Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Drudgery" is very much a gendered concept 2306
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyBenjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Working on a list of insects in silent films if people have recs. boxd.it/WH2sKboxd.itSilent Film InsectsA collection of early silent films featuring insects 85222
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026it's happened - am first and corresponding author on a team collaborative paper. yet the second author, a man, was invited to give a presentation on it. 🙃 001
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 09/08/2026lol at univ saying first time wild game cooked/stored in a campus residence communal kitchen, having lived in EcoHouse ... 132
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyDr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comWomen as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove... 311762
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026also now have a gold panning permit and actually tried it - shocker, did not find any 😂 but quite beautiful and lots of other interesting finds 130
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Yes! Recently had the fun experience of looking for smoky quartz in the White Mountains (USFS permit/location info: www.fs.usda.gov/r09/whitemou... ) 041
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyDr Manu Saunders FRES @manusaunders.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A 2019 paper that is often used as evidence of the flawed 'windscreen phenomenon' has been retracted. I cited this paper a few years ago in explainers about why this particular anecdote cannot be used as evidence of insect decline. See thread below 👇 retractionwatch.com/2026/06/23/a...retractionwatch.comA prolific evolutionary biologist caught faking data decades ago notches a new retractionA study claiming a tenfold decrease in bugs splattered on evolutionary biologist Anders Møller’s windshield over two decades has been retracted. shanecotee / iStock Anders Møller, an influential ev… 25238
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyYale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This extract from @rossbrooks.co.uk's Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life reveals some of the tensions between the rich complexity of biological reality and the social norms that sought to contain it. yalebooks.co.uk/how-darwin-a... #history #pridemonth #naturalhistory #skystoriansyalebooks.co.ukHow Darwin and Modern Biology Obscured the Queerness Of Evolution - Yale University Press LondonThis extract from Ross Brooks’ Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life challenges one of the most enduring assumptions in the history of science: 0187
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12/06/2026kids are running a plant/yard sale this weekend to benefit RDK, one of the most rad orgs around #ROC www.rochesterdeafkitchen.comrochesterdeafkitchen.comRochester Deaf KitchenWe rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it directly to Deaf families experiencing hunger – with full communication access in American Sign Language. 010
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12/06/2026they left the nest yesterday! fledglings hopping around 🥺 010
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneySam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Warren Burger's response when a deaf lawyer asked for real-time transcription (at the lawyer's expense) when arguing before the Court (in a case about disability access!). 2726663
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyChristine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026We have recently launched a Visiting Scholar Grant at Rochester to work with the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. See attached flyer for details! #histmed #fellowship 02414
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 06/06/2026good morning to my 4 new housemates (robin parent and 3 nestlings living in the porch rafters) 060
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 02/06/2026spotted: hummer with 'tr33hggr' plate 🤔 221
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 14/05/2026read @novicsara.bsky.social 's new book 'Mother Tongue's on the sidelines of soccer practice this evening - great book that moves between the personal and the structural! 🙌 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670270... 210
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 05/05/2026tell me you don't sign or know any signers without saying so 🤪 162
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026More evidence of how fucking chock-full of eugenics silicon valley iss, has been, and will continue to be if steps aren't taken to name, acknowledge, and dismantle those connections. '“All my fundees have blue eyes.” [Jeffrey] Epstein and the tech world’s dark ideology'codastory.com"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology - Coda StoryThe Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley. 8371155
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 28/04/2026so excited to attend Julia's film premiere today 🎉🥳 - with captions from @aat-transcribes.bsky.social 🙌 - check out the virtual premiere of "Where the Bomb Trains End" on May 4 m.youtube.com/@wherethebom...m.youtube.comWhere the Bomb Trains EndWhere the Bomb Trains End is a documentary made by Julia Resciniti as a part of the Aberg Family Fellowship. She was a fellow during the 2025-2026 academic year at the Rochester Institute of Technolog... 001
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyCase Studies in the Environment @casestudenv.bsky.social · 20/04/2026A case for inclusive climate-disaster communication for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, from Abigail Block and @kstackwhitney.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/cse....doi.orgClosing the Preparedness Divide: A Case for Inclusive Climate-Disaster Communication for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the United StatesClimate-related disasters and extreme weather are becoming more common and severe. People with disabilities experience increased negative consequences from these disasters, largely due to social barri... 032
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyContingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 16/04/2026"Brushing off these practices as unscientific implies that 'true' science is, and always has been, unimpeachable. It denies us a chance to examine what flaws may fuel our own ways of thinking." A new mailbag from @wbarlowrobles.bsky.socialcontingentmagazine.orgThey Thought What?Unpacking the history (and present) of science 25226
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Come join @civicsoftech.bsky.social's May book club on Wed, May 20, at 7pm ET. I'll be leading a discussion of @fractalecho.bsky.social's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We Are Wrong About AI - and Dr. Williams is joining too! Register at: www.civicsoftechnology.org/book-clubs 14820
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/04/2026Getting some thought provoking emails this morning 813919
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/03/2026Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope... 993570984
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:bloodinthemachine.com"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and offAI Killed My Job: Educators. 20590261
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 14/03/2026🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation. Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent. @robbonta.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...sfchronicle.com‘This was forged’: Residents deny sending emails pushing Bay Area air policy changeAt least 10 people listed as sending letters in favor of an air quality policy change said they have no recollection of doing so and weren’t even aware of the proposal in the Bay Area. 18543359
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12/03/2026the county is putting public records behind a paywall online, in large part due to bots/scrapers 😕 101
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/03/2026“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”scientificamerican.comAI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you thinkAI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs 15417184
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/03/2026Daily reminder that calling ai dead labor and stolen labor is literal.futurism.comGrammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased ProfessorsThe Grammarly "Expert Review" feature uses AI to provide feedback on papers using the name and work of real professors, dead or alive. 7319122
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu. 171540435
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/03/2026over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people. ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody. 216769
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 23/02/2026foggy rainy afternoon, no blizzard here, alas 130
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 21/02/2026the closest I've ever felt to an Olympic athlete = Elana Meyers Taylor signing to her kidsmedia.tenor.coma man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointingAlt: a man (Leonardo DiCaprio ) in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup (beer) and pointing at a screen in recognition. Popular meme gif 130
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyHelena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 18/02/2026“why do you hate technology” as though “technology” were some discrete entity divorced entirely from the context of what it does and what it creates, rather than a category so broad as to constitute reality itself 291653324
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13/02/2026A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it. 20309130
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 09/02/2026can't find a single *local* #ROC TV or print clip covering this! (plz send if you see one!) more info: www.yahoo.com/entertainmen... 010
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 09/02/2026great performances! (folks who didn't watch the [sadly separate] signed stream may not know that the halftime show was signed in Puerto Rican Sign Language by a Puerto Rican deaf interpreter who tours with Bad Bunny!) 14315
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Every morning I wake up with a hollow anger that I have been enrolled, as a university worker, into a long-term objective of “enhancing” AI integration (“where appropriate”) into my undergraduate teaching 2306
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 12/01/2026just finished @thewaroncars.bsky.social 'Life After Cars' - so good, myth-busting and oriented towards action + community building. excited to co-host a book club discussion w/ local walk/bike grp at library next month and dream up next steps for our (car-centric 😭) town 0101
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 04/01/2026how your email finds me (until everything starts up again tmw...) 1100
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 02/01/2026not exactly a resolution but read a lot of poetry + cut off a foot of hair to welcome in the new year 250
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneyRua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 11/10/2025This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… 330994
Kaitlin Stack Whitney @kstackwhitney.bsky.social · 21/12/2025kid#2 found a US history book in the little free lib nearby. it seemed ... off from even the first page. looked up the pub-- turns out it's a phonics reader published by a higher ed institution that doesn't allow women to wear pants on campus 130
Reposted by Kaitlin Stack WhitneySociety for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 12/12/2025OTD in 1950, Judy Wajcman was born. A pioneering sociologist and feminist theorist, Wajcman reshaped the philosophy and sociology of technology by showing how technological systems are deeply entwined with gender, power, and social organization. 1/ 56217