Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

“Moms for Christo-Fascism” aka “Moms for Liberty” are attacking public schools across the US. They are huge fans of Betsy DeVos who spoke during their national Summit. #ChristoFascism #dominionism #ChristianNationalism Thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1597266665972334593.html

It's 2022 Disability Holiday Gift Guide time! 🥳

Putting the guide together is my favorite annual holiday tradition.

I know it's been a heck of a year, but I hope this guide brings you some joy and helps you get in a festive, giving spirit! It's brimming with cool shops owned by disabled entrepreneurs, some book recommendations by disabled authors, and disability-led organizations to support.

Please share with everyone you know! 🎁📚♿️

#Disability #GiftGuide #Holidays

https://emilyladau.com/2022/11/2022-disability-holiday-gift-guide/

Herschel Walker thinks the solution to gun violence is “stopping young men from looking at women [on] social media."

@ReverendWarnock@twitter.com supports universal background checks and closing loopholes that allow domestic abusers to access firearms.

Georgia – the choice is clear.

@AlliFlowers I’ve done it twice, now: the first time, I just signed up for any server (making a Twitter placeholder, basically), and the second time was to move off social and into zirk.

I get the fear. I used to be a historian, so should I be on historians.social? But I also write, so maybe writing.exchange? And ooh, I do freelance work in education that isn’t higher ed…

Like you say, best to just aggressively look for the people you want to follow.

Pinning this one. Historians.Social is for diverse, robust multi and #interdisciplinary conversations about #history.
History is inherently awkward, awful, more than just difficult, so we expect some conversations might be, too. This place is by humans, for humans, so it won't be perfect. The admin team will be transparent abt costs, issues, time - the work to make community space is challenging but we want all of us to be up for it. Hang in there with us and with each other. #Optimism

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!

Shulman: teachers are constantly learning how to teach. Just like physicians, the education of teachers never ends

@AlliFlowers @TechLitig8or @edmunds_t @edutooters @academicchatter I'd love if that was consistently the case but I'm not sure it is @AlliFlowers . In the UK context at least, massification and resourcing adds genuine pressures on realising differentiation. In other instances, these same issues provide an excuse to redeploy a generalised approach - especially where tech or asynchronous provisions may help.

@TechLitig8or @edmunds_t @AlliFlowers @edutooters @academicchatter I think perhaps the terms "gamification" and "gameify" are also a barrier to those who (perhaps understandably) feel compelled to defend the seriousness of their disciplines in an atmosphere of anti-intellectualism. The merits of such approaches aren't necessarily well served by terms that also finds a home in marketing techniques within the experience economy.

26.11.2022, photo:

Vladimir #Makey, 64, head of #Belarus Foreign Affairs #Minister, is dead. There are rumors he might have been poisoned.
Makey was named as a possible successor of Lukashenko. He was one of the few not under #Russian influence.
Rumors say this might be a hint to #Lukashenko.

#introduction I have been wanting an alternative to Twitter for a long time, but this seems to be the time.

Live in Norway, did a PhD in computer supported collaborative learning #cscl #education, very interested in #pkm. Currently work at tana.inc.

Have done some experiments with Twitter API before, but it was very restrictive. Very curious if anyone are experimenting with ActivityPub for alternative interfaces, community sense making, integration with PKM etc. Let's chat!

Mississippi is America’s Blackest state. It’s mostly white MAGA Govt annually rejects $1B in Federal $ for Medicaid. Now the last hospital in a rural part of MS is about to close—devastating Black & low income people.

MAGA racism & cruelty on full display. Like the old saying goes. Republicans claim government doesn’t work—then they get elected and prove it.
https://nbcnews.to/3EMk43p

For educators, I have made available many of my resources around teaching and learning, including more than 100 interviews with digital media and learning pioneers http://rheingold.com/learning

Weird how the GOP hates Sharia Law in Muslim countries, yet they want Christian Law in the United States.

A bit of reality #massshootings

So, the European Union has set up its own Mastodon instance, EU Voice, as an official channel/platform for all its many institutions - what a great initiative https://social.network.europa.eu/about
#TwitterMigration #europe #Diplomacy #Transparency

📚 This is your reminder that your LOCAL LIBRARY probably offers lots of great resources in addition to physical books. E-books, access to newspaper websites, book recommendations, etc.

Go check out yours _now_!!

NIH-funded PIs who have a single major NIH grant and do work in DEI: 🚨
Administrative supplements are available to support your efforts 😮 and due February 17, 2023!

NOT-OD-23-002, an Administrative Supplement to Recognize Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Mentorship
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-002.html

#BlackInSTEM #dei #NIH #mentoring

The new owner of Twitter just told his 100 million plus followers that Alexander “Vindman is both puppet & puppeteer” and said “the question is who pulls his strings.”

So Musk isn’t just allowing anti-Semitism on Twitter. He’s enflaming it.