#educational outreach

[pigcatapult]

Best way to explain the word cis to people

It's the Latin opposite of trans. "Trans" means "across" and "cis" means "on the same side/not across".

This is a good explanation because it's true, simple, and value-neutral. Most people are pretty chill with learning a new Latin word.

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Gratitude to Saskatoon Nature Society: Cultivating the Next Generation of Nature Stewards

[townpostin]

Manipal Tata Medical College Boosts Digital Learning in East Singhbhum Schools

40 laptops donated to 20 government schools by medical college Manipal Tata Medical College’s latest CSR initiative aims to enhance technological access and skills for students in East Singhbhum, building on previous efforts. JAMSHEDPUR – Manipal Tata Medical College of Jamshedpur has demonstrated its dedication to digital education in the area by giving computers to government schools. In the…

[jasonaaronpro]

#31 - John Sherman: A Journey Through Words and War - From Peace Corps to Opera

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[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Call me an elitist I guess (no matter how much that isn't true) but idk I think this decades long cultural embrace of anti-intellectualism will have and already has had extremely terrible consequences

like we need to find ways to encourage people to learn and engage with knowledge that doesn't involve shaming them for not knowing something when no one is born knowing everything and educational systems vary like states of matter

this isn't inspired by greek tragedy related discourse at all I swear

(yes it is)

[nasa]

I really want to work for NASA but I do not have a background in science or engineering. Are there any career paths at NASA that I could still achieve?

[farmgf]

started my new natural history museum job this week and got to look at this botany journal from 1896 (!!!!) insaneeeee gorgeous impressions left after the plant pressings were removed

[ryegarden]

hiii Tumblr im still here and making art except I teach it now!!!!! I'm a ceramics TA at a university :) so that's taking up a lot of my time and brain but I'm hoping once I'm settled I will be able to build a routine for art and Etsy again. I have lots of gay little pins and access to a kiln again it's exciting. do you want to see the ceramics I'm doing??? Even if they're not explicitly trans (they are implicitly because of the transformative properties of the ceramic process but like. that's the subtext)???? should I make a separate blog for the ceramics??????

[captainjonnitkessler]

"The democrats have obviously failed as an option, our only solution now is to start a NEW party that works for the working class!"

Look I agree that would be ideal. But aside from the fact that people have repeatedly tried this and it just spawns a bunch of third parties that get .02% of the vote and then peter out . . . you are talking to people who cannot be bothered to spend one day out of every four years voting and you think they're gonna construct a brand-new viable political party from the ground up???

[readingpastmebedtime]

I don’t know how many people know this but you can access audiobooks, e-books, movies, shows, documentary’s, comics, news papers, and magazines from your personal device so long as you have a library card. Like no joke you don’t need to buy subscriptions to audible or nat geo or ny times or any of that. I know mine even has a language learning app you have access to through the library card. A lot of public library’s also have baking pans and different things you can check out as well as public outreach programs that help foster community. I’ve listened to so many audiobooks since remembering libraries exist and it’s honestly great. Get a library card, encourage others to get a library card, especially kids there’s so much cool stuff going on there.

[delicatelysublimeforester]

🌲 Calling All Canadians!🌲

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[bijoumikhawal]

leftists talking about how everyone needs to read theory to be in the movement in a country where the adult reading and comprehension rate struggles with the books they valourize. While not creating community teaching opportunities. While dismissing lived insights as "identity politics", the bastardized use of a term from theory. While the government wants to defund and destroy the education system to privilege the wealthy even more. Staunchly refusing to learn from revolutionaries who had ranks of legitimately illiterate comrades. Being offended when people say literacy is a privilege and taking it as an attack rather than a call to diversify tactics. Unironically upholding isolationist, sink or swim ideals about learning instead of communal teaching, discussion, and debate to ensure understanding.

G-d we are fucked

[edenfenixblogs]

Hey - no need to reply to this - I just wanted to thank you for your posts with regards to antisemitism in pro-palestine spaces; you’ve helped me identify a number of ways I can do better and I’m grateful. I know I’m just some internet rando, but I know how hard it is to speak up the way you’ve been and I want you to know you’re reaching people

Thank you so much. I see so much antisemitism every day now. And I get one message like this for every 100 messages or screenshots or news stories of structural antisemitism or antisemitic violence.

But honestly? Knowing in reaching anyone outside of our own community means so much to me and makes all the rest of it worth it. Thanks for making the world a safer place for me and my family to inhabit, @noneedforbloodpressure 💜

[useless-catalanfacts]

HI! Love your blog a lot!!💛❤️

I have a peculiar rant to make!

There are many motorsport events happening in Barcelona during the year, and they are often called "Spanish Grand Prix", and they are portrayed as the "home races" of people usually from other parts of Spain (most times these people are rich blokes from Madrid with links to Vox). I'm not Catalan, but that makes me so mad. It's once again the erasure of an entire history and culture. English-speaking media don't even make an effort to understand where they are, they are just happy to call it Spain and wonder why they're playing two anthems before the actual races.

But anyway, visca Catalunya i bona diada dels Països Catalans!

Thank you very much!

Yes, I completely agree with you that it's annoying. It's a way for the Spanish state (and every other state, because this happens to other occupied nations as well) to use the sports for propaganda and to cement the association "Catalonia=Spain" in the minds of everyone from around the world who's watching.

If I may, I will answer to your rant with another rant of my own. In general, most sports tend to be very state-centered. For example, for most sports you can't be a professional athlete unless you sign up for a specific state to represent it, wear its flag on your clothes while you compete, play their anthem if you win, the teams must be organized according to people who come from the same state, etc. And if you don't have one, then, bad luck, you either do it for the state that occupies your homeland or you don't get to become a professional sportsperson at all. But even if you have your own independent country that you identify with, still... why so much focus on it? Why is where these people come from so important that it becomes even more important that the person? Imagine if people did this with any other aspect of the athlete's background or identities: "Twilight fans won 5 gold medals this year, and Marvel fans went down to only 3". Or imagine if we did it by sexual orientation, conservatives would be so mad saying "why do you have to wave it in everyone's faces!?". All of those would be ridiculous, so why isn't this strong focus on what state they come from also ridiculous? It would seem more logical to focus on person, school/trainer, or teams that they could choose according to how they view the sport or how they think training works better or work better together. But we seem to just accept that the state (not even culture or nation, just a geographical-political administration unit) is the most defining trait.

That's why I personally never liked the Olympic games or world cups, it feels like it's more about nationalism than about sports. I used to follow them when I was young but I always felt like the gymnasts themselves weren't recognized enough because all the media was focused on "how many people from our country won", or "this sport was won by [country]". And Spanish media does this a lot, to the point that I think they are disrespectful to the sportsperson. Why do all Spanish people have to feel proud or like they won the games because someone from their state achieved something, but not when someone from another state did the same, even when someone from a state might be geographically closer to some parts of their neighbour state than other parts of their own? It's not like the random citizen who is supposed to feel like he himself won the games did, maybe he spent the whole competition eating chips at the sofa (that's me btw). It just never made sense to me. And even less for team achievements like F1 or MotoGP, where they play the anthem of the state that the pilot is a citizen of, but so much of that victory is owed to the rest of the team who worked on making and improving the car/motorbike, so it's a team effort but the anthem of the state of only one of them is chosen to be given the victory to. It makes no sense!

And if you're hosting on a city, it's the same. What does a state's anthem even have to do with an F1 racing? Why is it even there? Show the city and the area around it if you must show something, after all that's the people whose taxes are going to pay for that sport and whose lives are going to be inconvenienced by it.

Because that's another thing, events like the F1 race inside Barcelona (not on the actual track, when they made them fake-race on the street Passeig de Gràcia, afaik they were not even actually racing because the velocity limit was too low), the America Cup, etc contribute so much to worsening the worst problems of the city (touristic massification, gentrification, poverty, and pollution). For the America Cup, the neighbours of the Barceloneta quarter have to use cards that identify them as residents to be allowed in their own neighbourhood because that whole neighbourhood has been kidnapped by the America Cup people. And the F1 fake race thing in one of the busiest avenues of the city was very annoying to the citizens, too. It meant cutting a significant amount of the city's traffic, including public buses, and collapsing part of the metro system as a result. Some of my co-workers had difficulties arriving to our workplace that day because of it. Just so that cars can show off inside the city and pollute it, skipping the city's laws that aim to reduce air pollution by banning people whose cars pollute more than a certain amount (which in practise means old cars, the ones that poorer people are more likely to have). We can't use our cars in the city unless we can afford a green model, but they can cut off a whole avenue in the very centre of the city, asphalt it new just for them, and race there when they already have a track made for them to race in.

It's all part of the capitalist obsession with uncontrolled growth, they want everything to happen here for more and more people to come. Not just with sports events, but anything that will be used as an advertising for the city. Like the Louis Vuitton catwalk that was happening this month in Park Güell (a UNESCO World Heritage Site btw) and which damaged part of the architecture. Until now, the hotel lobby was the main promoter of many of these events because they wanted more tourists, but even the hotel owners are now saying that this has gone too far and the tourism monoculture model has become absolutely unsustainable and is ruining the city.

Don't get me wrong, sports are important and we need to support them and promote people practise sports, and it's good for entertainment purposes and we have to support people having fun (that's what life's about!). But the model that professional competitive sports use needs to be completely rethinked. I think every city that has gone through the devastating experience of hosting Olympic Games will agree with this.

Anyway, that's just my opinion and what you pointed out is definitely more offensive, but when I stop to think of it I can't but see how it's all.... not great. Sorry for getting out of topic but I have been personally very annoyed by these sports and fashion events this month.

Thank you for your message and your understanding, I read it on the Sant Joan but I'm answering late. I hope you had a good diada dels Països Catalans and that you're having a great beginning of summer 🌞

[saturnmused]

i'm so frickin excited i got the job i wanted!!!

[yubnubforhire]

Hello citizens of tumblr dot com!

I’m an English teacher and co-librarian at a middle school in Brooklyn, and we’re currently having a book drive to try to get new books (especially queer and BIPOC books) for our school library. As anyone who works in public education right now can tell you, there’s not a lot of money to go around at the moment. I’m going to post the registry link here in the hopes that y’all can spread this around and hopefully we can get some more items bought for our kids! There are books on this list as cheap as a cup of fancy coffee, and even just getting one book will help.

Thank you!!!!