Lisa Lebduska

A Heron's Garden announces Coast to Coast: A Young Family Celebrates America, describing how a 1971 family of 6 (kids all under the age of 10) traveled the US in a camper. No broken bones. No divorces. Lots of learning. #like-11737" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">aheronsgarden.com/2025/09/07/how… #family #camping #nostalgia #garden

#Wheatonma post-convocation barbecue. Biology professor Juvenal Lopez delivered an inspiring speech about experience and the college's WOSS program, aimed at diversifying STEM and reducing barriers to entry into # STEM.

Uruguay's Pepe Mujica: "What meaning can we give to life? Man, compared to other animals, has the ability to find a purpose. Or not. If you don’t find it, the market will have you paying bills the rest of your life." New York Times. nytimes.com/2024/08/23/wor…

ChatGPT And Generative AI Innovations Are Creating Sustainability Havoc via @forbes forbes.com/sites/cindygor…

@outerridge Examine environmental effects. Forbes: "ChatGPT consumes over half a million kilowatts of electricity [daily], an amount staggering enough to service about 200 million requests... daily power usage is nearly equal to 180,000 U.S. households, each using abt 29 kilowatts" #chatgpt

@lisalebduska What a challenge. Any ideas?

So much to discover, so much to say. Whose machines, whose programs; what new foundations can be built?

@RosenzweigJane Brilliant. Thanks so much for this. I'm going to track it down and see how I can work it into at least one of my classes.

The Department of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor. The department is seeking to strengthen its capacity in political economy, racial wealth gap, and economic history.

#HBCU Fellowships for students and faculty awpwriter.org/community_cale…

@latinoauthor I would love to take you for a celebratory lunch and will ask only for 1 autograph.

Congratulations Jose! You. A Pushcart. Yes! poets.org/poet/jose-b-go…

@RosenzweigJane The implication, too, is that what came before was of no value and no use; nothing about it was worthy of preservation or adaptation or even salvage. The least creative approach to a problem is to crush the life out of it and discard it.

High school juniors and seniors, you could study here for 4 weeks this summer. #WheatonMA . Check out the #precollege program via the Wheaton website. Questions about applying Email precollege@wheatoncollege.edu

.@19thnews is recruiting for our next cohort of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellows! The program gives recent grads, mid-career alums and former HBCU students a full-year-salaried-w/-benefits job in reporting, audience and product.

Yes to Firth's extended analogy, to which I'd add that writers, like Columbo, often return to say, "there's just one more thing." #WritingCommunity

Blair quotes Noble:"I do not know if an editor ever told John Wilford Noble, 'If God gives you a lead, don’t mess it up.' But he followed that advice nevertheless with this lead: 'Men have landed and walked on the moon." #writingtips

How does a human "scan" for accuracy? asking for a friend. #AI

Eco writers. This. Along with a re-thinking of language. Why say land is "developed" when its tress have been destroyed? You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/02/18/bus… #environment #ecology

Authors note AI makes us ask :"What are our core capabilities as humans?" I'd add: ethics & a sense of fairness, and I'd not label those "soft skills." nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opi… #AI #ChatGPT

@The_Big_Quiet Could it have been the work of pigcasso.org