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Sam Kastner

@docslaw.bsky.social
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way too online oceanographer (he/him)

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Ohio Federation of Teachers @oftunion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When we talk about SB 1's mandate to publicly post curriculum placing faculty in danger, this is exactly what we are talking about. This should not be happening. Not in North Carolina, not in Ohio, not anywhere.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The politicization & illegal cancellation of federal research funding is an existential crisis for every research university in the country, especially flagship R1 publics. Again, you would think university presidents would speak up, loudly & collectively, about this. Alas. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Dems could choose this moment to make the case that education is for creating free people
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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Frame #4150 from S03 -E23 - Battle Bell Peppers-627676
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Frog and Toad were caught in the rain. They ran to Frog’s house. “I am all wet,” said Toad. “The day is spoiled.” “Have some tea and cake,” said Frog. “The rain will stop. If you stand near the stove, your clothes will soon be dry.”
Frog and Toad stand in Frog's house, dripping wet. Frog has prepared a nice hot pot of tea for the pair.

From "The Corner"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
there is infinite money for weapons, non-educator vice chancellors of nothingness, and tech-grift corporate welfare but zero money for teachers, libraries, tuition
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/06/2026
i did a triple take at this line. the university of michigan apparently jeopardized a grad student's status and got him detained by ICE for almost a month on this basis, which i can only convey to non-academic folks as "absolute horse shit"
Luke told Kame that he did “not meet the minimum qualifications to serve” as TA for the course because he had not taken the course himself, Kame said.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We hebben een serieus probleem
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊
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Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change
International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 31/05/2026
chicken in a wemby jersey
chicken in a wemby jersey
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
You know what social practice is awesome that we stumbled backasswards into but should be doing everything to preserve and expand its spontaneous order: going to college.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2026
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Every CFO at every Canvas institution should put a stop payment on the next SaaS withdrawal. Things do not get better from here.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This week marks the 83rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. We remember the courage of our ancestors in the face of their annihilation.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/04/2026
Worth noting that the first part of the first sentence does not at all lead logically to its end. The fact that "A.i." is becoming more widespread does NOT mean educators must learn to "integrate it as a tool." Educators could in fact REJECT IT ENTIRELY.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
For reference, the median taxpayer in the US contributes $100-150 per year towards ALL federal research and development…NASA, weather prediction, cancer treatments, climate science…everything. (Which Trump, Republicans, and Elon said was wasteful…) #Standupforscience
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Good. And, yet again, USA: Require that Congress ensure that the NSF and other research agencies operate as it has ordered. Instead of this.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 25/01/2026
Truly what are these books even ABOUT, man
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Marty Suncreme @martinobeat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It is a giant illegal plagiarism machine monetizing all of our intellectual property, & like every tech/finance grift before it, the business model is built on breaking the law & malfeasance. And the rush of university leaders & administrators to embed it in every aspect of our work is shameful.
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Matt Prater is millennial excellence
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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million." Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/12/2025
AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
not only am I reposting this but I am doubling Tony's emphasis on "hard *cannot*"
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The Enrollment Cliff is a Miff
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 30/11/2025
LLMs like ChatGPT aren't like the AI machine learning that enables better weather forecasts (& search engines, translation etc) @ftrain.bsky.social explained the difference on our recent @flaminghydra.com podcast: Machines shouldn't be pretending to be human beings flaminghydra.com/podcast-how-...
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PODCAST! How to Fix AI, with Paul Ford
Special guest, writer, editor, technologist, and entrepreneur Paul Ford talks with Maria Bustillos about, in Paul’s words, “the thing, which is they launched Frankenstein’s Monster, but inside of Fran...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
god i love the little breakdown when they very shittily play old time religion lmao i wish that existed as a whole track somewhere! i’d never stop listening to it!
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LegraLeGra @atthenius.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Really sad. Following on from the senate report last month, www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fi… Reporting today about nasa is devastating.
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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"Even if your personal circumstances make it difficult for you, where and when you can, do not obey. Find ways to be intransigent; a pain in the ass."
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Sam Kastner @docslaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 29/08/2025
🌊With the Fall semester upon us, it's time to start thinking about recruiting/applying to grad school for 2026. If you are a marine scientist looking for a graduate student, I've created a form where you can add your name and other info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely! (1/2)
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Oceanography MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2026
This is an effort to collect the **contact information of potential advisors** for MS/PhD students in Oceanography. Please note that if you answer **you are agreeing to have your contact information...
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