Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandCandace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 04/07/2025People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic. 13391383293
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I give you a momentary reprieve from the madness: The Vera Rubin Observatory has taken its first images of the sky, and they are *extraordinary*. Mind blowing detail, jaw dropping beauty. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/rubin-open... 🔭 🧪badastronomy.beehiiv.comRubin opens its eye. And what it sees is the Universe.Mind-blowing first images from the huge telescope. 241092224
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/06/2025I dunno guys but I just think maybe scicomm would be more effective if we really thought about this like it's sharing 4717
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandMichelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 21/06/2025Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! I edited today's @thenarwhal.ca story, which comes from the Inuit community of Cambridge Bay. Fascinating science journalism and stunning visuals, but also — in the spirit of the day — a couple pics of some very cute Indigibabies enjoying a celebration. Enjoy!! 05529
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandLiz Jackson @lizjackson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025“The idea of a flag that unites us all is no different than a universally designed product that is intended for all. Both require the totalizing force of colonization to unify the masses through homogeny.” Read my and @fractalecho.bsky.social latest: buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi... 12111
Reposted by Dr. Kate Ringlanddr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Yesterday was a historic day in New York history (indeed, in US history): Mahmoud Khalil was released from ICE and returned to New York City, and Zohran Kwame Mamdani walked the length of Manhattan. Both brave men have me thinking about the powerful politics of being vulnerable. 128539
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail after 104 days in custody. 5455911247
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6263661111258
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/06/2025Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025trvr.orgTo proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below. 2127342023
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandCraig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 15/06/2025scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera 182037842
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2025No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars. 03322
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandThe Liberation Garden @resistancegarden.bsky.social · 15/06/2025For the folks talking about the "3.5% rule", remember that after you come out for a rally you also need to take part in organized, effective resistance. Materially disrupt things. Make trouble. Create support networks to feed your neighbors and bail out protesters. Don't show up just one day. 5469148
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Find something you can do. There is *always* something. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something. 8679201
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandBilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Every fascist uses illness and violence to disable opponents. They disable us with covid, poverty, police violence, climate destruction, war, transphobia. They count on ableism to make us deny this reality and to abandon each other. Resist. Wear an n95. Use alt text. Make protests accessible. 1401159
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandErik Ledbetter @bandoblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/ 9042121898
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Case in point: my dad began at No Kings today said it was packed, no crazy cop presence, then went to the zucotti park one explicitly anti-Ice and pro Palestine, cops are everywhere. 210236
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Happy FOIAFriday the 13th! NEW issue of my newsletter is out. In March, I filed a #FOIA request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... 20552204
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.organizingmythoughts.orgProtest, Power, and the Violence Debate"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating." 271082606
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandAlex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf 11472685141
Reposted by Dr. Kate Ringland-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 11/06/2025leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control 89322519747
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12/06/2025As LAPD makes this announcement over a P.A.: "I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly" Literally 5 SECONDS later, the first impact munition round is fired. MULTIPLE munitions are launched before the announcement is finished. It's no longer audible over the booms and frightened screams. 7315142
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandNorman Makoto Su @normsu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Have you ever observed/participated in pushback related to accessibility/disability computing research? We’re collecting short stories which will remain confidential, of pushback, at ALL levels in both industry and academia, to identify tensions in the research community. 122
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandScott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 11/06/2025🧪 The entire Fulbright Board resigned, citing the Trump administration's alleged usurpation of authority and denial of selected recipients. They assert these actions contradict the Fulbright-Hays Act and undermine the program's bipartisan mission. #AcademicSkyaxios.comEntire Fulbright board quits, citing Trump administration interferenceIn an open letter, the board said that the administration denied awards to a "substantial" number of selected individuals. 111270
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandSara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 11/06/2025We interrupt the American house of horrors to remind you thay June is DeafBlind awareness month. Here are some of my recommendations of writing by DeafBlind folks for your #DeafShelf! cc @snarkbat.bsky.social @habengirma.bsky.social 24826
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandThomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The charges against Prof. Willoughby-Herard were finally dropped yesterday. She courageously defended UCI students against police stifling dissent against Israel's genocide in Gaza. I am inspired by her courage and honored to have represented her in this case. Solidarity with those who fight. 61043355
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors. 113110872658
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandLauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com · 09/06/2025Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term. "When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social) 81071487
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Neither grief nor pride had so much truth in them as did joy, the joy that trembled in the cold wind between sky and sea, bright and brief as fire. 0107
Reposted by Dr. Kate Ringland✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025These young Californians have something to say. I hope you’ll listen. “The kids in the Cages” by The Neighborhood Kids @theneighborhoodkidsmusic 28770316
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandDr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 09/06/2025LA is resilient and immigrants are our superpower 1848
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025In 2010, Israeli forces attacked a Gaza aid flotilla, killing 10 people. In the aftermath, the Obama administration blocked UN efforts for an investigation, Biden defended the attack, and Chuck Schumer condemned the United Nations and defended Israel.zeteo.comGaza Aid Ship Bombed, Echoing 2010 Flotilla Attack"Today’s attack on our flotilla off the coast of Malta is not just an act of piracy—it’s a consequence of global complicity," a Freedom Flotilla Coalition organizer said. 241683683
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 08/06/2025listening to some local news out of LA and it’s really something hearing reporters try to distinguish between “just normal people here” and “the protestors” 544164
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 08/06/2025🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨 A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions. This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/ 9256116
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism” 6865390615547
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."whitehouse.govDepartment of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security FunctionsMEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 753158605994
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/06/2025No one, no matter how strong or wise or great, can rightly own and use another. 0156
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not. 94135423959
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"officials said Northwestern researchers have not received payments for National Institutes of Health grants since March, signaling that those funds have been frozen, despite no official word from the Trump administration." 06224
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...wnep.comWayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurantNewswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained. 314283498606
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandIsaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Really great piece @nytimes.com Magazine about the firing of Maura Finkelstein. Especially helpful in clarifying the very really differences between AAUP and FIRE (AF as collective vs. individual right). You know what side I'm on!! @aaup.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...nytimes.comA Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia? 33313
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandJeff Leek @jtleek.bsky.social · 04/06/2025These are not just grants. This is thousands of people who devoted their lives and careers - taking pay cuts, working long hours, living with uncertainty - all for the chance to try to make people's lives a bit better for you and your loved ones. This breaks my heart. 210248
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandLynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 05/06/2025“Who did they protect? Who did they serve?” Sigcho Lopez asked the crowd. “These are people who came to renew their work permits. Now we have a 10-year-old boy without a mother.”chicago.suntimes.comICE agents detain at least 10 immigrants as elected officials try to block officers in the South LoopImmigration advocates and several alderpersons gathered outside the building as the arrests were in progress. They say federal agents detained at least 10 people who had shown up for a routine immigra... 321589
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/06/2025I personally know 5 early career and trainee level academic scientists who have changed jobs/ career paths in the last month. They did not see a sustainable future with ongoing cuts and attacks. The scale of decimation of the pipeline that the scientific workforce in U.S. faces is staggering. 413841
Reposted by Dr. Kate Ringlandmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/06/2025This is all part of the conservative endgame - ban foreign students to create a budget crisis, pull back on affordable tuition, financial aid and scholarships, both these things "free up" slots for underachieving children of the wealthy who can afford to pay to be admitted into good unis. 316240
Reposted by Dr. Kate RinglandUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls. 0185