Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 12/10/2025At the public library, I wish there was an option to “print receipt” on a post-it note instead of the long white paper with a lot of extra data. It would list all of the books I borrowed with the due date at the top in larger bold letters. 011
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I hope Ken Burns is making a documentary about the final weeks of the people and creative energy and goodness in the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 031
Reposted by Betsy Mossslugworthlives @slugworthlives.bsky.social · 15/07/2025KEEP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN!!!!!! 972694965
Reposted by Betsy MossWeFUCT! @roadfarmer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025This, lack of pre school education funding, hate for higher education is exactly what republicans and their donors want. A poor, uneducated, and compliant workforce for the fields and factories! Fuck them🖕 021
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Today I learned about the artist *Violet Oakley* for the first time. She painted murals in the Supreme Court, Senate, and Governor’s reception room at the PA state Capitol building. Her work is amazing—how did I not know about her before?! #womenartists #muralpainter #gothicrevival 000
Reposted by Betsy MossNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 01/07/2025William Mills writes for Nature Careers about how he created a podcast as a way for students to engage with the course’s content while they’re taking a run, travelling or driving to and from campus. #Academicsky 🧪 go.nature.comExtend your reach by turning your lessons into podcastsBy taking a few technical steps, I’ve made my teaching more accessible to my students — and to biologists around the world. 0132
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Yep! I think some of these might be included in the “emergency” fund. But others should really be part of fixed monthly expenses! 100
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Reels in the “how I budget” meme rarely includes donations to arts organizations, food banks, or community support programs. #howibudget #fixedexpenses #artssupport #communitysupport #foodbanks 110
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I’m concerned about how we preserve ancient monuments and respond to modern development. St. Catherine’s monastery was built by emperor Justinian in 565 and houses a strong monastic community as well as icons and manuscripts. www.france24.com/en/live-news...france24.comFive things to know about the St Catherine monastery in Egypt's SinaiNestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land. 010
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 02/06/2025I don’t think there’s any way to automate or replace the slow, deep, thinking that is essential to the writing process. This is where creative ideas develop, where critical questions are born. I don’t think any technology can take away from that. Let’s give more learners a taste of this joy! 021
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Yea, this is a hard one to resist. The push to produce good writing (and to become fast writers) seems to leave some faculty vulnerable to this mindset. Profs want to see a finished paper or a completed research project, but in 12 weeks maybe that’s unrealistic and antithetical to deep learning? 010
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Did the training address the difference between writing as a student versus writing in the workplace? Or the difference between AI-based writing supports vs. the other writing technologies we use daily without pause or critique? 100
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Don’t use a LLM to research and write a report on health and chronic illness in children. 000
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 30/05/2025The news is so exhausting. For a few minutes after reading a news article about the fate of St. Catherines at Mount Sinai I thought all was lost to tourism. www.thenationalherald.com/historic-st-.... Thankfully, a more recent article corrects those reports. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...ekathimerini.comNo change in Mt. Sinai monastery’s status, Egypt says | eKathimerini.comEgypt's Office of the President and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have categorically denied that there will be a change in the status of Saint Catherine Monastery following a court ruling Wednesday. 051
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 29/05/2025An incredible thread with biscuits decorated with designs from glass fragments, pottery shards, manuscript bindings, etc. 🥰 020
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Just a gentle reminder that self acceptance and self compassion are options for how you think about yourself, your choices, and who you are in your relationships. 010
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Indeed. Folks aren’t getting the facts, context, or even clearly defined terms. But are folks even reading this paper any more? 000
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 23/05/2025These are the buildings blocks of democracy worth protecting at all costs. 021
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I’d like to learn how to react to unexpected things with more surprise and laughter, instead of anger and frustration. 010
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Isaiah 2:4, “He shall judge between the nations and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more.” 100
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 19/05/2025An exquisite gift from Zelensky to Pope Leo XIV today: he brought to Rome an icon painted on an ammunition box from the Kharkiv region. www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polyt... 131
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 15/05/2025We said goodbye to Rosa on Monday. She was the adventurous black bunny we adopted with her sister Bella in Feb 2023. She brought so much love to our home, especially to our children and friends. Her sudden passing is heartbreaking—we’re holding close our memories of her gentle, curious spirit. 110
Reposted by Betsy MossPauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Sometimes I’m glad of cross posts from the other place. #Trump #Qatarplane 094
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 10/05/2025That sounds lovely! How do the petals change the flavour or nutrition? 100
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I think the rule is that one can only use liminal if they also agree to use mediate in a subsequent sentence or paragraph 150
Reposted by Betsy MossDept. of Historical Studies, UTM @utm-hs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Led by the Technoscience Research Unit (TRU) and partners across Canada and Aotearoa (New Zealand), the project uses Indigenous knowledge systems and environmental justice in creating sustainable, community-based approaches to chemical risk. www.technoscienceresearchunit.orgtechnoscienceresearchunit.orgTECHNOSCIENCE RESEARCH UNIT 021
Reposted by Betsy MossDept. of Historical Studies, UTM @utm-hs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025News! Prof. Kristen Bos is playing a leading role in a groundbreaking, Indigenous-led project awarded $22 million by the New Frontiers in Research Fund. Read more: www.utm.utoronto.ca/historical-s... #historicalstudies #IndigenousKnowledge #EnvironmentalJustice #IndigenousResearch 121
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Listening to NPR is my love language. #npr #publicradio #morningedition #allthingsconsidered #thisamericanlife 010
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I hear you—I can’t write if the kitchen floor is dirty, lol. Eventually maybe you will work your way a round the circle procrastinating on one project with another and then you’ll have several finished projects! 120
Reposted by Betsy MossDept. of Historical Studies, UTM @utm-hs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025What happens when students and professors take time to read a single book—together? "History Book Club #2: From Global Currents of Empire and Exchange to Campus Community" www.utm.utoronto.ca/historical-s... #HistoryBookClub #BooksBuildCommunity @calebwellum.bsky.social @historianmairi.bsky.social 053
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 01/05/2025This is your superpower—your creative energy and idea generation. You will focus when you are ready to finish one of them. 120
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Reign of Tariff. Seems like an easy and obvious choice for times like these? 000
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 28/04/2025torontocommunityorchestra.org/performances/torontocommunityorchestra.orgPerformances – Toronto Community Orchestra 000
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 28/04/2025✨New location! Our concert is quickly approaching! I’d love for to join us. THE TORONTO COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA presents East Meets West. Lead by NICOLO ARRIGO. 📆Tues, May 13, 2025, 7:30 pm 📍Church of St. Peter & St. Simon, 525 Bloor St E, (closest TTC is Sherbourne) 🎟️Tickets are pay-what-you-can 100
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 28/04/2025For sure - but I am also looking for something that captures the frustration of having lots of ideas for writing (and teaching and research) that are left suspended in midair because I don't have the bandwidth to carry them out. 000
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Is there a word for the conflict or tension or disappointment that someone feels when they are both extremely busy and stretched by the everyday demands of life while also feeling like they are under performing intellectually? 100
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 25/04/2025We like everyone is using the same font style jn CapCut with the capital letters and a red highlight that jumps from word to word. I guess this is the only free font style available now? 000
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Indeed, the inefficiency of human creativity is fertile ground. 010
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I’ve been thinking about organizing a virtual round table/panel of very short presentations by a variety of experts on the art and architectural history of the Sistine chapel. Timing would be in about 10 days or so? Is this something that people would want to tune into? 010
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I'm thinking about attempts to erase history. I wrote this blog a few years ago about the 12th century icon of the Theotokos of Vladimir. The icon was adorned over many centuries with layers of silver, gold, pearls, and beads. #icons #byzantineart #ornament byzbets.wordpress.com/2022/02/28/t...byzbets.wordpress.comTheotokos of Vladimir as Layers of HistoryThe icon of the Theotokos of Vladimir is one of the most widely known and beloved Byzantine icons, and in the past few days images of this icon have proliferated on social media as the war in Ukrai… 000