Erica Curry Vanee

Changemaker, Strategist, Facilitator, Designer, Improviser, Adoptee Advocate, Community Connector, Freestyle Swimmer and Airbnb Superhost

[Jeremy Nguyen ✍🏼 🚢 @JeremyNguyenPhD]

This is the likely effect of computers/laptops on students.

I'm bullish on using AI to help students learn. And our team runs randomised controlled trials to test what's working, so it's not like we're running blind.

But it's still worth asking: how would we know if we were making a mistake, and what would we do to protect against risks? We don't want to be the well-meaning people who wrecked a generation of students because we refused to properly look at evidence.

[Jeremy Nguyen ✍🏼 🚢 @JeremyNguyenPhD]

1/ Want a 60 min crash course on Claude Code and Codex for economic research?

I reckon it's worth checking out for researchers, even if you're not an economist.
Aniket Panjwani goes through a starting exercise and mistakes to avoid.

Recording below, slides in first comment.

[Capitol Hill Books @chbooksdc]

🚨🚨 Childless Cat Lady Special 🚨🚨

Any childless ladies who show us pictures of their cat at checkout this Saturday & Sunday get 10% off their in-store purchase.

[Adoptee Rights Law @adopteelaw]

TODAY! More info/how to apply/forms, etc. is here https://t.co/8HVYkMlqdV

[Gretchen Sisson @gesisson]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but:

You can love an adopted person (even in your own family) and still be critical of adoption as a system, and want to envision what abolition means.

In fact, it’s often because of one’s love for that person that you do.

[Domestic Supply (he/him, but they/them okay) @ddgulledge]

@corsent @ACLU @ACLU, all future contributions from me are contingent on the condition that you will never oppose adoptee rights. Demonstrate this by ousting everyone from your Michigan contingent who wants to oppress adoptees.

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

The Adoption Industry Exploits Birth Mothers’ Lives—Then Does Nothing to Change Them https://t.co/1WVODohYtG via @pastemagazine

[Adoptee Rights Law @adopteelaw]

MICHIGAN! I only ask people to do broad action alerts if I feel they are necessary. This one is necessary, and it can be effective. This is national in scope and for everyone, so please contact Michigan Senators today. https://t.co/0HfJZEJt1l

[Adoptee Rights Law @adopteelaw]

We may need everyone’s help on a bill in Michigan, where the opposition is literally piling on (and ignoring reality). Are you ready to help? We can do this. Together. More tomorrow.

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

@adopteelaw So fortunate to be living at the same time in adoption history as you! You teach me every day.

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

@adopteelaw 🔥🔥🔥

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

Susan J. Demas: How Michigan became the progressive powerhouse of the Midwest https://t.co/cjzQamkjzV via @michiganadvance

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

@bgstordahl hearing back from you. I sent you a message :)

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

@philipskaggs @bgstordahl @RudyOwensMemoir @GovWhitmer @RepKristianG Thanks for your support @philipskaggs

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

@RudyOwensMemoir @GovWhitmer When @GovWhitmer does sign our bills into law, my guess is you will hear much more than a “single statement” in support of this decades long battle to restore the basic human and civil right of identity to all MI born adoptees. It is finally our time and your advocacy has helped

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

@RudyOwensMemoir @GovWhitmer We have a committed leader in @RepKristianG. Less than 1 year ago she was elected and made clean leg for adoptee rights one of her top priorities. She delivered a bipartisan victory in the House. The Senate is next when they return in Jan. Gov Whitmer will sign our bills in 2024.

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

@ronanbeckman @RudyOwensMemoir We do too! Please follow along for updates and join our effort at the Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition FB page or website https://t.co/1F86I0J0ar

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

@ronanbeckman @RudyOwensMemoir Our goal is to move forward with Senate in Q1 or Q2 at the latest so it can be signed into law by our Governor before elections next November. We have a once in 40 year trifecta of a democratic house, senate and governorship and we need to get it done before this session is over

[Adoptee Rights Law @adopteelaw]

We interrupt this National Adoption Awareness Month for an important announcement.

[Erica Curry Vanee @urbancurry]

@RudyOwensMemoir onward!