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Dr. Marc Schmalz
@effrenatus.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of IT Mgmt. Research: Identity & Tech. Teaching: Intro Coding. Opinions: Mine. PhD from UW Seattle iSchool. Formerly Wizards of the Coast, Green Ronin, Game Mechanics, DoubleDown, TeachFirst. He; Masked; Anti-fascist; BLM.
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(No, we're not 80% humidity here. Its arid. Just feeling competitive regarding our really bad air.)

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I'll see your humidity and raise.

Image reads "US AQI 215 Very Unhealthy" and includes an icon of a person wearing a cannister respirator.
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Yet more evidence that repeated COVID infection does very serious, cumulative damage to the human cardiopulmonary, circulatory, and neurological systems, and that everyone everywhere that COVID has ever been detected needs access to easy, recurrent EKG's, EEG's, and CT scans, for free, for Ever.

Fibrin drives thromboinflammation and neuropathology in COVID-19 - Nature
Fibrin drives thromboinflammation and neuropathology in COVID-19 - Nature

Fibrin drives inflammation and neuropathology in SARS-CoV-2 infection, and fibrin-targeting immunotherapy may represent a therapeutic intervention for patients with long COVID.

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An English translation of a French author's work based on German source material. The languages fought the whole way through.

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I tell my folks that each of them comes to my class with their own personal set of goals for what they want/need from it, and I'm not here to judge their priorities. I teach, I grade, and I even give extra help when asked, but I don't set their goals for the class. They're adults.

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Makes the one I saw with the license plate that read as "bulletproof" all the funnier.

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55% of students polled “believed overuse of AI within teaching devalued education, and 52 percent said it negatively impacted their academic performance.”

College students fear overreliance on AI could devalue education
College students fear overreliance on AI could devalue education

Report stresses that AI is “new standard” and universities need to better communicate policies to learners.

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Over 60 billionaires have now publicly endorsed Trump, hosted a fundraiser for him, or contributed to Trump aligned PACs. Why are they rallying behind him? Tax cuts, mostly. But there's more. The more Trump tears down democracy, the safer the oligarchy becomes. Be warned.

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"Just before press time, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he would abandon his unlikely third-party bid for president and endorse Trump, ending a dilemma for voters torn between their love of deportation camps and their love of measles." —Amanda Katz, The Washington Post

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BTW: Not a complaint about my advisors or committee--who did fine given institutional expectations--but about the traditional demands for earning a PhD.

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Dr. Marc Schmalz
@effrenatus.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of IT Mgmt. Research: Identity & Tech. Teaching: Intro Coding. Opinions: Mine. PhD from UW Seattle iSchool. Formerly Wizards of the Coast, Green Ronin, Game Mechanics, DoubleDown, TeachFirst. He; Masked; Anti-fascist; BLM.
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