ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

Saying not to bother with the favourite button on mastodon because it doesn't affect any algorithm is like saying not to say thank you to someone because no one else will hear.

Stop thinking in those old social media ways of engagement and visibility and algorithms and reach and audience and start thinking about being social.

America’s culture warriors are going after librarians: librarians across the country are under threat as efforts to ban books about marginalized groups reach a fever pitch

HTTPS://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/war-on-librarians-united-states/

“Adopting such [forest management] practices would fundamentally alter forest industries, Simard admits. It would mean logging less, using fewer wood-based products and investing more in restoring battered ecosystems. It would require people to behave a bit more like creatures of the forest — to recognize our interdependence, to learn from elders, to take less than we give.” 🌿 🌍 💚

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2022/suzanne-simard-mother-trees-climate/

Masks aren't perfect, no one single measure is, which is why we need to keep advocating for multiple measures including ventilation, next gen vaccines, and better treatments.

But we are in a surge now that is keeping our most vulnerable locked out of society. We can't keep people at home indefinitely, unable to access essential needs. Mask mandates will instantly open up society to millions more people, while we work on longer term solutions.

#COVID #COVID19

STOP TRYING TO MAKE EVERYTHING SCALE

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” — Black Elk #quotes #quotesfortoday

Hi all, this is a core commitment I'm carrying into the #NewYear. This ‘Yes!’ theorizing comes from Deborah Bird Rose in SHIMMER and nicely captures the socio-ecological caring stance I've been working towards for a while.

She describes it as an ethical commitment to investigate and participate in the great flow of life's desires and ways of becoming, with its tendencies and its emergent possibilities.

"With ‘Yes!’ life moves, it acts, it comes bursting forth."

#Kinning #MultispeciesJustice

A life-size statue of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells were collected without her consent and used for decades in medical research, will be placed in a plaza replacing one of a Confederate General.
(HT @nytimes)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/us/henrietta-lacks-statue-roanoke-virginia.html
[Image of H. Lacks is publicly available on Wikipedia]

New Year’s resolution: We stop saying history will judge them. We judge them now. With judges.

I still haven't even processed 2020 tbh, ain't no way I'm ready for 2023.

A lot of non-Natives fear #LandBack, concerned Native gov'ts would treat them the same way Colonial gov'ts treat Natives.

Truth be told though, #LandBack would be the best thing to ever happen to Natives and non-Natives.

#LandBack is best for everyone, and especially the planet itself.

#Native #Indigenous #NDN #Freedmen #BIPOC #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #FreedmenMastodon

Haven’t encountered many trolls/creeps here. Like, shockingly few, compared to what I was used to . . . elsewhere. Have actually encountered more in the comments on my Substack. Just saying — if you show up with a Pepe the Frog avi talking about genetic superiority, you’re not staying.

@ZingerLearns very much in line with my own thinking. Leading seems to be an emergency property best spoken to by those who observe/experience working with you. Not to say that self-reflection isn’t crucial for leadership work, only that if you’re actually leading it will show up without you needing to proclaim it into existence.

I keep a mental list of #words that you can not/should not use to describe yourself (ex. ‘Innovator’, ‘maverick’, etc.). Most recently I’ve been thinking about #leader as being well up on that list. Be deeply deeply suspicious of anyone who self-describes as a #leader.

California Science Center. Shuttle Endeavor.

Always worth a visit and it is free! I also find the shuttle exhibit more engaging than the DC one. DC it just gets lost among all the other aircraft. Here it is shown solo and fills the space.

I thought it might be time for #introductions again.

I teach high school biology, anatomy, science research, and I teach and mentor future science teachers at the University of Colorado. I also bike, hike, run, swim, bird husband, parent, and walk and run with a dog named Ida. I occasionally blog at mrdrscienceteacher.wordpress.c...
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#teachereducator
#teachersfollowteachers
#STEM
#edutooter
#dogsofmastodon
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The greatest trick racists played in 2022 was hijacking the word "woke" and turning it into a politically correct "N-word".

Even if media predictions were correct, they represent a style of political reporting that is dysfunctional. Campaign coverage is increasingly focused on anticipating who will win through polling analysis. But politics is unpredictable.

https://popular.info/p/political-media-is-broken