The Name Game, by Sally Pirie, at #UMassAmherst: "There is so much to say about women, about names, about cis-heteronormativity, history, tradition and patriarchy, about children and bodies and personhood, lots more than I could squeeze into a little comic, but it’s a start." https://sallypirie.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/TheNameGame.pdf

Today, we went to the #UMassAmherst Cold Spring Orchard for its opening day. I bought a peck of apples: one McIntosh, two Akane, three Paula Reds, and a bunch of Zestars. We also got three Ginger Golds, but we ate them on the drive. Yum!

The #UMassAmherst Office of Faculty Development is offering a "Write on Site" drop-in with coffee, water, and snacks. I wonder if they'll have masks…

(Note: I don't really wonder that. 😕 )

The Biology Department at #UMassAmherst is searching for two non-tenure-system faculty (lecturers) to teach Genetics and/or Cell & Molecular Biology. https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/519795/lecturer-biology-department-2-positions-available Please signal boost if you think your followers might be interested in applying! #jobs #faculty

The #UmassAmherst pollinator garden is in peak form right now… #bloomscrolling #WesternMass

#umassamherst https://www.umass.edu/magazine/spring-2023/hellahgood

#umassamherst https://www.umass.edu/magazine/spring-2023/sunrise

#umassamherst https://www.umass.edu/magazine/spring-2023/coffee

Reading through the spring edition of #umassamherst magazine, I learned about alumni doing some pretty cool stuff. Packed with UMass advertising, of course, but still some pretty cool stories.
https://www.umass.edu/magazine/spring-2023/recompose

Sweet Bay Magnolia near the Physical Sciences Building at #UMassAmherst.

I took a nice walk around the #UMassAmherst campus pond this evening and the light was simply fantastic.

Montague House is a 2½ story side gable Greek Revival wood frame structure, built circa 1840. Currently it serves as the home of the #UMassAmherst Center for International Education. #revinsheart

#University websites using #MediaWiki, #Wiki hacked to serve #Fortnite spam

By Ax Sharma, April 21, 2023

"Websites of multiple U.S. universities are serving Fortnite and 'gift card' spam.

"Researchers observed Wiki and documentation pages being hosted by universities including #Stanford, #MIT, #Berkeley, #UMassAmherst, #Northeastern, #Caltech, among others, were compromised.

"BleepingComputer confirmed the malicious campaign was live, and had targeted additional scholastic websites including that of the #UniversityOfMichigan.

"These websites appear to be running either TWiki or MediaWiki—the latter being a #CMS platform that powers #Wikipedia and multiple #Wikimedia websites.

"These wiki pages, purportedly uploaded by spammers, lure readers into visiting bogus sites that claim to be offering 'free gift card,' 'Fortnite Bucks,' and cheats, among other digital artifacts.

"Users should refrain from clicking suspicious links within the compromised Wiki pages."

#HackingNews

Read more:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-websites-using-mediawiki-twiki-hacked-to-serve-fortnite-spam/

Landscape Services are already hard at work beautifying the campus in preparation for graduation, here planting annuals in the University of Massachusetts signs that are incredibly popular destinations for students taking graduation pictures. #UMassAmherst #WesternMass

The Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center at #UMassAmherst is a monument to the brutalist style of architecture and houses the campus hotel, conference services, meeting spaces, and many campus eateries.

tiel proksime, burĝonoj turmentas min… ekfloru, damne! / so close, the buds torment me… flower, dammit! #hajko #haiku #esperanto #UMassAmherst #WesternMass

Sunrise over #UMassAmherst…

#OSS in #HigherEd

Charles Schweik, author of “Internet Success: The Study of Open Source Software Commons” and professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation and School of Public Policy at #UMass #Amherst, has been appointed director of the #UMassAmherst Information Technology Program.

Much of his research focuses on understanding the social and technical contexts of #OpenSource software.

#EdTech #HigherEducation #OpenEdTech #EdTechChat

https://www.umass.edu/news/article/charles-schweik-appointed-it-program-director

I updated my #UMassAmherst faculty page yesterday: https://www.umass.edu/biology/about/directories/faculty/steven-d-brewer

It's almost like I know that guy.

#westernmass #westernmassachusetts

(Why don't customers switch to Coke? It turns out that duopolies like Pepsi-Coke are able to tacitly collude on pricing, and Coke is *also* raking in massive profits.)

#UMassAmherst economists Isabella Weber and Evan Wasner call this #SellersInflation, documenting how "overlapping emergencies" allow companies to raise prices far in excess of their cost increases, and then keep them high even when the emergencies end:

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/

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