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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 3h

How might colleges and universities implement universal design for learning at scale? Here's our full, just-posted Future Trends Forum conversation on the topic with UDL guru and author @thomasjtobin.bsky.social : youtu.be/XaUIWq9i4rU

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

you can listen to portishead's dummy any time you want

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A.N. Hill @anhill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Turns out, the secret to longevity might be lots of lettuce and sexytimes. Right, @blueheronfarm.bsky.social ?

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wrote about @mayor.nyc.gov and how cities can restore our faith in democracy, one pothole at a time. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/o...

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Opinion | Zohran Mamdani Is Showing the World How It’s Done (Gift Article)

The New York City mayor has an antidote to globe-spanning distemper.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think so (personnel changes). Right around what felt like the big shift they took Beckie S off the teaching beat and the main Advice editor was transferred out of that section. I'm guessing there were upstream changes in management around that same time? But don't know.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah I've been hearing this all over. I've been too distracted to try anything myself, but heard this from like a dozen folks. Not just more left-leaning but also more center-folks and HUGE names (not that that should matter, just striking), ghosted. And all the HE-hate. I don't even read mostly.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah I've seen better photos of you for sure. It doesn't convey your snarky fun.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

nothing quite like that feeling when your favorite people get the recognition they deserve 👏👏👏 Congrats Jessamyn!

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Such a great event! The lunch after was buzzing with ideas.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just felt.... skummy, after reading it. It took a while to shake. Which is again skillful writing to have such a strong effect! But not what I'm looking for in a read. Find it so interesting that some of his bad reviews use words like "film" - just that sensation. bsky.app/profile/saro...

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I didn't mean that his work was solipsistic - I admitted the skill and gripping reading. The characters were fully drawn and all so different from each other. But in a way that complexity made the contempt worse - he fully saw them, and still found them contemptible.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I did wonder if Corrections was an extreme in this case... one of the best (and most encouraging) things about writing is that we do tend to improve over time. And as much as he still comes across as obnoxious in this interview, you can tell he has also done a lot of self-reflection over the years.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Seems neither would I: "Cheuse of NPR found the novel "[brilliant]" but not enjoyable..."every line, every insight, seems covered with a light film of disdain. Franzen seems never to have met a normal, decent, struggling human being whom he didn't want to make us feel ever so slightly superior to."

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He likes to edit his speech as he goes along: “strike that word!” he orders at one point, and “this needs to be underlined”. When he loses his thread he announces, grandly, “you can redirect." Grandly, lol. You can tell the interviewer found him insufferable as well.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

but felt that every sentence dripped with contempt for his characters, the same contempt he projects to <gestures to tv, social media, "chick lit," the whole universe that isn't him and his direct concerns>. Not my cuppa tea.

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sure. But for me his insufferability affects his writing too, though I must admit I only read (and loathed) The Corrections. I found it a gripping read and could appreciate his skill as a writer...

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Breaking news: Jonathan Franzen is still insufferable. Here he has flashes of insight into his past dickery and wants a whole lot of credit for acknowledging it. Pass. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’

The author of The Corrections talks about a new TV adaptation, the future of reading and why creating new work is ‘horrible’

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Schrödinger wakes up, groggy, no memory of the last few hours, unsure of his surroundings. He seems to be confined inside some kind of box. There is a strange mechanism at one end. His pulses quickens; from outside he hears a cat purring.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The Transformers do not endorse the views of the President" okay, great, yeah, it's very normal that you had to say that. This is an ordinary world where things make sense. It's normal that I'd wake up to an official statement from cartoon robots denouncing the man who has the nuclear codes.

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"We grieve the worlds we've known and what it felt like to live in them, and people are part of that. We grieve the fact that someone or something that accompanied us through the world will no longer accompany us through whatever comes next." organizingmythoughts.org/grief-is-not...

“We often misunderstand something fundamental when we imagine people are simply grieving a person they believed to be wholly good.

Often, they are grieving a kind of accompaniment.

They are grieving the way someone's music, art, words, performances, or ideas helped carry them through the world ... They are grieving a bedroom they sat in twenty-five years ago, listening to the same album over and over, or a book that knocked down walls when they were nineteen. They are grieving nights spent with friends they no longer know and conversations they can barely remember. They are grieving their own proximity to death, as marked by the disappearance of someone whose presence in the world always seemed continuous with their own, until it wasn't.” - Kelly Hayes

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Pooja K. Agarwal @retrievelearn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What are @sarosecav.bsky.social and I creating? 🧠 Comment with your guess! #EduSky

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 05/09/2026

If anyone wants to host me in your scenic cottage for a writing retreat where I’ll either finish my book and find love with a handsome local or become increasingly unglued and lose my grip on reality, lmk

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Joe Dator @joedator.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

there are many serious reasons to follow scientists on here but also for “it glows in the dark, like all lantern sharks”

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The internet was absolutely a mistake but this is one of like five admissible pieces of evidence that it’s good actually

What I'm doing with my life
sometimes sheets can be propped up to be a cave but other times they lie flat like a ground. why is that
I'm looking for
• poposable thumbs
• Tall as counter
• Understanding of locks
• Warms
The first things people usually notice about me i am small enough to use pieces of furniture in different ways that are surprising to humans eg edge of the bed is actually a tiny step for me to use like a borrower
The six things I could never do without cold chickens, heated chickens, small dry pellet chickkens, chickens from a can with picture of cat on it, chickens from the sea (also in can but missing cat picutre on can), chicken from larger animals like beef
The most private thing I'm willing to admit iwill climb on top of you in the night and settle like a tiny rain cloud

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Join me and @dewsbury.bsky.social! We're also going to be sharing some of our most recent work on the intersections of instructional choices about assessment, feedback, and grading and self-determination theory. gardnerinstitute.regfox.com/2026-symposi...

Flyer for a preconference session at Gardner Institute "Feedback as Care" October 13 2026 Indy IN, headshots of folks tagged in the post

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ceej @ceej.online · 08/07/2024

welp, just about time for bed in my spooky old mansion. better walk through every room putting white sheets on all the furniture

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026

Today's @xkcd.com

It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets;
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

tim curry's genius was in knowing full well how ridiculous a part was and giving it everything he had regardless, treating it as the most important character that had ever been written and in the process making it real

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bookriot.bsky.social @bookriot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Tell me, what is it you plan to watch on your one wild and precious summer night? If Mary Oliver’s poetry means something to you, here’s your answer.

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Mary Oliver Documentary Premieres Tonight on PBS

Tell me, what is it you plan to watch on your one wild and precious summer night?

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's pub day for PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: THE SCIENCE AND STORIES OF HOW PREGNANCIES REALLY HAPPEN. Woo hoo!!!

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Book describes loss as a central feature of pregnancy – News Bureau

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports

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2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

yelling “wake up sheeple!! they’re coming for the race/IQ guys!” to a room vacated months since by academics fired for teaching about gender or quoting Charlie Kirk’s less flattering lines

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here are some nice mushrooms

A family of vibrant purple and green fascinating Stereum mushrooms grow like a pile of ears on top of a moss and lichen speckled log. All photos by me

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Today I walked in on the downstairs shrimp having an all hands (all… maxillipeds?) meeting on the big rock and I felt like I was interrupting something Important (Plus, bonus shot of a fine young lady shrimp and her pal from later)

Like a dozen or more red cherry neocaridina shrimp all hanging out on the aquarium rock for ??????? reasons

A pretty female neocaridina cherry shrimp on a piece of wood with another maybe? female behind her

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

THREE black cats crossed my path on my morning run just now. As a big fan of cats I am taking this as a blessing rather than an omen.

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Cute Black Cat Rolling in Grass

Alt: Cute Black Cat Rolling in Grass

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

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Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/06/2024

new favorite playlist

[id a spotify playlist titled "kate bush threw a house party but there's too many people and now she's stressed" with three songs in it. the songs are "wow" by kate bush, "full house" by kate bush, and "get out of my house" by kate bush end id]

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Two in-person keynotes (one for faculty, one blend of faculty and students) with a virtual keynote for a different uni in between. Lovely day, but just dead. Time for a hotel re-heating methinks.

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Heated Rivalry Ilya Rozanov

Alt: Heated Rivalry's Ilya Rozanov winks at the camera

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

Scene from Dirty Dancing where Baby and Johnny lipsynch on the floor together

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/08/2026

Turns out that right now, it is very hard to find a job if you ethically refuse to work on Murder or Mass Surveillance

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