Brenda Tronson

Photo of feet standing below some text on a floor. “The point is not for women to simply take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.” - Simone de Beauvoir

A reminder from Simone de Beauvoir on International Women’s Day.

Cartoon with four images in black and white comparing a cat's and a dog's behaviour

Sarah C. Andersen (born June 15, 1992) US cartoonist and illustrator #Womensart

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

an old-school DnD alignment chart, a grid of 3x3 squares, with the two axes being lawful to chaotic and good to evil. lawful good: a lengthy, well-formatted footnote with additional explanatory text neutral good: a note to future self of what to do with a footnote, but the full citation already pulled chaotic good: an incomplete footnote but the various authors are at least listed in brackets lawful neutral: a somewhat more restrained footnote than lawful good, without explanatory text true neutral: just the footnote chaotic neutral: a note from the author to the author, saying only "find this again!" lawful evil: a curt footnote saying "see, again:" with the full citation after it neutral evil: text, cut off by the screenshot: "I swear I read this somewhere; I've lost the bloody [...] goes to publication" chaotic evil: a completely blank footnote

I found this lying around in a random folder with other things I made in grad school: FOOTNOTE ALIGNMENT CHART

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

kitten lying on back on bed Luge cat practices in its sleep

It just happens that back in 2014 I made a bunch of Winter Olympic Lolcats. Let's have a look!

Government Relations Adviser - Job in Sydney - Justice and Equity Centre Lead government relations strategies to help shape social justice campaigns.

Fantastic job going at my workplace, the Justice and Equity Centre. Spread the word and reach out if you have any questions: www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/piac...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hi, I’m Ken, and I am here to tell you things you won’t like. It’s my job. I sympathize with Julie Le and am on her side in general but she went about it the wrong way.
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Photo of a display of four woven baskets in different sizes, three with different repeated geometric patterns, the other with stylised images of birds and plants

Wounaan Baskets from the Rainforest of Panama, created by master weavers such as Miriam Negria #womensart

If you want to get a reaction out of someone, say cheerfully: "Ah! Batman...he's the one who was bitten by a radioactive bat. You know, I hope he got his rabies shots after that happened."

When white people react with hostility to sharing space with Black and brown folk, they don’t care if those folk were born here, migrated legally, or are “illegal aliens.” They only see non-white faces who “don’t belong in their space.” This is why “ordinary concern” about migration is basic racism.

That checks out...

Well it’s February, or as I like to think of it - 28 days of horrendous humidity.

Look I don’t like being a killjoy but re: the “tell me five things about yourself” trend, as a kindly warning I’d just like to state from recent personal experience that having your identity stolen is a massive pain in the arse

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

In a Vinnies op shop* a man (80s?) is looking at tea sets. He turns to one of the volunteers and says: "I'm looking for two cups with saucers. I'm on my own now but I always like it when someone drops in for a cup of tea." (1)

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

Very important proposal for bus signal priority in Vancouver by Mayoral hopeful @wazaroff.bsky.social running for @onecityvan.bsky.social. Transportation equity means prioritizing transit that’s moving a LOT more people in a lot less space. That’s ironically better for EVERYONE, including drivers.

As an ex e-learning developer, I can confidently say this will be a terrible learning experience. I cannot wait to rip it to shreds.

Here's what the Free AI Training will look like 🧵

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on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Big tech upskilling

After announcing it in the summer, today the UK government launched free training courses to AI upskill workers. It's free because it's funded by big-tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others, and not by local organisations in the UK who have been working with communities->

Today, I found out that the French term for "science communicator" is "vulgarisateur scientifique". Science vulgariser.

There is literally no better descriptor for someone who talks about animal sex and poo.

Joanna Bagniewska: Science vulgariser. Wulgaryzatorka nauki.

#scicomm 🧪

The reason why cyclists and pedestrians push back against these types of campaigns is not because we think visibility is bad (I wear hig-viz!), but because it's victim blaming that diverts attention from the real issues: dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure

The front cover of a book entitled "The potency of ungovernable impulses". Author is Malka Older. There are two figures standing in the bottom part of the cover in black silhouette. One is reaching out to the other. The cover is otherwise mostly red and purple/pink with a stylised planet set behind the title.

Funny you ask....

I’ve fought this battle before and lost. I maintain that no one wants to satisfy an information need with a “knowledge base article” — three words that in combination mean about as much to most people as “&^%$#@^&(!”

Whereas, people know what a guide is & that guidance can satisfy their info need.

My old university used to have 'Guides' to systems etc & how they work. My new university, showing the heavy hand of management consultants, now has 'Knowledge base articles'. I think I need to check whether information is the same as knowledge. That would be a philosophical question. #PhilSci

Skies in Hobart tonight. Quite something.

Climate change is really, really expensive

Painting with significant symbols and motifs in orange greens purple and yellow

Indigenous Australian artist Judy Watson Napangardi, Snake Vine (Ngalyipi) Dreaming, 2001 #WomensArt