Parent, high school teacher, former math professor.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined June 2008
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Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
This amazing figure from yesterday's #IPCC report shows the potential of different approaches to mitigate climate change
It exposes two common misconceptions about 'natural climate solutions'
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Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
.@MaryHeglar: "Captain Planet was crystal clear about the power of collective action—it taught us that no one person can save the planet alone. However, Captain Planet did draw some disappointing lines around generational responsibility." thenation.com/article/societ… #ClimateAction
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
In 1683, Philadelphia was just an idea by writer William Penn. His plans — which included systems that drove racial inequities — would go on to influence the city for centuries to come. Today we examine the infrastructure he inspired, and what it means.
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
People who hate queer people want us to keep it private. Behind closed doors. Someplace they don't have to see it. And the doors of a gay bar are doors we keep it behind. A place we can go and be together and not bother *them* with the fact of our existence.
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
Being on search committees has confirmed for me how arbitrary success in academia is. Yes, you have to be smart and capable to make it. But you could have been just as smart and just as capable and not made it. Basically, we work our asses off to buy a lottery ticket.
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
Thank you all for sharing my call for participants!🙏🏽 I need some help recruiting a few more Black Caribbean-born women faculty. Again, thanks for the support!🧡
Check out and share this recruitment flyer. Contact @dr_yardie if you have any further questions. #CiteBlackWomen
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
Look, President @BarackObama said it best:
“If somebody is willing to peddle snake oil to make a buck, then he’s probably willing to sell snake oil to get elected.”
Vote for me on Tuesday, November 8 — and together, let’s send Dr. Oz back to New Jersey.
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
In this paper just published in @GenderWorkOrg, @Menzwa, @awe_dwee, and I take an intersectional approach and detail our experiences working as women of color in higher education during the pandemic. If you only have time to read one thing I have written, let it be this one. A 🧵
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
Day 258 Just b/c there are other drug war victims, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t remind the world, even if daily, of #BrittneyGriner’s reprehensible internment. B/c there is Parkinson’s disease doesn’t mean we stop studying cancer. We do what we can.
#RepealGlobalDrugProhibition
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
Day 248 of #BrittneyGriner ‘s imprisonment. Another example of how drugs are scapegoated for larger political motives. #RepealGlobalDrugProhibition
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Whether it's launching a canvass in South Philly or spending time with small business owners in Chinatown, I'll always show up for Philadelphia.
Love you, Philly. 16 days woo hoo! 🥰
ALT Me standing with small business owners and community members in Chinatown.
ALT Me speaking at the canvass launch in South Philly today.
ALT The crowd at the South Philly canvass launch. Many of them are holding up Phillies Fans for Fetterman signs.
ALT Kids coloring on pieces of paper that have our campaign logo.
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
When Doug Mastriano was asked if LGBTQ+ couples should be allowed to marry, he said: "Absolutely not. I'm for traditional marriage."
Know that.
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
Geneticist here. You can’t make facial profiles or accurate pigmentation predictions from DNA, and this is dangerous snake oil.
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For the seventeenth day of Hispanic Heritage Month, we're celebrating Rosemary Guzman, a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Check out her poster at the link below
lathisms.org/calendar-2022s/…
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
"There are tens of thousands of students taking #calculus not because they’re interested or because it will help them reach their aspirations, but because it’s seen as their golden ticket into a more prestigious college." @dtkung @Josh_Recio @maanow mathvalues.org/masterblog/th…
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
we need a full shutdown on new jersey residents running for office in pennsylvania until we find out what’s going on
Doug Mastriano, the GOP candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, was registered to vote in New Jersey until 2021.
newjerseyglobe.com/national/…
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
We repeatedly told @DrOz that we had pre-made veggie trays..excuse me “Crudité”…in the deli starting at $5.99. $7.99 with guacamole and salsa. Vote @JohnFetterman!
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
Active Learning courses can be offered in ANY format
Here we describe how we redesigned a large (>1,000) first year, #HigherEd biology course to be fully remote and fully engaging
files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/E…
TL:DR: Check out our strategies table 👇
#DigitalForest #BIOL1070
ALT Table one from the text linked to in the tweet. The table shows the challenges that students face, the impact that it has on those students, and the way that we addressed the challenge.
ALT The second photo of the same table described in the alt text of the first photo.
Amy Ksir 🌈🎶 retweeted
Happy Juneteenth.
White folks: This is a reminder that anti-Black racism is adaptive. Chattel slavery is no longer overtly legal, but the impacts linger and other systems have risen to seek the same outcomes. "Neutrality" and "being apolitical" contribute to those systems.
