Found this Notebook LM feature pretty cool—and a bit nostalgic: tinyurl.com/bdcvmuxa
Behind the Discourse: Whiteness and Community College Culture (my dissertation, now mostly collecting dust).
#highered #communitycolleges
Salem Celebrates the 4th!
www.salemma.gov/CivicAlerts....
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum closed abruptly Tuesday. Hours later — after pushback from members of the Kennedy family and the public — the National Archives said the library and museum would open Wednesday.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48597/...
What types of students go to North Shore Community College? Here’s one: youtu.be/C7kY4IOnZkw?...
Mark your calendars for the City of Salem Annual Christmas Tree Bonfire!
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 5:45 p.m.
Dead Horse Beach at Salem Willows
(There will be no scheduled makeup date for weather-related cancellation.)
On this anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting, my prayers are with their families and community. But prayers are not enough, Congress cannot continue to allow other schoolchildren, educators, and communities to endure the pain of gun violence.
This is a cartogram depicting the share of land associated with various purposes in the United States. From https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/#xj4y7vzkg
Bluesky wrapped: a 🧵 of my posts that generated the most conversation on this site.
Below is a clever visualization of the distribution of how land is used in the U.S. Cows roam over a lot of land!
But this is not a map - for example, the 100 largest landowning families aren't confined to Florida.
This graphic, created for Bill Gates' website, shows that diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are responsible for vastly more human deaths than other animals. While sharks inspire fear in many, they kill few people. Snails can transmit parasitic worms with Schistosomiasis https://www.cdc.gov/schistosomiasis/about/index.html More background on this chart here https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/verify/verify-are-mosquitoes-really-the-deadliest-animals-on-earth/507-578093577
We often worry about the wrong things.
People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
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Great performances by all the #SalemMA High School Music Students at tonight’s winter concert!
salemmahsmusicboosters.org
You know what’s been meaningful for me lately: alternating between reading Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh. Both beautiful thinkers…
The U.S. bishops' conference was among the groups that urged President Joe Biden on Dec. 9 to commute existing federal death sentences before President-elect Donald Trump, who has sought to expand the use of capital punishment, returns to the White House.
The potential of AI for multilingual learners
#edusky #edtech #teachers #education #educators
Interesting read.
Anthropic Says Claude AI Can Match Your Unique Writing Style slashdot.org/story/2...
Looking for a community of Latinx/a/o scholars broadly throughout academia? With help from @larrylafountain.bsky.social I started this starter pack, now w/ 111/150 scholars. If you wanted to be added please reply to post.
Dr. @jorgenleal.bsky.social also has a starter pack!!
go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Black Feminist & Black Women Studies Scholars
Starter pack of scholars whose work looks critically at schooling & efforts to interrupt the social reproduction of inequality through education in transformative ways (U.S. & global) - updated w/ requests (sorry if I missed your request - inundated with notifications today) go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other!
Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars
go.bsky.app/BaXvoap
City of Salem Offers Free Thanksgiving Weekend Parking
***Community is encouraged to shop local during the upcoming holiday weekend
www.salemma.gov/home/news/ci...
Not looking good out there, people. Stay safe…
@adamgrant.bsky.social
Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.
😂
www.pbs.org/video/the-bu...
Can being bilingual protect you from Alzheimer’s? thevarsity.ca/2023/1...
