Dr. Teresa Bixby

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Assoc. Prof of Chemistry, Univ Assessment Coord, NSF ASCEND Fellow | pchem, instrumental, lab | #POGIL, #ungrading, #ePortfolio, #CUREs | Reform (STEM) Education | she/her | photography, birding, jazz, anime

Two astronauts on the ISS are doing a spacewalk today, which is scheduled to begin in 10 minutes (and last for ~6.5 hours)!

You can watch the live stream here:

https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/international-space-station-u-s-spacewalk-90/

International Space Station U.S. Spacewalk 90

Coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 90 at the International Space Station (Dyson and Dominick; spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. EDT and will last around 6 ½

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Between 1933 and 2020 there were 14 American presidents, 7 Democratic and 7 Republican.

The economy during this time grew at an average rate of 4.6% under the Democratic presidents, but only an anemic 2.4% under Republican presidents. For example, the economy has grown three times faster under Biden than under Trump.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/gop-party-of-business/

#GOPNotThePartyOfBusiness #MediaLies #DemsPartyOfBusiness

For the next time some idiot tries to tell you the GOP is 'The Party of Business'

As predictably as the sun rises and sets, every Sunday sees a commentator or politician on one of the Sunday political talk shows say — without being challenged — words to the effect that the Republican Party understands and supports business better than Democrats. This weekend, as I recall, it was ...

Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism
Last weekend we suddenly lost our Melba. I suppose I’m grateful that she passed quickly, but she was our first and I often joked that we were old ladies together. 💔😭
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hey cis people

shit's really ramping up with this whole trans genocide

you're gonna start seeing a lot of posts where trans people are trying to crowdfund an escape from one of the places where they're actively being genocided

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your boost could be the one that makes a difference and puts it in front of the right person to donate

Happy Valentine's Day, folks.
Some gutsy product placement decisions at Costco today: #chemistry

If you're a news outlet who doesn't mention the possibility of transphobia as a reason an out trans girl was killed (or even that she was trans), but does mention trans status any time a trans person commits a crime, you are creating an enemy the public can't sympathize with, but only can see as a risk to themsleves.

I am so tired.

Hey y’all. I made a thing. I haven’t sewed anything so complicated in my entire life (or at all since NJ was born). It’s not perfect, but NJ seems happy with it.

If you've used ChatGPT, you may have noticed that it's relatively decent at avoiding toxicity. Is it because of some magical AI trick?

Not really.

The real heroes are the ghostworkers who have worked tirelessly to detect toxicity in text containing "child sexual abuse, bestiality...torture, self harm, and incest" (many of which are illegal by US laws).

How much were they paid for this mentally scarring task?

#ChatGPT #AI #ghostwork #datawork #labor #ResponsibleAI #ML #gpt3

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