My recently defended thesis, “A Pedagogy of One: Engaging the ‘Missing Middle’ Toward Inclusion in Education” can be downloaded https://jdc.jefferson.edu/diss_masters/43/

Today, 160 years ago, on April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House, effectively ending the Civil War.

Happy Surrender Day!

A Pedagogy of One: Engaging the 'missing middle' toward inclusion in education has been successfully defended. More importantly, now that it is "done" I desperately crave feedback, conversation, and connection. The big version will be coming out on an open repository soon, but in the meantime this is the presentation in text form that I delivered to my committee. https://jesshmitchell.com/a-pedagogy-of-one-engaging-the-missing-middle-toward-inclusion-in-education/

Just defended my thesis. It was so lovely to get to spend time on this work...

Peter Kramer, M.D. wrote "Should You Leave?" about Intimacy and Autonomy and much more. It is relevant to any relationship including the relationship with country. I left the USA in 2013 and it has been the best decision I ever made.

Stating the obvious here: these challenges are the ones where we *show* our ethical lines. We show our lines through our actions. If we don't stand up, we passively cede ethical ground. Pull up yer socks!

It scrambles my mind that a country would buy F-35s with software they DO NOT OWN. It's bad enough if you buy a song on Apple and don't own it, but a jet?! This is a mess. You don't own the software=you don't own the jet: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-must-weigh-risk-trump-blocks-software-upgrades-for-f-35s/?utm_source=Shared+Article+Sent+to+User&utm_medium=LinkCopy&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

A new collection of 9 articles about AI in Education just went live at https://floeproject.org/projects/ai-in-education/ with a forward from Hewlett Foundation and Etika Insights and authors like @mahabali @Ammienoot @rabbitt and more...

"The cure for TB—roughly half a year on antibiotics—has existed since the 1950s, and works for most patients. Yet, in the decades since, more than 100 million people have died of tuberculosis because the drugs are not widely available in many parts of the world. The most proximate cause of contemporary tuberculosis deaths is not M. tuberculosis, but Homo sapiens. Now, as the Trump administration decimates foreign-aid programs, the U.S. is both making survival less likely for people with TB and risking the disease becoming far more treatment-resistant. After decades of improvement, we could return to something more like the world before the cure.

Anyone can get tuberculosis—in fact, a quarter of all humans living now, including an estimated 13 million Americans, have been infected with the bacterium, which spreads through coughs, sneezes, and breaths. Most will only ever have a latent form of the infection, in which infection-fighting white blood cells envelop the bacteria so it cannot wreak havoc on the body. But in 5 to 10 percent of infections, the immune system can’t produce enough white blood cells to surround the invader. M. tuberculosis explodes outward, and active disease begins.

Certain triggers make the disease more likely to go from latent to active, including air pollution and an immune system weakened by malnutrition, stress, or diabetes. The disease spreads especially well along the trails that poverty has blazed for it: in crowded living and working conditions such as slums and poorly ventilated factories. Left untreated, most people who develop active TB will die of the disease."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/tuberculosis-death-usaid-trump/682062/

#USA #Trump #USAID #PublicHealth #Tuberculosis

I'm amazed when people who'd never publicly admit to, say, being an alcoholic casually remark, "Yeah, I'm a really competitive person" - apparently oblivious to the serious psychological dysfunction (and moral defect) that they're revealing.

They're not saying only that they feel compelled to excel (which, like any compulsion, is troubling enough) but that they need to triumph over other people - i.e., to succeed by making others fail. In a healthy culture, this would be seen as a cry for help.

@catherinecronin happy st. patrick's day! those are some lucky cows!

Newest #cogdogDailyPhoto in Flickr:

2025/365/63 Into The Golden Zone

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/54375992254

Forebodng nd psomising sky in one

Markets don't have values, people do.

@catherinecronin <3

Friends and colleagues: if you have published work that has previously been made available via #PubMed or other federally-controlled architecture, I strongly encourage you to find other ways to share it. For instance: KC Works is a non-profit, community-governed repository (built on top of CERN's InvenioRDM). We support all fields, all languages, all geographical locations. Join us and ensure that your work can remain available to all. https://works.hcommons.org

Scraping for good news: made perhaps my best batch of spackle this weekend. Such a sense of satisfaction.

#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany.

Her cellmate said her last words to her were “how can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”

#WomenInHistory #History #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

Backing out of the void and back into the source: Signal, Mastodon, DoOO