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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 23h

i'm loving the fog hat Kamloops is wearing today

A panoramic photo of Kamloops taken from the hill overlooking the city on the river with heavy fog, overlay the entire top half of the image

Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i made these real quick for an outreach event friday and so the phrases could use some normalizing but i still like them

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

it's orientation day and for the first time in months campus is filled with students and i am delighted

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

More fall public DH events w/Scholars' Lab coming online! 🗓️✍️ the 1st week of September has 3: @patymurrieta.bsky.social "Towards the Development of Decolonial Tech" workshop + "Teaching machines to read the Conquest of America" talk; #ByteSizedPedagogy 9/4 re:Langmead+Vee on undergrad DH pedagogy:

scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu

Events

The Scholars’ Lab

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Geeked! Newly arrived (just released books from @rowhoop.bsky.social & Melanie Challenger - Togetherness & Alive - fascinating and overlapping looks at what life is! And the last books I’m reading before I start drawing my new chapter on the origins of life in earnest!

Covers to togetherness by Rowan Hooper and Alive by Melanie Challenger

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

corrected post This is our climate change reality. BC is at the sharp end of the climate change spear in terms of fire in Canada. Graph below shows annual area burned in BC 1950-2026. Top 6 years have been since 2017 and BC has experienced more area burned during 2017-2026(red) than 1950-2016(green)

annual area burned in BC 1950-2026. Recent years data from ciffc

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Another active fire day in BC but what scares me is the lightning forecast. Expect lightning in BC for the next 9 days. It is bone dry in parts of BC so if we see the lightning, we could see many new fire starts. ECMWF lightning density maps for Monday and Tuesday.

ECMWF 12-hr lightning density forecasts for BC on Monday Aug 10.

ECMWF 12-hr lightning density forecasts for Tuesday Aug 11

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Emily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I actually think that ONLY adjuncts and fixed-term workers should be allowed to write about the future of higher ed

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I just realized that vampire weekend and the weeknd are different bands

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is maybe one of the dumbest quotes I’ve ever read

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I wish my students could experience an internet that wasn’t terrible in the ways today’s internet is terrible.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

What would impress me - an AI strategy that puts possible labour disruption front and centre, that says "this might fuck up labour as we know it; in that event, this is how we will mitigate through *seriously* expanding the welfare state" and also "this is what we actually mean by sovereign"

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Friends in British Columbia's teaching and learning sector, I believe the Canvas breach is an important moment for us to request a review of how data is handled and how risk assessment in tool selection is done. If you agree, please consider signing this open letter and please share widely:

docs.google.com

OIPC Open Letter

To the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, (CCs to the offices of the Premier, the Minister of Citizen Services, and the Minister of Post-Secondary Education and F...

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Kydra @kydrathelibrarian.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

NSCC was affected by the Houston government’s recent budget cuts, the college’s answer to the deficit from these funding losses was to cut jobs. Yesterday, myself and all my librarian colleagues found out that we were losing our jobs, that there would no longer be librarians at NSCC campuses.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Ran into this at the entrance gate to Tesco, I reacted like the Mulholland Drive diner guy when he goes back to the dumpster

The terrifying Tesco fruitveg monster that wants you to eat it, or wants to eat you, or both at the same time I don’t fucking know what it wants I just want Tesco to send it back to hell

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“…what happens when institutions stop valuing the cumulative work of forming vocation + jdgmnt— the kind of work that takes time? Grad students have never only been workers. Their role in academic prgms has also been one of the ways fields induct new ppl into their practical + interpretive culture”

datasociety.net

Could This Be the Last Generation of Graduate Students?

As scientists use AI systems as a proxy for working with students, the future of scientific research itself is at stake.

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I made a simple iOS shortcut that changes your lock screen wallpaper to a photo of the most recent iNatural observation in your area based on your location. It uses the public API so no sign up or set up required. routinehub.co/shortcut/253...

routinehub.co

RoutineHub - Set wallpaper to most recent iNaturalist observation in your area

Set your wallpaper based on the most recent iNaturalist observation within 10km of your location

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 20/04/2026

Eby wants to be seen as a problem solver. If he really wants to earn that title on this file, he should not be pausing DRIPA, but rather implementing it. Set a schedule, get it done. If you're just offering BC Conservative Lite on the issue, people are going to vote for the real thing.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 20/04/2026

DRIPA and land claims are not the same thing. Both are separately important. Neither is the end of the world for the land and mineral rights system in the province, though it is likely true some things need to be handled differently going forward. If nothing changed, it would simply be performative.

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

“Fast Car” is not a relic of its time but tragically timeless. Combs’ cover could stay faithful because nothing in this country got better.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/driving-in...

sarahkendzior.substack.com

Driving in Circles

"I remember when we were driving, driving in your car."

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

All done except the tongue. It’s dumber than I couldn’t hoped and I love it. Next I’m free embroidering details and then turning it into a blanket.

A grinning middle-age man wearing a hat holds a large 6 feet long piece of fabric with appliquéd goose in attack position and the words “you do not have to be good” from the Mary Oliver poem on it

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Ok same??? (From the california sun newsletter which doesn’t seem to be on bluesky but is great!)

A beautifully plush quail. The text below: The California quail, our state bird, is an exquisitely round creature. Abundant throughout the western half the state, they prefer the ground, scurrying about in large groups that seldom take flight. Stylish black tufts adorn their foreheads, and the feathers across their bellies are arrayed in the colors of a California sunset. A couple weeks ago the photographer Christian Howard captured a great close-up of a quail looking fabulous in Point Reyes National Seashore.

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD GOOSE (In progress but aren’t we all)

An appliqué of a violent goose in attack position

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I'm running a DHSI workshop on this centering agentic approaches @lucidbard.bsky.social that is outlined here: anastasiasalter.net/DHSI_DH_AI_2...

anastasiasalter.net

DHSI 2026: DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI

Course packet for DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I am going to teach in a couple of weeks an intensive course. Gonna teach plain text, files/folders, terminal, markdown, git/github, servers, basic algorithms and then at the end I'll open Claude and teach them how to use it as part of a workflow.

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Merisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

In intro course in our DHMA, students write their final exam together with an AI chatbot. They then deconstruct where/how the LLM got things right or wrong, reflect on it using readings from lit list. In semester 2 of yr 1, focus on it WRT digital text/image analysis & critical information literacy.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If you’re teaching DH right now, how are you thinking about your students’ relationship to generative AI? Are you ignoring it? Banning it? Discussing a policy with them first? Encouraging vibe coding? Interested to see how educators across the continuum of opinions are managing it.

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture — of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents, as the federal government turns warehouses into million-square-foot concentration camps. It is a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

placesjournal.org

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight

That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I see my local school district is eliminating another elementary art space & my university just had their last ever BFA graduation & I have to ask what exactly is the end game of “AI is going to automate most formulaic white collar work” + “we can’t afford to teach people to create/make new things”

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Daniel @yvrdaniel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Have a bit of inside glimpse at SAIT, so not sure if it’s universal experience. But given how much the admin has been pushing AI, I am partly laying the blame on them for their leadership position and the environment it created.

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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I'll keep yelling about it- expertise doesn't scale down! Brains are discrete units! It is much harder, and more expensive, for small institutions to run an OER program on their own. And small institutions have *so much* to contribute to Open pedagogy.

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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I'm still kind of reeling from the news that Campus Manitoba is closing down. More than *ever*, in a province with one big institution and a bunch of small ones, we need centralized supports for Higher Ed.

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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"It is now time for a federal-provincial strategy on public postsecondary education: essential infrastructure in this nation-building era." CAUT President Robin Whitaker on the hollowing out of public postsecondary education: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

policyalternatives.ca

The hollowing out of public postsecondary education: What do we have to lose? - CCPA

Is post-secondary education in Canada a pipeline to train students for jobs or a source of critical perspectives essential to a healthy society?

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’ve had students tell me about how some of their profs are looking up answers to student questions on ChatGPT in front of the class and they are not pleased to be paying for the experience

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

if any of you want to help by sharing this or telling friends about it, that would be wonderful. because so many devs are participating it’s a beautiful collection of games featuring the theme of fictional OS. it’s inspiring to see all in one place. maybe some of you will find something you love! 💕

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If you had told me in 2019 that in 2026, after a global pandemic, President Trump would be in an online flame war w/ the Pope, Mark Carney would be PM of Canada w/ a majority, and Justin Trudeau wld be at Coachella with his girlfriend, Katy Perry, I wouldn’t have believed you. Kudos to the writers!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I've been quietly removing tech from my school library since I took over 6 years ago. I thought people would be annoyed, but it's been great. Adults have barely noticed, and the students have responded well.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A great thread on the small acts that, over time, accumulate to meaningful change and demonstrate how digital degrowth is both feasible and supports students’ learning.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Heh. Yes. (Also, In Bruges is a good film)

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Sometimes when you make something very stupid the only thing to do is make my much much bigger (in this case: 50 inches beak to tail feathers)

A photo of a appliqué goose laid out, 50 inches beak to tail feathers

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Ohhhh I forgot that I actually hate social media. My bad.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/04/2026

There are certainly good reasons for every step in the crew recovery process but at this point it feels like they’re just putting the astronauts through as many of the most dramatic methods of transportation they can think of in one day

A helicopter hovering low over the “front porch” raft to pick up an astronaut. The propeller is making huge circular waves radiating out from the raft

An astronaut and a crew recovery person dangling over the ocean from the helicopter hoist

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 10/04/2026

Feeling very "swords into plowshares" this morning with the 3d printer. I sent off 1,600 more last week and the local group has what it needs for April anti-ICE whistle packet events, so I've been printing looms for weaving at the Queer Contra Dance Camp craft corner. #DHmakes

A pile of 3d printed frame looms in various colors

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I wrote a longer hand-wringing thread about this but my tongue-in-cheek take is that at my library, I see search friction as a kind of distress tolerance training for a bunch of systems that don't work in concert with one another. That sucks!!

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I disagee that ai search only pretends to removes bad friction but removes good friction. Deep search or agentic search gives you far better rankings than conventional ranking. That is removing bad friction. I don't see how it removes good friction unless you enjoy poor recall/precision search.

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So some of these tools are useful even if they can't automate the full evidence synthesis retrieval. "They simply aren't worth the new failure modes that the generative layer introduces." But you can just look at ai search ranking & just ignore everything else right if you don't trust the summary?

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