Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@cristyclark.bsky.social I feel you need this today 110
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Australian Data Science Education Institute, Charity @datasciau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"When we collect data, you know, it's never purely objective. It's sort of like this very complex series of assumptions and decisions that we make along the way" Our latest episode of Make Me Data Literate features Associate Professor Nicole White discussing messy data collection and analysis.adsei.orgAssociate Professor Nicole White on the value of messy dataThis episode of Make Me Data Literate features Associate Professor Nicole White discussing the nuances and assumptions that can impact data collection and analysis. "When we collect data, you know, it's never purely objective. It's it's sort of like this very complex series of assumptions and decisions that we make along the way" "The thing that I think was really missing from my education was what happens when you've got messy data? 0217
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So these were taken on my walk to work, from an inner suburb to the city fringe (Karori to Kelburn, for locals). I grew up in the area, and I absolutely would never have seen these birds in people's front yards 30 years ago. Wellington & its people made a choice to bring them back & we succeeded. 711921
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Rereading Hench from @nataliezed before cracking open book 2 Villain. Even better than I remembered! 151
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776502129
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"If eco-social anomie describes a societal forgetting, dam removal achieves the opposite—a 'collective remembering' that unshifts our baselines." This week @biographic.bsky.social published my story on the rewilding of New England rivers, a mill dam at a time. (1/6) biographic.com/death-by-a-t...biographic.comDeath by a Thousand Dams | bioGraphicTens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing ... 16319
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab. 11026681410
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year 10632601548
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"The University of Chicago’s undergrad social-sciences division will go “analog” this fall, implementing a blanket policy banning technology in class and AI assistance on coursework across the division’s core courses." www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...chronicle.comU. of Chicago Bans Tech, AI in Social Sciences Core CoursesThe new restrictions apply to students and faculty members. 18940261
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comCanada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.” 2138931119
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity. 191383648
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The best piece of news, after a relentless and brutal attempt to destroy a decent person and make an example of her, to scare others to silence. No thanks to the mainstream, which said and did nothing to defend the principle of press freedom and her right to report fact and express an opinion. 16550178
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)youtu.beModern Day Typographer - Elle CordovaYouTube video by Elle Cordova 701858419
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy. 592603829
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I would DIE for Large Francis. Thank you so much! 030
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.bloodinthemachine.comWhy office workers are turning against AIWhether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power. 201548454
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 366201199886
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 03/09/202637 coal and gas mine approvals under Labor is 37 too many. The Albanese government has today approved the extension of a coal mine in Queensland that will allow them to keep digging until 2055, and threaten critical koala habitat. 918486
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ... 502488755
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted. 181616700
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Thank you for your sharp, beautiful, funny and piercing cartoons. We've been so lucky to have you. 020
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Hey Melbourne peeps, I went to see this utterly brilliant play last night: www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-ti... Utterly compelling, and on until 12 Sep, get to see it if you can!mtc.com.au 010
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Congratulations on such a hard fought victory! 000
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/202616 months ago: Never forget how it started. 7572703494
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 20/08/2026if a white supremacist says anything you should assume every single word is a lie unless completely independently verified by an entirely unrelated source. if they say it is thursday you should ask an expert on days of the week. this should be the bare minimum standard in this media landscape 1737751133
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 19/08/2026Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...newsletter.thedriftmag.comRacism and labor at Bates: the other side of the storyAndrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper 10600264
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible. 1563369974
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Care package. My @smh cartoon. 17541231
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won't support projects without consultation. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...tomshardware.comCherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won't support projects without consultation — energy and water consumption, air quality, noise, and cultural resource protection among concer...The tribe's task force found 64% citizen opposition. 151774395
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+ 21920551
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Nevada/Utah water job alert 🚨 Great Basin Water Network is hiring a new executive director -- a really neat opportunity to work on Great Basin and Colorado River water issues. www.instagram.com/p/DcJrJd7xdDi/ 177
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Simon Coates @simonjcoates.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The only reason I can think of as to why there are fewer than 50,000 signatures here is that people haven't seen it yet. — Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now — goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...goodlawproject.orgJason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law ProjectCommission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death. 13176154
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026After Stock professed extremist ideology twice this past week (e.g. disabled women are faking; autistic people and people with ADHD are 'unsuited' for academia) and being billed as an expert during the Arday plagiarism scandal, I forgot until now that Stock was involved in her own plagiarism scandal 12935314
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Cool new paper on the implications of rights of nature for planning and policy making! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comHow are the rights of nature kindling policy and decision-making change, a transnational perspectiveThe recognition of the rights of Nature has turned into an opportunity to bring to the fore non-anthropocentric value systems to policy making and pla… 041
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026What should have been an internal matter at Cambridge became an international story led by UK media, driven by right wing agitators on both sides of the pond. And now, this tragedy is the outcome. Rest in peace and power, Jason. Thinking of his wife, his children, and all who loved him tonight. 8502124
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026There's actually research on this and it involves scrutiny. If you're Black people are going to look at your work looking for mistakes in a way they would never for white people.theatlantic.comBlack Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice as GoodAfrican American employees tend to receive more scrutiny from their bosses than their white colleagues, meaning that small mistakes are more likely to be caught, which over time leads to worse perform... 162202678
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Thank you for your sharp and beautiful cartoons! Your skill will be so missed 020
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Thrilled to be a member of the Blue Community Council! 020
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We estimate the cut to the NDIS in 2029-30 of $16.4bn is equivalent to around 52,000 jobs in the care sector - around 94m hours of paid care. Those care needs will not disappear they will just fall on families (especially women) live.thepoint.com.au/2026/08/the-...live.thepoint.com.au 8194111
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 07/08/2026Important recognition of water justice for Indigenous Peoples in Australia. By Erin O’Donnell, Blue Communities Ambassador and Associate Professor, University of Melbourne. blue-community.net/b... 021
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Data centers 732608919
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalizationjessica.substack.comNorth Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion 8131311603
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/08/2026Fantastic news! The FDA has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine. Using mRNA technology will make it easier to update each season’s flu vaccine to keep up with new variants.nytimes.comF.D.A. Approves Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine (Gift Article)The agency had initially refused to even review the application but reversed course after a public outcry. 572517728
Reposted by Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"If we let only our opponents tell the story, then it becomes a parable about the hazards of striving for progress and equality, rather than about the institutions that reduced equality to a mere PR exercise." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason OkundayeThe Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye 14114
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Wow! This decision quashes what was Australia's largest single water licence and that, at full use, was predicted to drop groundwater levels by up to 50m. 010
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The High Court "found the minister had not properly satisfied circumstances that justified the extended 30-year licence, and that the minister had denied MAC procedural fairness in not providing a reasonable opportunity to make its case about conditions imposed on the licence." 110
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"today, the High Court unanimously agreed the water licence had not been lawfully granted by the Northern Territory government." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auHigh Court rules in favour of native title holders fighting NT water licenceThe High Court decides in favour of native title holders fighting to overturn a water licence that had been granted to a cattle station in Central Australia. 171