Kari Zacharias

New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

Calvin's mom says "Life could be worse, Calvin" by a Liberal Party logo, Calvin says, "Life could be a lot better, too!" under an NDP logo, Calvin's dad says, "Life being worse builds character!" under a Conservative Party logo

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

Canadian election coverage is refreshingly, hilariously boring.

I’m living for this lady on CBC who keeps complaining that she has to work late. They throw to her for a take and she gives the anchor her breakfast order. Now her coworkers are griping about working to midnight. This rules.

This goes double for Canadian media!

The myth of de-extinction in a lab vs the reality of preventing extinction in the field.

As @korybing.bsky.social says later in the thread: the fieldwork is hard, slow, and unsexy, but it WORKS.

Our world is NOT recoverable in a lab. It’s this world or no world.

ALL of this. As a decidedly amateur cis athlete in a sport with an inclusive gender policy, I have *only ever benefited* from having trans teammates, competitors, and coaches.

THIS is what I was waiting for

The Virginia Tech community is in the street. Stop the attacks on higher ed, on DEI. To our Board of Visitors: get a spine and stand up for us@

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

Hamish lies in a human's lap with his eyes mostly closed.

Important update it is time for a break

Hamish, a white and orange cat, looks up at the camera while perched in front of a hole (soon to be a laundry chute) in a bathroom floor.

Back to some minor home renos (laundry chute!) after a lengthy break. Handyman Hamish took a while to get back into it but is now fully invested.

Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

I love our piecemeal reproduction of Roman concrete. It's one of the best, most engaging real world examples of epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of technology there is. So damn good.

Jeffrey Paul Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information Share Memories of Jeffrey & Support the Paul Family

Heartbroken to have lost Jeff, a bright light in our research group and in Canadian engineering education, far too soon.

I make the music for when everybody knows mom needs some space

Crowdsource Q for #science #HPS #STS #sociology communities:
For a newsletter helping science studies scholars get up to speed on what's happening to science under current admin, what would you include
1. What need to know (e.g., NSF flag words list, data backup sites/arX, etc)
2. What you can do?
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Searing letter.

"At the top of NSF we need people who radiate epistemic authority; beacons of faith in the power of research and education to benefit the Nation ...

What we have instead is blades of grass, bending in the wind, however it blows. People without a shred of empathy."

Alt text added.

Great🧵that also reminds me how much I still love browsing through library stacks for physical books. So much learning in the search!

A white and orange cat looks sleepily up at the camera from his perch in a person's lap. The cat and the person are seated near a small glass table, though the cat is blocking easy access to it.

Dinner companion.

so get this: it turns out that technology can be vacuous hype and be adopted and not work all at the same time

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace.

If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

They literally removed the T from LGBTQ and erased any mention of trans people who were present at the Stonewall Riots. They're trying to erase us from history.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

...turns out they ALL thought he was talking about "Elf" and had been confused because they didn't remember Will Ferrell eating any cats 😂

Generative AI’s Labor Impacts Join us on January 18, 2024 as we interrogate the layers of issues around the technology; consider how it scaffolds on previous economic models, structures, and modes of employment; and explore its im...

Was discussing this (great) Data & Society panel on generative AI and labor with my students today and was amused that they kept commenting on one of panelist's reference to the tv show ALF, which I thought was well before their time...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.