Julia Lynch

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Who can deny but the president general will be a king to all intents and purposes, and one of the most dangerous kind too; a king elected to command a standing army? Thus our laws are to be administered by this tyrant; for the whole, or at least the most important part of the executive department is put in his hands.

Man, the antifederalists were so paranoid.
antifederalists.org/papers/phila...

I’ve not found it to be terribly accessible. Maybe to strong undergrads but not to true laypeople.

Funny. But in all seriousness, putting it on vulnerable folks to speak out? No thank you — there are plenty of senior colleagues who could speak out, but don’t. Same white folks (mainly but not only men) who were too scared to speak up in the face of rampant misogyny and racism.

ME/CFS folks, if you have spoons for this, I think moderating online groups, esp state-level groups, is a crucial intervention.

Last I was in the loop on this, many of MEAction’s state-level Facebook groups were closed for lack of moderators, and it has really hampered state-level advocacy IMO.

Airport Libraries Take Off | American Libraries Magazine Airport libraries, where travelers can pick up books before they board their flights. are becoming regular fixtures in US airports.

Airport Libraries Take Off:
In these spaces, travelers pick up books before they board

#booksky #libraries #outreach #books #travel #GoodIdea 📚 #Airport

Another extremely heartwarming thread. This time for lawyers.

This is life-giving

If you’re an immigrant, if you’re first generation, if you’re a woman, a scientist of color, trans, or gay, you belong in science. - Maya English, PhD student, GETUP UAW #standupforscience #philadelphiascienceaction

The postwar bargain in W Europe (after decades of socialist agitation and two world wars) was that labor gave up on seizing control of the means of production in return for redistributive taxation and a welfare state. When that bargain fell apart starting in the 1990s, well.

Grim

Every episode was better than the last. I’m so psyched for season 2!

In my experience Flemish people are very reluctant to speak French and would generally rather speak English.

A large black puppy stands in the midst of a bamboo patch, with a spear of bamboo in his mouth. His tongue is also hanging out.

A large black puppy sploots on a patch of icy snow to cool his belly.

My mountain panda enjoying the very last of the snow.

A statistic that I always liked sharing with students:

In 1901, nearly a quarter of American households (23.3%) had additional income from boarders/lodgers
www.bls.gov/opub/100-yea...

The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast: Episode 7.13: Democracy as a Public Health Intervention Interviewer: JOSHUA ROSE. In this episode of the Andrea Mitchell Center podcast, Joshua Rose speaks with Penn Political Science Professor JULIA LYNCH about her book Getting Better: The Policy and Poli...

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Democracy as a Public Health Intervention

@jlynch13.bsky.social discusses her book Getting Better: The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities

https://mitchellcenter.libsyn.com/episode-713-democracy-as-a-public-health-intervention

Im also Gen X, was VERY surprised at how many of my college classmates ended up in families with a single earner. I’m guessing it’s because a lot of them came from wealthy, not-divorced families where that was the norm. Not at all the norm for where I grew up, though!

Mmmm, maybe if you had a union job? Or maybe “middle class” is doing a lot of work here that I’m not fully understanding?

I can't compete with this.

Even in my own family, that was true for one side (my dad’s parents both came from very poor families but his dad became a doctor and mom kept house, with help) — but not the other (mom’s parents were a public school teacher and a secretary and they lived in a 1BR apt in Brooklyn). 2/2

I think a lot of this perception in my social circles also comes from the fact that wealth reproduces — which means that many of my friends, colleagues came from wealthy, white backgrounds where the nuclear family DID do just fine on one income. But that was not the majority experience! 1/2

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library While many Americans identify as politically “independent,” conventional wisdom suggests most are covert partisans, especially “leaners.” However, we argue that independents exhibit distinct attitude...

Independents really aren't like the rest of us. Cool new piece using open-ended responses from NES 1984-2020.

Volkswagen Jetta: Coelacanth CBS/WOIO 19 1999-11-18 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The clip is an advertisement for the Volkswagen Jetta highlighting its over 40 standard features, including a full-sized spare tire. The ad compares the...

This is what I think of every time I hear someone mention a DB pension plan.

Sucks to be losing it, and also pretty amazing that you still had it!

Yeah, I guess there is that

I guess I won’t be retiring any time soon.

“the fouling of an entire region in an act of mass ecological terrorism”

- Statement by White House Press Secretary, Nov. 6 1991, describing the burning of oil fields in Kuwait

I feel like those books are not very well known in the US… I got them out of the library when I was a kid, but as an adult I don’t run into very many people here who have heard of them.

Little My is also my alter ego

Glasgow friends and family, you are very much in my thoughts tonight.

It’s true. A good tarte tatin apple is not the same as a good pie apple. And neither is the same as what you can get in most grocery stores in the US. These were Smokehouse apples from a local farm.