Danielle Williams

Thanks for this. Now curious about the "why" behind my overworking when there are so many other choices

A key for my teaching has always been “finding friction” for students to grapple with. AI removes most friction in favor of a kind of faux fluency.

This essay gets at exactly that dynamic also needed at the larger curricular level.

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

A poster taped to a street sign. It shows the outline of an oak leaf in blue and handwritten notes in a child's handwriting: "having a bad day? Scan here to brighten the mood!" Plus a QR code

Passed this in my neighborhood and it did brighten my mood. ❤️ The code links here: padlet.com/bbns/neighbo...

• Professors should never put a student's words or work into an AI software without their consent. • Professors should also be transparent about their Al usage with grading, curriculum building, and any other way they might use it in their teaching. • If a professor does use Al chatbots in the classroom, they should explain their reasoning behind this decision and how its usage will help students meet learning outcomes. • Professors should additionally respect a student's choice to refuse Al. To do this, it would be ideal that they have assignments that students can choose from that do

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

A screen capture of the home page of this course.

Want to learn how to help tackle the climate crisis and contribute to a sustainable, just world via impactful climate solutions (which begin by using your voice to call for change)? This 4-week course by @universityofleeds.bsky.social is free! Sign up now ⬇️

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I just ordered Villager and a (signed!) hard copy of Everything Will Swallow You from Blackwell's to ship to the US and it was $33 total. Amazing. Looking forward to reading them!

Say we do find valuable uses for using AI at work. Are the differential environmental impacts worth it? Can we make socially responsible choices with AI use in business when it means some people will have less access to drinking water or increased pollution in their communities?

I'm so sorry. Take care of yourselves and each other 💔

What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling Our phones have become misery machines. Hopescrolling can change that.

What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling: Doomscrolling turns our phones into misery machines—and makes us see the world as a mean, scary place. Here's what happened when Jennifer Mercieca's students tried hopescrolling instead
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...

Join us because we need you. Join us because throwing yourself into meaningful work helps heal a broken heart. Join us because there are many ways to contribute with whatever time you have & whatever talents you bring.

Read it. Share it. And maybe come build it with us. bsky.app/profile/unbr...

There is a distinct difference between “unity” and “solidarity”: where solidarity recognizes our differing social contexts and positions but still highlights the criticality of working together, “unity” pushes a violent doctrine of sameness. It allows for individuals in positions of relative dominance to set agendas that more marginalized and disenfranchised individuals and communities are dogmatically expected to follow.

“There is a distinct difference between ‘unity’ and ‘solidarity’: where solidarity recognizes our differing social contexts and positions but still highlights the criticality of working together, ‘unity’ pushes a violent doctrine of sameness.”

- @zsamudzi.bsky.social

Help Daylight San Diego raise $50k by July 1 We’ve already raised more than $1,500 toward our $50,000 goal to fund independent, community-driven journalism in San Diego. But we still need your help!

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Tunnelled footpath portal.

Seventeenth century river bridge portal.

Derelict pumphouse portal.

Lime kiln portal.

A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.

Journalist of the year Please nominate who you think should be journalist of the year. Please include their name followed by a brief explanation of why. Specific examples would be greatly appreciated. If there are notes, do...

Guys, #sdjournos PLEASE help out. We really need nominations for “Journalist of the Year.” Please share. The only requirements are 1) the nominee is a journalist 2) in San Diego. 3) is not on SPJ board.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Write the book you’d like to see someone pull from a higgledy-piggledy pile in a secondhand shop sixty three years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

Check out this dossier of reflections on #ungrading from a range of Film & Media Studies faculty (including me) - thanks to @jennblaylock.bsky.social for co-editing!
quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach...

How can we translate the real impact of DOGE cuts to voters? What is her concrete, "explain like I'm 5" message in response to something like gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? What can we tell people? And what can we do now? (Also, thank her for me. She's remarkable)

Very worried about what this means for UC San Diego medical and Rady’s Childrens.

Higher ed must resist authoritarian rule. It's the mission. Trying to make your institution a smaller target isn’t going to work.

Higher ed institutions need to step up not just to save themselves, but because democratic institutions are an important part of a larger resistance against an over authoritarian project. The stakes couldn't be higher. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

Protect research funding Federal funding for biomedical research is under threat.

Today, February 20th, is a day of action at UC San Diego. Join us and tell your reps what you think about cuts to NIH funding that will severely affect lifesaving University of California research: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am

Making A Plan "It is my hope that this tool in process, which benefited from the input of many seasoned activists, helps you to connect the personal to the political. I hope that this offers the beginning of a brid...

"It is my hope that this tool in process, which benefited from the input of many seasoned activists, helps you to connect the personal to the political. I hope that this offers the beginning of a bridge between information and action." millionexperiments.com/zines/making...

FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO TURN ANGER INTO ACTION
Here’s advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. I’m retyping from Allison McGuffie’s post, which she cut and pasted from a friend.

There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they’ve by far the most important things.

fortify inside why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide

The more of us can be awake and clear in this moment, the better we can respond with power to the horrors they are hoping to unleash. The easier to organize. To show up.

And? Even now? You’re allowed joy. You should have joy.

More on all this here, w/some practical tips:

How to find instant clarity

(no hacks or apps)

Feeling stuck? Here's the action map:

1. Overthinking spirals?
↳ Write it down. Get it out of your head.

2. Lost inspiration?
↳ Read. Others' ideas spark yours.

#academicsky #acwri #sciencesky #productivity

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...