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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can definitively tell you that regarding the bottom left, the answer is no. (Wtf else is happening here requires other negative commentary)

Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I guess the crows are getting ready for Halloween. Project meeting in the graveyard

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh my god a student said they have been tuning into my radio show. I’m so happy.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I made a pot of coffee that tasted like actual feet this morning

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College radio stations are disappearing

Great article about how college radio still serves as a crossroads for the various pressures on higher education -- and I get to say mean stuff about Vanderbilt selling WRVU: prismreports.org/2026/09/29/c...

prismreports.org

Cleveland State University’s recent transfer of its radio station’s broadcast license to a conglomerate is the latest blow to independent student media

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Today’s classic college radio moment comes from a local station where the DJ read the entire concert calendar without shifting the levels of the background music so none of it was audible. Perfection I love it.

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Honestly, I think most of my skills developed by being a historian and doing that work fall under the category of project management...

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So the caterpillar that hatched from our dill we picked now has expelled a bunch of green goo, went on a wander, and has settled down. Apparently they will overwinter in the chrysalis—but right now it’s inside. Find a nice spot outside somewhere?

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What Kevin said. And public media (which can be housed at universities- esp regional publics)!

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Profile views at linked in sometimes freak me out

Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My electric Smith Corona arrived for my class, but it has been commandeered.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Amateur radio setup of L. A. Kern, later director of U of Michigan's wireless news service, after a stint as a wireless operator in WWI. ("Radio equipment, Radio Station 9GY, Mattoon, Illinois." University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.)

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would like to report that the building manager finally noticed the eyes a couple of weeks ago.

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A couple of weeks ago my husband picked some dill, then realized there was a butterfly egg on it. We let it hatch, and now we have a hungry hungry caterpillar growing!

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Every time I come home, my poodle “kills” something for me as a present.

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I swear I don’t buy books to complement my organizational color scheme, but it’s nice when it does.

I can almost guarantee that you can go to your college's radio station and get a show. I've even been doing radio versions of my lectures, putting the college back in college radio. These are underutilized assets that should be connected to academics!

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I am...not having a good launch for this semester and I would like to go into hiding for this weekend. The nor'easter might provide some good cover for that.

Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What in the fucking fuck did I just see with this fascist “love me” trump ad paid for by “the US Government”???

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I just had a close encounter with a possum, and yes, I know America’s marsupial and all that… But I really do not like them

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Putting the college back in college radio

Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Want to hear me sing Slayer live on the air? Tune in this morning 10:30-12 on WXPL Fitchburg State radio

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fitchburg State University president Donna Hodge came to my radio show the other day, and we talked all things North Central Massachusetts, the university, and the mission of public higher education…

Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reposted by Kate Jewell

We need to do better by these high school students, who are being offered generative AI everywhere they turn while also being told not to use it, while also not even getting the "bare minimum" of discussion about how LLMs work, why the school has the policies it has, etc.

text that says "require a more expansive curriculum on AI and its problems. Anything would be helpful. Even an assembly would be helpful because people do not know anything about what AI does to them, or the environment. This is a BARE MINIMUM"

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My kid has launched a petition to change his high school’s handbook policy on AI use. He’s pissed. (He really hates AI)

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This is a petition to change the BHS Al policy from this, which was copy & pasted directly from the student Handbook google document on Monday, September 21st of 2026.
BHS Al Policy
Unauthorized use of generative Al tools to substantially complete an assignment is not permitted.
This petition to change the Al policy would like to change the following:
• Remove the word substantially from the policy all together
a. The usage of the word substantially is ambiguous at best, and disingenuous at worst. For example, who is it that decides when Al was used substantially, who decides what substantially means, and why is any amount permitted
when the use itself is unauthorized?
Require a more descriptive decision on how Al is and is not permitted in assignments and projects
a. If students do not know what is permitted, how do they know what is not
b. If Al is used in 100% of the creation process except for editing, would that count as substantial usage? Most would probably argue yes, but it is possible for an argument to be posed of the opposite, that the baseline was made with Al but the final product was made by humans. That argument could be made,
and could be accepted., even if it goes against what the policy means.
c. If Al is used for the basis of the brainstorming of talking points, but nothing
else, would that count as substantial usage? Most would probably argue no,

but again, it is possible to argue the opposite. It could be argued that because the baseline of the passage was Al generated, everything else built on that foundation does not count as real work.
Have a more active description of why Al is prohibited
a. Why is Al prohibited? Is it because you just don't like it? Is it because it harms the environment? Is it because it harms the learning capabilities of people no matter the age or gender? Specifics are important.
• Expand restrictions on Al and what possible punishments might be
a. What happens when you break the rules? Nothing? Suspension? A grade drop? Or should it be decided by the teacher?
b. What specifically is not permitted when using Al? Is image generation allowed? Probably not in art. Is source generation allowed? Who knows, not
us.
c. Are teachers allowed to use Al? Why or why not? It sends mixed messages when teachers use Al in their classroom slides and then turn around and say
"No! This technology is really bad and horrible and don't use it?"
• Require a more expansive curriculum on Al and its problems
a. Anything would be helpful. Even an assembly would be helpful because people do not know anything about what Al does to them, or the environment. This is a BARE MINIMUM.
Each request will be signed on individually in this petition. Each change would be requested individually and discussed with those who have the power to change it individually.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm live! Doing my lecture again, plus some music I discovered from a delightful set of people this summer. mytuner-radio.com/radio/wxpl-9...

mytuner-radio.com

WXPL 91.3

Your Explosive alternative

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our kids are not going to be as thrilled as we are about our bumper butternut squash crop.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For the love of Christ, stop showing the dislocated elbow.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I talked for six hours yesterday and today I have no voice. Slight cold not helping…but I forgot the voice is a muscle that can get overused!

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today my planned guest had to reschedule for my radio show…so I just did my class lecture over music. Other than some flubbed details and a weird intro, I think it worked well… putting the college back in college radio

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thrilled to be back at this radio thing…

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I AM ON THE AIR — Psyche Rock theme song, of course

Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I found this clipping the other day that I’d forgotten about — in 2002 I was photographed for a “street style” back to school issue for the Boston Globe - first semester in grad school. I thought very little about fashion, but I wish I still had that skirt!

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I will not throttle my 17 year old I will not throttle my 17 year old I will not throttle my 17 year old I will not throttle my 17 year old I will not throttle my 17 year old I will not throttle my 17 year old I will not throttle my 17 year old I will not throttle my 17 year old I will not throttle

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Descendents at Roadrunner yesterday . Still uncool! 🤓 And awesome!

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To commemorate 9/11 25 years later, I put together a lesson in using primary sources to reconstruct a timeline and narrative using historical thinking - especially when the stories involve the social history of a historic event.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don’t understand what my cat is doing