Kaitlin Stack Whitney

ahh have so many things! will email! What a fun class sched!

Haha of course!

@nicosnowdance.bsky.social

Congratulations 🎉

Community-Led FOIA: Introduction to the Project and the State-by-State Guide – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative By: Gretchen Gehrke, Jessica Varner, Bianca LaPaz, and Amy Xu What is Community-Led FOIA? At EDGI, we work to make public information […]

💡 New tool alert! EDGI has created guides on how to FOIA in *all 50 states*. FOIA (the Freedom of Information Act) helps ensure the government operates in the interest of the people. Learn more about community-led FOIA & the state-by-state guides in our new blog: envirodatagov.org/community-le...

we can critique the AI guys and their silly ideas without doing this kind of essentialism. really.

lotta Discourse on here today conflating print reading and critical thinking. Signers and signed languages exist! People can engage w ideas and others + critically think in lots of languages and modalities...

Oh am doing that too! LOL

spongebob squarepants is holding a piece of paper in his hand while standing next to a pile of papers . Alt: spongebob squarepants is running around frantically holding a piece of paper in his hand while standing next to a pile of papers. The scene cuts to paper everywhere and suddenly fire

my Aug 1 vibes

vacuuming is a standard bee collection technique! so why not house wasps!

Congratulations 👏 🎉

Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you

wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

finding a feminist wildlife media author quoting c0yn3 😬

PANEL 1: MATTIE is talking to a MAN as they walk on the street. The MAN is typing on his phone. MATTIE: What do you wanna do tonight? MAN: Hmm…! MAN: What…do…I…want…to…do…tonight? PANEL 2: MATTIE rolls her eyes. The phone pipes up as well. MATTIE: Are you asking a chatbot? Come on. PHONE: SEEING FRIENDS IS ALWAYS A GREAT WAY TO SEE YOUR FRIENDS. MAN: Oh, are you A.I. SHAMING ME? Wow. I didn't think you were a bigot. PANEL 3: MATTIE, arms spread wide. The MAN strokes his chin. MATTIE: What? Nobody was doing this a year ago. It's completely unnecessary! MAN: Huh, that's true. I wonder why that happened. PANEL 4: The MAN types on his phone, brow furrowed. MAN: Why…am…I…doing…this

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A brown and green snake, coiled up on a rocky patch of ground near a log it probably hangs out under.

making friends in the park

he graduated from my high school (his dad was the athletic director) and TBH am sure he's the alum the town is most proud of! what a guy.

A photo of a blonde lady holding a long stick and gesticulating towards a projected slide of general beetle categories. These include “squiggly guy,” “swimmy guy,” and “bitey guy”

Thank u Vanessa for this excellent photo of my proposed classification scheme for Coleoptera

like everyday stop myself from posting so much snark about phonics and 'reading wars'. Kids and people with disabilities and different L1s exist! Multiple reading approaches existing is good!

Yes. An example: NAD runs through statutes requiring accessible communication (for some that means signed/ASL, not English) such as for emergencies
www.nad.org/about-us/pos...

Office of the Attorney General Washington, A. O. 20530 July 14, 2025 MEMORANDUM FOR ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES FROM: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL PU SUBJECT: IMPLEMENTATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 14,224: DESIGNATING ENGLISH AS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I. INTRODUCTION As President Trump recognized in his Executive Order No. 14,224, 90 Fed. Reg. 11363 (Mar. 6, 2025) (Executive Order 14,224), it is in America's best interest for the federal government to have one official language: English.' A shared language binds Americans together, transcending different backgrounds to create a common foundation for public discourse, government operations, and civic life, while leaving ample room for the vibrant linguistic diversity that thrives in private and community spheres. This policy streamlines federal processes ensuring forms, notices, websites, and advisories are consistent, clear, and cost-effective thus reducing administrative burdens and enhancing operational efficiency

DOJ directing government that application forms and processes must only be in English, on the grounds that it reduces administrative burdens.
I wrote the book Administrative Burdens w @pamherd.bsky.social and this policy does the opposite www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

now I can laugh about it, was definitely nervous at the time 😂

in a summer ASL class and had storytelling hw this AM, decided to share the time a coworker + I went chickee backpacking in the Everglades and our canoe was almost flipped by dolphins 😅

Close up photo of a red milkweed beetle on a green sunflower leaf. Beetle has long black antennae, orangish red head and body, with black spots and legs

hey buddy

@yourewrongabout.bsky.social did a great ep on housekeeping recently!

I feel this so much. But/and was (is) very gendered labor in house I was raised in + saw that level of housekeeping took time and energy from potential sleep, hobbies, self care, and friends. I remind myself I am actively choosing some of the latter by not cleaning the bathroom 3x week (true story)

Face/Off Lots of scholars from different disciplines study and write about things that happened in the past. So what, if anything, makes history a separate and coherent discipline? While Contingent is a histor...

We're pairing up contingent historians with contingent scholars in other fields for a face off! Click through to learn more and let us know if you want to participate.

Exciting news over here 🥳🎉
www.rit.edu/news/carolin...

A yellow post it on a wooden table. The post it is kid handwriting in blue ink and says "doughnuts needed"

Kid#2 leaves their parents a note

lol this reminds of the time in VT w a friend at a roadside farm stand. friend held up a jug of apple cider and asked the clerk 'where is this from?' (meaning which farm) and the clerk replied 'ma'am it's from apples, are you from the city?'

"Sinners" is bringing Black American sign language to the mainstream The film will be available on HBO Max later this month.

Black American Sign Language is distinct from American Sign Language—and it developed because Black Deaf students were segregated in their own Black schools for the Deaf.