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Megan

@mmckelly.bsky.social
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Environmental chemist turned generalist turned higher ed admin with heaping portions of cats and hobbies

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory
TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY'RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU-
BUY NOW! HUMMUS AND A
WOW!! 
EXTRA LARGE FALAFEL MEAL FOR 2!!!
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🏳️‍🌈Gosh Darnit of the New Jersey Darnits😷 @goshdarn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Every democrat between presidential elections.
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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Found this on LinkedIn, of all places
GOB from Arrested Development with a steak knife between his teeth and playing cards in both hands. Caption is “This is the energy the entire AI industry gives off”
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Stephen Spong @stephenspong.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A colleague just sent me this brilliant AI satire from @davidjameshudson.bsky.social and like much of the best satire it's both very funny and informative. www.davidjameshudson.ca/how-to-teach...
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How to Teach AI Literacy: An Outline - David James Hudson
Are you facilitating a workshop on AI literacy? Here’s a very rough outline for a workshop to help you decide on content and structure your lesson—though you may have to flesh it out a bit.
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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I can’t stop thinking about the time this band played live on Nickelodeon. The network censored “beer” from the lyrics but the name was fine to say on air.
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This made me giggle @lwah.bsky.social @forensicgarlic.bsky.social
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Nightingale tracked this in the 19th century. Blue is military deaths due to disease, red is due to wounds, black is everything else.
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“So when someone chooses to subtract themselves from a social encounter… the most appropriate response is to meet that self willing subtraction in kind. Meet absence with absence, meet apathy with apathy. It is not my job to compensate for a person’s erasure of me by making myself more present.”
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Excited to share Shiyuan Wang's paper "International trade and air-quality-related mortality" published in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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International trade and air-quality-related mortality - Nature Communications
International trade shifts part of the health burden of air pollution across countries. This study shows that about 14–18% of global deaths from fine particulate pollution—800,000 annually—are linked ...
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 18/04/2026
WHY ISN'T ANYONE TALKING ABOUT THE REAL NEWS STORIES!!!
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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I told a bunch of space jokes last weekend, and I still a saw think you might like them!
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Elisa Coghlan @esilentio.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Quote posting with a screengrab, only because two skeets can't be quoted at once...but these two BELONG TOGETHER.
Screenshot of a reskeet of Bodega Cats photo. In the photo, a long-furred, lion-maned calico tabby stands amid crowded bodega shelves, balanced on the tops of four brightly colored laundry detergent bottles. Its mien is SERIOUS.
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Also fits the seasonal banger “Jesus Christ is risen today” you’re welcome
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Chicago is an amazing place for birding.
A small Burrowing owl with brown and white feathers and yellow eyes amidst beach grass in the dunes at Montrose Beach
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...
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Gwen!!! @poodlewool.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A watercolor color image of a dark eyed junco in a huge pair of barrel legged jeans with a studded belt and chain. Text on an orange field reads "Dark Eyed JNCO"
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas
@aandeloucas.com:

In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University:

Nine majors "sunsetting":
• Classical civilization
• Classics (Greek and Latin)
• Digital humanities
• Fine arts
• German
• Latino-Latin American studies
• Middle Eastern studies
• Modern Jewish studies
• Russian
ALTThe First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy
Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education.
The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin).
Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership.
By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
So many of my favorite businesses from my grad school years on this list 🥹
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I deleted bluesky and installed tetris because that’s basically what i have the capacity for right now but i just heard about this and thought my tiny corner of the internet should know: www.standwithminnesota.com
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Deven Rue 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @devenrue.com · 10/01/2026
If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
She opens her eyes when I say her name 🥹
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crush @lizzyisi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Information I needed in advance of the primary
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I have the flu and everything is a trash fire but would you believe how silly this kitten is
Tuxedo kitten with green eyes and white whiskers rotating her spine impossibly
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/01/2026
It's very clear from the commentary exploding on the timeline right now that hardly anyone outside Chicago knows ICE shot and killed a man in his car here in the fall. It's probably not your fault—too much news. But if you're choosing to jump in & *report* today, please contextualize. Thanks.
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
www.shesabeast.co/why-every-fi...
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Why every fitness influencer is a conservative jagoff
They wouldn't be trying to claim it if it weren't actually the key to their ultimate destruction.
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
i am standing right here
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Chicago’s annual snowplow naming contest is underway and Mayor Brandon Johnson is backing the name “Abolish ICE.” blockclubchi.co/4pi3DA4
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Jesse @jesseh.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Literal words to live by: “Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, but don't let okay be the nemesis of terrific either.”
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Yes, the travel book guy
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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Said it before and I'll say it again - if you look at every awful Rogansphere inspired "comedy" trend of recent years and think "I kind of want the exact opposite of that", Josh is pretty much your guy. Comedy that's smart, warm, empathetic, and laugh out loud funny because of it.
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I’m sorry but BOTH my books are bestsellers??? I’m sorry BOTH??? I’m sorry but BOTH?????? bookshop.org/lists/bestse...
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Bestselling Nonfiction Books of 2025
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We deserve this win.
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Lol of course they are
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Johnnie: Shield of 'Murica - Malört Division @dadbaud.cocktailcon.org · 18/12/2025
Hey Chicago peeps, you know what to do. Do it. Do it.
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Wild to consider that I read 1984 as as 9th grader and thought it was so far fetched so as to be dull
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Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It's wild that this public perception is shifting when dems continue to be weak as hell on this. It isn't media driven, it's entirely people's lived experiences that's influencing this swing.
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E Anderson @emcanderson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Something that will make your brain feel a little happier if you could use that today (or tomorrow or the next day....)
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Scott Smith is Our Man In Chicago @ourmaninchicago.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
“Your property taxes are higher than they should be because commissioners on the Cook County Board of Review keep handing out massive tax breaks to corporations, which shifts their tax burden onto homeowners like you.” chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
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Cook County Board of Review bears a lot of blame for your home's property tax increase
When the board gives hefty tax breaks to corporations, it shifts the tax burden onto homeowners.
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Come for the malort, stay for the sobbing into your coffee
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
What is with this crop of upper admins who spend millions of dollars a year on their faculty, all of whom are employed in part on the basis of their ability to read, and then send out videos with no transcript we're expected to watch?
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💀spooky eunuch™🕸️ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
i just learned that my piece, Collagen sits on a throne of lies, was picked as a notable selection in Best American Science and Nature writing 2025! my haters are blue in the face to see a humble blog receive among the highest honors a science piece can get! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
“The best science and nature writing—which these stories represent—reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make ...
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Hi the Vatican also published a doc on AI before Leo became pope and you can read it here if you want (and even if you don't, click on the link to enjoy the situating of such a doc on a real geocities looking webpage 😆): press.vatican.va/content/sala...
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Nota “Antiqua et nova” sul rapporto tra intelligenza artificiale e intelligenza umana, del Dicastero per la Dottrina della Fede e del Dicastero per la Cultura e l’Educazione
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Defector @defector.com · 22/11/2025
The CDC is lying about vaccines. 🎁 defector.com/vaccines-do-...
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Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says | Defector
On Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a name that feels increasingly misleading, given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s track record of sowing outbreaks of infectious diseases—quietly…
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Megan @mmckelly.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I got to see them between the gym and work with a couple of assists and it was so lovely and I’m so grateful 🤩
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A bond fund for people detained by federal immigration agents is seeking donations. blockclubchi.co/4r1ZFxu
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Ever since I read Letters from the Editor — the collected letters of The New Yorker’s founding editor, Harold Ross — back when I was starting out in journalism, I’ve had this more full understanding of E.B. White, so, yeah. Not on my watch.
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