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• Post #4404828

  Great interview between Prof AJ Escoffery and Dr Kay Coghill, who's Community Safety and Support Steward with Blacksky Algorithms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hrPb4egyis #Bluesky #Blacksky #SOcialMedia #AlternativeSocialMedia #Commodon #TrustAndSafety #Misogynoir #ATProto

• Post #4078201

  "It wasn’t always like this, said Safford. The Forest Service’s replanting efforts mostly kept pace with wildfires until around 2006. “And then,” Safford said, “it just falls to shit.”" https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2026/07/wildfires-california-forest-reforestation-seed/ #California #ecology #ClimateDiary

• Post #3993426

  Prof Steven Thrasher is suing Northwestern & the federal government "Released documents from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s intimidation campaign revealed that during the 2024 encampment, Northwestern Trustee Michael Sacks sent then President Schill a text message with the request that “we just not hire assholes anymore,” referring to a Medill faculty member (me????)" https://lithub.com/when-we-fight-we-win-why-i-am-suing-northwestern-university-and-the-us-g...

• Post #3971430

  it is an outrage that excellent scholars doing important work leaving the UT system is a feature, not a bug, for those pulling these fuckery moves https://www.statesman.com/news/education/article/ut-border-surveillance-scholar-tenure-denial-22343342.php (i think this 2nd link is nonpaywall, it does have trackers) https://www.statesman.com/news/education/article/ut-border-surveillance-scholar-tenure-denial-22343342.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-...

• Post #3871350

  "The farm workers aren’t provided with sick leave or with reliable access to medical care. Thus, they are the initial victims in this disaster, because of the conditions they are forced to work and live under. They are the proverbial “canaries” in this growing public health crisis" https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2026/07/16/its-the-water-not-produce-likely-driving-cyclospora-outbreaks/ #cyclospora #PublicHealth #FoodSafety #farmworkers #immigration #diarrhea

• Post #3845514

  writing help query, long shot: looking for insight into SEO and automation, i.e. whether and how product searches using certain keywords get those keywords appended to product descriptions. i assume this is a somewhat automated process and seek insight into how that works. TIA! (boosts very welcome!)

• Post #3799301

  anyone have handy a good overview of the history of regulation of chemicals in the US? bonus for comparison to europe? *edit, most interested in post Silent Spring and EPA era #lazyposting #STS #histSci #histodons #HistSTM

• Post #3792166

  it is frightening to watch temperatures climb ever higher with absolutely no self-correction that will help anywhere on the horizon it's also frightening that there seems to be a lot of collective denial of this reality #climateDiary

• Post #3754428

  who on here knows about snakes and can confirm that this is a Pacific gopher snake(?)? it was easily 6' long. Los Angeles County (will delete after ID since the file is big) #snakes #LosAngeles #California

• Post #3747560

  weekend #asstodon statuary in the sunshine

• Post #3724359

  real bummer of a read. and many such stories: species that got “saved” in an earlier era of “conservation” are now backsliding again due to other stresses https://www.audubon.org/magazine/ospreys-chesapeake-bay-are-starving-death-disastrous-rates-what-will-it-take-save-them #conservation #ecology #ospreys

• Post #3708196

  "A tenured professor who was fired last year over her pro-Palestinian activism has won her job back and is suing her university over the termination" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/california-professor-gaza-protest-reinstated #HigherEd #academia #GazaProtests #uspol

• Post #3685576

  "Last summer, Angelenos began to vanish... Families are still living under the shadows of those raids" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/08/ice-raided-their-city-thats-not-where-it-ends #LosAngeles #ICE #immigration #uspol

• Post #3666100

  "Though the government has plenty of ways to promote its own viewpoint, puppeteering every university professor in the state is not one of them" https://www.rawstory.com/court-thrashes-red-state-s-breathtaking-attempt-to-ban-unpopular-ideas/ #HigherEd #academia #1a #Florida

• Post #3567894

  [EDIT: don't boost this, but see thread. TY!] A ban-evading troll stalks me and other people from dozens of sock puppet accounts Right now he's using @McGee @piaille.fr [EDIT: I think this account has been zapped now] Please block/report, boost if you wish @admin@piaille.fr , please check on this new user and decide whether this is welcome on your instance. Thanks, folks [EDIT: I will add to this thread as needed. THANKS MODS & PPL REPORTING!!] #SockStalker

• Post #3496657

  “All 19 recognised institutions have been systematically targeted: every one of Gaza’s university campuses has been severely damaged or completely destroyed, while university colleges and intermediate colleges have sustained severe damage rendering them non-operational" https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20260617185507827 #scholasticide #Gaza #HigherEd #academia

• Post #3437857

  "Over time, we simply stirred the virus in with all the other forms of disorder and dysfunction we live with — problems that appear to be acceptable because they merely inconvenience some large portion of people, even as they devastate others" still one of the best pieces of writing about the pandemic (Jon Mooallem in 2023) https://web.archive.org/web/20230302191258/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/22/magazine/covid-pandemic-oral-history.html

• Post #3419026

  "Firefighters have faced increasingly complex fires at large facilities amid a rapid expansion of the logistics industry... The structures often “represent a unique intersection of high-density combustible loads and complex internal geometries that challenge even the most robust fire protection systems" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-06-22/boyle-heights-storage-fire #LosAngeles #BoyleHeightsFire #BoyleHeights #Logistics #SupplyChain #ToxicLA

• Post #3387748

  United Auto Workers Vote to Divest From Israel: Members include workers in the auto industry and in higher education, as well as a significant number of health care workers and state and government workers https://truthout.org/articles/united-auto-workers-vote-to-divest-from-israel-in-historic-victory/

• Post #3377463

  "a black presidency is a contradiction—it owes its power to a movement against racist state violence at home but seeks an office which has always practiced racist state violence abroad ... what stands out about the horrifying death toll in Gaza is how easily it slots into a history of American global power" Ta-Nehisi Coates is pretty much the only person i want to read reflecting on Gaza and the 2024 election edited link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260622213310/https://www.vanityf...

• Post #3134235

  science: political? who can say! "Police removed five doctors and researchers Friday from an American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans after they said they had handed out copies of an editorial critical of President Donald Trump" https://www.nola.com/news/doctors-diabetes-trump-new-orleans-removed/article_e569bcf6-d6e2-4d1c-9c47-bdbf8686c567.html #uspol #medicine

• Post #3104560

  "several Jewish faculty members filed claims to say they had experienced harassment as Jews on campus – but probably not on grounds Trump’s EEOC intended. ...they argued that the hostility they faced stemmed from their support for Palestinian rights and student protests..." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/columbia-jewish-faculty-protests-settlement-fund #uspol #PolicingTheCampus #GazaProtests #antisemitism #HigherEd #academia #Columbia

• Post #3060288

  my colleagues' votes on whether to form a union are being counted today. last night the university administration ran to the Trump administration asking them to "review the legality" of the situation, meaning, they're scared of losing the vote so asked for a favor in which the feds declare the union in formation null and void evil shit, with implications for workers everywhere: https://www.provost.usc.edu/an-important-update-on-the-rtpc-faculty-unionization-process/ #unions #...

• Post #2916734

  There are at least five #HungerStrike actions going on at different #ICE facilities across the US right now. Thank you to LA Taco for connecting the dots between #Adelanto #DelaneyHall and more https://lataco.com/huger-strike-dhs-detention #USpol #ICEprotests

• Post #2768565

  RE: https://journa.host/@bolts/116620048481796126 we have not been hearing as much about Memphis as we did about Minneapolis, Chicago, LA, and DC; and that's not fair to the folks in Memphis #Tennessee #uspol #ICE #Memphis

• Post #2572688

  "The attacks on Black studies are not only connected to the tectonic rightward shifts we are experiencing in every terrain of public life in the United States, but fundamental to them. It is at the nexus of a project funded by a network of conservative foundations that aims to reverse generations of hard-won progress" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-studies-freedom-democracy/ #HigherEd #academia #BlackStudies #Racism #EthnicStudies

• Post #2572686

  this looked VERY Where The Wild Things Are IRL #MagicInTheMundane

• Post #2505920

  what do we call this aesthetic? unlike the midwest infrastructural sublime from yesterday, i hate it, but i must also acknowledge it surrounds me

• Post #2454788

  Texas Tech students held a funeral for academic freedom 🪦 https://pen.org/texas-tech-academic-freedom-funeral/ #Texas #TexasTech #DavidBowie #AcademicFreedom #HIgherEd #Academia

• Post #2369999

  a pinnacle of #flosstodon if i do say so myself