Christiana Varda

TFW you have to give a final push to cross off a few more tasks from your list before your vacation.

My pet peeve? Transcripts that have not been formatted at all.

A kitten foster has turned into a kitten adoption. I'm finally starting to get all the cat memes. Consider this your warning.

Here we are again: About to edit a manuscript I now officially hate. It took everything to open that document again.

Congrats! 🎉

Opinion | The Subversive Joy of BookTok

"Escapism, it turns out, isn’t always avoidance. Sometimes it’s a way back to yourself."

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

Honestly, it's just TOO similar. #iykyk

It was so nice to meet @vea.bsky.social over coffee IRL today. It honestly felt like I traveled back in time to the good old days when social media fostered connection rather than division.

Somehow it seems I am (yet again) monumentally behind on life.

Maybe it's just pre-conference stress.

I feel you so much!

When your tiny speck of a country makes it into the script, as an obscure reference.

It always catches me by surprise and makes me feel seen.

Also, Kathryn Hahn as a half Cypriot? I'm on board. 🥰

#Cyprus #TheStudio

In Defense of Despair The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.

Simply beautiful. Unapologetically hopeful. It was the perfect start to my day.

In Defense of Despair www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

When you agree to a review, but they don't tell you in advance that you basically have 10 days to do it.

Very nice, thanks for sharing Charles! Might adapt this in a future iteration of one of the courses I teach on media production.

jesus LLMs are the scooters from WALL-E

Freire weeps

Discovering a special issue on a topic you're immensely interested in, feels akin to receiving a love letter.

🎉 Publication alert!

The study reports how trust in scientists varies across countries, considering individual and country-level factors. It also examines people's normative perceptions of science in society and policy making and which issues should be prioritized in science.

Key findings:👇🧵

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

Image of a hand with index finger about to make contact with a robotic arm. The image is accompanied by text providing information about the Webinar Series 'IBL Behind the Scenes'. It states the date (23 January 2025), time (16:00-17:00 CET), title (International Dimensions of STEM Education in Europe: Trends, Gaps and Opportunities), and the speaker (Dr. Oliver Straser).

Sharing this on behalf of #EARLI SIG 20 'Inquiry Learning', for which I'm JURE Coordinator. We're kicking off 2025 with a new webinar series called "IBL Behind the Scenes". Our first webinar is on 23 January 2025.

Registration (and abstract): forms.gle/JdtkRuKwk8VZ...

A lot of the “free speech!” people seem to think their speech stops being free as soon as someone else is free to call BS

Two salient facts about Facebook replacing its fact-checking program with community notes:

(1) community notes are cheaper.
(2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble.

The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.

Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.

Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.

Screenshot of an article in the Journal of Educational Psychology entitled "Leveraging Learning Theory and Analytics to Produce Grounded, Innovative, Data-Driven, Equitable Improvements to Teaching and Learning"

If you care about learning, the theories that describe it, and how to improve and apply those theories to educational contexts, then you need to read this by @mattbernacki.bsky.social article! (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
https://buff.ly/3Pn7Dj4

Accurate.

And against all odds, I decided to decorate the house for Xmas. Now I really feel like winter break is fast approaching!

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Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

This has been on my watchlist for a while.

I'm gonna push myself to write another section of this chapter, and then I'll go out and celebrate with a beer or two.

I'm so ready for a vacation, honestly.

I guess it's the fact that by this point you have pretty much figured out who you are and where you draw your boundaries. Happy birthday!