Devyn Gwynne

*I did just learn this word but nevertheless

Thinking about agnotology, the study of culturally induced ignorances, a lot of late

Crazy I hear the same line in academia— wonder if there’s some overarching problem here

Everyone’s a critic

One week left to apply for this tenured #envhist job!

They’re called terfs

Lgbtqiar+

Not a lot of deadline-heads here I guess

I wasn’t crashing out I just needed to see my deadline in sight

Big deadline [comps exams] one month and a week away has me ready to start listening to taylor swifts love songs and dancing

I love you quickly incoming deadline

Valuing our treasured print history in the era of the ‘bookless’ library Today we eagerly embrace new technology for fear of being left behind. A toddler with an iPad in hand is a welcome sign of a child learning to succeed in a digital world. Remainders of the pre-digital...

"Much #digitisation is being performed by private companies operated for profit. In the future, do we want the only copies of rare and important #books and #periodicals to be controlled by businesses rather than public #libraries that are free for all?"
theconversation.com/valuing-our-...

Graphic design of a snail with the words: Slow progress IS BETTER THAN NO PROGRESS.

Everywhere I look, progress narratives.

Why couldn’t I just have gone into the slime business

Influencing emdr trauma therapy

All the cool kids are doing emdr

I am one of these people who views it as a serious moral failing

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

A Museum of Failed Allegories

[“Nature Forging a Baby,” British Library, Harley 4425 (Roman de la Rose), fol. 140, Bruges, c. 1490-c. 1500.]

Just found a 7 line sentence in a pretty well written book— never give up on your dreams

"The one thing scammers can’t hack? Your own critical thinking."

Gee, just the kind of stuff the Liberal Arts have been teaching for centuries! Oh, but let's replace them all with AI.

Germany’s new willingness to lead Europe’s anti-immigration front removes one key obstacle preventing European countries from enacting policy proposals that were until recently deemed beyond the pale. Those include plans to deport migrants to third countries and to process asylum claims outside the EU, copying the U.K.’s failed Rwanda scheme, which Merz previously praised as “something we could emulate.”

Absolutely revolting that this is becoming normalized as a policy
www.politico.eu/article/germ...

A Poster advertising public libraries Painting: Harvey Dunn. 1923.
#Libraries #Art

What’s funny about thinking about the potential “last exam of my life” [comps] is that maybe I’ll just do another phd after and do it all over again

Related, apparently short videos like tiktoks or reels does more damage than alcohol on the brain and oh boy we’re all cooked

More and more I fear for younger generations who are growing up in the worst social media/internet landscape yet

Maybe social media is Bad

For God's sake don't use ChatGPT.