@actualham This whole article hurts my heart, but the story of the Whitewater Faculty Senate chair who left academia because she saw no future in Wisconsin #HigherEd really resonated with me. Same reason I left UW-Madison 5 years ago. Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into permanent control of the state legislature, and they are outright contemptuous of the UW System. @academicchatter
Alright, let's see how many Plant Scientists/Botanists we can reach here in the Fediverse.
Reply to this tweet with an introduction of yourself, what first attracted you to plants, and what you work on now. And boost this toot! #Planticipation#Botany#PlantScience
@ml I forgot to say what first attracted me to plants: walking through the woods in Virginia during my childhood, learning to recognize (and avoid) poison ivy and Devil's walking stick, reading the 'Foxfire' series on Appalachian technologies, and a certain fascination with magic and sorcery from reading Tolkien, Arthuriana and the like
@ml and what brought me to mushrooms was an eastern European girlfriend, of course! I tell the story in the special "Mushroom Issue" of Economic Botany published on the 50th anniversary of Valentina Pavlova and Gordon Wasson's ground breaking ethnomycological survey 'Russia, Mushrooms and History' who shared a similar mushroom honeymoon
I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.
@reginasbread Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, The Fresco and Gate to Women's Country both by Sheri Tepper, The Kingston Cycle books by CL Polk, Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon are a few ... @bookstodon
@reginasbread I can rememeber a steampunk/victorian space opera novella, where a middle-aged lady became a leader of a colonial planet uprising, because the government forces burned her cannabis lot.
If anyone can give me author and title, I will do a pot ceremony for you.
@aralqprf thanks for posting that link. Possible, certainly plausible but debated. I wish the Smithsonian had actually included or linked to the dissenting views. @RustyBertrand
NWS continues to flout ADA and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act...after the breaches have been repeatedly brought to their attention
Don't tell me ableism in STEM is no big deal. What the hell use is your #SciComm if you refuse to communicate important data (weather alerts, warnings, disasters) accessibly? Eugenics, is what it ends up being. #DisabledAndSTEM
You may think "eugenics" is an exaggeration here, but if you're a public agency disseminating information people need to make decisions about their safety and the safety of their homes in a form that can only be fully read by abled people, in the midst of #ClimateEmergency, then you're not just ableist but eugenicist. #DisabledAndSTEM#SciComm
While on the subject, AAPD has a call out for testimonials to the US Dept of Justice as to how digital inaccessibility affects you. Comments need to be received by Oct 2: https://aapd.quorum.us/campaign/51385/
Something that’s been nagging at me all day: A discussion with a parent about their teen’s belief that history classes are a waste of time—not because the kid isn’t interested in history, but because they believe that they can learn all they need to know about the Roman Empire from YouTube videos far more efficiently than by taking classes.
There’s so much misunderstanding of what history is about baked in there that I don’t even know where to start.
@tkinias I know, right? Exactly what I meant in last post about popular tendency to reduce history to a set of facts rather than an interpretive method and framework (not that there aren't good videos about Antiquity, from Mary Beard to Tom Holland and others).
And on that note, I've made a point of using @AHAHistorians documents in teaching my intro history & methods course: e.g.
@GreenRoc I regularly have “the talk” with my son, who already has a bone to pick with trigger happy cops. Please goddess let his drive for self-preservation overcome unfiltered sharing when his time in front of a gun arrives. 🙏🙏
@btaroli@GreenRoc@actuallyautistic
I was only once in USA and it was in your area and city. No place in the world I felt so constantly tension and unsafe like there. Eg. I accidentally thought it would be a good idea to walk by foot and cross tenderloin to reach union square. After three blocks and seeing police taking people under arrest, people taking openly drugs, running around like zombies I backed out again. Also everywhere this aggression and people knowing no borders.
It’s finally happened. Trump’s business empire is on the verge of total ruin as his decades-long practice of fraudulently inflating his property values led a NY judge to CANCEL the business certificates of the Trump Organization entities.
Kudos to NY Attorney General Letitia James for bringing this all to light and achieving accountability against Trump. He’s a fraud. He’s a rapist. And he’s a clear and present danger to our democracy.
But justice has caught up to him, and it is glorious to see.
@tommyyum@georgetakei@actuallyautistic theyre dragging everything out and hoping he dies before there are repurcussions. There wont ever be actual consequences for him...maybe for his kids, but not for him.
It's taking so long because nobody in charge actually wants to hold him accountable.
I'd say stay on here and follow #actuallyautistic and perhaps @actuallyautistic
Whether you participate or just lurk, you can see if what people are saying resonates.
Ditto. I'm a couple of months into my journey of self-discovery and, by and large, the most helpful resource has been following and interacting with people here on #ActuallyAutistic.
Books are great. Self-assessment tests are great. But joining communities and connecting and relating with other autistics is really what helped me understand myself better.
I haven't seen any interviews with her, but #media / #journalists should really be speaking with Kassandra Luciuk about the SS veteran invited to Parliament. Luciuk is a historian (Dalhousie) of the Ukrainian community in 20th-century #Canada. She demonstrates that some Cold-War Canadian officials were quite happy for right-wing Ukrainian migrants to use violence against communist labour leaders, also from Ukraine, already in the country. #CdnPoli#CdnHist#histodons
2/ This week I've read/heard many discussions in the media of SS veterans' migration to #Canada, but none with historians. What I've seen are conversations with politicians. Fine, this is a contemporary political debate. Still, all of these conversations claim that "we don't know enough" about the history. But scholars know more than politicians! If I were a journalist, I'd start with Luciuk, but other #histodons (of migration, anti-communism, intelligence, politics) could help too. @histodons
#introductions Hi! 👋 I'm John and I'm an academic #librarian in #LosAngeles where I head up my library's outreach and engagement team. I've been working in libraries for about 15 years.
I love spending time #gardening, listening to podcasts, wine tasting (read: drinking), reading, and being with my family.
We might buy a piano soon.
I was an avid user of the bird site since 2007 but stopped posting over a year ago. I miss the community of library folk I found there. 😢
Which reminds me, I must post today’s podcast. My guest is a legally blind author who writes blind characters with agency. I am in awe! (I am vision impaired, that’s not ableist inspo pron, it’s “omg one of my tribe beat bigotry to do this awesome thing”.)
Hallo Welt!
Bin Autorin (SF, Fantasy), zeichne gerne mit krita, also ohne KI Gedöns, schreibe Blogartikel zu Selbstversorgerthemen und liebe die Natur.
Gibt es hier noch mehr Autoren, Buchverrückte oder Hashtags, denen ich folgen könnte? #neuhier
@Onechtokeia
Hallo Kollegin!
Schreibe selbst Fantasy. Für Garten und Gemüse ist meine Holde zuständig.😁
Ich klatsch mal meine Hashtag-Sammlung rein, vielleicht hilft die Dir was.
Oh, drei Gruppen sind auch dabei: