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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10h

Somebody was asking me tonight: Why can't Dems ever get their act together? Me (approx): Yes, sure. But can you remember a stronger slate than Dems are putting up in big races right now? Cooper? Ossoff + Bottoms? Talarico + Hinojosa? Turek + Sand? Benson + El-Sayed? Brown + Acton? Hamilton? Etc

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 15h

On our book tour for "Faculties" (coming Nov, @dukepress.bsky.social) we're often asked "what's working?" Today I learned ab @cuny.edu Segal Center Initiative: rich array of public art events staged across all five NYC boroughs. Coordination, collaboration, community, creativity. What a gift!

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 16h

That one is practically Neruda!

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 18h

Nobel Laureate Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.

O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love

Anne Carson

I like being with you all night with closed eyes.
What luck—here you are
coming
along the stars!
I did a road trip
all over my mind and heart
and
there you were
kneeling by the roadside
with your little toolkit
fixing something.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 16h

Endless grift, all the way down.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 23h

And will the programmed AI voice also get to experience the sheer joy of fatherhood, of experiencing the light that comes in a child's eyes when a parent reads out loud to him? I guess in AI world, joy is optional.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 23h

Anne Carson, the Canadian author of the amazing unfolding poem in a box, NOX, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. When informed of the prize, she was in Iceland "listening to the wind." There is still a place in this sorry world for wonder.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In America our taxes pay for wars and tax breaks for trillionaires. And grift all the way down. No free sandwiches.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Have a great one, Tressie. You are always brilliant and your recent insta post on what we count as “intelligence” was, well, genius. I write as a failed waitress with a lot of books. Writing books is far easier cognitively. Thank you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am crying 😂😂😂

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s. Of course. Typos mine. Of course

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Mira🌺 @deepgreens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fly High…🌺 #BeachLife

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dreaming of even more evil, night after night. Yep.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Delete without reading. Over and over and over….its pathetic

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026

We voted! Early and in person! Your turn!

Me and Krissy smiling because we have exercised our constitutional franchise

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hope you'll join us at Noon today (EST) !! Optimizing Learning for a Volatile World---2025 McGraw Prize winners, from left, Cathy Davidson, Joe Wolf, and Frederic Bertley mcgrawprize.com/news-events/...

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Home | Penn GSE

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I look at this graph, and I see the benefits of worldwide public health efforts and investments. It's hard not to wonder what this figure will look like in 10 years because of DOGE.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You hit the proverbial nail on the head, Mike. Unless faculty, administrators, students, and the public have greater alignment on what "college is for," the anti-education/anti-social mobility/ anti-free speech forces win because they ARE aligned in one project: dominate and curtail higher ed.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Mike Thicke @mikethicke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Argues that faculty and administrators need to work together to facilitate "academic civics", both within and between institutions. Yes. But academics are trained as critics, and a tension exists between faculty and administrative visions of what college is for. (via. @cathyndavidson.bsky.social )

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If Bernie and Bannon Can Ally, Is There Hope for Higher Ed?

Coalition building between faculty and administrators could now be a matter of survival.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 05/10/2026

A few years ago @plos.org put together a collection on optogenetics, highlighting relevant research across PLOS Biology and our sisters PLOS comp Bio and @plosone.org, including some research from the now Nobel laureates! collections.plos.org/collection/b... 🧪

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Brain Mapping Methods: Optogenetics - PLOS Collections

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system and is an interdisciplinary biological science that extends across multiple fields, including, chemistry, computer science, engineering, ling...

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

More great, independent research courtesy of higher ed #faculties

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2-We joked that news stories should come with a label, like the "Made in China" inside my jacket: "Made in Higher Ed." There's tons of coverage of everything wrong, not working, too expensive... far less of the wealth of benefits to ourselves, our youth, to research, to business, to everyday life.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

W @saracuster.insidehighered.com editor of @insidehighered.com, Jody and I pitched a new column, "Outside Higher Ed," where people tell positive stories (often missing from higher ed press and academics ourselves)-- today's Nobel brain profs or yr kids' success. cathydavidson.com/outside-high...

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Outside Higher Ed: A Podcast with Sara Custer, Editor-in-Chief at "Inside Higher Ed" - Cathy N. Davidson

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Clacton in October - my front garden. Hard not to still feel happy here, really, despite it all ☺️

Calm blue water, blue sky, sand, perfect clouds, sun - Martello Bay in Clacton on the walk to Jaywick

Calm blue water, blue sky, sand, perfect clouds, sun - Martello Bay in Clacton on the walk to Jaywick. A goblin child can be seen on the beach.

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Landscape & Wildlife Photo Magazines @photomagazines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

WIN $300 PRIZE • Leading Lines Assignment Take Part: landscapephotographymagazine.com/as… Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland, England by Gary Bivens

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Paul Gundlach @paulsgundlach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy Sunday! We had a full cloud layer today with several opening slivers so I was very optimistic for some pre-sunrise backlighting – and sure enough it delivered, filling the entire iPhone 18 1X camera frame. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

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Bob Walnut @bobwalnut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

North Shore

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Guy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If we move one grain of sand, the entire beach is changed. Small acts make a difference. Be kind. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊🙏 #Cornwall #beach #nature #ocean #sea #calm #peace #mindfulness #kindness

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Scott Rockvam @flowstatephoto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It was probably a good decision to bring the camera with kayaking yesterday evening.

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William Abram Cargo @wac1947.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pretty Day on Lake Huron.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I hadn't thought about this but, of course, esp with GenAI, it would be very easy to erase books available digitally with a simple command. Physical books are harder to erase--and harder to track. What you read is your business. Preserving knowledge, democracy, reading: that is all OUR business.

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Ellen @acompleunknown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every book I read now is a banned book, and frighteningly, that’s not a purposeful choice: Parable of the sower Parable of the talents Kindred The handmaid’s Tale TheTestaments #bannedbooksweek #Booksky 📚

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Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Buy physical copies of known banned books. Have an area in your personal library just for banned books. A physical book is harder to take away from you and your family. At family dinners like thanksgiving, pass out a banned book as early holiday presents. #writingcommunity #booksky #bannedbooks

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let books be. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, an annual observation started more than 40 years ago in response to a sudden surge in attempts to censor or remove books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. Sound familiar? Find ways to get involved and spread the word: bit.ly/4yvixbB.

LET BOOKS BE. Various line drawings related to libraries and books, including a hand holding a sign made of an open book that reads "Freed for ALL to Read," a tote bag that reads "Totes Resist" carrying a book, a full book cart with the head and tale of a horse with text that reads "A Wild Ride," and a closeup of two feet standing on a stack of books that say "A Soap Box" on their spines. Text at bottom reads "Protect the freedom to read. Banned Books Week, October 4-10, 2026." American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

maybe the best shot i took on the coast this time, although it still doesn't quite capture the reality of the beauty

blue cloud sly band of mist hills reflected water

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jody Greene and I had a great convo on "The Key" a podcast @insidehighered.com @saracuster.insidehighered.com. We insist that the higher ed press needs more success stories and pitched a new column: "Outside Higher Ed." I blogged (w links) about it here: cathydavidson.com/blog/?blog_s...

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Blog - Cathy N. Davidson

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A carousel of images of Colpoy's Bay, Ontario for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #3rdPlace. It's been my third place for over a decade. #BrucePeninsula #BruceCounty #ECK #photography #TenMinutesFromHome

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