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I'm a member of the imperial senate on a diplomatic mision to Alderaan.

Computer networking professor. 🇺🇲❤️🇵🇹, she/her, Dr. Sherry, Mamã, working at AS8!

www.justinesherry.com

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Maggie Astor's avatar Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social
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Amazing how every single customer service line's options have always recently changed. Where do they find the time to do all that changing

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Megan L. Cook's avatar Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social
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There really does come a point in your 40s where suddenly the health of your parents and the parents of everyone you know becomes a major preoccupation (this observation not borne about by any immediate concerns with my parents but it feels like every other conversation I have these days)

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Maggie Astor's avatar Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social
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Just had to use the Pythagorean theorem for an article, simultaneously proving my "I'm never going to need this in real life" high-school whining both right and wrong, because I googled "Pythagorean theorem calculator" and the internet did it for me.

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billions of packets 's avatar billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social
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I lost my mind when I saw that thing!!!

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Pavel's avatar Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
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Well this is grim

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billions of packets 's avatar billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social
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(Sorry for um, being a computer science professor bothering a history professor to care about computery things... 😬)

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billions of packets 's avatar billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social
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That's great! I miss Heather too. To clarify, my question is about the publication format -- the "podcast" format is more accessible than the "YouTube playlist" format. There is a service (listenbox) that converts YouTube playlists to podcasts, but it requires a subscription...

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Is there any plan to offer this as a podcast? I miss you from Now and Then but the YouTube format is not convenient for listening while doing other things so I wind up not running in to History Matters...

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Alex Blechman's avatar Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social
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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD 's avatar Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social
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Yup.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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it’s why you have people still blaming affirmative action for why their kids couldn’t get into harvard et al. it’s not legacies or the fact that these places are hyper-selective. it’s that there is *a* black person who took *your* spot.

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tweety fish's avatar tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish
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The entire genre of dancehall (more or less) came about when a reggae producer repurposed a "rock" beat he accidentally discovered on a casio kid's toy keyboard. People recently discovered the long-anonymous Japanese woman who programmed the beat was in fact a huge reggae fan and scholar.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

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Douglas M. Charles's avatar Douglas M. Charles @dmcharles.bsky.social
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#OTD 1924, a century ago in Pittsburgh, in order to stop the spread of a smallpox outbreak, those not vaccinated were ordered to be vaccinated or face prosecution.

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billions of packets 's avatar billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social
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Why do all NYT Cooking recipes have either 4 or 5 ⭐??? Are they lying about the ratings? Do they cull the recipes that don't make it to 4 or 5 ⭐? Do NYT readers just have grade inflation?

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The Technosapians author? (Don't know her name)

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billions of packets 's avatar billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social
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The Science center is pretty great, and the dinosaur collection at the museum of natural History is a big hit with small people. Phipps gardens can also be super fun with kids. Ride the Monongohela or Duquesne inclines.

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Roxane Gay's avatar Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social
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One thing I really miss on social media is being able to scroll chronologically. I don’t care about 23 hours or 5 days ago.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Trump states as a fact that Biden is putting illegal immigrants on Social Security and they just moved right on

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He looks like he is sick. I worry about the optics given all this discussion about age...

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Our 2FA system has a known bug where it silently fails to log you in if you use a password manager browser extension 🙃

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(while I have your attention -- Saint of Bright Doors is the best speculative fiction I've read in at least five years. Incredible read.)

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That Flighty Broad's avatar That Flighty Broad @thatflightybroad.bsky.social
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Horse walks into a bar, bartender asks, “Why the long face? Are you depressed?” Horse thinks for a sec, “I don’t think I am” and immediately disappears. This joke is about Rene Descartes’ saying “I think therefore I am” but if I told you that first, I would be putting Descarte before the horse.

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Brian J. Enquist's avatar Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social
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"The bill would also block OSTP from carrying out a 2022 directive that would require free public access to papers and data produced by federally funded grantees...starting at the end of 2025. The Republican-controlled House had sought the same ban last year..." www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

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Cathy Gellis's avatar Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social
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What is wrong with these people??? WHY WOULD YOU BAN THIS??? I could see maybe not be enthusiastic about pushing for it, but since the decision was already made, why stop it???

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Yesterday I went on Twitter and saw someone say "Go back to Bluesky with all the rest of the former gifted kids" and wow just absolutely bodied

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Ben Saunders's avatar Ben Saunders @bensaun.bsky.social
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Does anyone have a system for prepping fall courses that involves anything other than avoidance and procrastination until panic invariably compels you to jump the ledge?

#AcademicChatter

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Slippy's avatar Slippy @damnslippy.bsky.social
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It wasn't great! I live right by the zoo so the one that touched down basically in their parking lot a month or two ago was *much* too close for comfort.

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Slippy's avatar Slippy @damnslippy.bsky.social
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Probably not ideal that my response to Pittsburgh tornado warnings is now “look, the last one touched down across the street from me, surely statistics says this one will stay at least a few blocks away and I can ignore it.” Probably not actually how weather or math work. And yet.

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