Kaitlin Stack Whitney

Gloved hands holding a small dark colored baby snapping turtle that easily fits in a palm

hey buddy

agreed!

yeah I just don't know if they want this fight. Or at what stage. Sigh.

yeah I want to defer to what the student is comfortable with, which may mean waiting until later (fear of retaliation if it goes back out to review with same person, it's not a 'double masked' review, etc). ugh I get madder the more I think about this

please just decline to review.

welp, just got a peer review probably written by AI (comments on things not in the paper and full of headers/bullet point lists not in the review Qs). sucks that student-led work is treated so poorly by colleagues.

Same AND they are rolling out workday (AI HR operations, payroll, reimbursement etc).

same. @marspidermonkey.bsky.social writing a few years back about Fossey totally opened my mind on that one 😱👎 - had no idea as someone outside that field www.ladyscience.com/ideas/time-t...

@hypervisible.blacksky.app

note the privacy/safety warning at the bottom... Regular pictionary doesn't need to come with that...

Picture of a pictionary game box that says pictionary VS AI in big letters at the top. On the box it has phrases like "can you predict if the AI will get it right?" And "human sketches, AI guesses!"

sigh. (seen in a kid toy section of store)

Oct is when the reality of a changing climate and local traditions are in stark contrast. Stuff starts "closing for winter" and it's 80 degrees out.

Oct is when the reality of a changing climate and local traditions are in stark contrast. Stuff starts "closing for winter" and it's 80 degrees out.

Landscape photo of an urban park. Paved sidewalk in foreground, shallow pond in center, ringed in mixed trees and lawn and blue skies with a few clouds. This is Seneca Park.

a beautiful if alarmingly warm fall day in #ROC

it worked out, thanks to some wonderful colleagues. but still, mortifying 🤦

welp, a new first - scheduling a guest speaker months ago + realizing today, the day of the visit, that I scheduled them not for the class time 😱🙃😭

@slaydok.bsky.social

New York Faces Painful History as It Marks the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial

The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel, and an important vector for economic growth and urbanization.

It also played a large role in Indian removal, something most modern Americans associate with the West, or even the South, but not New York State. Gift article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

Getting Around: Rochester, NY October 2024

We pulled up to the Rochester, NY, Amtrak station and tried to get around without a car.

The buses were pretty great, actually!
But they weren't very frequent.
Sometimes we walked instead.

Paying with @transit.app was a nice surprise.

howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking notice Forty-five Maine prisoners are currently working remote jobs for outside companies. A few are working full-time, earning more than corrections officers. One is making well into the six figures. Here's...

It’s not that it should surprise you. We know prisons, surplus population, wage theft go hand in hand.

It’s just an elegant little case — as employers terrorize workers with AI replacement threats, and compel them back to the office imprisoned people are “WFH”

www.mainepublic.org/2025-08-29/i...

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Disability accommodation represents a failure to plan and build accessible infrastructure —work structures, public spaces, events.

We force people thru appts, paperwork, mtgs w their boss and HR…bc of structural failures. The work of being included too often falls to individual disabled people.

amazing. got a small one a few years back to make custom project field guides but clearly need to thinking bigger!!

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Sign seen along the #ROC marathon route this AM: "keep going! you're running better than the government!"

Frog and Toad gaze at their own reflections in a mirror. Toad holds in his hands a book titled "Fairy Tales." From "Dragons and Giants" In *Frog and Toad Together*

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

Sign seen along the #ROC marathon route this AM: "keep going! you're running better than the government!"

New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist

just because a work mtg is scheduled for a long time does not mean it's a "retreat" ...