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    1. However, when we use the term “text”in composition courses, we often mean it is a piece of communication thatcan take many forms. For instance, a text is a movie, meme, social mediapost, essay, website, podcast, and the list goes on.

      In these lines we learn about whenever ,you use the term text in composition courses , its mean communication ,of text movie , social media post ,essay, website ,podcast and the other list goes on .mean we can consider diffrent texts in the multimodal

    2. This chapter introduces multimodal composing and offers five strategiesfor creating a multimodal text. The essay begins with a brief review ofkey terms associated with multimodal composing and provides definitionsand examples of the five modes of communication. The first section ofthe essay also introduces students to the New London Group and offersthree reasons why students should consider multimodal composing an im-portant skill—one that should be learned in a writing class.

      In this chapter we learn about introduces multimodal composing and five strategies for creating a multimodal text .so we also learn about the beginning with the introduction of the new London Group and offers three reasons of skills learning ,why its important to learn about the multimodal composing

    3. does multimodal mean?” Perhaps you remember an assignment from highschool when your teacher required you to create a Prezi or PowerPointpresentation, and she referred to it as a “multimodal project,”

      his part helped me understand that multimodal composing isn’t just about adding pictures or videos for decoration. It’s about thinking intentionally about how different modes communicate meaning. I never really thought about writing like that before, like choosing tools based on what helps the reader.

    4. The gestural mode refers to gesture and movement. This mode is oftenapparent in delivery of speeches in the way(s) that speakers move theirhands and fix their facial features and in other texts that capture movementsuch as videos, movies, and television. Figure 4 shows Michelle Obama’sgestures at a speech she gave in Londo

      The gesture mode is something that I found interesting and would like to apply to my writings

    5. You are likely already sharing and creating multimodal texts onlineand communicating with a wide range of audiences through social media,which Ryan P. Shepherd argues, requires multimodality.

      Before this class i never really realized i was using some of the writing methods

    6. Perhaps you remember an assignment from highschool when your teacher required you to create a Prezi or PowerPointpresentation, and she referred to it as a “multimodal project,” but you werenot exactly sure what that meant. Or perhaps you only remember writingfive paragraph essays in high school and have never heard or read the word“multimodal.

      Definitely only remember using the 5 paragraph essay method

    1. research avenues

      This study highlights the true complexity of protein processing, trafficking, and its ultimate function! I think it could benefit from some orthogonal methods of analysis - would be it be possible to try to isolate specific 'states' of processed protein (like you did with the CHX treatment) or using subcellular localization or IPs to identify exactly which glycosylation sites or cleavages have been made? Excited to see what comes next!

    2. glycosylated residue.

      I wonder if there might be a more straightforward way to probe this interaction. It seems difficult to study the interaction between RNF13 and IDS because there are so many different precursors or processed forms of IDS. Perhaps a strategic approach could be to either isolate the process (in cells) for which the interaction is most important, and then determine which processed form of IDS is involved. Or maybe purify different forms of IDS and determine using binding assays, since IPs are less capable of identifying 'direct interactions'.

    3. and maturation.

      This is a very neat result! I'm wondering if it might be interesting to repeat an IP with different fractions - like a lysosome-enriched fraction vs a whole lysate. There are some pretty crude lysosome preps that could give some nice connections between forms that are trafficked, the maturation data you have, and the localization data you have below.

    1. his

      Notice how the author uses he instead of it to refer to the calf. Maybe this stylistic choice is used to let the reader identify themselves with the calf; it could also be used to give more humanity to the animal, instead of referring to him with the pronoun used for objects.

    1. The table below does not include capacitors on supply sources (such as LDO or SMPS) or external devices (suchas SD-Card, eMMC, or flash memories)

      decoupling caps table

    1. If you could magically change anything about how social media sites operate as businesses, what would it be?

      I would nationalize all of them. Make them run on a not for profit model. These sites are so essential to the connections that our generations have with each other so I would consider them an inelastic demand. Because if I can't be in instagram I can't get the address for this house show or I can't keep up with my local activism group about meetings. I think that these services of connection should be centralized so they can be regulated and stripped of greed.

    2. If you could design a new social media site, what would you want to do that other social media sites do? What would you want to do differently than other social media sites?

      If I could design a new social media, I would like to make an app that allows people to chat with friends, like snapchat. But this app won't only have messaging, it can also allow users to pay, see the locations of friends(with permission), and post. In China, WeChat already has all the functions above, so people don't need to bring cash and cards. All they need to take with is just a phone. I would also add some mini-programs for entertainment and official accounts.

    3. How have your views on social media changed (or been reinforced)?

      Even worse than before! I don’t want to post anything on social media anymore, not for a long time, at least. I don’t know what the future will bring, but I will definitely not get involved in writing negative comments toward creators, and I’ll be more mindful when using social media.

    4. How have your views on social media changed (or been reinforced)?

      The text book reinforces a lot of my preexisting opinions about the internet and cemented information I already knew. The general negativity of the internet was apparent to me through my extensive usage of it, along with hearing stories about other cases and their consequences.

  2. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
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      This article draws similarities between McKinsey the consulting firm and AI as a whole. I honestly don't think its a very good analogy but I'll do my best. They say similar to McKinsey normalizing mass layoffs as a firm AI is going to take away a lot of jobs. I think that McKinsey is way, way worse because those are actual people being evil not an Ai that may tell you to do something evil.

    2. Jason Parham. There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter. Wired, November 2022. URL: https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-elon-musk/ (visited on 2023-12-10).

      This article outlines the impact and importance of Black Twitter as a space for Black people to share customs and culture and freely find community. The article goes into the history of Black Twitter from its creation and what it has meant during its time of existence. The article also summarizes the statements made by many Black Twitter users that Black Twitter is now dead after the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk.

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      After checking out Coded Bias, I was honestly surprised how much everyday technology relies on algorithms that were never tested on diverse groups of people. The documentary shows how facial recognition failed on darker-skinned women, which made me think about how “neutral” tech isn’t neutral at all. What really got me is how the developers didn’t seem to think about these consequences until people called them out. It connects perfectly to the chapter’s theme that innovation often ignores ethics until harm already happens. It also made me wonder how many other systems we use every day have hidden biases we just haven’t noticed yet.

    4. Britney Nguyen. Ex-Twitter engineer says he quit years ago after refusing to help sell identifiable user data, worries Elon Musk will 'do far worse things with data'. November 2022. URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/former-twitter-engineer-worried-how-elon-musk-treat-user-data-2022-11 (visited on 2023-12-10).

      This article is about an ex-twitter engineer, Steve Krenzel's experience of rejecting selling identifiable user data and some predictions about twitter's future. There was one telco company that wanted to buy the data about users' privacy such as what time the users leave their home, and Steve Krenzel refused this. And after Elon Musk bought twitter, he worried about Elon Musk would do worse things with these datas. This article reflects the importance of ethics that we learned in info 103. As an internet user, and maybe tech worker in the future, it's really important to be ethical and respectful to users' privacy and rights.

    5. Steve Krenzel [@stevekrenzel]. With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter. 🧵. November 2022. URL:

      I’m glad that we, as humans, still have ethics that limit us from doing things that could potentially harm others, especially people who might want to take too much of our personal information. It can be very difficult for people to control themselves when they feel the temptation of what they might gain.

    6. Steve Krenzel [@stevekrenzel]. With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter. 🧵. November 2022. URL: https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817 (visited on 2023-12-10).

      The way in twitter operates is less the fault of twitter itself and the people that created it but more the fact that twitter is under a cooperation and as such needs to continuously make money. It monetization method relies on user engagement, and without it, the platform will quickly die out. To achieve this, twitter prays on the human psychic, showing the user what interests or draws them in the most, in most cases it might be something negative.

    1. his

      Notice how the author uses he instead of it to refer to the calf. Maybe this stylistic choice is used to let the reader identify themselves with the calf; it could also be used to give more humanity to the animal, instead of referring to him with the pronoun used for objects.

    1. you will need to review materials regularly

      I would like to recommend OER to continuing ed instructors who usually don't have paid prep time - it could save some time. Yet the constant review also seems so time consuming. It's not quite an easy sell. It's so much easier to keep your own materials current when they are your own and you are actively working in the field - you know exactly what to update, and where.

    1. eLife Assessment

      This study presents a fundamental discovery of how cerebellar climbing fibers modulate plastic changes in the somatosensory cortex by identifying both the responsible cortical circuit and the anatomical pathways. The evidence supporting the conclusions is convincing and well supported by modern neuroscience methodologies. Overall, this work represents a significant contribution that will be of broad interest to neuroscientists, especially those studying the long-distance cerebellar influence on non-motor brain functions.

    2. Reviewer #1 (Public review):

      Summary:

      Silbaugh, Koster and Hansel investigated how the cerebellar climbing fiber (CF) signals influence neuronal activity and plasticity in mouse primary somatosensory (S1) cortex. They found that optogenetic activation of CFs in the cerebellum modulates responses of cortical neurons to whisker stimulation in a cell-type-specific manner and suppresses potentiation of layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons induced by repeated whisker stimulation. This suppression of plasticity by CF activation is mediated through modulation of VIP- and SST-positive interneurons. Using transsynaptic tracing and chemogenetic approaches, the authors identified a pathway from the cerebellum through the zona incerta and the thalamic posterior medial (POm) nucleus to the S1 cortex, which underlies this functional modulation.

      The authors have addressed all the necessary points.

    3. Reviewer #2 (Public review):

      Summary:

      The authors examined long-distance influence of climbing fiber (CF) signaling in the somatosensory cortex by manipulating whiskers through stimulation. Also, they examined CF signaling using two-photon imaging and mapped projections from the cerebellum to somatosensory cortex using transsynaptic tracing. As a final manipulation, they used chemogenetics to perturb parvalbumin positive neurons in the zona incerta and recorded from climbing fibers.

      Strengths:

      There are several strengths to this paper. The recordings were carefully performed and AAVs used were selective and specific for the cell-types and pathways being analyzed. In addition, the authors used multiple approaches that support climbing fiber pathways to distal regions of the brain. This work will impact the field and describes nice methods to target difficult to reach brain regions, such as the inferior olive.

      No weaknesses noted.

    4. Reviewer #3 (Public review):

      Summary:

      The authors developed an interesting novel paradigm to probe the effects of cerebellar climbing fiber activation on short-term adaptation of somatosensory neocortical activity during repetitive whisker stimulation. Normally, RWS potentiated whisker responses in pyramidal cells and weakly suppressed them in interneruons, lasting for at least 1h. Crusii Optogenetic climbing fiber activation during RWS reduced or inverted these adaptive changes. This effect was generally mimicked or blocked with chemogenetic SST or VIP activation/suppression as predicted based on their "sign" in the circuit.

      Strengths:

      The central finding about CF modulation of S1 response adaptation is interesting, important, and convincing, and provides a jumping-off point for the field to start to think carefully about cerebellar modulation of neocortical plasticity.

      Weaknesses:

      The SST and VIP results appeared slightly weaker statistically, but I do not personally think this detracts from the importance of the initial finding (if there are multiple underlying mechanisms, modulating one may reproduce only a fraction of the effect size). I found the suggestion that zona incerta may be responsible for the cerebellar effects on S1 to be a more speculative result (it is not so easy with existing technology to effectively modulate this type of polysynaptic pathway), but this may be an interesting topic for the authors to follow up on in more detail in the future.

      Comments on revisions:

      The authors have appropriately addressed my comments.

    5. Author response:

      The following is the authors’ response to the original reviews

      Public Reviews:

      Reviewer #1 (Public review):

      Summary:

      Silbaugh, Koster, and Hansel investigated how the cerebellar climbing fiber (CF) signals influence neuronal activity and plasticity in mouse primary somatosensory (S1) cortex. They found that optogenetic activation of CFs in the cerebellum modulates responses of cortical neurons to whisker stimulation in a cell-type-specific manner and suppresses potentiation of layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons induced by repeated whisker stimulation. This suppression of plasticity by CF activation is mediated through modulation of VIP- and SST-positive interneurons. Using transsynaptic tracing and chemogenetic approaches, the authors identified a pathway from the cerebellum through the zona incerta and the thalamic posterior medial (POm) nucleus to the S1 cortex, which underlies this functional modulation.

      Strengths:

      This study employed a combination of modern neuroscientific techniques, including two-photon imaging, opto- and chemo-genetic approaches, and transsynaptic tracing. The experiments were thoroughly conducted, and the results were clearly and systematically described. The interplay between the cerebellum and other brain regions - and its functional implications - is one of the major topics in this field. This study provides solid evidence for an instructive role of the cerebellum in experience-dependent plasticity in the S1 cortex.

      Weaknesses:

      There may be some methodological limitations, and the physiological relevance of the CFinduced plasticity modulation in the S1 cortex remains unclear. In particular, it has not been elucidated how CF activity influences the firing patterns of downstream neurons along the pathway to the S1 cortex during stimulation.

      Our study addresses the important question of whether CF signaling can influence the activity and plasticity of neurons outside the olivocerebellar system, and further identifies the mechanism through which this indeed occurs. We provide a detailed description of the involvement of specific neuron subtypes and how they are modulated by climbing fiber activation to impact S1 plasticity. We also identify at least one critical pathway from the cerebellar output to the S1 circuit. It is indeed correct that we did not investigate how the specific firing patterns of all of these downstream neurons are affected, or the natural behaviors in which this mechanism is involved. Now that it is established that CF signaling can impact activity and plasticity outside the olivocerebellar system -- and even in the primary somatosensory cortex -- these questions will be important to further investigate in future studies.

      (1) Optogenetic stimulation may have activated a large population of CFs synchronously, potentially leading to strong suppression followed by massive activation in numerous cerebellar nuclear (CN) neurons. Given that there is no quantitative estimation of the stimulated area or number of activated CFs, observed effects are difficult to interpret directly. The authors should at least provide the basic stimulation parameters (coordinates of stim location, power density, spot size, estimated number of Purkinje cells included, etc.).

      As discussed in the paper, we indeed expect that synchronous CF activation is needed to allow for an effect on S1 circuits under natural or optogenetic activation conditions. The basic optogenetic stimulation parameters (also stated in the methods) are as follows: 470 nm LED; Ø200 µm core, 0.39 NA rotary joint patch cable; absolute power output of 2.5 mW; spot size at the surface of the cortex 0.6 mm; estimated power density 8 mW/mm2. A serious estimate of the number of Purkinje cells that are activated is difficult to provide, in particular as ‘activation’ would refer to climbing fiber inputs, not Purkinje cells directly.

      (2) There are CF collaterals directly innervating CN (PMID:10982464). Therefore, antidromic spikes induced by optogenetic stimulation may directly activate CN neurons. On the other hand, a previous study reported that CN neurons exhibit only weak responses to CF collateral inputs (PMID: 27047344). The authors should discuss these possibilities and the potential influence of CF collaterals on the interpretation of the results.

      A direct activation of CN neurons by antidromic spikes in CF collaterals cannot be ruled out. However, we believe that this effect will not be substantial. The activation of the multi-synaptic pathway that we describe in this study is more likely to require a strong nudge as resulting from synchronized Purkinje cell input and subsequent rebound activation in CN neurons (PMID: 22198670), rather than small-amplitude input provided by CF collaterals (PMID: 27047344). A requirement for CF/PC synchronization would also set a threshold for activation of this suppressive pathway.

      (3) The rationale behind the plasticity induction protocol for RWS+CF (50 ms light pulses at 1 Hz during 5 min of RWS, with a 45 ms delay relative to the onset of whisker stimulation) is unclear.

      a) The authors state that 1 Hz was chosen to match the spontaneous CF firing rate (line 107); however, they also introduced a delay to mimic the CF response to whisker stimulation (line 108). This is confusing, and requires further clarification, specifically, whether the protocol was designed to reproduce spontaneous or sensory-evoked CF activity.

      This protocol was designed to mimic sensory-evoked CF activity as reported in Bosman et al (J. Physiol. 588, 2010; PMID: 20724365).

      b) Was the timing of delivering light pulses constant or random? Given the stochastic nature of CF firing, randomly timed light pulses with an average rate of 1Hz would be more physiologically relevant. At the very least, the authors should provide a clear explanation of how the stimulation timing was implemented.

      Light pulses were delivered at a constant 1 Hz. Our goal was to isolate synchrony as the variable distinguishing sensory-evoked from spontaneous CF activity; additionally varying stochasticity, rate, or amplitude would have confounded this. Future studies could explore how these additional parameters shape S1 responses.

      (4) CF activation modulates inhibitory interneurons in the S1 cortex (Figure 2): responses of interneurons in S1 to whisker stimulation were enhanced upon CF coactivation (Figure 2C), and these neurons were predominantly SST- and PV-positive interneurons (Figure 2H, I). In contrast, VIP-positive neurons were suppressed only in the late time window of 650-850 ms (Figure 2G). If the authors' hypothesis-that the activity of VIP neurons regulates SST- and PVneuron activity during RWS+CF-is correct, then the activity of SST- and PV-neurons should also be increased during this late time window. The authors should clarify whether such temporal dynamics were observed or could be inferred from their data.

      Yes, we see a significant activity increase in PV neurons in this late time window (see updates to Data S2). Activity was also increased in SST neurons, though this did not reach statistical significance (Data S2). One reason might be that – given the small effect size overall – such an effect would only be seen in paired recordings. Chemogenetic activity modulation in VIP neurons, which provides a more crude test, shows, however, that SST- and PV-positive interneurons are indeed regulated via inhibition from VIP-positive interneurons (Fig. 5).

      (5) Transsynaptic tracing from CN nicely identified zona incerta (ZI) neurons and their axon terminals in both POm and S1 (Figure 6 and Figure S7).

      a) Which part of the CN (medial, interposed, or lateral) is involved in this pathway is unclear.

      We used a dual-injection transsynaptic tracing approach to specifically label the outputs of ZI neurons that receive input from the deep cerebellar nuclei. The anterograde viral vector injected into the CN is unlabeled (no fluorophore) and therefore, it is not possible to reliably assess the extent of viral spread in those experiments as performed. However, we have previously performed similar injections into the deep cerebellar nuclei and post hoc histology suggest all three nuclei will have at least some viral expression (Koster and Sherman, 2024). Due to size and injection location, we will mostly have reached the lateral (dentate) nuclei, but cannot exclude partial transsynaptic tracing from the interposed and medial nuclei.  

      b) Were the electrophysiological properties of these ZI neurons consistent with those of PV neurons?

      Although most recorded cells demonstrated electrophysiological properties consistent with PV+ interneurons in other brain regions (i.e. fast spiking, narrow spike width, non-adapting; see Tremblay et al., 2016), interneuron subtypes in the ZI have been incompletely characterized, with SST+ cells showing similar features to those typically associated with PV+ cells (if interested, compare Fig. 4 in DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf6709 vs. Fig. S10 in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.04.027). Therefore, we did not attempt to delineate cell identity based on these characteristics.

      c) There appears to be a considerable number of axons of these ZI neurons projecting to the S1 cortex (Figure S7C). Would it be possible to estimate the relative density of axons projecting to the POm versus those projecting to S1? In addition, the authors should discuss the potential functional role of this direct pathway from the ZI to the S1 cortex.

      An absolute quantification is difficult to provide based on the images that we obtained. However, any crude estimate would indicate the relative density of projections to POm is higher than the density of projections to S1 (this is apparent from the images themselves). While the anatomical and functional connections from POm to S1 have been described in detail (Audette et al., 2018), this is not the case for the direct projections to ZI. A direct ZI to S1 projection would potentially involve a different recruitment of neurons in the S1 circuit. Any discussion on the specific consequences of the activation of this direct pathway would be purely speculative.

      Reviewer #2 (Public review):

      Summary:

      The authors examined long-distance influence of climbing fiber (CF) signaling in the somatosensory cortex by manipulating whiskers through stimulation. Also, they examined CF signaling using two-photon imaging and mapped projections from the cerebellum to the somatosensory cortex using transsynaptic tracing. As a final manipulation, they used chemogenetics to perturb parvalbumin-positive neurons in the zona incerta and recorded from climbing fibers.

      Strengths:

      There are several strengths to this paper. The recordings were carefully performed, and AAVs used were selective and specific for the cell types and pathways being analyzed. In addition, the authors used multiple approaches that support climbing fiber pathways to distal regions of the brain. This work will impact the field and describes nice methods to target difficult-to-reach brain regions, such as the inferior olive.

      Weaknesses:

      There are some details in the methods that could be explained further. The discussion was very short and could connect the findings in a broader way.

      In the revised manuscript, we provide more methodological details, as requested. We provided as simple as possible explanations in the discussion, so as not to bias further investigations into this novel phenomenon. In particular, we avoid an extended discussion of the gating effect of CF activity on S1 plasticity. While this is the effect on plasticity specifically observed here, we believe that the consequences of CF signaling on S1 activity may entirely depend on the contexts in which CF signals are naturally recruited, the ongoing activity of other brain regions, and behavioral state. Our key finding is that such modulation of neocortical plasticity can occur. How CF signaling controls plasticity of the neocortex in all contexts remains unknown, but needs to be thoughtfully tested in the future.

      Reviewer #3 (Public review):

      Summary:

      The authors developed an interesting novel paradigm to probe the effects of cerebellar climbing fiber activation on short-term adaptation of somatosensory neocortical activity during repetitive whisker stimulation. Normally, RWS potentiated whisker responses in pyramidal cells and weakly suppressed them in interneurons, lasting for at least 1h. Crusii Optogenetic climbing fiber activation during RWS reduced or inverted these adaptive changes. This effect was generally mimicked or blocked with chemogenetic SST or VIP activation/suppression as predicted based on their "sign" in the circuit.

      Strengths:

      The central finding about CF modulation of S1 response adaptation is interesting, important, and convincing, and provides a jumping-off point for the field to start to think carefully about cerebellar modulation of neocortical plasticity.

      Weaknesses:

      The SST and VIP results appeared slightly weaker statistically, but I do not personally think this detracts from the importance of the initial finding (if there are multiple underlying mechanisms, modulating one may reproduce only a fraction of the effect size). I found the suggestion that zona incerta may be responsible for the cerebellar effects on S1 to be a more speculative result (it is not so easy with existing technology to effectively modulate this type of polysynaptic pathway), but this may be an interesting topic for the authors to follow up on in more detail in the future.

      Our interpretation of the anatomical and physiological findings is that a pathway via the ZI is indeed critical for the observed effects. This pathway also represents perhaps the most direct pathway (i.e. least number of synapses connecting the cerebellar nuclei to S1). However, several other direct and indirect pathways are plausible as well and we expect distinct activation requirements and consequences for neurons in the S1 circuit. These are indeed interesting topics for future investigation.

      Recommendations for the authors:

      Reviewer #1 (Recommendations for the authors):

      (1) Line 77: "CF transients" is not a standard or widely recognized term. Please use a more precise expression, such as "CF-induced calcium transients."

      We now avoid the use of the term “CF transients” and replaced it with “CF-induced calcium transients.”

      (2) Titer of AAVs injected should be provided.

      AAV titers have been included in an additional data table (Data S9).

      (3) Several citations to the figures are incorrect (for example, "Supplementary Data 2a (Line 398)" does not exist).

      We apologize for the mistakes in this version of the article. Incorrect citations to the figures have been corrected.

      (4) Line 627-628: "The tip of the patch cable was centered over Crus II in all optogenetic stimulation experiments." The stereotaxic coordinate of the tip position should be provided.

      The stereotaxic coordinate of the tip position has been provided in the methods.

      (5) Line 629: "Blue light pulses were delivered with a 470 nm Fiber-Coupled LED (Thorlabs catalog: M470F3)." The size of the light stim and estimated power density (W/mm^2) at the surface of the cortex should be provided.

      The spot size and estimated power density at the surface of the cortex has been provided in the methods.

      (6) Line 702-706: References for DCZ should be cited.

      We now cited Nagai et al, Nat. Neurosci. 23 (2020) as the original reference.

      (7) Two-photon image processing (Line 807-809): The rationale for normalizing ∆F/F traces to a pre-stimulus baseline is unclear because ∆F/F is, by definition, already normalized to baseline fluorescence: (Ft-F0)/F0. The authors should clarify why this additional normalization step was necessary and how it affected the interpretation of the data.

      A single baseline fluorescence value (F₀) was computed for each neuron across the entire recording session, which lasted ~120-minutes. However, some S1 neurons exhibit fluctuations in baseline fluorescence over time—often related to locomotive activity or spontaneous network oscillations—which can obscure stimulus-evoked changes. To isolate fluorescence changes specifically attributable to whisker stimulation, we normalized each ∆F/F trace to the prestimulus baseline for that trial. This additional normalization allowed us to quantify potentiation or depression of sensory responses themselves, independently of spontaneous oscillations or locomotion-related changes in the ongoing neural activity.

      Reviewer #2 (Recommendations for the authors):

      (1) Did the climbing fiber stimulation for Figure 1 result in any changes to motor activity? Can you make any additional comments on other behaviors that were observed during these manipulations?

      Acute CF stimulation did not cause any changes in locomotive or whisking activity. The CF stimulation also did not influence the overall level of locomotion or whisking during plasticity induction.

      (2) Figure 3B and F- it is very difficult to see the SST+ neurons. Can this be enhanced?

      We linearly adjusted the brightness and contrast for the bottom images in Figure 3B and F to improve visualization of SST+ neurons. Note the expression of both hM3D(Gq) and hM4D(Gi) in SST+ neurons is sparse, which was necessary to avoid off-target effects.

      (3) Can you be more specific about the subregions of cerebellar nuclei and cell types that are targeted in the tracing studies? Discussions of the cerebellar nuclei subregions are missing and would be interesting, as others have shown discrete pathways between cerebellar nuclei subregions and long-distance projections.

      See our response to comment 5a from Reviewer 1 (copied again here): we used a dual-injection transsynaptic tracing approach to specifically label the outputs of ZI neurons that receive input from the deep cerebellar nuclei. The anterograde viral vector injected into the CN is unlabeled (no fluorophone) and therefore, it is not possible to reliably assess the extent of viral spread in those experiments as performed. However, we have previously performed similar injections into the deep cerebellar nuclei and post hoc histology suggest all three nuclei will have at least some viral expression (Koster and Sherman, 2024). Due to size and injection location, we will mostly have reached the lateral (dentate) nuclei, but cannot exclude partial transsynaptic tracing from the interposed and medial nuclei.  

      It would indeed be interesting to further investigate the effect of CFs residing in different cerebellar lobules, which preferentially target different cerebellar nuclei, on targets of these nuclei.

      (4) Did you see any connection to the ventral tegmental area? Can you comment on whether dopamine pathways are influenced by CF and in your manipulations?

      We did not specifically look at these pathways and thus are not able to comment on this.

      (5) These are intensive surgeries, do you think glia could have influenced any results?

      This was not tested and seems unlikely, but we cannot exclude such possibility.

      (6) It is unclear in the methods how long animals were recorded for in each experiment. Can you add more detail?

      Additional detail was added to the methods. Recordings for all experimental configurations did not last more than 120 minutes in total. All data were analyzed across identical time windows for each experiment.

      (7) In the methods it was mentioned that recording length can differ between animals. Can this influence the results, and if so, how was that controlled for?

      There was a variance in recording length within experimental groups, but no systematic difference between groups.

      (8) I do not see any mention of animal sex throughout this manuscript. If animals were mixed groups, were sex differences considered? Would it be expected that CF activity would be different in male and female mice?

      As mentioned in the Methods (Animals), mice of either sex were used. No sex-dependent differences were observed.

      (9) Transsynaptic tracing results of the zona incerta are very interesting. The zona incerta is highly understudied, but has been linked to feeding, locomotion, arousal, and novelty seeking. Do you think this pathway would explain some of the behavioral results found through other studies of cerebellar lobule perturbations? Some discussion of how this brain region would be important as a cerebellar connection in animal behavior would be interesting.

      Since the multi-synaptic pathway from the cerebellum to S1 involves several brain regions with their own inputs and modulatory influences, it seems plausible to assume that behaviors controlled by these regions or affecting signaling pathways that regulate them would show some level of interaction. Our study does not address these interactions, but this will be an interesting question to be addressed in future work.

      Reviewer #3 (Recommendations for the authors):

      General comments on the data presentation:

      I'm not a huge fan of taking areas under curves ('AUC' throughout the study) when the integral of the quantity has no physical meaning - 'normalizing' the AUC (1I,L etc) is even stranger, because of course if you instead normalize the AUC by the # of data points, you literally just get the mean (which is probably what should be used instead).

      Indeed, AUC is equal to the average response in the time window used, multiplied by the window duration (thus, AUC is directly proportional to the mean). We choose to report AUC, a descriptive statistic, rather than the mean within this window. In 1I and L, we normalize the AUC across animals, essentially removing the variability across animals in the ‘Pre’ condition for visualization. Note the significance of these comparisons are consistent whether or not we normalize to the ‘Pre’ condition (non-normalized RWS data in I shows a significant increase in PN activity, p = 0.0068, signrank test; non-normalized RWS+CF data in I shows a significant decrease in PN activity, p = 0.0135, paired t-test; non-normalized RWS data in L shows a significant decrease in IN activity, p <0.001, paired t-test; non-normalized RWS+CF data in L shows no significant change in IN activity, p = 0.7789, paired t-test).

      I think unadorned bar charts are generally excluded from most journals now. Consider replacing these with something that shows the raw datapoints if not too many, or the distribution across points.

      We have replaced bar charts with box plots and violin plots. We have avoided plotting individual data points due to the quantity of points.

      In various places, the statistics produce various questionable outcomes that will draw unwanted reader scrutiny. Many of the examples below involve tiny differences in means with overlapping error bars that are "significant" or a few cases of nonoverlapping error bars that are "not significant." I think replacing the bar charts may help to resolve things here if we can see the whole distribution or the raw data points. As importantly, I think a big problem is that the statistical tests all seem to be nonparametric (they are ambiguously described in Table S3 as "Wilcoxon," which should be clarified, since there is an unpaired Wilcoxon test [rank sum] and a paired Wilcoxon test [sign rank]), and thus based on differences in the *median* whereas the bar charts are based on the *mean* (and SEM rather than MAD or IQR or other medianappropriate measure of spread). This should be fixed (either change the test or change the plots), which will hopefully allay many of the items below.

      We thank the reviewer for this important point. As mentioned in the Statistics and quantification section, Wilcoxon signed rank tests were used for non-normal data. We have replaced the bar charts with box plots which show the IQR and median, which indeed allays may of the items below.

      Here are some specific points on the statistics presentation:

      (1) 1G, the test says that following RWS+CF, the decrease in PN response is not significant. In 1I, the same data, but now over time, shows a highly significant decrease. This probably means that either the first test should be reconsidered (was this a paired comparison, which would "build in" the normalization subsequently used automatically?) or the second test should be reconsidered. It's especially strange because the n value in G, if based on cells, would seem to be ~50-times higher than that in I if based on mice.

      In Figure 1G, the analysis tests whether individual pyramidal neurons significantly changed their responses before vs. after RWS+CF stimulation. This is a paired comparison at the single-cell level, and here indicates that the average per-neuron response did not reliably decrease after RWS+CF when comparing each cell’s pre- and post-values directly. In contrast, Figure 1I examines the same dataset analyzed across time bins using a two-way ANOVA, which tests for effects of time, group (RWS vs. RWS+CF), and their interaction. The analysis showed a significant group effect (p < 0.001), indicating that the overall level of activity across all time points differed between RWS and RWS+CF conditions. The difference in significance between these two analyses arises because the first test (Fig. 1G) assesses within-neuron changes (paired), whereas the second test (Fig. 1I) assesses overall population-level differences between groups over time (independent groups). Thus, the tests address related but distinct questions—one about per-cell response changes, the other about how activity differs across experimental conditions.

      (2) 1J RWS+CF then shows a much smaller difference with overlapping error bars than the ns difference with nonoverlapping errors in 1G, but J gets three asterisks (same n-values).

      Bar graphs have been replaced with box plots.

      (3) 1K, it is very unclear what is under the asterisk could possibly be significant here, since the black and white dots overlap and trade places multiple times.

      See response to point 1. A significant group effect will exist if the aggregate difference across all time bins exceeds within-group variability. The asterisk therefore reflects a statistically significant main group effect (RWS versus RWS+CF) rather than differences at any single time point. Note, however, the very small effect size here.

      (4) 2B, 2G, 2H, 2I, 3G, 3H, 5C etc, again, significance with overlapping error bars, see suggestions above.

      Bar graphs have been replaced with box plots.

      (5) Time windows: e.g., L149-153 / 2B - this section reads weirdly. I think it would be less offputting to show a time-varying significance, if you want to make this point (there are various approaches to this floating around), or a decay rate, or something else.

      Here, we wanted to understand the overall direction of influence of CFs on VIP activity. We find that CFs exert a suppressive effect on VIP activity, which is statistically significant in this later time window. The specific effect of CF modulation on the activity of S1 neurons across multiple time points will be described in more detail in future investigations.

      (6) 4G, 6I, these asterisks again seem impossible (as currently presented).

      Bar graphs have been replaced with box plots.

      The writing is in generally ok shape, but needs tightening/clarifying:

      (1) L45 "mechanistic capacity" not clear.

      We have simplified this term to “capacity.” We use the term here to express that the central question we pose is whether CF signals are able to impact S1 circuits. We demonstrate CF signals indeed influence S1 circuits and further describe the mechanism through which this occurs, but we do not yet know all of the natural conditions in which this may occur. We feel that “capacity” describes the question we pose -- and our findings -- very well.

      (2) L48-58 there's a lot of material here, not clear how much is essential to the present study.

      We would like to give an overview of the literature on instructive CF signaling within the cerebellum. Here, we feel it is important to describe how CFs supervise learning in the cerebellum via coincident activation of parallel fiber inputs and CF inputs. Our results demonstrate CFs have the capacity to supervise learning in the neocortex in a similar manner, as coincident CF activation with sensory input modulates plasticity of S1 neurons.

      (3) L59 "has the capacity to" maybe just "can".

      This has been adopted. We agree that “can” is a more straightforward way of saying “has the capacity to” here. In this sentence, “can” and “has the capacity to” both mean a general ability to do something, without explicit knowledge about the conditions of use.

      (4) L61-62 some of this is circular "observation that CF regulates plasticity in S1..has consequences for plasticity in S1".

      We now changed this to read “…consequences for input processing in S1.”

      (5) L91 "already existing whisker input" although I get it, strictly speaking, not clear what this means.

      This sentence has been reworded for clarity.

      (6) L94 "this form of plasticity" what form?

      Edited to read “sensory-evoked plasticity.”

      (7) L119 should say "to test the".

      This has been corrected.

      (8) L120 should say "well-suited to measure receptive fields".

      We agree; this wording has been adopted.

      (9) L130 should say "optical imaging demonstrated that receptive field".

      This has been adopted.

      (10) L138, the disclaimer is helpful, but wouldn't it be less confusing to just pick a different set of terms? Response potentiation etc.

      Perhaps, but we want to stress that components of LTP and LTD (traditionally tested using electrophysiological methods to specifically measure synaptic gain changes) can be optically measured as long as it is specified what is recorded.

      (11) L140, this whole section is not very clear. What was the experiment? What was done and how?

      The text in this section has been updated.

      (12) L154, 156, 158, 160, 960, what is a "basic response"? Is this supposed to contrast with RWS? If so, I would just say "we measured the response to whisker stimulation without first performing RWS, and compared this to the whisker stimulation with simultaneous CF activation."

      What we meant by “basic response” was the acute response of S1 neurons to a single 100 ms air puff. Here, we indeed measured the acute responses of S1 neurons to whisker stimulation (100 ms air puff) and compared them to whisker stimulation with simultaneous CF activation (100 ms air puff with a 50 ms light pulse; the light pulse was delayed 45 ms with respect to the air puff). This paragraph has been reworded for clarity.

      (13) L156 "comprised of a majority" unclear. You mean most of the nonspecific IN group is either PV or SST?

      Yes, that was meant here. This paragraph has been reworded for clarity.

      (14) L165 tense. "are activated" "we tested" prob should be "were activated."

      This sentence was reworded.

      (15) L173 Not requesting additional experiments, but demonstrating that the effect is mimicked by directly activating SST or suppressing VIP questions the specificity of CF activation per se, versus presumably many other pathways upstream of the same mechanisms, which might be worth acknowledging in the text.

      We indeed observe that directly activating SST or suppressing VIP neurons in S1 is sufficient to mediate the effect of CF activation on S1 pyramidal neurons, implicating SST and VIP neurons as the local effectors of CF signaling. In the text, we wrote “...the notion of sufficiency does not exclude potential effects of plasticity processes elsewhere that might well modulate effector activation in this context and others not yet tested.” Here, we mean that CFs are certainly not the only modulators of the inhibitory network in S1. One example we highlight in the discussion is that projections from M1 are known to modulate this disinhibitory VIP-to-SST-to-PN microcircuit in S1. We conclude from our chemogenetic manipulation experiments that CFs ultimately have the capacity to modulate S1 interneurons, which must occur indirectly (either through the thalamus or “upstream” regions as this reviewer points out). The fact that many other brain regions may also modulate the interneuron network in S1 -- or be modulated by CF activity themselves -- only expands the capacity of CFs to exert a variety of effects on S1 neurons in different contexts.

      (16) L247 "induced ChR2" awkward.

      We changed this to read “we expressed ChR2.”

      (17) 6C, what are the three colors supposed to represent?

      We apologize for the missing labels in this version of the manuscript. Figure 6C and the figure legend have been updated.

    1. eLife Assessment

      This study presents important findings on the role of Slit-Robo signaling in cardiac innervation. The evidence supporting the main claims of the authors is convincing. The use of several mouse models including constitutive and cell type specific knockout models make the findings more robust. The scope of the presented studies is fitting, as they primarily focus on evaluating the phenotypic changes in cardiac innervation following the loss of various Slit or Robo genes

    2. Reviewer #1 (Public review):

      The study aims to determine the role of Slit-Robo signaling in the development and patterning of cardiac innervation, a key process in heart development. Despite the well-studied roles of Slit axon guidance molecules in the development of the central nervous system, their roles in the peripheral nervous system are less clear. Thus, the present study addresses an important question. The study uses genetic knockout models to investigate how Slit2, Slit3, Robo1, and Robo2 contribute to cardiac innervation

      Using constitutive and cell type-specific knockout mouse models, they show that the loss of endothelial-derived Slit2 reduces cardiac innervation. Additionally, Robo1 knockout, but not Robo2 knockout, recapitulated the Slit2 knockout effect on cardiac innervation, leading to the conclusion that Slit2-Robo1 signaling drives sympathetic innervation in the heart. Finally, the authors also show a reduction in isoproterenol-stimulated heart rate but not basal heart rate in the absence of endothelial Slit2.

      The conclusions of this paper are mostly well supported by the data, but there are several limitations:

      (1) It is well established that Slit ligands undergo proteolytic cleavage, generating N- and C-terminal fragments with distinct biological functions. Full-length Slit proteins and their fragments differ in cell association, with the N-terminal fragment typically remaining membrane-bound, while the C-terminal fragment is more diffusible. This distinction is crucial when evaluating the role of Slit proteins secreted by different cell types in the heart. However, this study does not examine or discuss the specific contributions of different Slit2 fragments, limiting its mechanistic insight into how Slit2 regulates cardiac innervation. While these points are mentioned in the discussion, they are not incorporated into the interpretation of the data or the presented model.

      (2) The endothelial-specific deletion of Slit2 leads to its loss in endothelial cells across various organs and tissues in the developing embryo. Therefore, the phenotypes observed in the heart may be influenced by defects in other parts of the embryo, such as the CNS or sympathetic ganglia, and this possibility cannot be ruled out. The data presented in the manuscript does not dissect the relative contributions of endothelial Slit2 loss in the heart versus secondary effects arising from other organ systems. Without tissue-specific rescue or complementary conditional models, it remains unclear whether the observed cardiac phenotypes are a direct consequence of local endothelial Slit2 deficiency or an indirect outcome of broader developmental perturbations.

    3. Reviewer #2 (Public review):

      The aims of investigating Slit-Robo signaling in cardiac innervation were achieved by the experiments designed. The authors demonstrate that endothelial Slit2 signaling through Robo1 drives sympathetic innervation. While questions remain regarding signal regulation and interplay between established axon guidance signals and the further role of other Slit ligands and Robo expression in endothelium, the results strongly support the conclusions drawn.<br /> Writing and presentation are easy to follow and well structured. Appropriate controls are used, statistical analysis applied appropriately, and experiments directly test aims following a logical story.<br /> The authors demonstrate a novel mechanism for Slit-Robo signaling in cardiac sympathetic innervation. The data establishes a framework for future studies.

      The authors have updated their discussion to highlight the need for investigation of the role of proteolytic cleavage of Slit2 as well as the potential for defects in other tissues due to endothelial knockout of Slit2 influencing cardiac innervation.

    4. Author response:

      The following is the authors’ response to the original reviews

      Public Reviews:

      Reviewer #1 (Public review):

      The study aims to determine the role of Slit-Robo signaling in the development and patterning of cardiac innervation, a key process in heart development. Despite the well-studied roles of Slit axon guidance molecules in the development of the central nervous system, their roles in the peripheral nervous system are less clear. Thus, the present study addresses an important question. The study uses genetic knockout models to investigate how Slit2, Slit3, Robo1, and Robo2 contribute to cardiac innervation.

      Using constitutive and cell type-specific knockout mouse models, they show that the loss of endothelial-derived Slit2 reduces cardiac innervation. Additionally, Robo1 knockout, but not Robo2 knockout, recapitulated the Slit2 knockout effect on cardiac innervation, leading to the conclusion that Slit2-Robo1 signaling drives sympathetic innervation in the heart. Finally, the authors also show a reduction in isoproterenol-stimulated heart rate but not basal heart rate in the absence of endothelial Slit2.

      The conclusions of this paper are mostly well supported by the data, but some should be modified to account for the study's limitations and discussed in the context of previous literature.

      We would like to thank the reviewer for their positive evaluation of our manuscript and in response to the reviewer’s comments we have extended the discussion as indicated below.

      (1) It is well established that Slit ligands undergo proteolytic cleavage, generating N- and C-terminal fragments with distinct biological functions. Full-length Slit proteins and their fragments differ in cell association, with the N-terminal fragment typically remaining membrane-bound, while the C-terminal fragment is more diffusible. This distinction is crucial when evaluating the role of Slit proteins secreted by different cell types in the heart. However, this study does not examine or discuss the specific contributions of different Slit2 fragments, limiting its mechanistic insight into how Slit2 regulates cardiac innervation.

      This is a valid point and it will be of interest for future studies to investigate the specific effects of the full length versus N- and C-terminal fragments in the context of cardiac innervation development. We have updated our discussion with a clearer reference to the proteolytic cleavage of Slit2.

      (2) The endothelial-specific deletion of Slit2 leads to its loss in endothelial cells across various organs and tissues in the developing embryo. Therefore, the phenotypes observed in the heart may be influenced by defects in other parts of the embryo, such as the CNS or sympathetic ganglia, and this possibility cannot be ruled out.

      We agree and we have now added this possibility to the discussion.

      Reviewer #2 (Public review):

      The aims of investigating Slit-Robo signaling in cardiac innervation were achieved by the experiments designed. While questions remain regarding signal regulation and interplay between established axon guidance signals and further role of other Slit ligands and Robo expression in endothelium, the results strongly support the conclusions drawn.

      Writing and presentation are easy to follow and well structured, Appropriate controls are used, statistical analysis applied appropriately, and experiments directly test aims following a logical story.

      The authors demonstrate a novel mechanism for Slit-Robo signaling in cardiac sympathetic innervation. The data establishes a framework for future studies.

      We would like to thank the reviewer for these positive comments.

      Recommendations:

      Further assessment of interplay between Slit ligands as well as other signaling pathways (Semaphorin, NGF, etc) could be investigated. Is it possible to rescue the phenotype by modulation of other signaling pathways? Can combined Slit2/Slit3 KO rescue? Additionally, as the authors state, conditional Robo1 knockouts will be important to validate the findings of constitutive knockout.

      Our study has provided the first data on the role of Slit-Robo signalling during cardiac innervation development and a base for exploring the interesting further questions the reviewer raises.  

      Recommendations for the authors:

      Reviewer #1 (Recommendations for the authors):

      There is a typo on line 83 (disease).

      This has been corrected.

    1. Suicide conveyed several distinct meanings in the Romantic period – unlike today, when it is most often attributed to mental illness. This meaning also existed in the long eighteenth century, but it was understood more broadly as irrationality and popularized through the emphasis on extreme passion and emotionalism as related to suicide in the literature of sentiment. William Godwin capitalized on this widely recognized and – to some extent – culturally ameliorative significance of suicide by casting his dead wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, as a character in a novel of sensibility when he reported her two suicide attempts in the Memoirs (1798). In doing so, however, Godwin fictionalizes Wollstonecraft's suicide attempts as acts of passion, whereas she explains clearly in her letters that her suicidal desires were utterly rational. Wollstonecraft further explores the concept of rational suicide by presenting it as an act of protest in her fictional works, Mary (1788) and The Wrongs of Woman (1798). In both novellas about the marital enslavement of women, Wollstonecraft draws upon the discourse surrounding slave-suicide as a logical response to insupportable tyranny and her protagonists' death wishes as willed acts of protest.

      she was suicidal

    1. Písečné závaží Písečné závaží o hmotnosti 27,5 kg. Je upevněno vertikálně pomocí suchého zipu k noze stanu.

      Pískové závaží Závaží vč. náplně 16 kg se připevňuje ke stanové noze.

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    1. In the literature, there is broad agreement on the minimal definitions of self-efficacy proposed initially by Bandura (1982); however, different approaches emerge that emphasize specific elements of the construct. On the one hand, some studies focus on task self-efficacy, understood as the perceived capabilities required to achieve a certain level of performance when mastering an activity. On the other hand, there are works oriented toward regulatory self-efficacy, which is more concerned with how confidence supports resilience in the face of potential barriers around the social context of individuals. While capability-focused studies emphasize the magnitude of the task—that is, its degree of difficulty or complexity—and the linear progression toward mastery, more attitudinal approaches highlight persistence and resistance when confronting the adversities present in the environment where the activity takes place (Marlatt et al., 1995; Schwarzer & Renner, 2000; Williams & Rhodes, 2016).

      Reordenar el párrafo: Por un lado, (desarrollar toda la idea: capability centered). Mientras que por otro, (attitudinal approaches).

    2. The results show that a two-dimensional approach to DSE is relatively stable across the countries shared by both studies, and that the distinction between general and specialized tasks reveals patterns in gender differences that are consistent across most countries and cannot be visualized using one-dimensional constructs.

      Esto es resultado

    3. Although ICILS and PISA differ in the intentions of measuring digital self-efficacy, if one examines the meaning of the items in depth, they are similar, raising suspicions about their different measurement strategies. In a world of high technological complexity, it is difficult to work with uniform constructs that do not recognize different dimensions of self-efficacy, so these differences are more than technical: they affect how countries governments interpret digital readiness and how gender disparities are identified. As constructs of different studies tend to not be comparable, a lot of information that is relevant for understanding the social determinants of technologies is loosed.

      Reformular en torno a la comparabilidad como eje central.

    4. Although ICILS and PISA differ in the intentions of measuring digital self-efficacy, if one examines the meaning of the items in depth, they are similar, raising suspicions about their different measurement strategies.

      redacción

    5. The literature agrees that the mastery of digital technologies requires more than physical access to devices or procedural knowledge of software; it increasingly involves attitudinal dispositions such as confidence, persistence, and the capacity to adapt in complex environments

      Cita a Lytheratis y Van Dijker, digital divide de segundo orden (dentro de la cual entran las diferencias de autoeficacia)

    6. In turn, the literature consistently reports that students with low expectations of specialized self-efficacy sometimes score higher on standardized tests of digital skills

      No es así, mayor spec DSE = menor cil; la general si tiene una relación al menos en ICILS. Al respecto Campos y Scherer

    7. The dimensions of the DSE are not only relevant to contrast for theoretical reasons, but also because consideration of this approach has an impact on the distribution among groups

      The dimensions of the DSE are not only relevant to contrast for theoretical reasons, but also because the application of this approach has an impact on the distribution among groups

    8. that instruments capture the same underlying meaning across culturally or structurally diverse populations, even though socialization trajectories, interpretive repertoires, and institutional conditions can substantially alter how individuals understand and respond to items

      Differential item functioning (DIF) es el término especializado

    9. The problem is that recent definitions of Digital Competence are no longer framed within a bidimensional approach to self-efficacy with technologies.

      Creo que como está escrito se entiende que el marco de competencias se encuadra en la autoeficacia bidimensional, cuando es al revés. Quizás se podría plantear la frase al contrario: The problem is that the bidimensional aproach to self-efficacy is no longer suitable with recent definitions of Digital competence

    10. During the second decade of the 21st century, a broad consensus emerged around the idea that ICT self-efficacy was better understood as a bidimensional construct, distinguishing between general and specialized digital tasks.

      Creo que acá es esencial mencionar el rol de ICILS como estudio de vanguardia en proponer y validar esta medición. Sumado a esto, sería importante citar más fuentes que apliquen el enfoque bidimensional, ya que la aceveración "broad consensus" es bastante fuerte (o bajarle el grado).

    11. Self-efficacy it’s a concept originally formulated by Bandura (1982), which refers to “judgments of how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations.” (p. 122). Self-efficacy occupies a foundational place in human agency, because helps to understanding how individuals approach challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, and ultimately develop competence in complex domains by creating fulfilling standards and obtaining performance accomplishments across learning activities (Bandura, 1995; Bandura, 1997; Steele & Aronson, 1995).

      Está rara la redacción. Propuesta: Originally formulated by Bandura (1982), self-efficacy is defined as “judgments of how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations” (p. 122). This construct is fundamental to human agency, as it help to understand how individuals approach challenges, persist despite setbacks, and develop competence in complex domains. It does so by facilitating the establishment of standards and the attainment of performance accomplishments across learning activities (Bandura, 1995; Bandura, 1997; Steele & Aronson, 1995).

    12. we aim to clarify whether differences in DSE are consistent across contexts or instead a product of how assessments operationalize the construct.

      Me hace ruido la segunda afirmación. No tenemos una hipótesis sobre el efecto de la operacionalización de los constructos. El fallo de la invarianza puede deberse a muchas cosas (diferencias culturales, fallos de aplicación, errores de medición, países muy disímiles con el resto), y creo que esto plantea algo binario (o es consistente o está mal operacionalizado).

    13. (DSE) has emerged as a central construct in understanding the development of digital competences

      Creo que en este párrafo vendría muy bien una cita de la relación entre autoeficacia digital y alfabetización digital en estudiantes. Al respecto, Hatlevik et al. (2018)

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    1. In education, students are using generative AI to compose essays, summarise books, and solve problems in seconds.

      It's good, we can ask AI help us to have some idea or summary before our reading, but after that we should read the whole, because after our reading we will give summary how we understand, not how AI analyzed at that moment. Brief description can help students given by AI, but analyzation should be done by ourselves.

    2. For those who have already formed a deep, reflective relationship with language, such tools can be helpful allies – extensions of thought rather than substitutes for it.

      In fact, in some subjects from literature and linguisticsa areas, the use of AI is useful when we came up to certain terms that we don not know. One example can be found in today's translation lesson. We were talking about acronyms and its translation into Spanish or English and we rely on AI in order to indetify which entity did the A

    1. There are three major diversification strategies: (1) concentric diversification, where the new business produces products that are technically similar to the company’s current product but that appeal to a new consumer group; (2) horizontal diversification, where the new business produces products that are totally unrelated to the company’s current product but that appeal to the same consumer group; and (3) conglomerate diversification, where the new business produces products that are totally unrelated to the company’s current product and that appeal to an entirely new consumer group.

      Diversification Methods

    1. __________________________________________________________________

      You already know that studying full-time helps you finish faster but takes more money and time, while part-time or online classes are easier to balance but take longer. You also know that starting a family now may make school harder, and waiting could give you more stability. What you still need to know includes the exact cost of a four-year program, your financial aid options, how much a degree improves job opportunities, and how your work schedule can change. You can get this information by talking to your college adviser, checking financial aid offices, researching game-design careers, and discussing schedules with your wife. The pros of continuing school are better skills, more career options, and long-term growth; the cons are higher cost, more stress, and less free time. The pros of delaying school are more stability and less pressure, while the cons are slower career progress and fewer opportunities in the short term.

    2. __________________________________________________________________

      You have several good options for each part of the problem. For money, you could use financial aid or wait until you save more. For time, you could study part-time or full-time. To balance work and school, you could change your work hours or take fewer classes. For starting a family, you could begin now and move through school slowly, or wait until after you finish your degree. For your career, you could get the four-year degree for more skills, or learn through online courses and personal projects instead.

    3. __________________________________________________________________

      Here’s a small, clear paragraph:

      The problem can be broken into a few manageable parts: figuring out the financial impact of continuing your education, understanding the time commitment needed for a four-year degree, determining how school will fit with your work and your wife’s schedule, considering how starting a family soon will affect your availability, and weighing how much a four-year degree will actually improve your chances of becoming a video game designer. By breaking it down this way, each part becomes easier to evaluate.

    4. __________________________________________________________________

      The core problem is deciding whether to pursue a four-year degree to better prepare for a career in video game design while also balancing work, finances, and plans to start a family soon. Related issues include the cost of more schooling, the time commitment, and how it will affect your home life and future stability. A successful solution must support your career goals, remain financially realistic, and still allow room for family responsibilities. A good metaphor for this situation is choosing between two paths—one easier and shorter now, and one longer but potentially leading to greater opportunities.

    5. __________________________________________________________________

      After doing three ten-minute brainstorming sessions with my group and comparing them to my own ideas, I noticed that the group came up with more ideas and they were generally more creative. Working together helped us build on each other’s suggestions, which made the ideas more unique and interesting. My individual ideas were simpler, while the group had more innovative ones.

    1. The term ‘code-mixing’ is a fluid one that overlaps with ‘code-switching’ and ‘mixed code’ (see Code-switching: Overview; Intertwined Languages), but can be distinguished from them in some ways.

      words are mixed up - not everyone agrees on whats what

    2. borrowing does not presuppose mastery of the code being borrowed from—one can use the word perestroika without knowing Russian. Prototypically, code-mixing does presuppose the mastery of the codes being mixed.

      borrowing = do not need to be fluent to use, mixing = need to be bilingual somewhat understand

    3. Sometimes frequent mixing may become the norm; Myers-cotton (1993) calls this an unmarked variety. In such a case a mixed code may well stabilize

      Mixing kinda becomes its own language

    4. code-mixing leans more towards the metaphorical function or solidarity functions as when speaker and listener are both familiar with more than code and may interchange them for special effect. The very act of mixing codes signals allegiance to a particular relationship, or local set of values.

      Mixing is more about identity, showing who your comfortable with

    5. code-switching leans towards the transactional, the situational, or the pragmatic

      Switching depending on situation, like changing languages depending on who you talk to

    6. a person may speak in a mixed code A-B to a friend, but only use A with parents and only B with a schoolmaster

      shows how people switch/mix differently depending on the situation

    1. The goal of the accuracy test is to assure that the information is actually correct: up to date, factual, detailed, exact, and comprehensive.

      The purpose of an accuracy test is to confirm that the information is fully correct. This means it must be:

      Up to date: current and not outdated

      Factual: based on verified facts

      Detailed: containing enough information

      Exact: precise and without errors

      Comprehensive: covering the whole topic, not missing important aspects.

      LiDA101

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      delighted to see my annotation 5 years ago showing up here

      Ever since I learned about hypothesis in 2017 I worked to follow hypothesis example of making

      Reading active and social

      to "lock the web open" and make Colaborative Writing and interpersonal collaboration linked to annotation possible.

      Use hypothesis as a an interpersonal search engine

    1. Nevertheless, as he was in many ways a most valuable person to me, and all the time before twelve o’clock, meridian, was the quickest, steadiest creature too, accomplishing a great deal of work in a style not easy to be matched—for these reasons, I was willing to overlook his eccentricities, though indeed, occasionally, I remonstrated with him.

      [INT] Example of the lawyer only valuing his employees for their work force.

    2. Explore Bartleby

      Referencing code: [INT]: Personal comments, interpretations [STY]: Stylistic comments [SCH]: Scholarly comments

      Scholarly Works Cited - Kuebrich, David. “Melville’s Doctrine of Assumptions: The Hidden Ideology of Capitalist Production in ‘Bartleby.’” The New England Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 3, 1996, pp. 381–405. - Ngai, Sianne. Ugly Feelings. Harvard UP, 2005. - Ngai, Sianne. Theory of the Gimmick. Harvard University Press, 2017 - Tseng, Chia-Chieh Mavis. “The Poetics of Refusal: Bartleby’s Language and the Violence of Signification in ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener.’” Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, vol. 2, 2025, pp. 305–313. - Verdicchio, Massimo. “‘Bartleby the Scrivener’: An Allegory of Reading.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, Sept. 2018. - Žižek, Slavoj. The Parallax View. MIT Press, 2006.

    3. Yes, Bartleby, stay there behind your screen, thought i; I shall persecute you no more; you are harmless and noiseless as any of these old chairs; in short, I never feel so private as when I know you are here.

      [INT/SCH] The lawyer encourages the separartion between him and his subordinate. Yet, as Ngai has illustrated exactly Bartleby's nothingness makes him so attainable: "Indeed, the aversion that Bartleby elicits from the Lawyer, which the Lawyer is then compelled to manage with the affects of conviviality and charity, involves a disattendability so exaggerated that the disattendability itself comes to demand attention. We might say that for all his passivity, Bartleby is finding a way to make to make himself intolerable" (Ngai "Ugly Feelings", 337).

    4. His steadiness, his freedom from all dissipation, his incessant industry (except when he chose to throw himself into a standing revery behind his screen), his great, stillness, his unalterableness of demeanor under all circumstances, made him a valuable acquisition.

      [INT] Though his passivity angers the lawyer, Bartleby's behavior still mesmerizes him. This is a prime example of Bartleby as a stuplime figure, who dumbfounds the people around him but leaves them with an "open feeling" (Ngai "Ugly Feelings", 284).

    5. the most trivial errand of any sort

      [INT / SCH] The lawyer acknowledges the triviality of the work he puts upon his clerks, yet he is utterly dumbfounded if one of them does not comply. As Žižek proclaimes, Bartleby's passive refusal showcases how the system is failing with nonparticipation (384).

    6. The ambition was evinced by a certain impatience of the duties of a mere copyist, an unwarrantable usurpation of strictly professional affairs, such as the original drawing up of legal documents.

      [INT / SCH] Nippers could be described in Ngai's terms as "gimmicky": The Gimmick, for Ngai, is an inherently capitalist aesthetic; the gimmick encapsulates tensions in how labor, time and value are perceived under capitalism and its alluring drive for efficiency ("Gimmick", e.g., 468, 505).

    7. But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener of the strangest I ever saw or heard of.

      [INT] Introduction of Bartleby as an uncommon copyist.

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    1. (A) Mentoring and psychological support;

      Honestly, I kinda disagree with this one. Women shouldn't have to just "cope". That's the male playbook. We should strictly get rid of accusations, of insults, of "you are only there because of X male"... psych support entails giving in to meritocracy's zero sum game. Competition for the gain, at any cost. No. Players shouldn't feel burned out period.

    2. Most guys, when they see a girl, instantly conclude thatshe plays badly. Even if she’s actually a good player,it’s not enough for guys. If a guy and a girl of an equalskill make a mistake in-game, it’s okay for the guy, ithappens, but in case with the girl, she would do it “be-cause she’s a girl”, and not because even top tier playerssometimes make mistakes. Youtube has lots of fail montagesfrom female tournaments. Why point it out specifically,if any tournament has tons of mistakes.

      Indeed! Reminds me of cherry picked Islamophobic assault compilations. Ragebait. Polarisation devices. This can also lead perhaps not too trauma, but to imposter syndrome, to loss of confidence, to de-motivation, and burnout. Surely, males experience these too, but less frequently, and notably, on their own. Not sharing and taking a stoic toxic masculinity stance then builds up to projection, hate, impotency, outward attacks not so much as inner pitying (it's others who are wrong, and I must defend myself). There is a certain dread and anguish I feel sorry males have to go through, much unhealthier than fems.

    3. The attitude to mixed teams among ourinterviewees was also mixed: some highlighted the importanceof training together with men, and playing against men,

      It's harder to train hard without communal motivation, without relatives to play with. It's hard to improve without someone to best, without being allowed to play with people with high technical knowledge, communicative skills, and professional trainers + diet (enhancements) behind. It's even more complicated if basic game layers, like communication, chat, friends, are systematically barred for you. If doing so risks being insulted, harassed.

    4. Now they are just at different levels.It’s not realistic for women, they just won’t survive. Ifyou remove it now, they just won’t make it at the prolevel, no way.

      This. There is a layer of inheritance already in place. Past streamers were male, many of whom pro-players. They go on to train male teams, have male friends, they played more, and they can change games if needed. This is market saturation. Women will get no place because future places are occupated in advance. Who gets the early trial, previews, beta sponsored invitations (think Apex)? It's not her.

    5. women in competitive CS:GO. Their skills are almost nevermatched with equal popularity and, consequently, economicgains, in the established economy of attention. Thiscorresponds to the deficiencies in meritocratic valuationfound in society in general, especially in the USA

      Yet, this is the case exactly why? It doesn't just happen. It's because of the way the streamers talk, the examples they give, the banter they use, and the difference of having a masculine idol for male viewers, and a feminine one. I'd argue boys don't choose female celebrities as reference period.

    6. Due largely to unwelcoming public reception, all-femaleteams rarely compete with all-male teams in public, and whenthey do, they usually demonstrate lower results. However,if one looks at the average scores of female and male playerswho competed in roughly equivalent tournaments, it becomesmuch more difficult to justify the difference between prizepools. According to in-game statistics, professional femaleplayers are only 7% behind professional male players interms of skill-related metrics

      To be fair, there are many less women players, but still 7% is a notable difference at least in high leagues. Wouldn't say noticeable for most viewers, though.

    Annotators

    1. We know that generative AI doesn’t understand the human context, so it’s not going to provide wisdom about social, emotional, and contextual events, because those are not part of its repertoire.

      изучающие данную проблему люди отмечают ограниченность возможностей искусственного интеллекта, однако общество продолжает активно использовать его, не задумываясь о последствиях

    2. A recent MIT Media Lab study reported that “excessive reliance on AI-driven solutions” may contribute” to “cognitive atrophy” and shrinking of critical thinking abilities. The study is small and is not peer-reviewed, and yet it delivers a warning that even artificial intelligence assistants are willing to acknowledge. When we asked ChatGPT whether AI can make us dumber or smarter, it answered, “It depends on how we engage with it: as a crutch or a tool for growth.”

      Введение в тематику статьи и обнаружение проблемы на примере использования искусственного интеллекта повсеместно

    1. https://youtube.com/watch?v=TAQ7yBLRZ3U&feature=shared

      Certainly! Here’s a detailed summary and key insights from the YouTube talk “Use.GPU - Declarative/Reactive 3D Graphics by Steven Wittens #LambdaConf2024” (link to video):


      Overview

      Steven Wittens introduces Use.GPU, a TypeScript library for driving WebGPU with a declarative and reactive programming model. The talk explores the motivation, design, and technical underpinnings of Use.GPU, emphasizing productivity, maintainability, and the bridging of web and graphics paradigms.


      Key Topics Covered

      1. The Problem with Traditional 3D Graphics Development

      • High Complexity & Maintenance Cost: Building custom 3D graphics (e.g., configurators, data visualizations, CAD apps) is often slow, expensive, and results in code that’s hard for teams to maintain.
      • Specialization Barrier: The field is so specialized that many companies avoid using advanced GPU graphics due to the expertise required.

      2. The Permutation Problem

      • Example: A 3D house configurator requires manually assembling assets and coding every possible combination of options, leading to exponential complexity.
      • Customization Pain: Existing visualization libraries (like Deck.gl) are hard to deeply customize without forking and maintaining complex codebases.

      3. The Web vs. Graphics Divide

      • Graphics World: Driven by games/CAD, large teams, offline delivery, monolithic codebases, and focus on rendering performance.
      • Web World: Driven by SaaS, small teams, continuous delivery, focus on compatibility, composition, and reuse.
      • Different Priorities: These differences make it hard to bring GPU graphics into mainstream web development.

      4. Live: A React-like Runtime

      • What is Live? A React-inspired, incremental, and reactive runtime that allows for declarative UI and graphics code.
      • Key Features:
      • Incremental updates: Only re-executes code in response to changes.
      • Implicit, one-way data flow.
      • Declarative side effects: Auto-mounting and disposal.
      • Enables features like undo/redo and multiplayer state management.
      • Unique Twist: Live allows data to flow back from child to parent components—something not possible in React—which is crucial for certain graphics/data workflows.

      5. Use.GPU: Declarative WebGPU

      • Goal: Make GPU graphics as easy to use and maintain as modern web UIs.
      • Approach: Use familiar JSX-like syntax and React-style components to describe 3D scenes and behaviors.
      • Incremental Rendering: The system is designed as if rendering one frame, and only reruns necessary parts for interactivity/animation.
      • Bridging the Gap: By combining Live’s reactive model with WebGPU, Use.GPU makes advanced graphics accessible to web developers.

      6. Technical Insights

      • Immediate vs. Retained Mode:
      • Immediate mode (e.g., Canvas): Easy but doesn’t scale for complex interactivity.
      • Retained mode (e.g., GPU): More efficient but much harder to program and maintain.
      • GPU as a Pure Function Applicator: The challenge is efficiently feeding unique data to millions of parallel shader invocations, with memory bandwidth as a key constraint.
      • Use.GPU’s Innovation: Abstracts away much of the boilerplate and complexity, letting developers focus on high-level structure and reactivity.

      Why This Matters

      • Productivity: Use.GPU aims to democratize GPU programming for web developers, reducing the need for deep graphics expertise.
      • Maintainability: Declarative, reactive patterns make complex interactive graphics more maintainable and composable.
      • New Possibilities: Opens the door for more sophisticated, interactive, and visually rich web applications.

      Further Resources


      TL;DR

      Use.GPU is a new TypeScript/WebGPU library that brings React-style declarative, reactive programming to 3D graphics in the browser. Built on the “Live” runtime, it enables maintainable, high-performance graphics apps with familiar web development patterns—potentially revolutionizing how interactive graphics are built on the web.


      If you want a specific section of the talk summarized, or code examples from Use.GPU, let me know!

      Citations: [1] watch?v=TAQ7yBLRZ3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQ7yBLRZ3U

    1. The ability for consumersto choose from a range of past garments in vintage stores,as opposed to just styles dictated by the fashion industry,allows them to express their personal identity and individ-ual style

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    1. 21.2. Ethics in Tech# In the first chapter of our book we quoted actor Kumail Nanjiani on tech innovators’ lack of consideration of ethical implications of their work. Of course, concerns about the implications of technological advancement are nothing new. In Plato’s Phaedrus [u1] (~370BCE), Socrates tells (or makes up[1]) a story from Egypt critical of the invention of writing: Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt, […] [then] came Theuth and showed his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the benefit of them; […] [W]hen they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: […] this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality. In England in the early 1800s, Luddites [u2] were upset that textile factories were using machines to replace them, leaving them unemployed, so they sabotaged the machines. The English government sent soldiers to stop them, killing and executing many. (See also Sci-Fi author Ted Chiang on Luddites and AI [u3]) Fig. 21.1 The start of an xkcd comic [u4] compiling a hundred years of complaints about how technology has speed up the pace of life. (full transcript of comic available at explainxkcd [u5])# Inventors ignoring the ethical consequences of their creations is nothing new as well, and gets critiqued regularly: Fig. 21.2 A major theme of the movie Jurassic Park (1993) [u6] is scientists not thinking through the implications of their creations.# Fig. 21.3 Tweet parodying how tech innovator often do blatantly unethical things [u7]# Many people like to believe (or at least convince others) that they are doing something to make the world a better place, as in this parody clip from the Silicon Valley show [u8] (the one Kumail Nanjiani was on, though not in this clip): But even people who thought they were doing something good regretted the consequences of their creations, such as Eli Whitney [u9] who hoped his invention of the cotton gin would reduce slavery in the United States, but only made it worse, or Alfred Nobel [u10] who invented dynamite (which could be used in construction or in war) and decided to create the Nobel prizes, or Albert Einstein regretting his role in convincing the US government to invent nuclear weapons [u11], or Aza Raskin regretting his invention infinite scroll. [1] In response to Socrates’ story, his debate partner Phaedrus says, “Yes, Socrates, you can easily invent tales of Egypt, or of any other country.”

      What stood out to me is how every generation thinks new technology is going to ruin everything, whether it’s writing, machines, or even social media today. It makes me wonder if our fears about tech—like AI or algorithms—are actually about the tech itself or more about us not wanting to adapt. At the same time, I don’t think these concerns are pointless. The examples of Eli Whitney and Alfred Nobel show that even good intentions can lead to huge negative consequences. So I feel like the real issue isn’t whether technology is good or bad, but whether the people creating it are actually thinking ahead about the impact. Honestly, most of the time it feels like they’re not, especially when companies rush to build something new just because they can. It makes me question: what current tech are we going to look back on in 20 years and say, “Wow, that messed things up more than we expected”?

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    1. Joe Starks didn’t know the words for all this, but he knew the feeling. So he struck Janie with all his might and drove her from the store.

      Joe Starks, despite his obsession with control, ironically loses control of his own emotions.

    2. Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible.

      Joe is a control freak due to his anxieties and insecurities. Now, he sees Janie's defiance of him, and the townspeople's ridicule, as an existential threat to his control. This brings his deep-seated fear of losing control back up to the forefront of his mind.

    1. As a social media user, we hope you are informed about things like: how social media works, how they influence your emotions and mental state, how your data gets used or abused, strategies in how people use social media, and how harassment and spam bots operate. We hope with this you can be a more informed user of social media, better able to participate, protect yourself, and make it a valuable experience for you and others you interact with. For example, you can hopefully recognize when someone is intentionally posting something bad or offensive (like the bad cooking videos we mentioned in the Virality chapter, or an intentionally offensive statement) in an attempt to get people to respond and spread their content. Then you can decide how you want to engage (if at all) given how they are trying to spread their content.

      As a social media user, going forward, this class encouraged me to think about the ethics of social media, specifically the ethics behind AI-driven social media algorithms that promote user engagement and profit, and disregard the damage that these algorithms do to users' mental health.

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      I am not necessarily cautious about anything regarding the film. It is about about the horrors of slavery so I believe that everyone should be prepared to see exactly that. I am concerned however that they will insensitivity portray the Africans. There are many negative stereotypes and misunderstandings about Africans in general and it will be disappointing to see any of those in the film.

    2. case

      I am most interested to see how they dramatize the court proceedings of the case. Many movies get how courts function in real life wrong. They do this, I believe, to make sure the audience remains engaged and entertained which is fine unless they begin to misconstrue the facts of what occurred.

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    1. Digital literacies are not solely about technical proficiency but about the issues, norms, and habits of mind surrounding technologies used for a particular purpose.

      I like this point—it reminds me that digital literacies go beyond just knowing how to use tools. They include understanding the social, ethical, and practical context of technology use. #LiDA101

    1. Cognitive offloading refers to the use of external tools to reduce strain on workingmemory. In Gerlich’s study, the more participants reported offloading tasks to AI, theworse their critical thinking skills were. The study found some evidence that higherlevels of education might mitigate some negative impact of AI use on critical thinking,and that reliance on AI tools may disproportionately impact those with lower educa-tional attainment.

      (Loble and Stephens 372)

    1. sin⁡(α+β)=sin⁡αcos⁡β+cos⁡αsin⁡β

      The net contact wrench cone (CWC) is the friction cone of the net contact wrench acting on a robot making multiple contacts, i.e. the sum of all contact wrenches. It can be represented as a set of feasible wrenches:

    1. Cartesian

      Cartesian forces:

      A Cartesian coordinate system is a plane or space defined by two or three perpendicular axes, where every point is uniquely specified by an ordered pair (or triple) of real numbers representing its distances from the fixed axes, allowing geometric problems to be described algebraically.

    1. The RCMP and myself are committed to ensuring that victims are treated fairly by the justice system

      Systemic harm can't be resolved through individual accountability, but instead requires structural change for misogyny, racism and victim blaming. Systemic harm needs structural change, not just statements (Combahee River Collective 1983).

    2. To date, Sexual Assault Investigations Review Committees (SAIRCs) have been established in six (6) RCMP divisions

      Does "established" mean in practice? However, they don’t explain what functioning actually looks like in practice. “Established” might only mean legally. but not clear if survivors are being helped or if the system just created a committee and called it progress.

    3. With the goal to strengthen public trust in policing, survivors are encouraged to report these serious crimes through whatever mechanism they are most comfortable with.

      Intersecting identities such as race, gender identity, sexuality, etc. can shape an individuals choice/ability to report. identity shapes who feels safe engaging with the police. For Indigenous, people of colour, or queer survivors, reporting is shaped by power, history, and fear of mistrust (Crenshaw 1991).

    4. Working collaboratively with victim advocates and other experts will strengthen the RCMP's response to sexual assault crimes

      Terminology matters. Calling individuals as "victim" rather than "survivor" constructs survivors to feel less than empowered and strong for coming forward. Sara Ahmed states how words can shape feelings and shapes power, therefore, by using “survivor” it recognizes agency (Ahmed 2014).

    1. Another necessary yet uncomfortable family conversation is the waythey benefit from past and present White settler colonialism, which hasallowed them to buy property on stolen Coast Salish land.

      I never thought about home ownership as a colonial benefit. Their reflection made visible how property is structurally tied to settler privilege.

    2. Thus, we call on non-Indigenous queers to think about a politics of ac-countability instead of a politics of inclusion, asking how we might performqueerness differently within a decolonial praxis.

      "Diversity" without structural change reinforces colonization and reproduces Western settler ideology. This connects to the to Combahee River Collective (2022) critique of liberal inclusion politics. It emphasizes the importance of intersectionality; recognizing each part of a person’s identity as relational and important.

    3. As Sarah (forthcoming) has argued elsewhere, “the forced disappearance oflocally defined systems of gender is central to the settler project of nativedisappearance” as gender plays a central role in understanding and definingIndigenous peoples’ identities.

      This showcases gender regulation as a tool of genocide. It reminds me of the unproportioned violence rates against Indigenous queer people and Two-Spirit individuals. Link to the article: https://www.gbvlearningnetwork.ca/our-work/backgrounders/GBV%20Against%20Two%20Spirit%20Indigenous%20Peoples/index.html

    4. White settler narrativesfounded on good intentions, which have allowed settlers to overlook thepotentially harmful outcomes of their well-intentioned actions. These “goodintentions” can also be enacted within and across our closest relationships,as we try to “protect” our loved ones from the violence of racist, transpho-bic, or homophobic systems and interactions

      These good intentions replicate the same oppression that is trying to be resisted. Jordan (2003) critiques white innocence and unearned solidarity, which focuses solely on inclusion of marginalized groups and not accountability from the privileged groups.

    5. Well not all of them . . . we don’t love our England ancestors whocame over here and did the whole stealing the land from the Aboriginalpeople.

      This is classic feminist killjoy work: naming histories that disrupt White settler comfort. Ahmed (2017) says naming oppression is read as “killing joy,” but is necessary to live ethically.

    6. Since welcoming their child into the world, Cindy and herpartner have consciously tried to parent from what might be called “a criticalsocial justice framework” that makes connections between multiple systemsof domination

      This is exactly what TallBear (2022) discusses: Indigenous kinship vs. the imposed nuclear family model. The nuclear family is a settler colonial tool used to privatize care and restructure land relations. Lenon’s (2015) discussion of monogamy as a nation-building tool helps frame why resisting normative family models is decolonial. The very act of parenting in this way is resisting settler norms. By raising a child with anti-racist, anti-settler frameworks, Cindy resists the reproduction of the settler nuclear family model.

    7. However, there remainsa disturbing lack of commitment by White settlers to challenging racism andcolonialism in queer and trans communities (including within friendshipsand intimate relationships) and practicing a politics of accountability to In-digenous people and people of color.

      As Jordan (2003) states, there is danger in assuming automatic connection, when privileged women assume solidarity without accountability. This highlights the danger of white benevolence; helping without dismantling power. It also echoes the warning that ‘good intentions’ reproduce colonial harm.

    8. friendships does not always require reciprocity on the part of the individ-ual who is socially marginalized. Instead, we suggest that allyship requiresaccountability on the part of members of the dominant group and is notpredicated on reciprocity by those who are marginalized

      The privileged must take responsibility and accountability for recognizing that they are privileged within society; the burden is on them, not the marginalized people, to work towards connection. This connects to Jordan's (2003) emphasis that privilege distorts relationships and cannot be erased through superficial “connection.” Even though there can be shared connection through certain aspects of identity, oftentimes it is not enough to unite for a shared struggle.

    9. Indigenous people, people of color and White settler allies workingfrom decolonial and/or intersectional frameworks, have emphasized the im-portance of embracing a “both/and” conceptual and political stance for un-derstanding contexts, spaces, identities, and multiple forms of interlockingoppressions and violence as a way of resisting the “either/or” dichotomousthinking of colonial Euro-Western paradigms

      Lorde (2022) insists difference should be “a fund of necessary polarities,” not erased. And theory in the flesh (Moraga & Anzaldúa, 2022) shows lived multiplicity as a form of resistance. Both texts refuse binary thinking: gender, race, belonging. This is shown through Indigenous gender systems and through the body (for theory in the flesh).

    10. Inherent in this project of erasure was the imposi-tion of a binary system of gender which simultaneously imposed Indigenousrights and status along heterosexual lines and suppressed Indigenous sys-tems of gender that went far beyond the gender binary.

      This directly echoes the idea of heteropatriarchy: settlers enforced patriarchal nuclear family structures to reorganize Indigenous kinship (Maile, Tuck, and Morrill, 2013). Whitehead (2022) and Maracle (1996) argue that settler colonialism violently replaces Indigenous relational gender systems with patriarchal ones; this article gives a lived, interpersonal example of that statement.

    11. Reagon’s assumption that homes are spaces of comfortand ease due to shared politics, history or identity may not be true for

      This is not true for everyone. The authors are challenging the idea that activism happens "out there", echoing Ahmed's (2017) idea of feminist practice as homework. This is also a perfect example of Ahmed’s feminist killjoy—discomfort enters the “home,” revealing sexism, racism, or colonialism where they are usually hidden (2017).

    12. decolonization has been taken up in theoretical terms withinpostcolonial theory or other academically based knowledges, but is fre-quently disconnected from the place-based nature of ongoing colonialismin the lands and communities in which we live.

      If decolonization needs to be place-based, how do queer settlers avoid symbolic belonging on land they occupy?

    13. Queerness is then less about a way of “being,” and more about“doing,” and offers the potential for radical social critique

      Being queer isn’t just an identity label; it is an active practice that challenges norms, structures, and power. Queerness is an action, a verb: it is about resisting norms.

    14. we chooseto utilize storytelling as a methodology with significance in Indigenous (Ko-vach, 2010), decolonial (Smith, 1999) and feminist and queer (Ristock, 2002)forms of knowledge production.

      This echoes Anzaldúa (2022): “The act of writing is the act of making soul.” As well as theory in the flesh where lived stories produce political knowledge (Anzaldúa and Moraga, 2022).

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    1. Assuming that everyone will understand your dialect only leads to confusion, misunderstanding, and false impressions — all of which are bad for business.

      In a certain work place especially in the United Stated it may be expected to only write and speak in standard English. If you cannot then you may not be able to be hired.

    2. In students’ personal lives — as they converse, text, or email with friends and family — there is no “wrong” language.

      The way some students speak or write may be incorrect in the classroom but from how or where they grew up it makes sense and is not incorrect from their perspective.

    3. My experience as a college writing instructor for 32 years, and as a writer, editor, and consultant for nearly 20 years, suggests that one of the best things we can do for students is to help them master standard English.

      Students may not agree but they can find it to be helpful. Mastering it may even be a necessity to some.

    4. the rest of us have no right to impose “our” language on those who are not native or proficient speakers.

      I believe it’s not right as well, but it also doesn’t change the way things work for most careers or even schools.

    1. I do see parts of the Elizabethan aspects, but I felt it was more futuristic and majestical. I know the Midsummer play is meant to be fantastical so maybe it is the right mix of past and present. Maybe this is something we could discuss?

    2. I found it so interesting how often the author used the term "lust" to describe the plot. Not only is the repetition slightly annoying, but it almost reduces the struggles down to teenage hormones and struggles with emotions. When in reality, it's more about a feeling of belonging and acceptance, not just sex.

    3. The first thing I think of when I watched this scene was our first movie, Stagebeauty. I think we forget how different gender roles were hundreds of years ago, and especially during peak Shakespearian times. In the past it was due to power struggles, but now it seems to be more rooted in homophobia.

    4. She is totally the conspiring character, or perhaps the engineer. She totally sets everything up literally for the play, but also for Timothy personally. I feel it's important for all students to have a teacher in high school who supports you and promotes your success.

    1. “I believe that this isan important test of the separation of church and state as we may see inour lifetime—as important a test—and it is critically important that weget it right” (Bloomberg ). His argument that the government should notprohibit people from worshiping as they wish could have been made with-out these exigent circumstances, but their inclusion changes the tone fromone of a defensive posture to a more vigorous one.

      I think that the separation of church and state is an important standard that our government should follow, i also think that the way the writer uses the text to show this really helps to prove that point

    2. What is my audience’s persona? The dean of students.What is my persona? A student (not simply a student-writer) whois concerned about an issue on campus.What is my agenda? In this case, I want to provide healthy foodalternatives. I need to convince those with aposition of power to assist me.What values or concerns do myreaders have?After researching the job description forthe dean, I found out the dean has a missionstatement. The mission statement hasyielded a connection, which will require ex-planation but will at least hold the readers’attention.

      I really like how this table is set up, its a great source of media that really shows how a writer should think and what questions they should ask themselves while they write.

    3. One of the most common methods for creating exigency in academic writ-ing involves “creating a gap in the research,” a well-worn phrase that mostprofessors have heard and used numerous times. The strategy involvesfinding something new to say that contributes to an ongoing discussion

      I think that this is a great way for a writer to make their writing more interesting and for some to make more academic writing sound more professional

    4. What type of persona do my readers have? What do they valueor find especially interesting? What common assumptions do theyhave, and do I share any of them? Do I believe any of their assump-tions are false? What agenda do they have? What motivates them?

      I think as a writer one of the most important things you can do is make sure you writing is not only relevant but also relatable to the reader

    5. Instead, one of the best ways to answerthis question is to assume a different persona. Think of a persona as a maskthat you can put on or take off as a writer. It’s a “think of yourself as” rhe-torical move.

      I've never really thought of trying to do this but i think that this would be a great way to make my writing better

    1. only by acquiring Standard English will most students have any opportunity to fulfill high aspirations; and (3) a standard form of any language is good because it leads to social cohesion, upward mobility, and literary continuity with the past.

      Acquiring standard English gives one more opportunity to fulfill more.

    1. Yes, because the rate of formation of [N⁢A2⁢O⁢A2]=k1⁢[NO]2. Substituting k1⁢[NO]2 for [N⁢A2⁢O⁢A2] in the rate law for step 2 gives the

      While I do agree that the rate of formation of N2O2 = k1[NO]^2, I don’t agree that [N2O2]=k1[NO]^2. Am I wrong?

    1. The situation of poor whites was similar to that of slaves in that there was no major, overt opposition to the existing order. However, just as slaves feigned illness, broke tools, or worked at a slow pace, poor whites also resisted affluent whites in similar ways.

      This is super interesting. This is what the class is all about - RESISTANCE

    2. “I understand an historical phenomenon, unifying a number of disparate and seemingly unconnected events, both in the raw material of experience and in consciousness.” Viewing class not as a thing, but instead as a relationship, Thompson claimed that in “the years between 1780–1832 most English working people came to feel an identity of interests as between themselves, and as against their rulers and employers.” This feeling, of course, formed the basis of class consciousness, which Thompson defined as “the way in which these experiences are handled in cultural terms: embodied in traditions, value-systems, ideas, and institutional forms.

      Very good definitions

    3. it is necessary to note that many of the “aspirational poor whites” of whom he speaks were actually younger sons from families of wealth and property. Just beginning their professional lives, they had yet to accumulate wealth or inheritance

      Important distinction

    4. I contend that scholars can safely assume that by 1860, at least one-third of the Deep South’s white population consisted of the truly, cyclically poor.

      More important numbers

    5. In no instance … did the lowest quartile of farming families own more than 1 per cent of the land.” However, the top quartile in every sample region laid claim to between two-thirds and three-quarters of land wealth.

      Important numbers

    6. Southern land varied so much in value that it had been known to sell for as little as a quarter an acre on one extreme, and as much as $100 an acre on the other. Most non-slaveholders and small-holders owned the least desirable plots.

      This is a very significant detail. It dictates where certain people and groups live, where wealth was accumulated, what ownership of land truly meant etc.

    7. As Charles Bolton and others have found, the vast majority of Southerners from all classes historically had worked as farmers, farm laborers, and tenants

      the rebuttal

    8. Owsley concluded that by 1860, 80 to 85 percent of the “agricultural population”

      Interesting. I need to be wary of this well being poisoned. Of course I knew that this subject would have ill-intentioned scholarship but I naively assumed that I would not fall victim to it. So it is critical to remember that the yeomen did exist and were a significant class, but that they were certainly not larger than poor whites.

    9. Both abolitionists and free-labor supporters frequently referred to the “poor, deluded, ignorant masses” of southern whites, but southern politicians and intellectuals were loath to respond.

      So how did the poor whites themselves respond?

    10. “It is worthy of remark that in their denunciations of the populace, the rabble, those who work with their hands, they refer not to complexion, but to condition; not to slaves, but to the poor and laborious of their own color.

    11. William, the second son of John Jay, was an abolitionist lawyer who appealed to non-slaveholding southern whites in 1849.

      Another intriguing figure that I should look in to

    12. Because slavery’s association with agricultural and manual labor “rendered toil ignoble in the estimation of the whites,” poor white laborers adopted “a willful, determined indolence, which actually became the badge and ensign of their independence.

      Very interesting. Here we have a callback to the importance of liberty in the southern mind.

    13. whose ranks were rapidly increasing in southern cities due to immigration

      Immigration is an interesting facet. These are not all people who are familiar with slavery

    1. allows the server to evolve independently without impacting the client, as long as the hypermedia contract is respected.

      What is this hypermedia contract, then?

    1. Although bronze armor was considered very valuable (every time a hero is killed in The Iliad, for example, a battle ensues over whether the killer will be able to loot his armor), people who could make a lot of it could field armies.

      Bronze armor was highly valuable, as shown in The Iliad, where battles often revolve around looting it. Those who could produce large quantities of bronze could equip armies. This made bronze production a key factor in military power.

    2. The oldest tin mines so far discovered are in Anatolia, but by 4,500 years ago tin was being produced in Cornwall, followed a couple of centuries later by mining in what is now Germany and Portugal. The rarity of tin (relative to copper) and its value in making bronze made these regions important hubs of extensive trade networks.

      The oldest tin mines were in Anatolia, but by 4,500 years ago, tin was also mined in Cornwall, and later in Germany and Portugal. Its scarcity and importance for making bronze made these regions key trade hubs. This drove long-distance trade networks across Europe.

    3. Important elements of the Gilgamesh story seem focused on exploring the differences and the tension between life in the city and life in the adjacent, "uncivilized" countryside

      The Gilgamesh story highlights the contrast between city life and the wild countryside. It explores tensions between civilization and nature, order and chaos. This theme is central to understanding the characters and their journeys.

    4. The Minoan culture of Crete used an logographic-syllabic writing system known as Linear A beginning about 3,800 years ago, which evolved into the Linear B script used by the Mycenaeans beginning about 3,450 years ago.

      The Minoans of Crete used Linear A around 3,800 years ago, a logographic-syllabic writing system. About 3,450 years ago, it evolved into Linear B, which was used by the Mycenaeans. This shows the development and continuity of writing in the region.

    5. There are two major sites regarded as temples in the city and 19 other temple complexes nearby in the Supe Valley.

      The city had two main temple sites and 19 additional temple complexes nearby in the Supe Valley. This indicates a strong religious or ceremonial focus in the region. It reflects the importance of ritual in their society.

    6. No battlements, weapons, or mutilated bodies have been found (as in other sites), but in one of the temples researchers found 32 flutes made of condor and pelican bones and 37 larger wind instruments carved from the bones of deer and llama.

      I agree—that’s really fascinating! The absence of battlements or weapons suggests these sites weren’t focused on warfare. Instead, the discovery of so many flutes and wind instruments points to a strong emphasis on music and ritual. It really highlights the cultural and ceremonial importance in that society.

    7. China's first urban culture, called Longshan, grew in the Yellow River Valley between 5,000 and 3,900 years ago. The earliest city, Liangchengzhen, had a population of about 40,000 at its peak about 4,500 years ago.

      Absolutely! Longshan was truly China’s first urban culture, and Liangchengzhen’s population of around 40,000 shows how developed it was. It’s fascinating to see such early urban growth along the Yellow River. This highlights how complex societies emerged independently in different parts of the world.

    8. The Indus Valley Civilization seems to have been more egalitarian than that of Egypt or Uruk, with no clear archaeological evidence of palaces, temples, or elite burials. Indus Valley cities have uniform housing and broad access to sanitary sewer systems.

      I completely agree! The Indus Valley Civilization does seem remarkably egalitarian compared to Egypt or Uruk. Its uniform housing and advanced sewer systems suggest a society where resources and infrastructure were widely shared. It’s impressive how organized and community-focused their cities were.

    9. By 5,800 years ago, Hierakonpolis had become Egypt's first city, with a local elite that gained control over trade routes to the Red Sea (for shells and obsidian) and the deserts (for gold and copper); and later more widely for luxury goods like cedar and lapis.

      Yes, that makes sense! Hierakonpolis really was Egypt’s first city, with elites controlling key trade routes. They accessed resources like shells, obsidian, gold, and copper, and later even luxury goods like cedar and lapis. It shows how early urban centers were tied to both power and trade.

    10. For example, Sardinian islanders who were relatively protected from the immigrants retained the largest percentage of Anatolian Early European Farmer ancestry of all Europeans.

      Sardinian islanders, being relatively isolated from later migrations, kept the highest proportion of Anatolian Early European Farmer ancestry in Europe. This makes them a key population for studying early European farming genetics. Their heritage reflects the legacy of the continent’s first farmers.

    11. The first places reached in Europe were in the eastern Mediterranean, where 8,500 year old sites like Franchthi Cave (Greece) and the Starčevo-Körös-Criș culture in the Balkans show signs of farmers using pottery, polished stone tools, and living in village settlements.

      The earliest farmers in Europe appeared in the eastern Mediterranean around 8,500 years ago. Sites like Franchthi Cave in Greece and the Starčevo-Körös-Criș culture in the Balkans show they used pottery, polished stone tools, and lived in villages. These communities mark the beginning of settled farming life in Europe.

    12. The ancestors of modern cattle were Aurochs, wild bovines that stood over six feet at the shoulder and had long, curved horns (they're now extinct). Ancient people had hunted aurochs for millennia

      Aurochs were the ancestors of today’s cattle, towering over six feet tall with long, curved horns. They were hunted by humans for thousands of years. These wild bovines are now extinct, but they played a key role in the development of modern cattle.

    13. Often family descent was matrilineal, since it was easier to know who a person's mother was, than their father.

      I wonder how this became, because is it like the mother is well known rather than the father but this is a interesting concept

    1. So in addition to discovering this food source when they settled in the Amazon, early Americans had to develop processing technologies to make it useable.

      I wonder what technology they used

    1. So I set up a dummy network with one of these Wi-Fi names. Then, when removing the SIM card or when the device couldn't find an LTE signal, some of our Flux safety cameras happily connected to the dummy network and routed upstream traffic through it. Others seemingly prioritized my dummy network by default, regardless of if it had a SIM card in it or not. So I captured the P-Capt data being transmitted from one of these cameras for a little while and analyzed it with wire shark and unblock, which is an open source extraction suite. And sure enough, there were clear text credentials in the data.

      Man-in-the-middle wifi uplink

    2. You could have it capture Wi-Fi handshake credentials and do middleman or honeypot attacks. Or replace or modify captured footage or images. And if that is the case, this could bring into question the integrity of the data being used as admissible evidence in court, like in general. Unless of course a prosecutor could prove that a security breach wasn't detected. And about that. The apps that are installed that are custom of the vendor all have debug enabled, which on these types of devices, on inter-rate devices, means that you can pause them in runtime and modify the memory, right? Which gives you system injection. System can write properties. And in this case, there's one that you can modify. A clean up script that is ran as root. You can consider to either wireless RCE or a gated wireless RCE that goes from no access to root, which is the worst case. This means that malicious code can be installed and executed outside of the operating system.

      Can Flock footage be challenged in court?

    1. Rice was developed by the ancient Chinese in the Yangtze River basin, beginning about 10,000 years ago, in a gradual shift from gathering wild rice to intensive cultivation. As they selected the best seeds to replant, farmers chose rice with larger grains that, like corn, would remain on the plant as it was harvested. Like corn, this choice made rice dependent on humans for propagation.  Although second to corn with only about half as many tons produced each year, rice is the staple food of more than half the world's population today.

      rice is the best food, so versatile

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    1. an instructional coach. “Every single teacher can be developed and every single teacher can grow,” she says. “As a result of growing every teacher, we’ll be growing and supporting every student. That way we can ensure that every one of our students has the best teacher standing in front of them.

      We have instructional coaches at our school for hum, STEM, and ELD. The tricky part is SPED. We have a person assigned which is nice and they are great but you can tell it is an after thought. It is not someone that is certified or has experience.

    1. Teacher modeling should provide students with examples of the thinking and language required to be successful

      we are working on student voice, active listening, and thinking right now in our classes.

    1. weekend’ having become established in the French lexicon, and Arabic having no equivalent, this speaker inserts ‘weekend’ into an Arabic sentence and then continues in French

      sometimes happens because a language doesn't have a specific word

    2. the mixed code serves to identify its users as people who, for various reasons, do not feel part of the communities most strongly associated with either of contributing languages

      Cultural identity and belonging