Environmental social scientist with research interests in positive youth development, place and group identity, civic ecology, computational social science, and climate change communication. Professional background in environmental education. Crocheter, late night novel reader, mother.
If Mastodon diehards want this to be The Next Place after Twitter, the move is to bend over backwards to listen to disabled and Black community about what they do and don't need in social media space.
Even if it's challenging.
Even if it makes you uncomfortable.
These are power user communities, whether folks like it or not.
There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests
Wicked excited to be teaching this course next semester! We'll likely be planting a pollinator garden with a local partner and potentially doing some trash clean up and recycling auditing with a local youth green corps. https://sites.google.com/worcester.edu/envstewardship/home #highereducation #engagedlearning #servicelearning #academic #geography
Hello! I joined Mastodon a month ago but never introduced myself. I'm an Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Worcester State University in Worcester, MA. I'm engaged scholar who focuses on the links between civic ecology practices, identity development, and place stigma contestation. Also a wannabe digital geographer who enjoys coding in Python and R.
US folks looking for health insurance, TOMORROW is the Obamacare exchange deadline for 2023. The subsidies are pretty good this year, so you may be able to get a good rate.
Our system is impossibly awful, but at least this exists.
@LowlyAdjunct Thanks! Just curious about what 'unexams" are to begin with :)
@brianleechphd @RohanMaitzen Students who turn their work in on time get more feedback and benefit from the scaffolding. Students who wouldn't have handed anything in at all if I didn't have a flexible late policy at least get some credit for work. But it's definitely not perfect, and I'm not always perfect at implementing it.
Today, President Biden will sign the Respect for Marriage Act. It will nullify the odious act known as DOMA, which had enshrined anti LGBTQ+ prejudice and discrimination into law.
Federal recognition of same sex marriages, by statute, is an important safeguard, but we must still do more. We must now enshrine the protections of Obergefell into law, so that no state can deny same-sex couples the rights and privileges afforded heterosexual married couples.
@LowlyAdjunct I'm thinking of trying ungrading or grade free courses in the spring and am excited! Would you be willing to share more details!
Via Miles Richardson/ @ed_hawkins - There can be no net zero without nature
@OceanTerra @ed_hawkins Neat! I love the emphasis on this linkage!
ASA #Dissertation Award deadline is January 1. Good luck! (And remember, advisors: If your student's dissertation is embargoed it's not eligible.)
#sociology @sociology
Worrying about voter turnout 👎🏼
Making voter turnout happen 👍🏼
Stop doom scrolling and join @Enviro_Voter on the phones.
https://www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved/126-12pm-et-gotv-virtual-phone-bank/2022-12-06
RT @Enviro_Voter
Tomorrow is Election Day in Georgia.
Don't doom scroll. Instead, help us flood the polls with environmental voters.
We're only calling low propensity environmental voters who haven't voted yet. Join us.
https://www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved/126-12pm-et-gotv-virtual-phone-bank/2022-12-06 #GeorgiaRunoff #ClimateAction #ClimateVoter
I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accessibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧🇩🇪 https://fedisabled.social/about - for all disabled people
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://mentalhealth.social/about - focus on mental health and help
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://a11y.info/about - Acessibility and digital inclusion
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://indg.club/about - by and for indigenous people from North America and worldwide. All First Nation people welcome
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://babka.social/about - A community for Jewish people of all kinds and their allies, safe from antisemitism
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 http://queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://autistics.life/about - space by autistics for autistcs
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://ehr.scot/about - Equality and Human Rights defenders, advocates and organizations
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies
🔗🇧🇷🇪🇸 https://ursal.zone/about - antifascist, feminist, antiracist, anticolinialist, accesible, and trans-and-nb-inclusive, in Latin America
🔗🇧🇷🇵🇹 https://bantu.social/about - non-white portuguese speaking people
🔗🇧🇷🇵🇹 https://colorid.es/about - queer/LGBTQIAPN+ people
Please boost to reach more people!
Universities often announce increases in faculty diversity; how is that adding up? 🧵
In a new analysis of US federal data in Nature Human Behavioir with @NeilLewisJr & @HopesPsychology@twitter.com, we show that the U.S. is not succeeding in diversifying faculty.
We also (1) analyze whether the pipeline analogy is helping or hurting and (2) compute what it would take to achieve faculty parity in our lifetime.
(if you are an #Academic, please Boost & share with colleagues)
So how can we achieve faculty demographic parity in US higher ed by 2050?
We're actually hopeful! We make suggestions on collective action, data/evaluation, & funding.
@NeilLewisJr & I are also working on a TBA collab with <redacted project TBA>.
For code, data, a FAQ, and an invite to get involved, see this page.
Been following this critique with a lot of interest & have a hot take.
Mastodon is unbearably white only if you're unbearably American. It's refreshingly not yet Americanized for many from the Global South with American Discourse™️ all over our TL.
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