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Erika Hendra

@ekh77.bsky.social
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Community college English Prof; Humanities/ LAS advocate, dog and cat mom; bookworm.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 05/10/2026
Mac users on mac OS 27 - we can get our disk space back and remove Apple AI! Somebody has made a tool: www.macrumors.com/2026/10/05/a...
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Mac Users Reclaim Storage With New Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
A new open-source tool is making waves in the Mac community by helping users reclaim valuable storage space taken up by Apple's AI models. Called "RemoveMacAI," the tool disables Apple Intelligence on...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why learn science? Because lots of things can seem like a big scary conspiracy theory when you don’t understand how the world works! Empower yourself by learning about facts and evidence and reality. As a bonus, it’ll lead to a healthier and more prosperous society for others around you.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you’re pro learning, this is the way. I know that if you want students to build the kind of writing practices that will allow them to potentially use AI in ways that are not compromising to their development.
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Stuart Masters @stuartkmasters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Change will have to come from outside, from the margins. The desert, not the temple, gave us the prophets. Wendell Berry
Change will have to come from outside, from the margins. The desert, not the temple, gave us the prophets.

Wendell Berry
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 01/09/2026
Kentucky has lost a giant Kentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/31/k...
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Kentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 • Kentucky Lantern
A lover of forests, the farmer, author and former English professor died on Thursday, according to his family and the New York Times. He was 92.
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Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry championed small farms, agrarianism and conservation for decades.
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‘Another great light gone out.’ Kentucky author, activist Wendell Berry dies at 92.
Wendell Berry championed small farms, agrarianism and conservation for decades.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly did this too. We’re sad because these two stars helped a lot of people figure out who they were and feel seen too. Dolly said “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A.I. is a crisis in education, but I think it's an extinction-level event for online asynchronous education. I have yet to see anything that is truly certain to stop AI in my online writing classes, and the cheating tools are developing faster than the detection methods, so I expect it'll get worse.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/08/2026
The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of mustangs around the U.S. and quietly selling them on the cheap to buyers who are exporting them for slaughter abroad, an examination of government records by The New York Times found. nyti.ms/4grb8Co
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We don’t need education about ethical *use* of AI; we need more education in how it is being *used on* and against us. 2/n
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The summer of climate shocks rages on (and how the new climate attribution report from the @nationalacademies.org can help make progress to limit the climate crisis): danarfisher.com/2026/07/18/t...
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The Summer of Climate Shocks Rages On
Source: The summer of 2026 will go down as a summer of climate shocks. “Climate shocks are deviations from normal environmental patterns in the form of droughts, floods, heat waves, or other …
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Science fiction authors in the order you want them to be right about AI: Iain Banks Becky Chambers Martha Wells Douglas Adams Charles Stross (Singularity Sky) Peter Watts Charles Stross (Laundry) Harlan Ellison
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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
No real surprise. @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net warned about this back in 2021 doi.org/10.1016/j.jr... #ethics
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 23/05/2026
U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
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University at Buffalo @ubuffalo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Double #UBTrueBlue pride! 🤘🤘 Congratulations to these #UBuffalo alumni on winning 2026 Pulitzer Prizes! 🔹Sara DiNatale (Explanatory Reporting) 🔹Juliana Spahr (Poetry) Learn more ⬇️
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Two UB English department alumni win 2026 Pulitzers
Sara DiNatale shares the explanatory reporting award and Juliana Spahr is this year’s winner for poetry.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Waking up to discover that evidence has been released proving something we all knew. The Supreme Court's efforts to stop the Obama clean power plant rules were rooted in explicit, corrupt efforts to protect the fossil fuel industry.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.
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How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll
The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 06/04/2026
Our best annual sales for five years – up 20% on last year. Fifth consecutive year of growth. Thank you to every reader and bookseller who made it happen. 📖 saltpublishing.com
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Salt Publishing – Award-Winning Independent Literary Publisher, UK
Celebrating 27 years of independent British publishing. Explore award-winning literary and genre fiction from Salt – the home of beautiful books you won't forget. Browse our titles.
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Pam McElwee @pammcelwee.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Headline doesn’t capture it all - large majority of USFS research stations to close including all regional offices. So short-sighted, as many of the scientists affected will likely resign Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...
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Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Arctic sea ice maximum this year effectively tied for the lowest ever on record, with major implications for polar ecosystems and global warming
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Disappearing Arctic sea ice breaks frightening record
The Arctic sea ice maximum this year effectively tied for the lowest ever on record, with major implications for polar ecosystems and global warming
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/03/2026
NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
How does agricultural policy shape climate damages? @allanhsiao.bsky.social, Jacob Moscona, and Karthik Sastry show that governments move to protect consumers when extreme heat causes food shortages, redistributing damages within and across countries. buff.ly/QqnRwi0
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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It isn't just about human health—think about soil health, pollinators, arthropods, worms, mycorrhizal networks, declining bird populations...
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Research that claimed Roundup herbicide is safe, retracted by US journal - ABC listen
In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered internal emails from chemical giant Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 19/03/2026
A program with bipartisan support is at risk under the president’s immigration crackdown.
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Trump is threatening international students, and a new bill could help stop him
STEM PhDs are the most likely to enroll in the program.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The alternative to Harvard/Stanford that we neede ys not some bullshit tech AI dystopia zone but ynstead a generouslye funded public university system wher tuition ys FREE, SFR ys low, and facultye & studentes are supported to do all of the incredible thinges thei kan do yf given the goddamn chance.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It's been fascinating to see how quickly a number of academics have concluded that using a program to generate a lit review is good enough, as if writing the lit review is merely a chore and not part of the process of building expertise in the subject.
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Jen Walker @jenthefar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"Nijs says being able to ring the doorbell fills people with a “positive feeling,” and many people have told her about the calming effects of watching the canal’s fish. But the biggest benefit has been for the fish themselves."
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Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Erika Hendra @ekh77.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
As a community college English professor, I see the challenge of getting students to read as a call to arms. I’m redesigning my curriculum now to include reading at least one entire book. I’m excited for the challenge and for the conversations.
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Kyle Manley @ktmanley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Public lands are more than resources or real estate. They hold clean water, cultural memory, biodiversity, and the quiet foundations of our collective well-being. I wrote a piece in @sciam.bsky.social reflecting on what’s at risk when we treat shared landscapes as disposable.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 14/02/2026
An otherworldly coral, a very cute moth and an intricately beautiful mushroom are among the winners in the prize this year
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Five stunning images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year awards
An otherworldly coral, a very cute moth and an intricately beautiful mushroom are among the winners in the prize this year
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A list, in no particular order, of just some of the moves that the Trump administration has made in its ongoing campaign to suppress and deter journalism essential to democracy: Arrest Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for covering an anti-ICE protest. Raid the home of a Washington Post reporter, ...
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Lily Hay Newman @lhn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
a big load of earbuds, headphones and speakers need updating to patch vulnerabilities that could be exploited to hijack audio, take over mics for eavesdropping, or even in some cases for location tracking www.wired.com/story/google...
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Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking
Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Pain has but one Acquaintance
And that is Death -
Each one unto the other
Society enough -

Pain is the Junior Party
By just a Second’s right -
Death tenderly assists Him
And then absconds from Sight -
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Erika Hendra @ekh77.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
It’s not a natural disaster. We actually CAN work to pause AI development if it mattered enough to those in power.
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Erika Hendra @ekh77.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I blitzed through 7 classes of final grading today and squeaked in final grades 4 hours before the deadline. I also chose to prioritize my holiday time and I don’t regret it.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
A quick reminder during this busy travel season to know your rights as a passenger. Please be kind, be safe, and have a great holiday season!
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Erika Hendra @ekh77.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Settling in for my newest Christmas tradition: watching Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. #LOTR #traditions
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Erika Hendra @ekh77.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Yes! There can have academic rigor and also no panic to publish a certain amount every year or for rank advancement.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Hochul signed *TWO* AI safety bills. The RAISE Act requires AI incident reporting and risk assessment. AB295D requires agencies to disclose use of automated decision-making tools and conduct impact assessments for safety, effectiveness, privacy, security and bias. www.axios.com/2025/12/19/n...
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N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul signs sweeping AI safety bill
New York is now the latest state to have broad safety rules for the most advanced AI models.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/12/2025
the slow death of legitimate, verifiable, reliable knowledge systems
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Erika Hendra @ekh77.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Agree! And how much of this practice of using AI is rooted in the “publish or perish”pressure that academic institutions have actively engaged in?
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Erika Hendra @ekh77.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It would be great if the Reconnect program was for all programs, not hand-selected ones.
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