Erica Light @lab_educator
UMass iCons Faculty, Freelance Science Editor, PhD student in UMass MSLT Program, she/they Joined April 2023-
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"a critical silence in higher education policies concerns the evolving notion of originality in the digital age and a more inclusive approach to address the originality of students’ work is required." #highereducation buff.ly/3UEIapi
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Check out our paper in Science. We argue that more than content knowledge is required in science education. The sociopolitical in human genetics education | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Young people talk about feelings of fear and extreme levels of stress they have experienced as a result of reward/ behaviour charts. Interestingly a lot of the young people who struggled with them the most were always on the “good side”, 10/12
PFAS exposure can lower nutritional value of breast milk, study finds. The study found the more a mother's milk was affected, the more likely the child would later have an autoimmune condition, diabetes or low thyroid function. ehn.org/breast-milk-nu…
"We identified and carefully coded 37 peer-reviewed empirical research articles and dissertations on institutional betrayal from 2011 to 2022, reported in a hot-off-the-presses publication."
Wrote a short reflection for @4sWeb Backchannels on my experience as an STS researcher embedded in a core computer science course. I discuss the politics of curriculum and ask how to chart new paths towards reflexive socio-technical knowledge production 4sonline.org/news_manager.p…
I find this chart to be incredibly useful for modeling the different levels at which higher-ed institutions are adopting AI-EdTech.
I find this chart to be incredibly useful for modeling the different levels at which higher-ed institutions are adopting AI-EdTech.
First up is reporting on how face recognition did more than violate the legal rights of falsely arrested Black men. It also had serious repercussions on their interpersonal relationships and the lives of people in their families. wired.com/story/wrongful…
Nightshade is out! Nightshade poisons AI models if your art or images are taken without permission, Glaze protects you from AI mimicry. It's recommended you Nightshade first, then Glaze. A version that does both is coming. Read this thread for more info. Go get 'em 🫡
Nightshade is out! Nightshade poisons AI models if your art or images are taken without permission, Glaze protects you from AI mimicry. It's recommended you Nightshade first, then Glaze. A version that does both is coming. Read this thread for more info. Go get 'em 🫡 https://t.co/YddNu8xmJm
How do we capture the full picture of AI's fast-evolving role and impact in education? Our synthesis of 66 reviews on #AI in #HigherEd (2018-2023) reveals the main advantages, obstacles, and future research directions. Read the paper open access at …naltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…
Christian Georg Schütz d.Ä. Eine mondbeschienene Flusslandschaft 1765
Gerard DuBois
Very Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse vibes
Very Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse vibes
Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue and Green Music, 1921 #womensart
Refaat Alareer's course on English poetry at the Islamic University of Gaza from 2019. 28 sessions on form and content, text and context, meter, metaphor, rhyme, caesura, and parody. Our teacher. youtube.com/watch?v=gRDwGM…
Oh my god. insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…
Data visualisation helps us to understand the world. It also has the power to change it. Watch our video with @bbcideas, narrated by @AdamRutherford, and explore five graphs that changed the world:
Nigav @Nigav850377
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Sandra @sandra18coleman
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Ann @williams_ann65
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Alice @maguire_alice38
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Hayden Flanery @haydenflanery
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Black Geographies @BlackGeogs
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Cam A @CareAboutSoils
420 Followers 593 Following Soil scientist & adventure seeker 🏳️🌈🌎🏔️🌊 they/them #nonbinaryinSTEM #queerinSTEM
Robert C. Smith, MD @RobertCSmithMD
6K Followers 6K Following HAS MEDICINE LOST ITS MIND? was published March 4, 2025 by Prometheus Books. See: https://t.co/AXtivssSOh for details.
Cole Tucker @cole_tucker
808 Followers 1K Following They're not going to catch us, we're on a mission from the Gods.
John Symons @johnfsymons
4K Followers 2K Following #Philosophyofscience #computing #technology #ethics Dean’s Professor of Philosophy, Director: Center for Cyber Social Dynamics https://t.co/3XlAcp3QfE
Edridge D'Souza @edridgekd
125 Followers 596 Following Believer that fruit fly researchers should be called drosophilosophers | @UMassBMB | @GeneticsCam via @ChurchillCol | @ColumbiaPS MSTP student
Dr. Destiny Deguzman ... @DrDesThePlanner
7K Followers 1K Following Creator: Dignity-Infused Planning Process. CEO: @thrivancegroup / @REALunurbanist . Fighting to end spatial racism. https://t.co/2PQ9gxUxHm / https://t.co/hEEpUJ03oi
Eli Meyerhoff 🍉 @EliMeye
7K Followers 4K Following abolition, decolonize; anti-Zionist, diasporist Jewishness https://t.co/h8XAgkIT3w Book - Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World
History + Technology @HistAndTech
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Annals of Science @AnnalsOfScience
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kole robbi @yarrowool
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ISLS News @islsnews
2K Followers 148 Following The International Society of the Learning Sciences is a professional society dedicated to the interdisciplinary empirical investigation of learning & technology
Musbah Shaheen, Ph.D. @ShaheenMusbah
288 Followers 542 Following Higher education enthusiast with a zeal for zeal. Academic. Looking for meaning, love, and acceptance. AssProf at UMass Amherst. Views are mine.
Erin Dolan @erindolan1
2K Followers 1K Following Biol ed researcher, studying how research training influences students’ career decisions, including influence of mentors @CUREnet1
Jared Starr @jaredmstarr
175 Followers 27 Following I'm a sustainability scientist, researcher and teacher at UMass Amherst.
Hayden Flanery @haydenflanery
692 Followers 3K Following Proud Kentuckian. Climate and energy politics, and political economy. Tweets are my own.
Sepehr Vakil @sepehrvakil
1K Followers 679 Following Scholar, writer, educator. REVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERS, MIT PRESS, AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER https://t.co/LnYcgwUyQH
AI Now Institute @AINowInstitute
58K Followers 1K Following The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Francisco @DrFrancisCastro
439 Followers 1K Following Computing Innovation Fellow @nyuniversity. Scientist. AI+ethics, CS+STEM Ed, Creative Computing, Equity. Co-founder @Papaya_Project. he/siya 🏳️🌈🇵🇭🏂
bogna @bognamk
7K Followers 496 Following prof of computer culture @ nyu shanghai. history, future and philosophy of technology in east europe/asia. angelic internet now.
Carl Elliott @FearLoathingBTX
6K Followers 6K Following MD PhD @UMNphilosophy, author of The Occasional Human Sacrifice @wwnorton. Davidson '83 @carlelliott.bsky.social
Julia 🤝 @REMARKSIST
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UMass Amherst College... @umasseduc
765 Followers 266 Following #UMassAmherst College of Education offers undergraduate and graduate programs shaped by a fundamental commitment to social justice. #UMassEDUC
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9
64K Followers 5K Following ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚
Axel Folio, PhD,🔻W... @ISASaxonists
27K Followers 4K Following Dr. MRO: Literary Historian | WoC: product of Black/brown love | gif lover | racist magnet | abolitionist | yarn dyer| not Eddie Murphy (she/hers)
David A. Banks @DA_Banks
5K Followers 970 Following author of The City Authentic. UUP/AFT Local 2190
Christopher Deutsch @dr_cdeutsch
4K Followers 3K Following Historian. Under contract: Beeftopia: The Red Meat Politics of Prosperity in Postwar America. Research postdoc. Views my own.
تمار 🍓 Θα... @tamars
10K Followers 3K Following 39 years old, I write about design and work in utilities/transportation sector, I support @Hadash_org and post trivial things from my life at @privatetamar
Frantz Fanon @jwillia2
13K Followers 2K Following #twittersociologist specializing in the fields of social movements, political sociology, sociology of culture, science, religion, 'race' and white supremacy
Robert C. Smith, MD @RobertCSmithMD
6K Followers 6K Following HAS MEDICINE LOST ITS MIND? was published March 4, 2025 by Prometheus Books. See: https://t.co/AXtivssSOh for details.
Cole Tucker @cole_tucker
808 Followers 1K Following They're not going to catch us, we're on a mission from the Gods.
Associate Deans @ass_deans
110K Followers 92 Following Making fun of middle management in colleges and universities. Because you can never have too many associate deans conspiring to be THE dean.
Edridge D'Souza @edridgekd
125 Followers 596 Following Believer that fruit fly researchers should be called drosophilosophers | @UMassBMB | @GeneticsCam via @ChurchillCol | @ColumbiaPS MSTP student
Science Cafe @lifescicafe
245 Followers 70 Following Life Science Cafe invites experts in a field of life science to discuss their research passion with the local community in a cafe setting. All are welcome!
New Scientist @newscientist
4.4M Followers 278 Following The best place to find out what’s new in science – and why it matters.
Randy Nesse @RandyNesse
8K Followers 702 Following A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine, now encouraging psychiatry to find its missing foundation in evolutionary biology.
Pip Cleaves @pipcleaves
9K Followers 3K Following Associate Principal - Global Village Learning, Curious creator. Makes things simple. EduNerd. Likes to tell stories through data.
kole robbi @yarrowool
25 Followers 384 Following typically dwelling near wetlands, often with a cat. interested in research ethics and science fiction. they/them
Stephanie Wakefield @stephwakefield_
2K Followers 1K Following Urban Planning + Environmental Design Assistant Professor. Biophilic architecture, vitalism and the city, 21st century urbanism
nextbigfuture @nextbigfuture
17K Followers 5K Following insights on worldchanging science and technologyYoutube https://t.co/HGBRaFvbHh https://t.co/bRUJAAffun https://t.co/FgHDghs0WM
Mar Hicks @histoftech
33K Followers 4K Following Historian of technology & labor. Professor now, sysadmin before. Tells dad jokes (sorry). Find me on the other sites too.
Robin Z. @firepile.bs... @firepile
2K Followers 981 Following Professor, Philosopher, Embodied Cognition/Cognitive Scientist, AI Theorist, Science Fiction Fan, Cyborgologist, Knitter, Comic Book Reader, 4ad nerd.
dr greg is historicis... @thewastedworld
18K Followers 1K Following Literary & critical theory 📚 aesthetics 🌊 ecology 🌋 • Wrote a thesis on Pynchon • Not a Hegelian • aka @hegelflipper • https://t.co/fQIRFqdbZh
Michael Salter @mike_salter
19K Followers 3K Following Professor of Criminology | Director of the @Childlight_ East Asia and Pacific Hub @UNSW | Chair - https://t.co/A8sba2EPBc
Data & Society @datasociety
73K Followers 501 Following Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
FeministPhilosophers @FeministPhils
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wewatchwatchers @wewatchwatchers
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Tressie McMillan Cott... @tressiemcphd
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Hood Biologist, PhD @Hood_Biologist
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Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog
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Babette Babich @babette_babich
5K Followers 522 Following Philosopher of science/technology, music, art, classics. Heidegger/Nietzsche/Adorno/Anders. Professor of Philosophy. Tweets mine. Unless quoting. Or retweeting.
Dr Vanessa @HPS_Vanessa
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History of Science @hssonline
13K Followers 469 Following Fostering interest in the history of science and its social and cultural relations since 1924. Annual meeting 9-12 November 2023.
Annals of Science @AnnalsOfScience
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History + Technology @HistAndTech
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Thankful Musgrave �... @profmusgrave
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Racism Watchdog @RacismDog
595K Followers 258 Following We trained our dog to sniff out racism and bark when he finds it. Now that's a good boy. His two dads: @RacismdogownersTrends for United States
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