Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

#physics #weather The joy of a wind channel. This year, the Arctic air has decided to go through several wind channels, which open and close randomly. The big rains in Callie has a huge flow by Alaska. This is a smaller flow and may only soak north of callie.

I always imagined that when I finished my book I would discuss it and share about it on twitter. But I stopped using twitter on December 16th, when I decided I couldn't abide by Elon's ownership behavior.

It's a sacrifice of book sales and our message to not be on twitter, but it also doesn't really feel like a choice because I just can't.

I appreciate you taking an interest in my book and talking with me about therapeutic inclusion programming here on mastodon.

https://a.co/d/3eaiyFa

#inclusion #education #mentalhealth

I saw this story about a right wing parents' group called "woke busters" who were basically serving as the activist boots on the ground for Ron DeSantis's efforts to purge Florida's schools of the supposed scourge of "wokeness." So I dug a bit into that "woke busters" group. It's not great. https://www.salon.com/2023/02/03/call-the-woke-busters-ron-desantis-sends-volunteer-army-to-snatch-books-from-students-hands/

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange

We heard over the past few weeks from @EricReinhart in the @nytimes and Don Berwick in @jama_current on the extractive nature of the American healthcare, where salve lucrum, "hail, profit" is the reigning imperative of a system where service should come first. Why the drive towards ever-increasing profits in the sector? 1/

It’s free during #BlackHistoryMonth. What better time than to take this course? I was honored to be a part of it with so many scholars I admire. Make this a part of your curriculum this month. @MasterClass

Black History, Black Freedom & Black Love learn.masterclass.com/blackhistorymo…

ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-if-youve-ever-posted-online-you-ought-to-be-concerned-199283

ChatGPT writes 15% longer and more critical performance feedback for women employees. It aso relies on stereotypes to choose pronouns. Examples: kindergarten teacher, nurse and reception = "she". Mechanic and construction workers = "he".
https://www.fastcompany.com/90844066/chatgpt-write-performance-reviews-sexist-and-racist

It was a masterclass in how to outmaneuver and then box in your opponents. And we are all here for it. Well done, Joe Biden. Well done. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/never-underestimate-joe-biden-again?sd=pf

The vicious “groomers” campaign against public school teachers and the LGBTQ community has “deflected from the massive sexual abuse scandals that have plagued Christian institutions, including the Southern Baptist Convention, the Catholic Church, and the Mormon Church. ‘Annual surveys from [Christian Ministry Resources] suggest that in recent years, the pace of child-abuse allegations against American churches has averaged 70 a week,” according to PennLive.’”

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2022/11/qa-with-jennifer-cohn-a-christian-nationalism-post-election-debriefing/

We call ChatGTP an artificial intelligence, but essentially it's a search engine that doesn't acknowledge the sources it plagiarizes.

Next on the list of outstanding K-12 science books in 2022: Animal Allies! https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/animal-allies-products-9781641606233.php

An important addition to the pile of evidence that suggests some #insects are in decline. And that may destabilize #ecosystems 😬🐛 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/03/insects-china-decline-east-asia/

Alaska has a very bad history with TB. Now case numbers are up dramatically, here and elsewhere. This believed to be, at least in part, because medical systems overburdened by COVID didn't do the normal TB screenings/treatment. TB can be latent, with infections lurking in a dormancy for even decades. That means some elders who were kids when TB ravaged Alaska in the past could wind up with active cases now. #Alaska #tuberculosis
https://alaskabeacon.com/2023/01/20/tuberculosis-a-disease-that-devastated-alaska-in-the-past-took-a-big-jump-in-2022/

The basic approach in every functioning college setting is: Question everything, never take anything as gospel – not from any of the readings, not from the professor, not from your peers. Reactionaries find this attitude both unfathomable and utterly terrifying. 3/