, and you teach ELLs, let me know and I'll add you to it! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/01/2025

We commonly associate James Baldwin with the land of his birth, America, and with the land of his expatriation, France. But a fascinating new exhibit focusses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country that, in his words, saved his life.

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Refinding James Baldwin

We commonly associate the writer with the land of his birth—America—and with the land of his expatriation, France. But a fascinating new exhibit focusses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country that...

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JCPS DEP @jcpsdep.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy New Year! Please enjoy the January 2025 Edition of our Envision Equity newsletter. Winter Recap: Take What You can Tote Adopt-A-family And more! 🔗 online.fliphtml5.com/dlsev/oqxf/

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

what would you do if an anchor dropped from the clouds, got stuck on a stone, and a sailor shimmied down to free it, drowning in the the thickness of our air? this happened in the Middle Ages -- and Seamus Heaney wrote a poem about it (link to an essay of mine) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/67p1x...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

THE MONSTER THEORY READER is so good 🐺😈 Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s intro is extraordinarily thoughtful, rereading the volume this weekend #monsters 👹🧌

Image of The Monster Theory reader edited collection on a table

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Kentucky Educators for Role Playing Games @kyedrpg.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

First in a planned series of FREE regional PDs on #TTRPGs in education! If you are in Western KY, please come join us on February 18. Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #kyedrpg #gamebasedlearning @kygoplay.bsky.social #kyLchat #AllinKY #KYILN #UnitedWeLearnKY #dnd #dnd5e #EduSky

A flyer for a professional development session called "Dungeons & Desks" on February 18, 2025.

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Brewer: mostly coffee, some tea @breweredu.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

There's gotta be a word for going back and forth between GNX and my favorite podcast "Turning to the Mystics with Jim Finley" on TS Eliot. Closing out the year with the good words of people who do words good.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Wait, we can just do this rather than spending days desperately trying to track it down?

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Kentucky Educators for Role Playing Games @kyedrpg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

John Brewer was the first teacher I met in person who proved that #TTRPGs could be the DNA of a course and it still be academically rigorous. Give him a Follow, and read more about his work on the #kyedrpg Resources page! #gamebasedlearning #dnd #dnd5e #AllinKY #KYILN

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Neil Postman’s Seven Question are useful here (Neil was on my dissertation committee):

1. What is the problem to which technology claims to be a solution?

2. Whose problem is it?

3. What new problems will be created because of solving an old one?

4. Which people and institutions will be most harmed?

5. What changes in language are being promoted?

6. What shifts in economic and political power are likely to result?

7. What alternative media might be made from a technology?

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 04/12/2024

Indistinguishable from magic is right.

Edmund Eustace and Lucy are about to get pulled into a picture that comes alive as they watch it, in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

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Adam Watson @watsonedtech.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The OVEC December issue of "Bits and Bytes" is out! You can see where I've been for the past month & where I'm going in the upcoming weeks. You can also find past issues here: sites.google.com/ovec.org/dig... www.canva.com/design/DAGYi... #KYDLC #KYDL #KYILN #AllinKY #UnitedWeLearnKY #EduSky

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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software – Canva

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Brewer: mostly coffee, some tea @breweredu.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I am once again asking you to listen to Turning to The Mystics podcast with Jim Finley if you're a contemplative of any faith. Absolutely beautiful conversations and wonderful discussions. And the new season is on "The Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot! open.spotify.com/episode/62Xn...

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Turning to T.S. Eliot

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley · Episode

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Tyler Rablin @mrrablin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I think one of the most important pieces I can bring over from Twitter to start is a collection of assessment resources that everyone is allowed to copy and use, if it's helpful. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Assessment Resources and Templates

Collected Work on Assessment & Grading (with Resources) Created by Tyler Rablin (@Mr_Rablin) If you are on this page, thank you for being willing to rethink assessment and grading. As with all of my ...

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Brewer: mostly coffee, some tea @breweredu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Man, bell hooks got it. I've got Anne Braden's "The Wall Between" in my head right now. We are finishing A Raisin in The Sun today in my Junior classes. I'm so glad I was introduced to Freire in undergrad, so when I got to bell hooks in grad school I was ready to listen.

A passage from the text All About Love by bell hooks explaining that Fear impedes love, but perfect love casts out fear.

A further explanation from bell hooks, culminating in the statement, "The choice to love is a choice to connect - to find ourselves in the other."

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Simon Fern @simonfern.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Reading through Foucault's ''Birth of The Clinic'' for this r&r, really liked this chunk. Think it'd be a fun essay prompt for students in a #medicalsociology / pre-med sociology class.

"The first task of the doctor is therefore political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government. Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated: 'Who, then, should denounce tyrants to mankind if not the doctors, who make man their sole study, and who, each day, in the homes of poor and rich, among ordinary citizens and among the highest in a the land, in cottage and mansion, contemplate the human miseries that have no other origin but tyranny and slavery?"

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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Being a linguist is inherently political. We know that all language is equal and that being treated differently because of your languaging has to do with the body you inhabit and not the language itself. #linguistics #language

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

shout out to kendrick lamar for making this the Worst Week Alive for every single hot dog stand employee

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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 29/11/2024

1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic. Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵

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Brewer: mostly coffee, some tea @breweredu.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

@jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social still using Monster Theory with my HS students! I don't know if I'll get to do Creative Writing as a prep this Spring, but the two years I taught it with Monster Theory and DnD were legitimately some of the most fun I've had working with student writers in years.

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Brewer: mostly coffee, some tea @breweredu.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

While the quality of the discourse already seems miles beyond Twitter these days, it's important to remember that amygdalar rhetoric is still something we can all keep working to unlearn. If you want this place to stay different, keep thinking about sources of information and their goals.

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Adam Watson @watsonedtech.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Good morning #EduSky #EduSkyChat! I have been a public school educator for two decades, 9 years of that as a HS English teacher. I believe #edtech & #gamebasedlearning can improve learning if they are means & not ends. I've been blogging for 10 years at #edtechelixirs. bit.ly/signupedtechelixirs

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Kentucky Educators for Role Playing Games @kyedrpg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Excited, flattered and thankful to be included in this Starter Pack! #gamebasedlearning #kyedrpg #ttrpgcommunity @edugamergal.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Q5oMK4b

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless. But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.

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Karly Moura @karlymoura.com · 13/11/2024

👋🏻 Welcome to all of the new #EduSky friends!!! If you're just getting started these tips might help. 💙 Tip 1/4 Join the #EduSky community by filling out this form ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... (Started and maintained by @alicekeeler.com)

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