My book HACKING DIVERSITY is apparently 50% off right now in @npub1dd4w...ex5p 's spring sale! Paperback is $16 with the code BLOOM50. Not sure how long the sale runs

Hacking Diversity

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communities

#Bookstodon #FOSS #Hacking

Got a #flosstodon and a #flosstodon with a twist (yes I spend a lot of time looking at the ground; no I don’t know why anyone follows my account)

"10 Occidental College students set up camp Monday in their academic quad to launch a hunger strike to protest heightened policing on campus and to try to compel administrators to do more to proactively protect students against ICE" https://lapublicpress.org/2025/04/hunger-strike-occidental-college-los-angeles/ #uspol

Arrests for USC and UCLA students (and a few staff and faculty) engaged in nonviolent Gaza solidarity protests last year are now hitting the 1-yr mark where prosecutor has to charge them or drop it, and mostly being dropped https://cityattorney.lacity.gov/updates/la-city-attorney-hydee-feldstein-soto-announces-filing-decisions-2024-uclausc-mass-protests #LosAngeles #PolicingTheCampus #GazaProtests

"Today, a group of Columbia University students and alumni chained themselves to the campus gates, demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi"

Columbia Daily Spectator

Students and alumni tether themselves to 116th and Amsterdam gates in protest of ICE detaining affiliates

<i>Updated on April 21 at 10:56 p.m.</i>

#PolicingTheCampus #academia #HigherEd #Columbia #uspol

Donkey, 1981, Felipe Benito Archuleta. Cottonwood, paint, glass marbles, sisal, sawdust, glue. Held by Philadelphia Museum of Art #asstodon

I knew this was happening in the background but this is the first story I've seen about a faculty member being swept up in the visa revocations https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/uh-visa-revoked-math-professor-20277600.php #HigherEd #academia #uspol

Tomorrow, April 17, 2-4pm!! A discussion about our rights and responsibilities and supporting international students and others, nationally and locally, sponsored by #USCAAUP In concert with National Day of Action for Higher Ed,

Coalition For Action In Higher Ed

Home &mdash; Coalition For Action In Higher Education

We are organizing to make higher education tuition-free, accessible, autonomous, and justice-oriented by growing and building connections between e...

#LosAngeles

#CovidIsNotOver and it increases the risk of cardiovascular post-acute sequelae in kids https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56284-0 #Covid19