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Sharla Berry

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Higher education professional, dessert lover, occasional yogi.


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Charles Logan's avatar Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social
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I think about this quote from Audrey Watters' Teaching Machines a lot: "With the students of Harlem as his test subjects, [B. F.] Skinner could rescue them from a failing system and as an ed-tech savior, he could then convince the rest of the world of the effectiveness of his teaching machines."

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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Once every month or two, I go through and delete photos and order prints. I put the prints in albums. At the year, I mail photos to friends and family or make photo books by occasion. Storing photos in my phone gives me anxiety. What if something happens to the phone?

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Charles Logan's avatar Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social
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Citation is pedagogical. Citation is political. If you’re citing ChatGPT, I have questions about your pedagogical and political commitments.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.

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“UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the ‘Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award’ — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials.”

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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“Each time you search for something like “how many rocks should I eat” and Google’s AI “snapshot” tells you “at least one small rock per day,” you’re consuming approximately three watt-hours of electricity.”

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Kashana's avatar Kashana @kashana.bsky.social
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I wrote a heist novel about a Black woman who, after falling behind on her student loan payments, gets harassed so bad by debt police that she joins up with two friends to try and take out her student loan company. Summer 2025!

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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More than 100 pilots have been advanced across the U.S. to give low-income residents monthly cash payments. Now some states are blocking them

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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What's a song that describes your personality? What's your favorite dessert? If you were a character in a movie who would you be?

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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ooh! I will be sure to tune in. Minor note, I wish they'd put your degree behind your name like they did for some other panelists.

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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hey there... sorry to hear this... i sent a post on twitter with a link that might help. <3

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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by the way, I hate that I missed your presentation at AERA! Perhaps you addressed some of this there.

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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did you feel like AERA captured the reality of this existential threat? I feel like the conference left a little to be desired in this area.

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Erin Bartram's avatar Erin Bartram @erinbartram.bsky.social
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By the way, when I wrote this, I got pushback from academic publishers (I think we had mainly had different ideas of what it meant to "cost" something, honestly), but my offer from back then still stands: pitch a response!

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Virginia Gewin's avatar Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social
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Journalist here! I'm looking for moms who experienced a heat wave while pregnant and gave birth 3+ weeks early. I'm writing a piece about the intersection between climate and pregnancy (and race). Many thanks for any reposts to help spread the word!

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Hypervisible 's avatar Hypervisible @hypervisible.bsky.social
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“Training an AI model on terabytes of data as well as feeding it prompts are data-dense processes that use much more power than, say, an equivalent Google search. One study in Joule projected that, globally, AI applications could use as much power as the entire nation of the Netherlands by 2027.”

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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I knew I couldn't deal with Season 1 so I jumped in at Season 2 and it is a wild ride! I'm literally pacing in my living room and pausing the tv every 5 min to send my friends voice notes about it.

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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Can y'all do a Vibe Check episode about Scandal??

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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I've been rewatching Scandal and it is a wild ride. We need a behind the scenes on this show because I have questions. Plus, its interesting to think about Fitz/Kerri and consent. Their interactions would not fly on TV today.

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Kate Ozment's avatar Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social
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Did you know: 1 in 40 ppl in the U.S. with a college degree got it from the CSU? Yet the faculty that make that possible are so underpaid many need govt assistance to make ends meet. Me and 29,000 of my friends are on strike this week, the biggest in CSU history ✊🏼 see my timeline for ways to support

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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Whenever I tab between two screens I forget what I read on the first one. Tabbing is like, so cognitively difficult. Anyone else experience this?

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whet moser's avatar whet moser @whet.bsky.social
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"It's like 'trying to remove specific ingredients from a baked cake — it seems nearly impossible.'"

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Nina Metz's avatar Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social
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May be too abstract for your interests but: I'm struck by the near absence of (fictional) labor stories in TV/film right now while so much labor action is happening in real life! Do folks leading labor movements have thots about the power of TV/film to shape ideas/help us imagine what's possible?

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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Leave the World Behind was a waste of time. I actually wasn't mad at the ending... It was the only part that made sense to me. The suspicion and unhelpfulness of the characters made the movie slow and strange.

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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ugh. I'm sorry. it's heavy. hopefully it will pass soon.

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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Oh no! sorry this happened! Glad you are better!

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